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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why the polls say Obama is worse than Bush
by Kevin McCullough
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There is much more to the fact that President Obama now polls lower than President Bush did at fifty days into his presidency than merely what bi-partisan pollsters Schoen and Rasmussen were able to point out this week. In nearly every category of performance, President Obama has adeptly demonstrated that he is in over his head, and sinking fast. "We the people" sense his inability to make sound decisions and thusly, the President has wiped out nearly all of the Republican support he enjoyed not long ago, and Independents are not far behind.

When you consider the sector of the Democratic base that thinks raising taxes on everyday working people is bad, you even begin to see a schism in his base not previously thought to be possible.

Seriously, in nearly every category of governance he has messed up royally, and is clueless, or wantonly stubborn to do the things that will fix any of the problems. At the end of the day something will change. President Obama will formulate new policies, or "We The People" will use a shepherd's staff rather easily in 2012.

In my syndicated column and on my blog, I have been tracking the number of campaign promises that he has broken. Yet many of these don't even rise to half the level of importance on the issues that "We The People" are growing increasingly concerned about.

On the economy, the unemployment numbers have skyrocketed in the opposite direction, escalating especially hard following the signing of his stimulus plan. The plan, according to leading ecconomists, that only dedicated roughly 3% of the total amount towards actual job creation. On this point Warren Buffet, one of President Obama's strong supporters in the campaign, expressed grave reservation.

One of the great lies that President Obama continues to try to perpetuate is to say that "going green" would jump start economic growth. At the same time, he restated in his address to Congress what he had said on the campaign trail: that no family earning less than $250,000 would see an increase in taxes. Yet every family in America is going to pay additional tax under his cap and trade program. By essentially punishing "evil big business" for carbon footprints, the feds claim they will tax said "evil" businesses to show them who's boss. Oddly enough, those "evil" businesses will never feel the sting because they will pass the cost of the imposed taxes on to the consumer in the form of higher prices for simple things like electricty, natural gas, and whatever forms of energy they may use.

On foreign relations he spoke loud and long about removing embarrassment from the reputation of the United States to our allies. He prompty begins his administration by giving the very first sit down interviews to networks run by our enemies. He then thrice insults Great Britain, our closest ally of all. He is left with major distance between his wishes and those of Israel, our closest ally in the mid-east. And topping it off, this past week his administration dealt with Brazil, our closest ally in South America, with the same kind of "White House gift shop" hospitality he had just kicked Great Britain in the knees with.

On national security Chavez has taunted him, North Korea has threatened him, Iran has burned him in effigy, and Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela are plotting ways to put Russian long range bombers in our hemisphere and directly off our coast.

On terrorism Iran, Al Qaeda, and bin Ladin are openly laughing at him. Maybe his giving Hamas -- a terror group, on the international terror watch list -- 90 million dollars, wasn't quite the bold stroke of genius his cabinet told him it would be.

No doubt, however, that President Obama's most pressing problem with the public is the fact that now 83% of the American people say they are worried that the steps he has taken to fix the economy will have the opposite effect and make things worse. 82% of the American people say they are worried about the monstrous rise in the national debt. 78% of the American people believe inflation will come quickly. And 69% do not have any confidence in the role of government mandated solutions to the economy. There is also now no sense in the American people that the stimulus will have any positive effect any time soon. Only 60% hold out hope that it will have any impact realized four years from now.

Most importantly by a margin of 12% the American people believe the stimulus will only help and unfairly benefit those who have already been irresponsible.

Every single one of the actions described and taken in this piece are actions connected directly to Obama. Remember, a clear majority of Americans thought any form of stimulus help should have come primarily through reducing the tax burden, not saddling it up for rides into the sunset.

We've heard the word "crisis" roll off the lips of the administration like syrup in recent days.

But now, President Obama has one of his own. His policies are failing in every direction. "We The People" are worried.

So for a man who campaigned on change, why not start practicing what you preach Mr. President?

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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one star
Seems like its going to be along 8 years for KMC.

Anyways this excuse for collumn bears no resemblance to reality- a problem in the GOP at large.

Persident obama is doing a fine job unless of course you are a rabid right winger with no sense of perspective.

Hey Frank...
Perhaps you should read the poll the author references. It was co-authored by Douglas Schoen (prominent Democratic activist) and Scott Rasmussen (the most accurate pollster in the past six election cycles.)

The numbers used in the piece line up exactly as the poll reports.

Say what you will, the shine is off Obama, and the time to actually go to work has arrived!

Frank
"Persident (sic) obama is doing a fine job unless of course you are a rabid right winger with no sense of perspective."

Kindly provide me with the "sense of perspective" that you say will illuminate for me the wisdom behind Obama's never ending string of blunders? What "perspective" justifies his countless broken campaign promises?

Perhaps I can answer for you: a liberal perspective.

In my rabid, right winger opinion...
voting for Obama is like waking up after a drunken night of partying to realize you made a mistake.

One
Big
A**
Mistake
America

:)

Hey Frank
Wait until Obamas Cap and Trade hits the country. The price of everything will, to use an Obama term, necessarily skyrocket. His so called stimulus package that will help the infrastructure in the country is only 4% of the total. He announces he will close Gitmo with no plan on what to do with the people held there. Every speech he gives he tells us how bad things are causing the markets to crash even further. He stops e-verify to help stem the tide of illegal aliens taking jobs from Americans.

Maybe Frank can help me
For some reason I've been receiving e-mails from Obama and his staff ever since he won the election. It's been fun emailing creative responses to them asking them to take me off of their list, but they seem to be too incompetent to do so. Frank, as a delusioned Obama supporter, do you have the clout to get the administration to stop these emails. As Kevin mentioned, the shine is off and the campaign is over! This isn't a game, it's our country.

Why not start practicing what you preach
There is a simple answer to this question.
Obama is a con man who does not have an honest bone in his body.
Cap and Trade - He wants to tax the air!
Show of hands...
Anyone else want Obama to fail?

Buyer's Remorse setting in...

The only thing keeping Obama afloat in the polls is the natural fear of a voter...

Admitting he/she made the biggest damn mistake of their life !!

Sinking fast.

It's hard to believe Buffet
could have made all that money being so stupid.

Everyone in the conservative corner pointed out that Obama had the most liberal voting record in the senate. He was even more liberal than Ted Kennedy, and his own books revealed he was a great admirer of the Marxist plan.

When an individual is this dedicated to an ideology, he will put that ideology above everything else.

We tried to warn you Warren, but you just wouldn't listen.

Now how about using some of that money to promote common sense?

McCullough is incredibly dishonest
McCullough intertwines a bunch of dishonest statements and 6 poll numbers in this ridiculous piece. One might suppose that he is cherry-picking his numbers, which is true, but his real trick is to site numbers that really have nothing to do with Obama. Perhaps it is true that 82% are worried about the national debt, but these people are not stupid enough to blame it on Obama. The poll numbers do not refer to Obama's performance.

In reality, here is what last week's WSJ/NBC poll found:

"[Obama] is more popular than ever, Americans are hopeful about his leadership, and opposition Republicans are getting drubbed in public opinion".

Here is the last-week's polling writeup from MSNBC.com:

"Obama's favorability rating is at an all-time high. Two-thirds feel hopeful about his leadership and six in 10 approve of the job he's doing in the White House."

Although he is bending reality, at least McCullough is not being hateful. But from a republican point of view, this kind of dishonesty is not doing anyone any favors.

The First President To Fail in Q1?
Well, it’s becoming obvious he’s not really much of a manager, decider, legislation-craftsman, or supervisor. His vetting process is in shambles and key Treasury slots are still vacant. His Treasury Secretary is a classic under-performer and Obama encourages that tendency by talking about everything other than our immediate recovery needs. He lets Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do the legislating — and they’ve come up with an embarrassing stimulus and an omnibus spending-bill even Democrats aren’t swallowing.

What does he like to do? Summits. These are in essence campaign events — faux town-halls where nary a discouraging word is heard and no real work is done. And he loves those campaign rallies around the country.

On the foreign relations front, Obama’s staff apparently isn’t aware of standard protocol for visiting dignitaries. Either that, or they intentionally snubbed Great Britain’s Prime Minister last week with Obama’s embarrassingly boorish treatment of, and cheap and thoughtless gifts for Gordon Brown and his family.

Remember, folks, this is Barry's first REAL job!!

Deny They Voted For Obama
I'd wager a year from now it will be very difficult to find a person who will actually admit having voted for Obama. Even the black community will eventually abandon Obama.

And yet
B HO now comes forward with “I don’t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say.. They’re not as bad as we think they are now.”

Yet, just last week everything was a "crisis."

In over his head? He's drowning and taking the country with him!

Ranger29 and doctor douglas frank
For people not to be nutters whatever that stupid statement is supposed to mean they sure would not listen to anything coming out of your pathetic mouth 29. and douglas of course you quote msnbc as your source. Real non biased accurate source there. And Frank maybe you should just learn to read. If you want to know why people despise liberals so much go look in a mirror. And just go away. You belong at your favorite liberal sites.

Wobbie Ranger

Hey Wobbie, You owe both MyOpine and myself an apology. Are you man enough for that?

It turns out that there WERE two USS Maine battleships, the first being the famous battleship which blew up in Havana Harbor the second launched three years later. Also there was a third ordered but never constructed. The fourth USS Maine is a nuclear submarine.

USS Maine - (ACR-1) Pre-dreadnaught battleship
Launched 1889 Commissioned 1895 Sank 1898 in Havana Harbor, precipitating the Spanish/American War.

USS Maine (BB10)
Launched 1901 Commissioned 1902 Decommissioned 1909 Recommissioned in 1911
Decommissioned in 1920 Scrapped in 1923

USS Maine (BB69) Ordered in 1941 Cancelled in 1943 before construction started

USS MAINE (SSBN) Ohio class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (now in service)

So what about it little Wobbie the military genius? Are you going to apologize to us as I mistakenly did to you, or are you too much of the little pu$$y everyone knows you are?

Doogie Derryberry

Have you ever noticed that in every post you laboriously scrawl, you start out proclaiming the author of being dishonest? So I take it you think that there are no honest columnists on Town Hall?

Not a very scientific opinion for a psychologist. But then psychology isn't a science is it, Doogie?

mr dungbeetle, 1 if by lamb, 2 if by see



Dr Douglas
Location: OR
Reply # 11
Date: Mar 15, 2009 - 2:23 AM EST Dr Douglas is incredibly dishonest
Dr Douglas intertwines a bunch of dishonest statements and 6 poll numbers in this ridiculous piece. One might suppose that he is cherry-picking his numbers, which is true, but his real trick is to site numbers that really have nothing to do with Dr Douglas. Perhaps it is true that 82% are worried about the national debt, but these people are not stupid enough to blame it on Dr Douglas. The poll numbers do not refer to Dr Douglas's performance.

In reality, here is what last week's WSJ/NBC poll found:

"[Dr Douglas] is more popular than ever, Americans are hopeful about his leadership, and opposition Republicans are getting drubbed in public opinion".

Here is the last-week's polling writeup from MSNBC.com:

"Dr Douglas's favorability rating is at an all-time high. Two-thirds feel hopeful about his leadership and six in 10 approve of the job he's doing in the White House."

Although he is bending reality, at least Dr Douglas is not being hateful. But from a republican point of view, this kind of dishonesty is not doing anyone any favors.

~~~

Gee, this is easy.

What a twit !

Bob C - PROVE ME WRONG

Obviously, the reason I start out the posts saying the author is dishonest is because the author IS dishonest. Prove me wrong.

Obviously, I don't say this about all the columnists, so I can't possibly think they are all dishonest.

You wouldn't know science if you saw it. My knowledge of psychology makes it quite easy to see all the distortion, deception, etc. (DISHONESTY) in these articles. In reality, it doesn't take a PH.D. to see this dishonesty - any one with a remotely open mind could see it.

If it's not dishonest - PROVE ME WRONG.

Hey Doogie

God, you are one dumb SOB.

You're the one who made the claim that McCullough is dishonest. It is up to YOU to prove your assertion.

Is that how you conduct your "research" in your cute little pseudo-science? You make unsustantiated claims and then challenge others to "prove you wrong?"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

TIME IS UP
FIFTY DAYS IS WAY PAST THE STANDARD PROBATIONARY PERIOD EVEN FOR A POTUS. I SAY, LET'S QUIT TALKING AND FIRE THE CHARLATAN-IN-CHIEF ONCE AND FOR ALL.

Fred
I believe that snub was deliberate..there's one certainty in O's personality, that was
sealed in cement after attending Trinity (whenever I write that church's name I feel like I'm blaspheming), it is his visceral hatred for his mother's race. The English
are ethnically white and the majority of Americans are white..what better way to kill two birds with one stone? Deliberately insult
the white Brit (even though he's politically
on the same page) and embarrass Americans.

He's proving over and over that even if he is
an American born citizen, he shouldn't be because he HATES this country and it's Constitution.

Replies
This was a good article. I wonder why there are so many stupid replies to it?

Doogie

Obama is a liar.

He lied about not having any lobbyists in his administration. He currently has 47.

He lied about not signing any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days. The "stimulus" bill was set for a vote less than 48 hours after release.

He lied about there being no earmarks in the stimulus bill

I can go on forever.

PROVE ME WRONG!

Bawny Fwank,


Bawny Fwank,

" Frank
Location: VA
Reply # 1
Date: Mar 15, 2009 - 12:09 AM EST one star
Seems like its going to be along 8 years for KMC.

Anyways this excuse for collumn bears no resemblance to reality- a problem in the GOP at large.

Persident obama is doing a fine job unless of course you are a rabid right winger with no sense of perspective. "

~~~

Bawny, Twust me. Kevin not yo kind.

He not wike yo wife style. Yo not be unerstan him, we kin see.

Hang wit yo types, mr dungbeetle, wobbie wanger, an hul donkeyhooey.

~~~

A few questions...

Does "Anyways" mean 'anyway', or does it imply some colloquialism?

Does "Persident" mean President?

Does "collumn" mean column?

Does "obama is doing a fine job" mean the country is being destroyed ?

Does "one star" mean you have no idea what the column was about?

Or, does it mean you did not read it.


OK. OK. I know you can't read.

You really should see a health care specialist about your problem with onanism.

Just teasing here. I know you do not know about Judah's embarassment. :-)




Obama
This punk is not fit to be president. His smooth talk is running very shallow. At last some of the American public are waking up to what we have done to our country by electing this dangerous empty suit. If the Democrats in the Congress wake up soon enough they might be able to save us. The problem is at this point is that we seem to have only one branch of the government and that is the executive. We don't even have a "free press" watching over it. Obama is tearing down everything that has made America so great. I fear deeply for our country. We have acted like fools by electing this arrogant phoney.

Bob C - You are pathetic
You claim that you don't have to "prove me wrong" but rather that I have to prove my assertion that "McCullough is disonest".

The problem is that I already proved my assertion, both through logic and through two citations, in my original post.

So you can't come close, and won't even attempt to deal with my arguments and prove me wrong.

Instead, you make fun of my name
you smear me as a person
you make fun of my science.

I would ask that you explain your brilliant thoughts regarding why "psychology is a pseudoscience", but I'm sure I would get the same kind of ignorant evasion.

You are pathetic, and par for the course at Townhall.com

Don't deal with me again.

Sad State of Affairs
Well the fox is in the hen house now and by the time this bozo is done destroying our Constitution and our proud heritage the real question is will we be able to pick up the pieces and put our Country back together.

The elected socialist knows the power of the pen his mentors have taught him well (Hitler,Stalin, Marx, Alinski,Davies et al)

In 2012 we may regain the Oval office but can we once again claim our Nations Soveriegnty and our Constitution? That's my biggest worry.

Yes, everyone from high income to low is hurting.
Yes, everyone is going to pay because the elected socialist is signing off on every half baked world domination scheme the UN promotes.

Yes, the elected socialist and Emanuel are trying to bring back the brownshirts.

With the help of Nazi Pelousy and Harried Reid et al.

WE THE PEOPLE HAVE TO REMEMBER that the elected socialist is almost powerless if he doesn't have Congress to back him up and push through these Anti-American schemes.

WE THE PEOPLE have to fight to win to regain the House and Senate in 2010.
WE THE PEOPLE have to for our kids sake get rid of these usurpers and elect Pro-America representitives.

That's what should be in our cross hairs right now..Face it we're stuck with the jerk in office till 2012 but we can get him into a stalemate situation for the last 2 years of his term...That's where we need to focus our sights for now and keep fighting against the jerks policies.

Dr Dingleberry

Dooge whines "Don't deal with me again."

Sorry Doogie, as long as you continue posting your idiotic smears against McCullough, Malkin, Perlutski, Adams, Limbaugh, Will, Coulter and many others (all of whom you've called liars, you're fair game.

When you can consistently post here without attacking the columnists then I'll stop attacking you. Otherwise, live with it or take a hike back to Koss and HuffPo where those yokels think you're just the cat's meow instead of the halfwit you are.


Doogie challenges, "I would ask that you explain your brilliant thoughts regarding why "psychology is a pseudoscience", but I'm sure I would get the same kind of ignorant evasion."

That's easy. For every psychologist that claims one thing, there is another that claims the opposite. Psychology is little more than a cult of opinion were people like you can say anything, have nothing but your own statistical manipulation and opinion to back it up, and claim it as "science." Sorry Doogie. Not impressed.

Dr Dingleberry

Dooge whines "Don't deal with me again."

Sorry Doogie, as long as you continue posting your idiotic smears against McCullough, Malkin, Perlutski, Adams, Limbaugh, Will, Coulter and many others (all of whom you've called liars, you're fair game.

When you can consistently post here without attacking the columnists then I'll stop attacking you. Otherwise, live with it or take a hike back to Koss and HuffPo where those yokels think you're just the cat's meow instead of the halfwit you are.


Doogie challenges, "I would ask that you explain your brilliant thoughts regarding why "psychology is a pseudoscience", but I'm sure I would get the same kind of ignorant evasion."

That's easy. For every psychologist that claims one thing, there is another that claims the opposite. Psychology is little more than a cult of opinion were people like you can say anything, have nothing but your own statistical manipulation and opinion to back it up, and claim it as "science." Not impressed.

My mother was bipolar for her entire adult life and clowns like you tore her apart for sixty years with your diagnoses, counter diagnoses and differing opinions. She died of complications feom lithium poisoning because clowns like you spouted their opinions without actually checking the reality of the situation. You know, like you constantly do here on TH.

Dr.Douglas
For one of such self proclaimed intelligence, and your inferred ability to recognize deception because of your degree,you have been So easily deceieved By the Great O,I would have to say you're not really very good at what you claim to be so good at.
I don't know whether you know this or not but MSNBC was proven last fall to skew their polling numbers by loading their polls with targeted pollsters...so once again,with your ability to recognize dishonesty(DECEPTION)you should apply for the Great O's NIS you would be a very Obamanarian addition.

Dr. Douglas
Dear Dr. Douglas, I have a Ph.D. too, and I have studied psychology for 35 years. I have also discovered there are soooo many psychologists who are attracted to the subject because of their own inadequacies and lack of insight. Poor you. Stop acting as if you are the only educated person on earth; you might be surprised to know some of us out here can match you tit for tat.

Change it up
The Change We Need...
is to depose Obama and his wrecking crew.

Unsealing all of his documents would do the job.

Brian

Brian correctly observes, "Unsealing all of his documents would do the job."

Don't hold your breath. Obams's promise of "transparancy" only applies to others of HIS choosing. Not himself. He is the Messiah after all.

H. D.

It's not "conservatives," it's Republicans.

I'm not sure what you mean by a "conservative," but I'm pretty sure that most Republicans are not "conservatives" as I understand the term.

Republicans are no differtent than Democrats. Both parties believe in big government, deficit spending and bigger and more intrusive government. To attribute to Republicans any different is laughable.

H.D.........
.....informs the rest of us:

"Yes, so well exmplified by bombastic Rush Limbaugh while dancing like the greates idiot for the whole world to perhaps be entertained with."

What can I possible say in response...other than "Profound!"


Bob_C - Please be kind
Please be kind to Dr. Douglas. He is from Oregon State University. It is also illuminating that he doesn't know the difference between site and cite.

Oh well. What can you expect from a beaver?

Kind Regards

libidiots
nobama is showing what most liberals are,idiots.

MNDuck

I'll be happy to be civil to be civil to Dr Derryberry when he quits being an insulting, condescending, bombastic little twatt.

Douglas
Why do you all encourage this sicko by replying to him, better to ignore his type so as to get some real conversation going.

Bob_C
Do you ever wonder why Dr. Douglas comes to Townhall? I have yet to see him engage in thoughtful dialogue with the normal back and forth of strong debate.

As you noted earlier in the thread, the good Dr. made some assertions, yet didn't back them up. It is illogical to try to call someone on supposed dishonesty with only just an opinion.

It is so hard to take him seriously. I would rather engage Mod Mark, Left Angle, JMO51, Taft, christianlib, and even Sophie than Dr. Douglas. I have far more respect for those that get into the ring, make their points, acknowledge that there are other legitimate points of view even if the language may be a little stronger or insulting than preferable for my taste.

Keep up the good work, although for you Dealing with the Dr. from Oregon seem pretty simple.

Kind Regards

white knight
I think that TH'ers engage Dr. Douglas because it is very easy to point to his logical shortcomings. Kind of like a hanging curveball just begging to be hit out of the park.

Regards

MNDuck
....or shooting fish in a barrel....

I think he comes here to say "Hey,look at me. I'm still here. I am somebody,I am somebody".

I have never seen him make one positive statement. He is soured on everything.

He 's like the little boy in the cereal commercial. "Hey,let's get Mikey,he won't eat it...he hates everything"

You gotta be kidding me!
I see people in these remarks thinking that our marxist muslim is doing a fine job! I guess y'all have a way to pay for his socialist agenda? Even your buds in France and Germany are revolted at Obama's spending. This is a dangerous man for America, Obama. You lefties THINK that because y'all control both houses and the White House that y'all will sit on your collective a$$ and have the best of both worlds. You know nothing of America, if that is the case. There are elections next year and AMERICA is PISSED!!!!

Bicoastal
Frank in Va and William in CA are a fine pair, aren't they? They're bicoastal.

No Matter who selected

No Matter who selected the 'Tasteless Gift' that was picked for PM Brown - the President Barack Obama - is responsible - that is part of being a CEO.

When you are POTUS, the 'Buck Stops With the POTUS.

Barack Obama against Middle Class

Barack Obama wants the Middle Class Destroyed.

One of the tenets of Marxism, is to destroy the Middle Class. The destruction of the middle class is avery important step for Barack Obama.

The Black Liberation document, that Barack Obama approved at Mentor Jeremiah Wrights church, stated "Disavowal of Middle Class".

Marxism must pit the poor against the rich (soon to be anyone who makes more than Minimum Wage) - the Middle Class must be destroyed.

By destroying all pensions and raising taxes and making energy costly, will result in the destruction of the middle class.

Every time Barack Obama speaks, the Stock Market drops, much to his delight and to the delight of the Obama Administration.

When the Stock Market drops, pension plans are hurt, 401K's are hurt, IRA's are hurt - this makes Barack Obama and his 'Glassy Eyed' followers giddy with delight.

Barack Obama believes the 'Success' of his administration will be the 'Destruction' of the middle class and their pensions.

Even social workers are fretting
The 1/9/09 departmental partying (really the entire school) has, person by person, turned into bewilderment and worry. Each week more colleagues resign from the Obama fan club; and the Obama bobble head dolls (tacky), banners, and, and posters are disappearing. What is he doing? What are we supposed to do with the $13.00 per week "tax cut" ? Private sector jobs are vanishing in droves and donations are nearly gone- which is what programs like ours have always depended on. Few of these people even know or think about the international stage.

I know Obama would be bad by virtue of his ideology- I truly didn't think he'd be as awful as he is.

Doc Doug - "Don't deal with me again"
Personally, I scroll past your posts as soon as your name comes up. Gets me to the bottom of the thread faster and I'm not insulted by your pseudo-intellectual tripe.

No wonder this country is in such bad shape, with dipsticks like you out there spouting nonsense, denying facts, twisting truth. You make less sense than Ward Churchill, Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright rolled together.

Go pontificate elsewhere, and take Wobbie Wanger and his BDS with - you guys have nothing to add to what otherwise would be an adult discussion. You are useless to debate because your argument has no basis in truth, or even reality.

I predict more and more Obamaniacs will wake up and smell the toast burning. Toast, hell! The whole house is on fire!

Bob_C ... suzanne ...

Bob_C - Thanks for taking Dr. Douglas to task. He appears to be stalking certain columnists, often dropping stink bombs the moment their articles are posted. And always calling them liars. Maybe Suzanne can offer a diagnosis:-)

suzanne - Several years ago, one of my duties was placing psych patients in leather restraints or "quiet rooms". And I noticed that the vast majority of the patients who 'acted out' were assigned to the same (baffled) psychologists. It's these useless condescending types (narcissists) who give the field a bad name - randomly assigning diagnosis better fitting themselves.
Thank you for pointing out inadequate comrades, as many professionals (of many fields) rarely do.

Big Difference
Bush inherited prosperity and a budget surplus. Projections had the national debt being paid off within 5 years. It's not that hard to please people in those conditions.

Obama has inherited a pile of crap. Not only does the short term economic situation look dismal, our long term situation is bleak. Obama is going to have to make some very unpopular decisions. Hopefully he will make the decisions based on what's best for the nation rather than what's popular. But that's a lot to expect being that no politician has done that for almost a decade.

dr dougie says: "You are pathetic,

and par for the course at Townhall.com

"Don't deal with me again."



Well, dougie, here's a solution! DO NOT RETURN TO TOWNHALL. :-)


in response to KMC
I'm not arguing the veracity of the polls themselves KMC, I'm arguing that they don't prove your premise.

And I ask you are you going to be relying on those two pollsters consistently through the enxt eight years or only when it fits your purpose? Plus surely you must know that forevery poll you produce saying one thing I can produce another...

like say the last fox news poll which shows a 63% approval rating and within the +3/-3 margin.
Perhaps you'd like to see the Ipso McClatchey numbers-they are at 65% which means Obama's popularity realy hsn't gone down at all over the course of the last month.

I think it speaks volumes that only you are making this claim-most real pundits who are not wedded to partisanship seem to recognize this.

Yes it is time to get to work; time for conservatives.

4 Years of Obama - Collapse of America
Many Obamanics who voted for Obama are now moving into "Tent Cities". "Change" is happening, from happy to depressed. By targeting the rich, Obama has really hurt the low and middle income since most of the population work for the rich. Majority of Congress are multi-millionaires. They get to write off their meals, lodgings, trips, etc. as expenses. The Dems are so busy spending the taxpayers money, they're not seeing and/or avoiding the true effects of their actions.

In his attempt to prevent poverty, Obama has created a larger poverty population! He did state "he has no business experience".

Fear is brewing in this country and we have 4 yrs. of Obama yet.

Frank is Member of Obama's Cult

Obama's 'Cult of Personality

Barack Obama gazes upwards, towards Heaven, to tell us that he is a spiritual visionary who is above mundane earthly concerns.

Ultimately, Liberals cannot admire Barack Obama, they must worship him.

"... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama" - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire.
January 7, 2008.

“It is absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Barack Obama

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"...Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway.

...A Lightworker -- An Attuned Being with Powerful Luminosity and High-Vibration Integrity who will actually help usher in a New Way of Being"
Mark Morford San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, June 06, 2008


Liberals believe that having negative emotions about Barack Obama is a "defect" that needs to be fixed.

Liberals will attack viciously anyone who does 'NOT FEEL' that Obama is 'The One'.

Not entirely
>Not only does the short term economic situation look dismal, our long term situation is bleak.<

The stock market gains of the past week, spurred by Citibank actually making a profit last quarter, indicate that we've seen the bottom and are likely to start moving forward, if not dramatically, at least moderately.

This author, like many on this forum, is stuck in reverse.

>Seriously, in nearly every category of governance he has messed up royally, and is clueless, or wantonly stubborn to do the things that will fix any of the problems.<

If you're going to call someone clueless, it should mean that you have ideas and proposals that will positively affect the problems we face, but I see none proposed. Instead, there's just a constant stream of whining and criticism, some with merit and some without merit.

It appears that this author is equally clueless and stubborn and not very interested in fixing any of these problems. He's too invested in the failure of this administration to want the problems fixed and the country to move forward.

Dave:Actually, the only "big difference"

is Bozo Obama a) has no experience, and b) his goal never was to "lead" and "govern"

The blind Obama followers just can't seem to get a grip in the fact that Obama is a Marxist and his "decisions" and "Exec. Orders" as well as this Marxist spending pkg. is NOTHING MORE than a way to put us on the fast track to Marxism.

His big problem is, he's obviously forgotten that there were 48% of the American voters who didn't buy into his "hope" and "change" and they see right through his agenda.

And, obviously even some of those who actually voted for him are beginning to see what we've been telling them for over a year.


Anne... Doug's a real winner :-)

The little cyber-stalker is following #29 to the launch pad, eh?

Spending years in a University - a collective vs. a collection of individuals - damages one's ability to think outside-the-box. No different (especially for those weak of mind) than living the lie of a co-dependent family structure.

This is one reason that "free college" is a bad idea. For those too dysfunctional to participate will be 'enabled' to usurp the abilities of those who can. It's no different than busing - and we know what a dismal failure that 'collective fiasco' turned out.

Barack Obama's Goal - A Failed America

Barack Obama's Goal - A Failed America

"I ask you, is it possible ACORN would train Obama to take leadership positions within ACORN without telling him what he was training for?

Is it possible ACORN would put Obama in leadership positions without clueing him into what his purpose was??

Is it possible that this most radical of organizations would put someone in charge of training its trainers, without him knowing what it was he was training them for?

As a community activist for ACORN; as a leadership trainer for ACORN; as a lead organizer for ACORN's Project Vote; as an attorney representing ACORN's successful efforts to impose Motor Voter regulations in Illinois; as ACORN's representative in lobbying for the expansion of high risk housing loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to the current crisis; as a recipient of their assistance in his political campaigns -- both with money and campaign workers; it is doubtful that he was unaware of ACORN's true goals. It is doubtful he was unaware of the Cloward-Piven Strategy."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the _strategy.html



Retired Geek # 56 Whoa!

Thou speaketh in volume :-)

Very well done!

O'Dumbo Lied; the Economy Died
Frank: Would you care to actually contribute a rebuttal, rather than name-calling, charecter assasination and general hysterics?
Wobbly: Would YOU care to actually contribute something, other personal attack, unsupported opinion and liberl hysterics?
Doogie: Here's some facts to refute your O'Dumbo fantasies. The Family Security Matters poll has consistantly (3 weeks running) shown that 91% of Americans see the Porkulus Plan as detructive. Oh, and I've tracked that MSNBC poll! After the first poll numbers were released all of a sudden they inverted! 3-13-09: 59% of American rate Obama an F for his job performance, so far, 19% rate Obama n A for his job performance, so far. 3-14-09: 40% rate Obama an F, 40% rate Obama an A. Doesn't something seem HIGHLY fishy???
HD: Would YOU like to actually contribute something (on subject, please) to this discussion, other than name-calling, unsupported pinion and general hysterics?
You obamabots seem not to realize your messiah is hurting you too! Do you actually think your investments haven't depreciated 30%, just like everyone else's? Do you actually think you'll be paying less than everyone else for any type of energy? (heating, transportation, electric, etc) WAKE UP and take your meds!!!

Carlos: Excellent point! Which is,

no doubt, why Bozo thinks a free college education for everyone is a good idea. HA!

I have to admit though, dougie's "Don't deal with me again." was pretty funny. :-) I'm surprised there wasn't a "SO THERE!!!!" tacked onto the end of his statement!


obama . . .
is like a puppy on a leash. The REAL power lies in the hands of rahm "lets not let a good crisis go to waste" emanuel and other "top government officials". Unfortunately, the "top officials" are pretty much all criminals and marxists to boot. Looks like we got a "two-fer" as far as ideology and criminality is concerned.

Here's your chance
Speaking of clueless, Anne showed yesterday she had no idea what quotation marks were about.

Today you can redeem yourself.

In one paragraph from the article, the author three times uses

"evil big business"

"evil" business(twice),

without attributing these quotes to anyone.

Who said these things? Is this the proper use of quotation marks, making up phrases without proper attribution?

Why is evil put in quotation marks other than for effect?


DAVID Loc: MA said it perfectly

on Morris' thread a short while ago.

Reply # 556
Date: Mar 15, 2009 - 8:23 AM EST
YES
HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING.

SOCIALIZING AMERICA VIA BANKRUPTCY!
_____________________________________

BINGO! That IS the correct short answer!!


But we may still have hope!

Chief Justice agrees to read Obama docs
"Chief justice publicly accepts WND's eligibility petition. Attorney Orly Taitz talks to Roberts, who agrees to read Obama-birth docs"

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91763

"A California attorney lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of Barack Obama's qualifications to be president confronted the chief justice yesterday with legal briefs and a WND petition bearing names of over 325,000 people asking the court to rule on whether or not the sitting president fulfills the Constitution's 'natural-born citizen' clause.

"According to Orly Taitz, the attorney who confronted Chief Justice John Roberts at a lecture at the University of Idaho, the judge promised before the gathered crowd that he would, indeed, read and review the briefs and petition.

"'I addressed him in front of 800 people in the audience,' Taitz told WND, 'including university officials, the president of the Idaho State Bar and the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, and in front of all them, [Roberts] promised to read my papers.'

"Roberts was lecturing on Abraham Lincoln to approximately 1,200 attendees of the annual Bellwood Memorial Lecture Series at the Moscow, Idaho, university. Roberts has been chief justice of the Supreme Court since his nomination by President George W. Bush and subsequent confirmation in 2005."

Cont.

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts II

“Earlier in the week, Taitz confronted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who told her the issue of Obama's eligibility, which has been raised before the Supreme Court at least four times but has yet to be given a single hearing, still lacked the votes of the required four justices in conference before it would be officially heard.

“Taitz said, I told Scalia that I was an attorney that filed Lightfoot v. Bowen that Chief Justice Roberts distributed for conference on Jan. 23 and now I represent nine state reps and 120 military officers, many of them high ranked, and I want to know if they will hear Quo Warranto and if they would hear it on original jurisdiction, if I bring Hawaii as an additional defendant to unseal the records and ascertain Obama's legitimacy for presidency.’

“The legal phrase Quo Warranto essentially means an explanation is being demanded for what authority Obama is using to act as president. An online constitutional resource says Quo Warranto ‘affords the only judicial remedy for violations of the Constitution by public officials and agents.’"

Ridicule.....
is the tool of some that want you off the subject. There is little defense against it. They know it. It is mockery and contempt they use as a diversion to foist their idealogy upon their audience. It is their revolution "hope and change".

The status quo, the current POTUS, is truly concerned about his public image, revolution hope and change has no image, but snstead cast a dark, ominous shadow of things to come.

"We have permitted a suicidal situation to unfold wherein revolution and communism have become one". Alinsky

The danger of intellectual enslavement by communistic ideology is real, as spewed by some who post here. The current POTUS, with little more than 40 days in government, was trained very well how to organize power where and how to get and use it.

Revolution has started with his organization. Are we ready for it? If you know the change he has in mind I say no we are not ready.

Lincoln said "Be not deceived. Revolutions so not go backwards".

Political realists see the world as it is.
Power politicals are moved primarly by PRECEIVED
immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rational for expedient action and self-interest. Irrational action ($900 million) to Hamas for immigration to US,irrationalty clings to a man like his shadow, truly for the wrong reasons.

This is not a world of peace and beauty and dispassionate rationality, as a (true)
philosopher Henry James wrote, "Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folley very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places.....

What can you say now, obviously this will not be the last word.

Obama's Sheep Posting Here Today

Barack Obama is nothing more than a 'Judas Goat' leading his 'worshipers' to certain slaughter.

Barack 'Judas Goat' Obama, will take America down, while his glassy eyed followers chant 'Yes We Can'.

What is a Judas Goat?

The stockyards use such a goat to lead the sheep to slaughter.

Without the aid of a Judas goat, the sheep would mill around endlessly in the pen and would not enter or traverse the chute to the slaughter house.

The Judas goat, mingling with the sheep, is trained to lead them out of the pen and down the chute to the slaughterhouse.

And at the last second, the Judas goat is allowed to escape by a side-gate while the sheep go to their appointed end.

Barack 'Judas Goat' Obama is leading his 'Obama Sheep' to the slaughter, while the rest of us are telling the 'Obama Sheep' - HE IS LEADING YOU TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE.

The Obama 'Judas Goat Sheep' just bleat BAH, BAh, bah - he is our great leader and he wouldn't hurt us - he loves us.

Pancho 'Obama Sheep'

Pancho, how long have you had the mentality of a 'Sheep' being led to slaughter?

Pancho, you seem happy and contented, while enroute to the slaughterhouse.




Obombo's dichotomy

has not been kept under a barrel you know. It has been obvious since he first showed up on the national stage.

He denies one of our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, which states that the right to life is an inalienable right bestowed on us by the Creator. (That right is not dependent on interpretations by pay grade. It is a right that can not be canceled at any point of development. If it could, would it be inalienable?)

On the other hand, he finds it convenient to adopt, as did his mentor Alinsky, a phrase from the Preamble to the Constitution, "to promote the general Welfare" to empower social programs, the redistribution of wealth and big government without limits. The general Welfare of the unborn is somehow excluded from his scope of understanding.

What we have shackled ourselves with is a two-bit and two-faced political hack from the cesspool of South Chicago. There's a lot more we don't know about him (but we are considered uppity to ask). It will all come out when the MSM becomes disenchanted enough to start digging.








The Goodship Obamba is sinking?
Wow, that did'nt take long at all! Hello Obama supporters, we told you so, your Boy is a gold plated Zero.

Anne tsk tsk

You are revealing the ignorance of Pancho.

Pancho claims he makes his money investing in the 'Stock Market' and working illegal Aliens.

He must of made a lot of money investing in the financial Genius, Barack Obama and 'Turbo Tax Timmy'.

Obam pretty much said
he would destroy our way of life - and that is what he is doing. He is also a major supporter of abortion on demand and will export death to other countries. His refusal to even use the words "enemy combatants" is very revealing: perhaps we should call them "not nice guys". He is a fool.

Carlos Good Morning!

Good to see you here, my friend!

Would you consider giving Dr Douglas some training - your knowledge of human behavior makes him look like a complete idiot.

Pancho... Just to be honest

I often use quotation marks "For Effect"... And dashes, and question marks, and periods, and exclamation points, and smiley faces... It's a public education thing on my part.

But, I have heard/read Liberals assign the word "Evil" to just about everything they point out to be Conservative. Where have you been the last 8 years???

And hey, Kieth Olbermann uses "glaring psycho eyes" for a-ffect (my quote).

Doom and gloom
>Pancho, how long have you had the mentality of a 'Sheep' being led to slaughter?

Pancho, you seem happy and contented, while enroute to the slaughterhouse.<

I have no idea what you're talking about. While you spend every waking hour forecasting doom and gloom, my mentality is much more positive.

For instance, I own my home. No mortgage. I own my own business. While business is down, I did land a big commercial project this summer that will carry me through the entire year. My portfolio has taken a huge hit, but I was forward thinking enough to move mostly out of stocks last July.

Lastly, if the feces hits the fan, Utah is the best place to be. Mormons are taught to keep a pantry full of food and water, and most of us have guns in case stray looters from Salt Lake venture into our area.

So, what slaughter are you talking about? The only one I can think of is my golf score, which fails to get better despite the effort I put into it.

Robert_CA: Remember when, 2+ yrs. ago,

the Pelosi-Reid liberals took over Congress?

"... clean the swamp," etc.?

And how long did it take before Congress' approval ratings hit the skids? NOT VERY LONG!

Not only did Congress' approval rating drop like a brick, the ratings were the lowest in Congress' history, and in RECORD TIME!

Not too long ago I posed the question... "Will Bozo's approval ratings beat those of Congress, both in numbers and time?"

If he doesn't, it will be close! The only other question now is, "How will he deal with it?"


Liar
>Pancho claims he makes his money investing in the 'Stock Market' and working illegal Aliens.<

Please show me where I claimed anything like that. I lost a boatload in the market like everyone else. I have one employee, my 18 year old nephew, who is a blond blue-eyed 5th generation American of Scandinavian descent.

Where d o you come up with these tidbits of dishonesty?

Dr. Kalid Abudullah Tariq
Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour a/k/a Donald Warden who is an influential, radical black Muslim with close ties to the Saudi royal family and an outspoken opponent of Israel helped finance Obama's law school education.

Carlos: :-)
.

Yes, Obama's failing
His narcissistic personality and arrogance compels him to push through with power grabs that is alienating the folks who voted for him because they hated Bush. His incompetence is alienating the folks who voted for him because they thought he had the answers to fix the economy. The bigotry he learned at Trinity (gradually being revealed by his willingness to stick a finger in the eyes of our allies who are primarily white or Jewish)is alienating Jews and folks who voted for him out of white guilt. And his political ambitions are forcing him to a few centralist positions as he already campaigns for 2012, alienating some in the far left fringe. Let's face it, the few moochers and users who will remain with him aren't enough to sustain positive poll numbers.

And by the way, I echo the posters urging TH'ers to ignore Dr. Derryberry. In looking him up on the UO website, he's listed as "emeritus". That implies two things:
(1) He's spouted enough liberal propaganda to be honored at an extremely left-wing university and
(2) He's been put out to pasture. He no longer has classes of students to dominate and subjugate. His posts on a conservative website are just his attempt to get attention and convince himself that he is still relevant.

Good Morning Retired Geek ...

I hope all is well in your "colony" (damn, there I go again with "quotes").

Another "Liberal Delusion" (Quoting Anne) to ponder...

Has anyone noticed:

Liberal-Democrats "Assume" we Conservatives "Parrot" each other. When "In Fact" we "disagree" quite often.

"Anne" disagreed with "David" twice on this thread... And not one Liberal-Democrat noticed???

The "Collective Minds" do not "Think very well".

They (the Liberals) suffer "Delusions".

It's well accepted
>I often use quotation marks "For Effect"... And dashes, and question marks, and periods, and exclamation points, and smiley faces... It's a public education thing on my part.<

Even if gramatically wrong. McCullough's use is less egregious as he's using the " " in a generic way, which is different than me writing,

Carlos said,

"I am a homosexual"

which is probably wrong, but I never heard you say it in any case.


Jeanne: You are exactly right about...

"Dr. Kalid Abudullah Tariq."

There were some well researched and documented columns on WND about that, and other Obama-muslim connections.

It's just astounding to me, and every other clear thinking, truth seeking person, why the Obama sheep "refused" to even consider the validity of this information.

BHO is a Disaster
We may pay by relinquishing our great Republic.

Pancho You can Regain What you lost !

Pancho, simply apply the same strategy to your personal finances, that your financial Genius Leader Barack Obama is using for America.

1) Quit working or doing anything productive.
2) Invest money in the 'Worst' businesses you can find, especially those that have a history of mis-management.
3) Mortgage everything you own to the maximum that you can, to China.
4) Charge all of your credit cards to the maximum.
5) Apply for more credit cards and charge them to the maximum.
6) Buy everything you can that you DO NOT NEED, especially products that have NO value.
7) Whatever cash is left, give it to the most human failures you can find.

No need to thank me Pancho, I hate to see Obama 'Sheep' NOT becoming wealthy, beyond their wildest dreams.

Anne in PA: thats an easy question
To answer your Question on how will he deal with his lose of Popularity. Obama will blame the People who cling to their guns and religion. Oh and Rick Santelli, Rush Limbaugh, Jim Crammer and countless others, most of whom voted for this sorry PoS.

Oregon Lady... Great job!

I see you are of the "individualistic" mindset :-)

P.S. Wish I were there, but do not wish you were here (Detroit: America's most Dangerous D-City).

President Obama and taxation
President Obama may not support a direct tax on the middleclass, but his policies of taxing business will increase the cost of everything to the consumer. The surest way to help the economy is to slash, not just cut, taxes accross the board.

Carlos: How did we KNOW that Pancho

would stoop so low? Ha Ha Ha

Perhaps because "he are one?" :-)

It's pretty easy to spot an intellectually limited liberal... especially when he/she tries to point out a "supposed" grammatical mistake others make, when they in fact, don't even have a grasp of the English language.

Example? Pancho writes, "which is different than me writing,"

How about, "which is different *from my* writing,"

:-)



Who are the sheep?
>No need to thank me Pancho, I hate to see Obama 'Sheep' NOT becoming wealthy, beyond their wildest dreams.<

In your world, anyone who dares challenge your radical obsession with Obama must be an Obama sheep.

Since I never voted for him, often criticize him(especially when it comes to entitlement programs), and would prefer a balance of parties in the executive and congressional branches, your characterization falls flat.

What you and others on this forum want are sheep. Everyone must be in agreement that Obama wants to destroy the country and enslave us all, lead us to slaughter, blah, blah, blah.

Independent thought is met with juvenile histrionics which you have displayed well today.

obama takes nation and WORLD DOWN
When he moved into the lead in the polls last spring, I cleared a lot out of the stock market KNOWING what a disaster he would be. HOWEVER, I expected the world would not suffer as much, so I bought into foreign based companies traded on U.S. exchanges and minerals. Never expected his negative influence to spread so far, but given his islamic connections and what he is likely to do for WORLD freedom and liberty, it does make sense -- I should have bought a bigger mattress!
Steve

The 83% Nays Have It!
And, Mugabe (because of his redistributionist aims and the hyperinflation that will result from his spending) best heed the warnings of those Americans with common sense. The government's fire sale debt-spending will not ease the recession and may, in fact, prolong it or worse, as is evidenced by an exhaustive study conducted in 2004.

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.

“Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump,” said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA’s Department of Economics. “We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.”

“The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “IRONICALLY, OUR WORK SHOWS THAT THE RECOVERY WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY RAPID HAD THE GOVERNMENT NOT INTERVENED.”

http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Pro longed-Depression-5409.aspx?RelNum=5409

Whether he's gunning for New Deal economics or Sugar Candy Socialism, we are in for a world of hurt.

The important thing about history is that people do not LEARN from it.

Oregon Lady, Carlos, & Ret Geek

Oregon Lady:
You are spot on! And did you happen to go to the univ. site and read some of students' evals?

Apparently most of them didn't know what dougie was yammering about in class, and often found themselves counting the ceiling tiles rather than trying to listen to him. :-)




And Carlos & Ret. Geek:
Are you guys trying to get ME into trouble? Thanks. (As if I don't do a pretty "fine" job myself.) LOL


Obama The Puppet
George Soros is pulling the strings

Anne... "Obama's Numbers"

Obama's numbers will not drop as low as Bush in my non-psych-PhD opinion (hey Liberals, this is a form of Conservative disagreement!).

For, regardless of how terribly bad Obama does, the Liberals will not defrock their delusions of Messiah's greatness (think N. Korea).

Whereas Republicans (lacking delusions) dissed Bush in the end, Liberal-Democrats will never throw their 'Mother-object' under the bus. The act itself would be suicide to their already splintered egos.

Could this be... The percentage of Americans possessing delusions - will be equal to Obama's lowest polling numbers?


Osama approves of Socialism

"The interests of [radical Facist] Muslims and the interests of the socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders[USA and all so-called infidels]."
Osama bin Laden - March 2003

Barack 'Marxist/Socialist' Obama, has the approval of Osama bin Laden, in destroying the American economy through 'Socialism'.


Anyone remember Brandeburg Gate?


It's been called, among other things, "massive hubris of the Obama campaign to even suggest" that Bozo even presume to speak at Brandenburg Gate.

I also think it demonstrated just how naive and ill prepared Obama is to be any world leader, not to mention a national embarrassment.

And then, to make matters even MORE embarrassing, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to "un-invite" Obama as even his presumptuousness was "inappropriate."

And THEN, less than 48 HOURS after his costly coronation, using his newly acquired Emperor (Exec.) Order pen, after he signed an order to close Gitmo, one of his spokespersons was forced to admit...

"… he hasn't yet fully explored the potentially negative consequences...it is more complicated than it first appeared."

Which, of course, begs the question... what else is he going to do, and what will be the CONSEQUENCES be of such reckless behavior?

I only hope it won't be the dismantling of our National Security and CIA... and we get attacked, and his henchmen will say....

"Ooops, he hasn't yet fully explored the potentially negative consequences...it is more complicated than it first appeared."



Anyone who didn't see his political and diplomatic naivitae, as well as his Marxist agenda was either NOT paying attention, or blind.



Difference
There's a huge difference in running for high office and being elected. The backers of Obama knew that he was a person who came off as being articulate (while reading a standard campaign speech from a teleprompter),charismatic with an engaging smile, and most of all. bi-racial.
The masses cared not that he had little experience in government. This, after all, was like watching American Idol; it's all about style and the entertainment factor.
Now that he has been elected, he has no earthly idea how to be President. So, he is doing the next best thing---continue the campaigning for the next four years. If you get on TV every day, wave from Air Force One every few days and surround yourself with adoring fans, maybe no one will care that the important and critical business of this nation is not being addressed.
It's all about change, all right!

Obama is doing a fine job
and its driving the right wingers crazy. Can you imagine what they will do if he catches Osama Bin Laden? That's going to be an interesting day indeed.

Anyhoo its really just sad to watch the GOP suddenly run back to the same poll set they said was unimportant during the election. Now they so desperately want the polls to prove things that simply are not true.

Perhaps kevin might give us his opine on the recent polling that shows congressional approval rising and nearly doubling for the democrats/independents while public opine of the GOP remains staggeringly low?

1. Shall we retreat to the old talking point about how polls are irrelevent? Hint: look to the elction to see how that worked out for you last time.

2. Will you conceed that either the GOP's self immoliating social conservatives are destroying the party or

3. Obama is so effective with his message and msn complicity that he's just really beating you the old fashioned way-with politics.
Not bad for a marxist.

jax33 & Carlos: Excellent points, both!

And it appears that there is no length they won't go to keep their agenda going....


"Did Supreme Court clerk torpedo eligibility cases?"

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91548

Taitz submits motion for rehearing in case challenging Obama's citizenship"

BUT, I believe that Glenn Beck is onto something! Bozo Obama, and I also believe Soros has either forgotten, or underestimated the resolve of the American people.


THE UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA
Obama has compared himself to Abe Lincoln, FDR and JFK when in fact he has very little in common with the world view, mentality and character of these men. Lincoln and FDR have the distinction of being the two greatest wartime leaders in our history: the one defeating the rebel South and saving the Union in the Civil War, and the other leading a victorious alliance in defeating the Nazis and Japanese in World War II. Moreover, John Kennedy above all things was a liberal cold warrior focused on meeting the global challenge of Soviet Russia, Cuba and international Communism. These three men were profiles in courage and warrior presidents, but there is nothing of the courageous warrior in Barack Obama; nothing except when it comes to fighting poverty, global warming, free enterprise and liberty...........

Click my name and read the rest of "The United Socialist States of America."

Anne # 100 Exactly Right!

By definition, Obama is a Narcissist.
By definition, Narcissists are Reckless.

We're being surrounded... Chinese harassment of our sonar ship. Russia may move strategic bombers into Cuba, and threatening our allies. Korea ready to launch a huge missile. Iran stoking up it's Nuke program. Chavez destabilizing Central America. Drug-lords taking control - via mass slaughter - of our Southern Border.

And Obama sits back eating juicy steak - oblivious to the crumbling world around him.


See you'll later. Keep up the good fight!

Frank
I voted for neither Obama nor McCain simply because i thought neither would do the best job as president. I evaluate performance, based on results. What are the results since Obama's election that prompt you to opine he is doing a fine job?

Question
"The interests of [radical Facist] Muslims and the interests of the socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders[USA and all so-called infidels]."
Osama bin Laden - March 2003

Was that the CIA created Osama or the real one? How will we ever know?

The Prom King is scared
Look at his eyes - he is scared s&%*less. This wasn't part of the deal that his puppetmasters made with him - "everyone is suppossed to love me, what's going on here??" Can someone produce anything he had published while he was at Harvard? I'd think a self-poclaimed "brilliant leader" would make readily available exmples of his work? Absolute punk and he's destroying our country.

Frank
Good morning to you!

I know that you are ecstatic about Obama and the Democrats job approval ratings, but remember that nothing is permanent. Bill Clinton learned this in 1994 and the Democrats were hammered in 2000, 2002, and 2004. Then, the pendulum swung and Congressional Republicans got knocked out in 2006 and the Democrats won the WH last year.

As for Obama doing a good job, his primary focus MUST be on bank stabilization and the credit crunch. Markets (and people) all over the world are still waiting for Obama and Geithner to come forward with their long-promised plan. And, the brevity of Obama's time in office is no excuse considering the fact that Geithner worked with Paulson and Bernake for the last 1 1/2. He was in the room with them when the three developed the idea of TARP.

Please tell Obama and Geithner to staff the Treasury and get on with Job One.

Thanks.

The Matter at Hand
To save ourselves even worse trouble down the road, O America, We, The People, should- effective immediately- begin calling for the Obama administration to resign. Let the drumbeats begin.

Carlos made more excellent points...

"Chinese harassment of our sonar ship. Russia may move strategic bombers into Cuba, and threatening our allies. Korea ready to launch a huge missile. Iran stoking up it's Nuke program. Chavez destabilizing Central America. Drug-lords taking control - via mass slaughter - of our Southern Border."

And it's getting worse.

(This will make IQ29 go ballistic!) The husband of one of my daughter's friends (former Marine, now CIA) just returned from 6mos. in Djibouti, and today is headed for Afghanistan for six mos.

The briefing he received was that those 17,000 troops Obama quietly sent to Afghanistan a short while ago have NO PLANS and NO STRATEGY.

In fact, it's so bad, they're sleeping in "hot cots" (a term I'd never heard before...) where three guys "time share" one cot.

It just goes from bad to worse with Bozo.


The hanging Curve ball
is the troll's best weapon to hook a response. It is difficult to resist blasting it out of the park, as Bob C and many others do. But the trolls don't care. They win just by seeing a response, for 3 reasons. First, when one's life contains no positive strokes, one will settle for cold prickly ones because its better than nothing. Second, if the response should be crude or abusive, they can use it to reationalize a claim to the high ground of moral and intellectual superiority. Third, they jam up a thread and make it slow, inconvenient and exasperating for those who are here for positive reasons.

Corporate taxes
The feds may claim they will tax "evil" businesses to show them who's boss, but these "evil" businesses do not pay taxes. If they cannot pass them on in the form of higher prices to their customers, they move out of the country or cease operations. Look for even more movement, cessation, and the resulting loss of jobs under the left and right wings of Control Freaks Unanimous.

Mc "Cullugh-Me-Dumb" at it again
Further evidence his "ConCause" is dead...

1. Polls actually show Obama approval ratings quite high (Gallup - nearly 70%)-- yet Cullugh-Me strives to posit otherwise.

2. Uses just recently passed "hero" Bush as a benchmark for "failure"

3. Gets to write this pap because there simply is no alternative real leadership for the movement -- except an over-fed gout-gutted disc jockey... or a 14 year old.

Hard times my friends. Hard times indeed.


Pistol: Exactly right on all THREE

counts.

BUT, they do make the TH post count go sky high! :-) And that is one perk! Ha Ha





Did you people
notice, a liberal(Pancho) is now claiming he didn't vote for "the one"?

Buyers remorse is hicking in.

oblama
went to school as an Indonesian citizen and his records, (that he refuses to release), prove it.

Prove otherwise Dr. Doggie!

Scott in FL
The Prom King is scared
Look at his eyes - he is scared s&%*less. This wasn't part of the deal that his puppetmasters made with him - "everyone is suppossed to love me, what's going on here??" Can someone produce anything he had published while he was at Harvard? I'd think a self-poclaimed "brilliant leader" would make readily available exmples of his work? Absolute punk and he's destroying our country.

What's even scarier than that is all of the people in our country who had no more sense than to vote for this wacko.

Anne, LD35
Your agreement is reassuring, i value your opinions.

LD35
Many of us old fogies who experienced the buyers remorse of the identity voters who elected JFK and Peanut Jimmie saw this coming. The honest and honestly mistaken voters will admit they made a mistake. Indeed if Dumbo pulls us out of this mess, i will gratefully admit my poor judgement in doubting he can do it. This will not be painful, since it will entail restoring $300k to my holdings. But the majority will just shut up and slink away. A small but noisy minority will shift from praise and gushing approval to angry charges of racist sabotage, Vast RWC obstruction, and that Dumbo saved the country from the even worse devastation that would have occurred if McCain had been elected.

Tex, y’all still howlin at that moon?
Our brand-spanking new President, Barack Hussein Obama, proved everything we needed him to prove last November 4th.

He’s moved on(.org) to leading our country.

Now if you still want to hang around outside the Hall of Records waiting for that birth certificate window to open then be our guest.

Pick up the laundry on your way home.

Company Healthcare Benefits
I wonder how many corporate employees voted for this redistributor of our hard-earned money. You just had to know the $250K threshold was bogus for tax increases. What do you call the taxing of your company healthcare benefits? Most corporate employees earn well below six figures. By the time we pay more for your medical insurance, more for energy (cap and trade), and more in the form of rising state taxes (esp. us in California), there will nothing left of our paychecks.

Here's an idea. Instead of "evening the playing field" by taxing corporate employee benefits, how about just giving tax deductions for people who pay for their own health insurance?


Anne
Did you read the dossier regarding the hundreds of bogus addresses and S.S. #'s for the magismessiah and (oh I love what the Brits call her) Lady MacBeth? The plot gets thickerer and thickerer.

Denise 10:54 post My Dad was way ahead of the
UCLA Econ's; he had him pegged from the get go;
I can remember the many "discussions" he had with his family and my mothers. And he couldn't get through to them, Democrats all..he and my mom the only Repubs. I guess hearing
those "discussions" is why I'm a "broken glass"
conservative. (Hey Carlos, I am in "solidarity" with you.." " !! ?? '' # &,
overwhelm the troll!!)

They Cheat on Their Taxes
These are just the same old bunch of liars and leftist politics-as-usual thieves of my earnings. And note, they go to great lengths not to pay taxes themselves while they stick it to the rest of us. Rahm Emanual pays no property taxes, because his $5 million home is part of his "foundation." BO minimized his property taxes in posh Hyde Park by faking how much he actually paid for the property (with the help of Rezko). Chris Dodd got a $1 million kickback, in the form of a practically free Irish property in Galway, for getting Clinton to pardon his crooked pal. Rangel has rent-controlled properties and he hardly needs rent control. Plus he hasn't paid taxes on a bunch of income properties. If he hadn't been elevated to the cabinet, Geithner would never have paid the taxes he owes. Maxine Waters has shares, and her husband is on the board, of a bank she advocated for government handouts. And then there's the congressman with the $90K in hisir Taxese make Randy Cunningham look like somebody who swiped a candy bar. At least the Republicans repudiate their crooks, and some even go to jail.

Although I vote conservative, I was trying to avoid Obama Derangement Syndrome, but they've pushed me too far. I detest this whole Administration and everybody who works for them.

And by the way, Hamas received $900 million, not $90 million. OF OUR TAX MONEY.

Read My Lips. More New Taxes.
When McCain said last autumn that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, Obama called him out-of-touch. Yet, last week, Obama said the exact same thing only the fundamentals of the economy are weaker than they were 4 months ago.

When McCain proposed taxing the healthcare benefits of Americans, Obama scoffed and condemned the plan as “the largest middle-class tax increase in history”. What a difference a few months and an election win make because Obama is now contemplating taxing those same benefits to pay for HIS healthcare program.

Hey, Obama voters, do you still believe that 95% of Americans will not pay one more penny in taxes?

Sounds like Obama is channeling G.H.W.B., “Read my lips. No new taxes... until I get elected”.

oldsocialworker of 9:02
As always you provide a window into the trenches of nanny govt. I am not surprised Dumbo is this bad, i'm astonished he could be so bad so fast. The very speed is reassuring since it is taking place while he is in the spotlight. It is good to hear the bobble dolls and Dumbposters are quietly getting harder to find. Most of the identity voters who put Carter (and Dumbo) in office had no idea what they were doing. When they realized they'd been had, they quietly became Reagan Democrats and created the totally unanticipated Reagan Landslide. The odds of a repeat are getting better every day and where is any reverse in sight? This time the voters must recognize and eliminate the CINOs who turned on the conservatives who elected them and created Dumbo.

Tea Party: Yes, I did see that!

Makes blood shoot right out of your eyes, doesn't it?

And yes, the Brits call her... "Lady MacBeth."

But did you see this???

The Spectator – UK
Quote Of The YEAR!. 2008

“You have to punch yourself – a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, and endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in the turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power and anti-white racists, Jew haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States.

And apparently, it’s considered impolite to say so.”

marju
I hear ya fellow Californian!

The worst part of this is there will be no economic recovery in California with Obama's tax hikes.

Hey Will

Did you vote for Obombo because he got coked and blown in a limo in Chi in 1999 by Larry Sinclair? Bet that sent a tingle up your leg, eh?


Denise 1
"know that you are ecstatic about Obama and the Democrats job approval ratings, but remember that nothing is permanent. Bill Clinton learned this in 1994 and the Democrats were hammered in 2000, 2002, and 2004. Then, the pendulum swung and Congressional Republicans got knocked out in 2006 and the Democrats won the WH last year."

Point well taken about 1994 but I pose to you that the Gingrich revolution at the time was both substantive and effective without the burnden of a previous administration perceived failures. Bush 41 was solid on most issues and EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE with military expeditions of which he had two texbook examples. the effect of Bush 43's spectre has not been properly examined by the GOP and it will continue to haunt them.


Denise 2
As for Obama doing a good job, his primary focus MUST be on bank stabilization and the credit crunch. Markets (and people) all over the world are still waiting for Obama and Geithner to come forward with their long-promised plan. And, the brevity of Obama's time in office is no excuse considering the fact that Geithner worked with Paulson and Bernake for the last 1 1/2. He was in the room with them when the three developed the idea of TARP."

Yes I agree with everything you are saying regarding the economy and the need for a plan. That being said Obama seems to have outlined a general approach to the issues that fit the paradigm of the liberal progressive-which is his mandate-and the markets have a general idea of what needs to happen.

I would also like to point out that this morning Dick Cheney defended his party's spending over the last eight years-say six since the dems took over in 06-by saying that they were in war mode and that the spending was critical. They grossly underestimated the cost of the wars, and the Katrina response(his words) so "things happen." As we are still at war in two threatres souldn't we give Obama a little leeway? I don't recall him ending either war over the last fifty or so days. Shouldn't Obama be allowed to try to fix our finacial infrastructure? Certainly there was no GOP uprising when Bush 43 thanded out stimulus checks last summer or even tarp1.


But Larry said it was you Tex...
I'm just sayin what I heard. I (just like you)really have no way of knowing.

We're in good hands with a community
organizer and a tax cheat running the economy.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.

Economists Give Obama an "F"

In striking contrast to President Obama's popularity with the public, a new Wall Street Journal survey of economists gives the president and his treasury secretary failing grades. WSJ's Phil Izzo and Kelly Evans discuss.
The economists' assessment stands in stark contrast with Mr. Obama's popularity with the public, with a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll giving him a 60% approval rating. A majority of the 49 economists polled said they were dissatisfied with the administration's economic policies.

On average, they gave the president a grade of 59 out of 100, and although there was a broad range of marks, 42% of respondents rated Mr. Obama below 60. Mr. Geithner received an average grade of 51. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke scored better, with an average 71.


Will wrote

'I'm just sayin what I heard. I (just like you)really have no way of knowing.'

But you do know about the birth certificate. Selective denial, eh?

California
The future of America is now on display, look no further than way out west to the Liberal bastion of California. Stupid Libs have ruined that state and we are headed the very same way rapidly! So if paying for every social welfare giveaway program you can possibly imagine seems like your kinda place, look west there lies your vision. That is the inevitable end of such foolishness.

No Hawk
Don't know about the birth certificate either. Never saw it.

I think the point is --- don't care.

Have fun at The Hall of Records.

What would Increase Obama's "Popularity"
Obama's popularity polls and approval rating would tremendously go "out the roof" if he simply resigned from the Presidency. Doing so would be the most brilliant achievement of his tenure in office! I can only hope that those who supported him will begin to see him for what he really is...a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool charlatan! Nothing more!

Of course, if he resigned that would potentially leave us with one Joe Biden, or worse yet, one Nancy Pelosi. George Bush, where are you when we really need you?! Perhaps even the "Bush haters" might begin to see the "light of day" in all this! Miracles DO happen!

FRANK: INTOLERABLE!