solarmeter

They say on TV it's now 100 days.

Nobama has totally flunked... unless of course you:

1. Are in the 10% tax bracket or better yet 0%.
2. Hate the military.
3. Can't hack it in the the real world (not the MTV kind).
4. Despise capitalism and Miss California.
5. Are on food stamps.
6. Live on kook kool-aid and moveon.org.

Prediction: Conservatives will take back governors & congress in 2010. Real conservatives not fake ones like in 2000-2006. Even my movie-hero Arnold (True Lies) has been a fake conservative since ~2005.

solarmeter

Actually... today is 100.0 days. He has totally flunked with an F.

PMSNBC had a live poll for grading him up until yesterday when it was taken down. His A's were 38% and F's were 38%. The D's were higher than the B's. The C's don't count. PMSNBC didn't broadcast the results... as far as I know.

Rush voted him a D so he could lower it to an F next time. Good idea.

Ezliving_Jim

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

EDITORIAL: Barack's in the basement

THE WASHINGTON TIMES


President Obama's media cheerleaders are hailing how loved he is.

But at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.

According to Gallup's April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969.

The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86.

Mr. Obama's current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.

As the attached chart shows, five presidents rated higher than Mr. Obama after 100 days in office. Ronald Reagan topped the charts in April 1981 with 67 percent approval. Following the Gipper, in order of popularity, were: Jimmy Carter with 63 percent in 1977; George W. Bush with 62 percent in 2001; Richard Nixon with 61 percent in 1969; and George H.W. Bush with 58 percent in 1989.

It's no surprise the liberal media aren't anxious to point out that their darling is less popular than George W. Bush. But given the Gallup numbers, their hurrahs could be more subdued. USA Today's front page touted the April poll results as positive, with the headline: "Public thinks highly of Obama." The current cover of Newsweek magazine ponders "The Secret of His [Mr. Obama's] Success." The comparison with previous presidents is useful because they are usually popular during their first few months in office - and most presidents have been more popular than Mr. Obama.

The explanation for Mr. Obama's low approval is that he ran as a moderate but has governed from the far left. The fawning and self-deceiving press won't go there. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," host David Gregory asked a panel about critics who "would say one of the things that he's done in 100 days already is expand the role of government, the size of government." Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin claimed, "That's what he ran for the presidency in the first place for."

Perplexed about complaints over Mr. Obama's expansion of government, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham asked: "does no one listen during campaigns?"

It was these pundits who weren't paying attention during last year's campaign. In all three presidential debates, Mr. Obama promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He blamed the economic crisis on excessive deficits. At no time did candidate Barack Obama say that more deficit-spending was the solution .

Mr. Obama's popularity after 100 days is the second-lowest for a simple reason: He is more partisan and divisive than his predecessors - including Richard Nixon.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-the-basement/

collin

Geeze how the media portray things....from our perspective away from your shores the news portrays your leader as an icon kind of guy/thing and is top on the news here every blinkin day being hailed for doing this and doing that so well.

Seems the reality could well be a whole different story.

Lets face it no matter where you are in the world those that have governed us for decades have made a serious crap job of it...were all left to now somehow live with their mistakes and bad calls.

One of our major banker CEO's ran the largest bank here in the UK into the ground...us tax payers bailed the bank out for billions... he now gets a good few million a year for life(hes'e only in his mid forties) as a pension for doing such a wonderful job in sprogging things up

Round the lot of em up put em in a swine pen and let em argue amongst themselves as to who is the best of a bad bunch and put some real people in charge for Christ sakes.

Tan Talker

The deal is done. We have our first half-African half white President. Beyond that he is still a lawyer, a politician and because the American dream still exists he rose to live a privileged life as a millionaire, ironically riding on the backs of the oppressed poor he claims to have been working for as a social activist.

They are still poor. He is the President. Moving on, there will be many battles between his and his party's 'progressive' ideals and moderate and right wing conservative in the next thousand days. That, not his color combination or his popularity will be the interesting definition of his true success as a leader of all the people.

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Ezliving_Jim

"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb *** put him up there to begin with."

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