It's 3 AM: Where's Our President?

[TemplarKormac]

The problem is that you guys will look at these polls and deduce that the country wants to move further to the right when a lot of those dissatisfied voters in the poll are mad because Obama did not go further left. What's the approval rating of Republicans in Congress right now?

Obama is a corporatist not the socialist boogeyman you guys make him out to be. Look at his cabinet for christ sakes, full of former Wall St heavy hitters.

So uh, Dutch, where in my OP did I refer to Obama as a "socialist"? Are we discussing the approval ratings of congress right now? I'll indulge you for one split second. How does Toronto Mayor Rob Ford have a higher approval rating than the President? Now, if you can't stay on topic, we can exchange negs right now and be on our way.

What topic? There were no questions asked. All I see is you grandstanding about the Presidents approval rating.

The title, you flaming idiot.

 

[candycorn]

So uh, Dutch, where in my OP did I refer to Obama as a "socialist"? Are we discussing the approval ratings of congress right now? I'll indulge you for one split second. How does Toronto Mayor Rob Ford have a higher approval rating than the President? Now, if you can't stay on topic, we can exchange negs right now and be on our way.

What topic? There were no questions asked. All I see is you grandstanding about the Presidents approval rating.

The title, you flaming idiot.

You really wanted a question to where the President is at 3AM? Likely sleeping I suppose.

As for his activity, there is plenty to do but he's putting a lot of Ws in his column.

 

[TemplarKormac]

It has become painfully clear. Obama is now going down the same road Bush did during the last three years of his term. Americans everywhere are waking up to the fact that this president is nowhere to be found as far as leading is concerned. They now know that they've been taken for fools. As seen here in a running average of polls, the President is taking a beating:

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval

His agenda is faring no better. His signature achievement (the term used lightly of course), Obamacare, suffers from a 55% disapproval rate. At no point during the five years after it's implementation has it ever seen favorable ratings via the American public.

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - Public Approval of Health Care Law

According to a Fox News poll, more than 59 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, as opposed to 38 percent; 40 percent say his policies have done more to hurt the economy than helped it. Overall, the President is not faring well in any key facet of his presidency or major policy issue. Noticing a trend here, folks?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/int...still-in-recession-glad-know-snowden-secrets/

I wasn't kidding when I said Obama's presidency has given it's last. Not only do the polls show it, the scent of death has been long on the air, and his head is no longer held up in pride, but hung down in abject shame. Where is our president? Most certainly not doing his job.

For reference: http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/324420-the-death-of-a-presidency.html

I normally enjoy your posts but why did you have to toss in the "Bash Bush" comments?

We are deal with THIS president NOW not something that happened more than 5 years ago!!! Don't we already have enough "It's Bush's Fault" posters on here already?

Uhh... how was I bashing Bush exactly? I'm not a big fan of his, but he's twice what Obama was.

 

[Dutch]

So uh, Dutch, where in my OP did I refer to Obama as a "socialist"? Are we discussing the approval ratings of congress right now? I'll indulge you for one split second. How does Toronto Mayor Rob Ford have a higher approval rating than the President? Now, if you can't stay on topic, we can exchange negs right now and be on our way.

What topic? There were no questions asked. All I see is you grandstanding about the Presidents approval rating.

The title, you flaming idiot.

Well he's probably sleeping. Unlike you, staring at a computer screen in the basement with your pants around your ankles.

 

[TemplarKormac]

What topic? There were no questions asked. All I see is you grandstanding about the Presidents approval rating.

The title, you flaming idiot.

Well he's probably sleeping. Unlike you, staring at a computer screen in the basement with your pants around your ankles.

How mature. Your heart must be sitting your stomach as you watch your precious savior crash and burn.

 

[Destroyer2]

Obama's lowest approval rating is 37-55.

Compare to the following lowest approval ratings:

Dubya: 25-71
Clinton: 37-54
H. W. Bush: 29-60
Reagan: 35-56
Carter: 28-59
Ford: 37-46
Nixon: 24-66
LBJ: 35-52
JFK: 56-30
Eisenhower: 48-36
Truman: 22-67
FDR: 48-46

If we look at only poll results, he's on par with Clinton and Ford and the best besides them since JFK.

If you're going to cite polls as an attack against Obama, it's probably not the best idea; he has fairly high poll ratings for a president.

 

[Destroyer2]

To be clear, yes, his approval ratings are falling; however, he's still higher than every Republican since Eisenhower except Ford, and higher than every Democrat except Clinton since JFK.

 

[Dutch]

The title, you flaming idiot.

Well he's probably sleeping. Unlike you, staring at a computer screen in the basement with your pants around your ankles.

How mature. Your heart must be sitting your stomach as you watch your precious savior crash and burn.

Did not vote for the man Templar, but you are an idiot and I calls them like I sees them.

 

[Londoner]

Thanks for your objectivity Templar

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

He is in the situation room formulating his next plan of attack with BSNBC.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Obama's lowest approval rating is 37-55.

Compare to the following lowest approval ratings:

Dubya: 25-71
Clinton: 37-54
H. W. Bush: 29-60
Reagan: 35-56
Carter: 28-59
Ford: 37-46
Nixon: 24-66
LBJ: 35-52
JFK: 56-30
Eisenhower: 48-36
Truman: 22-67
FDR: 48-46

If we look at only poll results, he's on par with Clinton and Ford and the best besides them since JFK.

If you're going to cite polls as an attack against Obama, it's probably not the best idea; he has fairly high poll ratings for a president.

Hahahah!

Really? So what makes you desperate enough to cite the polling of long passed presidents? Whats more, what leads you to lie about it?

Reagan had a 60% approval rating when he left office. In fact, Obama's 55% disapproval is on par with Reagan's in 1983 when he hit 56%. Reagan only went above 50% disapproval once in his term. Obama has gone at or above that at least 15 times in his term. Fifteen times.

 

[Destroyer2]

Obama's lowest approval rating is 37-55.

Compare to the following lowest approval ratings:

Dubya: 25-71
Clinton: 37-54
H. W. Bush: 29-60
Reagan: 35-56
Carter: 28-59
Ford: 37-46
Nixon: 24-66
LBJ: 35-52
JFK: 56-30
Eisenhower: 48-36
Truman: 22-67
FDR: 48-46

If we look at only poll results, he's on par with Clinton and Ford and the best besides them since JFK.

If you're going to cite polls as an attack against Obama, it's probably not the best idea; he has fairly high poll ratings for a president.

Hahahah!

Really? So what makes you desperate enough to cite the polling of long passed presidents? Whats more, what leads you to lie about it?

"Desperate".

IDK, if Republican presidents (in fact, almost all recent presidents) that you like have lower minimum polling numbers than Obama, poll numbers probably aren't the best line of attack.

Reagan had a 60% approval rating when he left office. In fact, Obama's 55% disapproval is on par with Reagan's in 1983 when he hit 56%. Reagan only went above 50% disapproval once in his term. Obama has gone at or above that at least 15 times in his term. Fifteen times.

We're comparing lowest poll numbers right now; Reagan's poll ratings after he left office really aren't relevant since Obama hasn't left office yet.

Also, saying it's gone up and down more times than Reagan is fucking stupid, and you know it. I might as well tell you that Reagan's disapproval only went below 50% once whereas Obama's went below 50% 14/15 times (depending on where he started). It means exactly as much.