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Title: Gallup: Bush’s job approval now higher than Obama’s
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URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/ ... proval-now-higher-than-obamas/
Published: Dec 6, 2010
Author: Gallup
Post Date: 2010-12-06 22:24:09 by WhiteSands
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Keywords: Obama
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Comments: 10
Via Jim Geraghty, a reminder that Inauguration Day 2009 seems, oh, so looong ago. Actually, The One’s daily approval rating stands at 47 percent today, so he and the Bushitler find themselves in a dead heat: A few obvious points. One: The Kennedy mystique is eternal. By the time the 50th anniversary of his assassination rolls around in 2013, I expect the wistful Camelot reminiscences to push him to a cool 90 percent. Two: Although Dubya’s numbers were Nixonian towards the end of his presidency, we can now lay to rest the idea that he’ll ever be remembered in the same class. “Not nearly as bad as Nixon” isn’t something you want to carve over the doorway of the presidential library, but still, 47 percent approval is a remarkable rehabilitation in less than two years’ time. Three: What explains the bizarre drop in support for Carter versus the almost equally sharp rise for other presidents? The temptation is to say that America’s in the throes of a backlash to liberalism, but in that case, explain the famously progressive LBJ and the famously centrist Bill Clinton rising eight points in four years. For that matter, explain Bush 41 bumping up by the same amount. Is the Carter backlash here less a reaction to his liberalism than it is to his lack of “effectiveness”? LBJ passed seminal civil rights legislation and escalated in Vietnam, Clinton balanced the budget and presided over a roaring economy, and Bush 41 inherited the Reagan legacy and won the first Gulf War, whereas Jimmeh … eh. Obama, having sent thousands more troops to Afghanistan and passed ObamaCare, is arguably a lot closer accomplishments-wise to Johnson than he is to Carter, but the feeling of weakness right now among Americans is so profound that I think it leaves them searching for Obama/Carter comparisons. Which is also why Carter’s ratings are down so sharply, I think. Suddenly people are remembering the malaise. Vividly. Exit question via Politico: Does this poll signal the end of the White House blaming its problems on Bush? They can continue to do so, but they’re not getting much mileage out of it anymore.
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#1. To: WhiteSands (#0)
This is fantasy. The polls stopped tracking bush43 when he dropped below 27%.
But as Obama becomes the GOP spokesperson his ratings will drop to match. Like with this cave on tax cuts.
Meet the new boss same as the old one.
Our uber liberal posters are very despondent this morning.....(chuckle)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Meet the new boss same as the old one. After x amt of time of not being 'fixed', the bug becomes a feature. ;}
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D Blocking the expiration of the rather aggressively bonkers and budget-busting Bush-era tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, and instead extending those tax cuts into perpetuity, is another colossal stupidity. Worries about the defecit are a bit overwrought, but math is math. It's absolutely impossible to ever make the numbers add up so long as the rich are given an almost free ride, in economic rickshaws pulled by the poor and middle classes. It's not like there's any real doubt, any question that Obama and the Democrats will shrug and the Republicans will get what they want in both these matters, and in all matters. Expect colossal stupidity after colossal stupidity from Obama's bumbling bunch, and you'll never again be disappointed. But when you string together enough of these colossal stupidities, you'll see America wander from its current economic disaster into something far worse. We're almost there, and it's getting pretty dang hard to see any plausible way out. I've had Zero doubts since the First week of Nov 10. Now why be sad? 8D
...uber Liberals insist on supplanting basic math with social theory. Fixed it for you, my long winded, not much said, fellow poster....
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
...uber Liberals insist on supplanting basic math with social theory. Fixed it for you, my long winded, not much said, fellow poster.... First. There are no liberals. All gone. Just Neo Cons and Apologists now. Second. Just exactly when do the Top 50 000 get wealthy enough. Third. When were the High Priests of the Temple able to reconcile Uber Wealth with the Sweet Baby Hesus. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fourth. You know it's a Police State when the only way to obtain info on the USbp Ecocide is from out of state: "Al Jazeera contacted the external affairs office at EPA Region 4 and spoke with Dawn Young. When asked how the EPA was responding to the claims of ongoing use of dispersants and illnesses related to the oil disaster Ms. Young said, "Those issues would still be answered by the Joint Information Center." The Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center external affairs officer, Susan Blake with the Coast Guard, informed Al Jazeera that she had passed on our querries about ongoing use of dispersants and oil disaster related illnesses along the Gulf Coast to Joe Hubbard at EPA Region 6. Requests for information from press officer Latisha Petteway at Lisa Jackson’s office in Washington DC concerning Subra’s blood test results that were handed to Jackson in Pensacola have not been replied to.
Dr. Subra, who is actively working with the EPA on issues beyond the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, is still waiting to hear from them about the blood test results. "I have not heard back from the EPA about the blood tests," Subra told Al Jazeera, "I'm working with the EPA on a host of other issues, including superfund issues and hydraulic fracking. So let me be clear that they are not ignoring me on other issues. But with the blood tests, I have not heard from them."
I liked that quote as well. I just keep thinking about Isaac Asimov and his novels. ;}
#2. To: All (#1)
#3. To: mcgowanjm (#2)
Like with this cave on tax cuts.
#4. To: WhiteSands (#0)
#5. To: Fred Mertz, All (#3)
Like with this cave on tax cuts.
#6. To: Badeye, All (#4)
Our uber liberal posters are very despondent this morning.....(chuckle)
#7. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
It's absolutely impossible to ever make the numbers add up so long as the
#8. To: Badeye (#7)
It's absolutely impossible to ever make the numbers add up so long as the
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
#10. To: Fred Mertz (#9)
So let me be clear that they are not ignoring me on other issues. But with the blood tests, I have not heard from them."
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