Poll: 69 percent approve of Obama, highest ‘right track’ numbers in six years.
Poll: 69 percent approve of Obama, highest ‘right track’ numbers in six years.
An ABC News poll released this morning shows that a vast majority — 69 percent — of Americans approve of President Obama and 72 percent view him favorably, “the best job approval rating at this point in 20 years, [and] the broadest personal popularity since Ronald Reagan.” Fifty percent now say the United States is headed in the right direction, up 31 points since the end of the Bush administration, when only 19 percent thought the country was on the right track. Other figures from the poll:
– “Fifty-eight percent approve of Obama’s work on the economy.”
– “Obama leads the Republicans in Congress in trust to handle the economy by a garish 61-24 percent.”
– “A remarkable 90 percent say Obama is ‘willing to listen to different points of view’; fewer than half said that about George W. Bush.”
– Seventy-seven “percent call Obama a strong leader, nearly matching Bush’s best a few months after 9/11.”
A majority supported Obama’s decision to release the torture memos, but only 49 percent support his blanket ban on torture. That said, a majority still favors holding investigations into the Bush administration’s use of torture.
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I look forward to the odd rebuttals that will surely follow by such learned minds as RealityCheck etal…
April 26th, 2009 at 10:19 amThere is PLENTY about Obama’s first hundred days that I do NOT approve.
I would probably say I do not approve of the job he’s doing so far, and I’m not a RINO.
I’m a disaffected progressive, and I want more, better Democrats.
Obama shouldn’t be having an internal debate about what to do about the Bush war criminals. This is a slam dunk. Appoint an independent prosecutor and GET THE HECK OUT OF HIS WAY. Period!
Because this isn’t just going to go away…
April 26th, 2009 at 10:31 amI think this matter is a classic example of Obama awaiting a reaction from the public to “make him do it”. And, in some sense, I hope this does happen outside the political process. Neither the Executive nor the Legislative branch can do this right now because of the politics so it will take the Judiciary and the American public to make this happen.
In a related vein, I read the most compelling commentary yet on this matter. The writer suggested that Ford’s pardon of Nixon was the precursor to Iran-Contra and GDumbya’s feckless handling of the torture decision because it created the impression that presidents are above the law and not subject to consequences for their actions.
This should not really be about retribution at this point. It should be about healing the hole in our soul that was caused by the past regime and its use of torture.
April 26th, 2009 at 10:32 amtom, well said. Keep in mind that as Ford’s Chief of Staff, Cheney thought that Nixon got a raw deal. He felt that Nixon did nothing wrong. So when Cheney had the chance to pick himself to be Bush’s running mate, he did so with the express purpose of expanding executive authority and the Constitution be damned.
It is my honest opinion that when Dick Cheney took both of his oaths of office and swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” that he was lying and that he did not do so in good faith.
April 26th, 2009 at 10:47 amYes, but his numbers could be lower, someday (cue ominous music).
April 26th, 2009 at 10:47 amGeorge Soros has a 100% approval rating of Obami!!!!
April 26th, 2009 at 10:52 amMan, Obama’s high ratings among “REAL AMERICA” is obviously p’ing off Fox News BIG TIME. They have thrown EVERYTHING they’ve got in their aresenal at him, including a friggin’ phony uprising protest event!
The country has clearly shifted AWAY from the right wing orthodoxy and the media is well behind the curve.
BTW, where are Mr Rasmussen, DIck Morris and Zogby NOW after penning op-eds over the past month claiming that Obama’s popularity was TANKING? Remember that?
Proof that those on the right are not actual “commentators”. They are talking point regurgitators and advocates. Plain & simple.
Who is going to hold them accountable for such blatant false reporting?
April 26th, 2009 at 10:57 amInteresting….Fox News gives President Obama a 100% disapproval rating. Who to believe, who to believe! LOL
April 26th, 2009 at 11:01 amDidn’t take long for the trolls to pop in on this thread. Let’s see how looooong this one will go ……
Polls suck – actions rule. There’s still too much to be seen. That said, I’m happy Boosh is gone and that we have an engaging president who doesn’t mistake arrogance for leadership.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:02 amThese numbers are comforting and a good sign for the country. We have spent how many years with the dismal “cheney/bush administration”. This is like a breath of fresh air. It appears the country is really warming up to Obama, or the guy running the store knows what he is doing. Both ways we win.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:03 amI didn’t say such minds as neopardy who still has failed to catch my interest…
April 26th, 2009 at 11:04 ama three letter word, j-o-b-s
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
April 26th, 2009 at 11:06 amThey’ll say “Well, Hitler was popular!”
And if his numbers were down they’d pounce on that.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:08 am“Politico reports that anger is building in the GOP base. “There is a sense of rebellion brewing,” said Katon Dawson, the outgoing South Carolina Republican Party chairman, who cited unexpectedly high attendance at anti-tax “tea parties” last week.”
First, just what would be considered “unexpectedly high attendance”? More than 2? I read the Politico article, and there are no numbers ‘cited’, and this was all Katon Dawson said. No further proof.
The rest of the Politico article is largely speculation by talking heads such as Ralph Reed. In my opinion, the article was meaningless and almost entirely fact-free.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:11 amWhat a rush to have a President who can construct sentences.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:14 amRalph Reed is the sort of tool that got wailed on in high school…
April 26th, 2009 at 11:14 amright wingers were pretty scared before
now that they are clearly heavily outnumbered, they must be defacting in their boots
April 26th, 2009 at 11:14 amWe Americans were surprised when you neocons picked up on Biden’s mistake, because you are the people who constantly get “you’re” and “your” mixed up and it surprised us that you knew how to count.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:14 amdefacating too, geez, i think i need a new keyboard
yeah, keyboard, that’s it
April 26th, 2009 at 11:15 amobama is spending this country into a giant south-side chicago – high crime, high cost of living, high pollution, high inflation. democrats are the party of inflation, that’s why the southern hospitable states and their welcoming affordable cost of living and bigger homes for the buck is the real america!!!
April 26th, 2009 at 11:16 amneoparody: Post #13:
J-O-B-S is a FOUR letter word! You’ve been sucking Booshes c*ck too long.
Sorry, you started it!
April 26th, 2009 at 11:16 amSteele and company should give themselves a raise for the great job their doing suppressing Obamas numbers. Any better, he might break 100%. Bwaahhahhahaha
April 26th, 2009 at 11:22 amShould be they’re, sorry.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:23 amreal america?
April 26th, 2009 at 11:26 am–
Please define this absurdity? Actually why not define “unreal America” that would probably be more amusing…
“Perry logan Says:
What a rush to have a President who can construct sentences.”
April 26th, 2009 at 11:29 amYea, he reads that old ‘promter real good.
First time visitor, Popatop? Might as well let you know that around here, teleprompter jokes get you nowhere. They’re pretty lame and baseless, and only brainwashed right-wingers find them in the list bit amusing. Just though you should know.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:34 amneoparody = not funny
That’s President Obama to you fool!
Politico reports that anger is building in the GOP base. “There is a sense of rebellion brewing,” said Katon Dawson
Well, I guess we’ll be seeing more teabagging parties and protests? And always in states that need the most Federal financial aid.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:34 amWe’re in heaven MAN!
April 26th, 2009 at 11:36 amSo far so good! I think he is trying hard to clean up the horrible mess Bush made. Give him time. He is the best thing that has happened to this country in years.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:36 amPopatop:
Considering the fact that Dumbya Bush could barely read from large index cards or speak in complete sentences your silly comments about President Obama reading from a ‘prompter’ are just irrelevant and ’stupit.’ You trolls need to come with something better to discuss.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:37 ami’d appreciate it if you could find anything of mine funny, fire ant. anything. please.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:38 amneoparody: Post a picture of your face and we’ll promise to laugh.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:41 amteleprompters are less cumbersome than an a series of routing lines under your jacket. and a teleprompter is no good during debates.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:42 ami got to heaven with meatloaf and mashed potatoes, slappy.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am“Katon Dawson, the outgoing South Carolina Republican Party chairman, who cited unexpectedly high attendance at anti-tax “tea parties” last week.”
Define high attendance. No numbers to back the claim?
April 26th, 2009 at 11:45 amleftists like making fun of people’s looks – oh, their humanity!
April 26th, 2009 at 11:46 amI can’t hardly wait for the rest of the torture pictures and memos to be released. Cheney will be spinning in his wheelchair – and no offense to those who are wheelchair bound. I hope that AG Holder will tell us what he plans to do about the Bush Crime Family ASAP. This is going to forever tarnish the Rethuglican Party reputation. Let AG Holder deal with the Bush Crime Family and President Obama deal with economic/pocket book issues.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:47 amThe Republican Party is not the Party of Rush, as some would have it, and certainly not the Party of Lincoln. It’s the Party of Wurzelbacher.
Republicans have pared their philosophy down to the barest kernel of what, at it’s core, it always was: fear, intolerance and hatred. US Conservatism has been stripped of all pretense by these troglodytes.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:47 amneoparody Says:
i got to heaven with meatloaf and mashed potatoes, slappy.
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Oh yes I remember……… “Paradise by the dash board lights” and that James Brown hit was one of his best now that you mention it.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:50 amthe only reason liberals want scientific advancement is to expand the reasons to go ahead with an abortion. they want new technologies to appeal to the superficial expectations of society, so when there’s something wrong with a baby, they can scan it and the parent will be pressured to abort until they have ‘the right’ baby. liberals are very superficial people obsessed with looks.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:53 amProud Says:
What can I say? I know, I can be just like the rest of the mindless drones on the left. All hail Obama, our savior and messiah. By the way did any of you watch that bumbling, stumbling idiot Gibbs on Meet the Press. He just confirmed that torture does work or maybe it doesn’t he is not sure. Should we investigate torture? He says yes and he says no., he isn’t sure. What a joke this administration is becoming.
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ny-20.
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April 26th, 2009 at 11:59 amI can make a poll that shows a high % of just about any question.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:00 pmBHO’s spending will drag this country down to 3rd world levels. All u libs better learn to shoot or bend over because the crash is coming.
Have you ever seen how the rest of the world lives?
Why do they live that way? Because we don’t have the same government as they do. Yet.
the messiah will pay my gas and mortgage!!
proud, did you here about the liberal ny lawyer who dumped her children out on the road? how liberals value children!!!!!
April 26th, 2009 at 12:02 pmGuido says,Did the poll ask what Americans thought about sweeping up innocent people in dragnets and torturing them? I’m ashamed of these opinions about torture. This is where FOX and Kiefer Sutherland have done a great disservice to America.—————————————————–
What innocent people are these? If they are so innocent, invite them to stay in your house and you pay for them. I didn’t think so. Socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people’s money..
April 26th, 2009 at 12:04 pmA word of advice to the trolls:
Karl Rove may have used it at times, but trying to attack Barack Obama as stupid doesn’t work. In fact, it’s counterproductive.
It’s easier to believe he’s a secret Muslim terrorist than to believe he’s stupid. He spent a decade as a professor of constitutional law at one of the country’s most prestigious law schools. And he answers questions at length, he has the facts at his fingertips, and he speaks in complex sentences.
The American people see his intelligence for themselves. Not to mention the rest of the world.
My 89-year-old apolitical mom likes him for precisely that reason.
You can call him a socialist, and decry the path he’s taking. You can get some traction on that. You can even talk about how he hates America. Some people may believe you.
But criticizing Barack Obama because he’s stupid is like criticizing him because he’s fat.
Actually, since the Republicans lost as big as they did by running an embarrassing idiot for VP, it’s more like Rush criticizing Obama because he’s fat.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:04 pmBHO is not stupid but a constitutional lawyer that is trying to change the constitution? He loves America but wants to fundamentally change the ways we got to be the greatest nation on Earth.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:11 pmHe has handlers that are pulling the strings. Look at his uh, uh, uh speaking without a teleprompter. His multiple changes in wether to prosecute on this torture issue. His earpiece is talking to him and he mouths the words.
If waterboarding is torture, thousands on military instructors will need to be prosecuted since the perform this on Pilots and other Special Ops people as training in SERE courses. You libs are ignorant about what goes on except for the half truths and lies you read in the biased media.
american9, or we could, uh, imprison them in the united states and a grand jury can actually send something back. nobody at tp will actually have to open up their guest bedroom.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:13 pmThere is a sense of rebellion brewing…
If this is a rebellion against the current makeup of the Republican party, that will be a good thing for Republicans. If this is a rebellion against President Obama and the direction he is heading this country, it’s a bad thing for the Republicans.
They just don’t get it, do they. The more they attack President Obama and obstruct, the higher his approval ratings go and the higher the Democrats approval ratings go.
Something that the Republican party really needs to pay attention to is that 36% of Republicans approve of his job performance. The party is in danger of losing that 36% if they keep on the road they are on now.
And finally, this is something that the Republicans need to pay very close attention to:
Do you Approve or Disapprove of the job the Republicans in Congress are doing:
Approve/Disapprove/No Opinion
4/24/09 30 64 6
April 26th, 2009 at 12:13 pm2/22/09 38 56 6
Apparently, most of us Americans think Obama is a decent guy trying to right the wrongs of the past, reestablishing our honor, repairing the economy and setting us on the right track for the future — while repugs are seen as obstructionists and poor losers.
This, in spite of the media bias toward Republicanism, and in spite of the relentless criticism of Obama on the most trivial matters, and in spite of the ongoing parade of Bushies on camera and in print being given the opportunity to re-write history.
BTW, this is OT, but I found it pretty interesting and a reminder of just what were the facts in the past two years:
April 26th, 2009 at 12:13 pmhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/26/724137/-New-GOP-torture-meme:-Dems-fault.
Frankly I find Obama’s approval ratings quite astounding. This is because there has never before been a president who inherited the kind of mess that Obama has inherited. There has also never before been a president who was viciously and constantly attacked by the opposite party from the day he was elected, much less from the day he took office.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pmIsn’t the constitution just a god damned piece of paper?
April 26th, 2009 at 12:15 pmIMO, one of the best strategies used by Obama has been taking his message directly to the people with his town halls, and his prime time press conferences.
People believe him and trust him – taking it directly to the public confirms their opinion of him and bypasses the media b.s.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:16 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
American 9mm Says:
. Look at his uh, uh, uh speaking without a teleprompter. H
What’s wrong with using a teleprompter? Look at herr dubyah’s speaking WITH a teleprompter…uh, uh, uh, well, uh, uhhhhhh durrrrrr
George Bush not only used a teleprompter, they also spelled words out phonetically so that he could pronounce them properly. And even with that kind of help, he still couldn’t spit out a coherent sentence.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:17 pmAmerican 9mm:
April 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pmGun hard-on? Torture doesn’t work…
The palpable ignorance and fear from the Rightards is downright delicious, almost better than a bowl of Shishka-berry in the mor-ning…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pmAmerican 9mm Says: yada yada yada
Wow, where did this one come from? It’s about as incoherent as George Bush was. Is the right ever going to come up with a troll that can actually argue it’s case in an intelligent manner? So far, I haven’t seen any of them other than maybe Keltoi.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pmWow the trolls have come out, I see.
You wingnuts are so pathetic in your constant ranting. I laugh and laugh because all of your lunacy has no basis.
neoparody Says: I’m just paranoid and spewing conspiracy theories about abortion from the voices inside my head.
proud Says: I’m the last person on earth who should talk about anyone being a mumbling stumbling idiot considering I’m just a ranting rightwingnutcrazy who is like a mad dog since Obama won the election.
american 9mm Says: I have no viable solutions just like the rest of the righwingnutcrazies except to spew lies about 3rd world countries, spew fear about bending over or shooting. Yeah that’s my answer just pick up a gun and shoot.
You’re all just pathetic crybabies. Anti-American, unpatriotic and silly.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:22 pmDaddy-O Says:
Obama shouldn’t be having an internal debate about what to do about the Bush war criminals. This is a slam dunk. Appoint an independent prosecutor and GET THE HECK OUT OF HIS WAY. Period!
And the day that an independent prosecutor is appointed, all the information we are getting about the crimes committed by the Bush Administration will immediately dry up and thereafter discussed behind closed doors. In the end, we will never know the entire truth.
I am all for appointing an independent prosecutor, but not until after President Obama has honored all of the FOIA requests that are out there and Congress concludes investigations.
BTW, I don’t buy that you were ever a progressive. I’m thinking you are just another “concern troll”.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:22 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
LOL! Shrub still misses the pronunciation menus that Taco Bell had in the 70’s.
(”tah-coh, buhr-ee-toh,” etc.)
April 26th, 2009 at 12:23 pmAmerican9mm
April 26th, 2009 at 12:23 pmCriticizing Obama for speech mannerisms is really scraping the bottom of the barrel isn’t it — after all we had 8 years of a president who couldn’t speak with or without a teleprompter.
Stop relying on Fox commentators for your opinions, they make you more stupid. Teleprompters are used by everyone, including all the dumbasses at Fox, and former presidents going back throughout our lifetime.
BTW – when giving a 5 minute reply to a complex question, a few uhs or ems are simply pauses in organizing his thoughts — tell me how many 5 minute replies to complicated questions did we get from Bush? He was the one who spoke with language skills commensurate with and reflective of the thought processes of an adolescent (no offense to adolescents everywhere.)
Gun hard-on?
Diminished Manhood Compensator syndrome.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:24 pmSelf-identified Republicans may not like the “direction” the country is going, but that doesn’t mean we have to compromise with them and do anything the way they want it done. They are often wrong, and want the country to go in the same direction it was going, in the before-time.
You don’t compromise with Wrong. They may be Americans entitled to their own opinions, but I do not believe that those opinions are informed by facts. Consequently, their opinion is, for all intents and purposes, meaningless. It is simply not true that what is best for big business is best for America. It is simply not true that the Free Market will find the “best” solutions to our problems, and even less true that an unfettered, unregulated Free Market will produce even “good” solutions. And it is simply not true that the United States of America is a “Christian nation” and that it should adhere to Biblical principles.
If Republicans believe this country is on the wrong track, it is because they are on the wrong track. There is no need to compromise with them. What we need to do is educate them, and once they understand the facts, they will see that we are going in the right direction. Unless they wish to remain willfully ignorant.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:25 pmrightwing-leftwing Says:
neoparody: Post a picture of your face and we’ll promise to laugh.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:41 am Recommend (3)
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notice how the liberals gave this one three recommends. confirming their ‘humanity’ after all. all ‘liberal’ means is a group of thugs telling people how to think and act in the sense of what they believe to be proper and just, without adjusting their own behavior. the dirty work in delivering the change is left to somebody else while they sit on their butts and remain the problem.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:27 pm‘Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.’
‘I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.’
‘They misunderestimated me.’
‘Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?’
George W. “the Dumbinator” Bush
Just brings tears of joy to mine eyes…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:27 pmOh how well you know me! However, I am a handsome fellow, don’t you agree?
Is it wrong for any American to be concerned with how their country appears to the rest of the world?
April 26th, 2009 at 12:27 pmFrom the poll:
5. How much confidence do you have in [ITEM] to make the right decisions for the country’s future – a great deal of confidence, a good amount, just some or none at all?
The Republicans
NET/great deal/good amt/NET/some/none at all/no opinion
in Congress 21 4 16 78 50 28 2
So, only 21% of people in this country have faith in the Republicans. That means that quite a few Republicans have no faith in their party. I believe the last I read the Republicans were 32% of our population.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:28 pmneoparody Says:
all ‘liberal’ means is a group of thugs telling people how to think and act in the sense of what they believe to be proper and just, without adjusting their own behavior.
OK, this one wins the prize in projection. Because what he is describing is a Rush Limbaugh dittohead.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:31 pmfire ant, it is not paranoia. communist countries are practicing good-egg-bad-egg abortions right now, even Britain, and soon enough women here may push a widespread belief that because the babies come out of their body that they’re entitled to anomaly-free and “beautiful” children and will abort human life until that happens. “my body” is no excuse.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:31 pmIs neoparody a real troll or someone pretending to be a troll because they think it’s funny? The right wing parodies itself so naturally that it’s getting hard to tell genuine stupidity from feigned stupidity.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pmby now, bilbobaggins has called every regular a troll or non-progressive or a fake. it isn’t easy to push this one to the tipping point, folks.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:34 pmI’m going to speak directly to Republicans everywhere, in terms they can understand:
WE ARE RUBBER, YOU ARE GLUE – WHAT YOU SAY STICKS TO *YOU*!!!
There. Nuff said. :o)
April 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pmHey Wayne Ant Schneider: I’m beginning to believe that the trolls on TP are an indication that the Rethuglicans choose to be willfully ignorant.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:36 pmIs it wrong for any American to be concerned with how their country appears to the rest of the world?
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what does this have to do with anything? i’m talking about the liberal obsession with looks, not foreign policy.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:37 pmAnd finally, another important part of this poll:
25. Obama has met or said he’s willing to meet with leaders of foreign countries that have been hostile toward the United States. Do you support or oppose his approach to dealing with such countries? Do you support/oppose this strongly or somewhat?
April 26th, 2009 at 12:38 pm——– Support ——– ——— Oppose ——– No
……..NET..Strongly.Somewhat NET Somewhat Strongly opinion
4/24/09 71…..46…….25……27….9……..18…….2
Please list the communist nations…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pmGood timing for that post considering the parody’s post at 87. Apparently the American public thinks that President Obama is doing quite well with foreign policy.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:41 pmneoparody Says:
by now, bilbobaggins has called every regular a troll or non-progressive or a fake. it isn’t easy to push this one to the tipping point, folks.
No parody, I only call trolls and concerned trolls for what they are. I have never called a regular on this blog a troll other than those who are truly trolls. You can have regular trolls along with hit and run trolls.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:43 pmI was beginning to wonder what happened to the 28%ers…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:43 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
DNFP Says:
I was beginning to wonder what happened to the 28%ers…
They are teabagging each other.
They have dropped to 21%.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pmfire _ant_chavis Says:
Hey Wayne Ant Schneider: I’m beginning to believe that the trolls on TP are an indication that the Rethuglicans choose to be willfully ignorant.
I believe you are right and it is showing in their poll numbers. Right now if I were a Republican, I would be getting very worried about the survival of my party.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pmProud Says:
What can I say? I know, I can be just like the rest of the mindless drones on the left. All hail Obama, our savior and messiah. By the way did any of you watch that bumbling, stumbling idiot Gibbs on Meet the Press. He just confirmed that torture does work or maybe it doesn’t he is not sure. Should we investigate torture? He says yes and he says no., he isn’t sure. What a joke this administration is becoming.
Actually proud, the joke’s on you and your ilk. Since a vast majority of the people in this country don’t agree with you and those who don’t like you are increasing on a daily basis, too bad so sad for you and yours. Spend some time with this poll and come back and talk something other than your wishful thinking talking points.
http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1089a1100Days.pdf
April 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pmRight now if I were a Republican, I would be getting very worried about the survival of my party.
As a political party derived from the abolition of slavery, I’d say their death is LONG overdue.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pmdr. hussein matt, it’s laughable you accuse anybody in living in mom’s basement when you’re the party of more government dependency.
bilbo, at one point or another you’ve found something you didn’t like in numerous progs posts and you went beserk on them. you have a loyalty complex that you should get checked out. it isnt the everyone’s job to understand your every view to avoid incurring your wrath.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pmProud’s got nuttin’…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:51 pmAmerican 9mm Says:
If waterboarding is torture, thousands on military instructors will need to be prosecuted since the perform this on Pilots and other Special Ops people as training in SERE courses. You libs are ignorant about what goes on except for the half truths and lies you read in the biased media.
Okay, where to begin.
First of all, waterboarding IS torture. There is no “if” about it. And using it violates an International Treaty we signed saying we wouldn’t do it, because it is unacceptable and unjustifiable in any circumstance. To do it to a captured prisoner in time of war constitutes a War Crime. That is a fact.
Second, the people who undergo torture as part of S.E.R.E. training do so voluntarily. They are no one’s prisoners, and they are not being tortured for purposes of extracting information. Which is good because even the military advised the Bush White House that torture does not provide reliable information. Who knows how much of your tax money was wasted chasing down false leads derived from torture? Torture for the purpose of extracting intelligence information does not work. That is a fact.
Lastly, and this is where <em.you come off as the ignorant one, the methods chosen for the Enhanced Interrogation techniques were chosen because they were used in S.E.R.E. Training. And those methods were chosen for the S.E.R.E. Training specifically because they were illegal. Putting them in a memo and declaring them “legal” does not make them so. That is a fact.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:51 pmneoparody is still boring…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:52 pmWhat kind of looks are you talking about?
How important it is to look presidential by always wearing a coat and tie in the oval office?
Or are you refering to physical beauty? Perhaps the kind John McCain was seeking when he met Cindy. That was before dumping his wife who had become disfigured. That kind of beauty?
Then there’s that beauty that resonates from Susan Boyle singing. That kind of beauty?
Help me here Dopey Roan.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm– “A remarkable 90 percent say Obama is ‘willing to listen to different points of view’; fewer than half said that about George W. Bush.”neoparody Says:
Is it wrong for any American to be concerned with how their country appears to the rest of the world?
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what does this have to do with anything? i’m talking about the liberal obsession with looks, not foreign policy.
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handsome fellow.
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April 26th, 2009 at 1:04 pmObama is going against the “Free Market” crowd….Milton Freidman is turning in his grave, however, there’s lots of Friedman students in the financial world just biding their time…waiting in the bushes….
April 26th, 2009 at 1:11 pmSome regulation is req’d to reign in these Whacos…if not, as Milton Friedman believed, a certain amount of the population must die, and others need to be poor for the benefit of the small minority of folk’s who’ll have almost all of the wealth in America and the world….
The same 23%, no doubt, that wailed and whined all during Clintons presidency.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:14 pmI recall Duyba saying on CNN how we dropped his ‘free market’ ideology [going against the free marketeers] to save the free market.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:16 pmOkay, I got an ‘Obama is not stupid but’ out of guy bnamed American 9mm. That should count for something.
But this ‘changing the constitution’ stuff is really interesting. I’m truly not sure WTF they’re talking about.
Two possibilities come to mind: 1) the “obama’s going to take away your guns!” thing, or 2) that deficit spending is unconstitutional, or maybe that firing the CEO of a bankrupt company is.
The first is just false. That’s easy.
The second? Running up the national debt is unconstitutional? Social spending is unconstitutional?
And just what do you think happens when a company goes bankrupt? A judge administers the company,determining who should pay off what, what the company is allowed and not allowed to spend money on, and so on. And anyone giving out a massive business loan is able to make stipulations.
There is absolutely nothing that Barack Obama is doing, from a constitutional standpoint that George W. Bush wasn’t doing. Just to different people and to different effect.
But the ‘the ways we got ti become the greatest nation on earth” is something of a clue.
It’s of course a rightwing belief that free market capitalism is responsible for everything that’s good about America and socialism and liberalism is responsible for everything bad.
To which I say nonsense.
America did not become a world-class nation until the Great Depression. It was FDR who pulled the country together, included the working classes, the poor, and the minority into the national political framework, who helped out the poor and starving and said that is was American to help one’s fellow man.
In return, the working classes, seeing that America came through for them, came through for America.
I don’t think that America would have mobilized so magnificently , sacrificed so much, and continued to work so hard if America was being run by Coolidge laissez-faire types who thought AmericanIndustry and America was the same thing.
American Industry did not come through in World War II–the average working class American did, working in the biggest socialistic enterprise the world had ever seen–the Wat Effort.
And after the war, President Eisenhower supported all sorts of things the Republicans had declaimed fiercely as unAmerican: multilateral foreign treaties, massive welfare for the working class like the GI Bill, enormous public works projects like the Interstate Highway System–even confiscatory tax rates for the wealthy (90%!)
And we became a superpower.And prosperous.
The Republicans have been on the wrong side of just about everything throughout the 20th Century. All sorts of things–the minimum wage, collective bargaining, votes for women, the 40-hour work week, Social Security, getting involved in European wars, racial integration, women’s liberation, rock and roll–were destroying America, and would be the end of American greatness.
And America embraced all these things, and continued to grow.
And after all the doomsaying, we reached 1999, more powerful and more prosperrous, our culture more predominant in the world, than ever before.
What did destroy our position in the world? Letting the republicans assume power.
They came in and wrecked multilateralism, despised the UN, sought to demolish the New Deal and transfer money back to therigh, smash secularism an promote nativism.
The result was a wrecked economy, a ruined international reputation, a disastrous defeat in Iraq, and a crippled scientific reputation.
Something that looked like William McKinley’s America, in short, blinking in the light of the 21st Century.
Thank God we got rid of them before the damage was irreversible.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:17 pmneoparody, I’m really sorry about the “looks” comment :( I mean that was really shallow of me and I discredited the entire liberal cabal with that comment. How dare I compare someone’s “outsides” to my “insides”! Jeeze! What a JERK I am!
Now could you send a picture of your mommy because I still really need a laugh. Your comments and bu!!sh!t off-base backwards a$$ comments just aren’t enough for me anymore.
Thanks you team player you!
April 26th, 2009 at 1:19 pm*we should be ‘he’ [My bad =]
April 26th, 2009 at 1:21 pmNearly 70%, even with bias teaparties and fox news giving out lies EVERYDAY. It’s over for you cons. Your failed ideology is on its last leg.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:31 pmThese numbers are quite amazing. Considering the mess he inherits and his non-stop action in these 100 days, it’s amazing that he’s got such numbers. And well deserved too. I really can’t understand some of the critics coming from his left side. He’s got so much on his plate, such a disaster to fix, let him breath.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:33 pmdbadass Says:
American 9mm:
Gun hard-on? Torture doesn’t work…
April 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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To be fair, American 9mm knows torture would work on him.
Take away his Cheetos and smelly binky, and he’d crack like an egg.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:35 pmthe liberal obsession with looks…
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Bush/Flight-suit
April 26th, 2009 at 1:43 pmPolitico reports that anger is building in the GOP base. “There is a sense of rebellion brewing,”
Allow me to repeat myself:
YOU NEED TO REBEL AGAINST YOUR OWN DUMBA$$ PARTY FOR NOMINATING THE TWO MOST INCOMPETENT CANDIDATES.
Stop deflecting blame WHEN YOU OWN ALL OF IT, FCUKWITS.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pmDru Phlea Says:
It’s pronounced “Chimpy McFlight suit”, but hey, I’m as big of fan of playing dress-up as my 7 year old.
ROCK ON, LOSERS!
April 26th, 2009 at 1:46 pmneoparody Says:
bilbo, at one point or another you’ve found something you didn’t like in numerous progs posts and you went beserk on them. you have a loyalty complex that you should get checked out. it isnt the everyone’s job to understand your every view to avoid incurring your wrath.
So, if I post an opinion that is different from some posters here, I’m going “berserk”? Perhaps you could link to some of the posts where I went “berserk”, I would be interested in reading them.
It’s no secret that I disagree with some people here on why President Obama is not calling for prosecution of the Bush Crime Family at this time. The regular posters here don’t seem to have a problem with my disagreement and some of them agree with me. That’s what this site is all about, intelligent discourse where people may have differing views on a subject.
On the other hand, spouting talking points on a daily basis or making things up and not providing links to prove a point, is the domain of the trolls (including you) on this site. If I say something other than just an opinion, I back it up with links to prove my point. Perhaps you can take a lesson there.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:50 pmOne of the most interesting things going on today is the lingering slow death of the Republican party. The discourse within their party is reduced to how many ways they can hate the Obama. The GOP is reduced to hoping Obama fails as the only way they have any chance of returning to power. The political environment is radically different than it was only 8 years ago, a major aspect of this is the internet. The days when the GOP could put out talking points and repeat a multitude of times isn’t working, even though they keep up the radical right noise over there at Fox everyday. Now with the internet the sources of news and disussion are so numerous that they cannot get away with it anymore, at least among those who know how to read and a interested in using that skill. Of course as the comic said, you can’t fix stupid. Or maybe it should be you can’t fix Fox.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:00 pmFunny about how perceptions are formed. When Republicans voted in lock step with Bush it was a positive thing, a thing called loyalty. Same thing right now when Republicans in unison vote NO, it’s positive loyalty.
Why,then, is it perceived as negative when showing loyalty to this new president?
Ah, Republicans never, ever consider there are two sides to anything. Their theme song must be “My way”.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:01 pmHigh poll numbers AND the bonus that Obama has “kept us safe” from terrorism for 100 days!!!
Why, Republicans should be positively giddy!!!
April 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pmneoparody Says:
by now, bilbobaggins has called every regular a troll or non-progressive or a fake. it isn’t easy to push this one to the tipping point, folks.
Actually, our esteemed Mr. Baggins is only picking on the people who come on here with their daily talking points from the blowhards on the teevee and the radio (aka Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly and Limbaugh). Seeing as it is the weekend and no one is around to give you something new, you’re on here talking about teleprompters and other such useless shit that people like you keep in your arsenal when you have no other relevant argument.
You deserve what you get from Mr. Baggins and then some.
Troll.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:37 pm69…why that’s three times as high as the assclown known as 43 when he left office under the same conditions obama inherited. what does that tell you?
April 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Those are similar to the numbers that most of the past 10 presidents have had in the first 100 days, even Johnson and Nixon (both very unpopular by the time of their last 100 days). It’s still the honeymoon.
None of those presidents faced anything like the sort of divisive country we have now; a huge majority of Republicans do not support the President so it’s far more impressive that he has the numbers he does. Neither did LBJ or Nixon inherit the steaming pile of disaster that Bush left behind.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:05 pmTo the prosecution issue… Obama CAN’T prosecute them. That is the job of the DoJ. Perhaps you’re confusing the involvement of the excutive branch with the DoJ from the Bush years.
Obama has inherited a mess and obviously the American people trust him. So what if he’s spending? Most of you trolls had no problem with Bush doing it and all those lovely deregulations that let Wall Street run wild.
You know guys I seriously think these trolls are masochists or something. Why else would they continue to post on a website where they get called every name in the book and proven wrong all the time? Must be validating low self esteem or something.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:21 pmThe Repuglicon trolls are unashamedly showing their wadded-up panties. They have the hots for some Obama, no doubt, but have to publicly exude the bile fomented in them by their leader – Lush Rimballs. These guys make me sick, they’re un-American in their actions toward a president who is desirous of putting back together the puzzle, scrambled by that little tantrum throwing spitwad, pile of crap who for eight years paraded as our pretend president and destroyer-in-chief. The ‘pugs are just flaming out before the entire evil movement collapses totally, yet the corporate media perpetually parade these parting ninnies before the American public who are recoiling in disgust at their behavior and barefaced criminality. Keep it up ‘pugs, we on the LIBERAL side of the house are enjoying watching the haters, on the right, consumes themselves.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pmDarth Cheney may have to do a Ken Lay if the DOJ fulfills its primary obligation, to uphold the rule of law. Some time ago I read something about the Bushes acquiring a rather large tract of land in Paraguay, does anyone know what stage the construction of the compound is at? Perhaps Paraguay would be a more receptive location for that proposed lie-berry of his, also, they have no extradition treaty with the US, so perhaps we should be concerned/gladdened that Dumbya may make a run for it whilst traveling to collected his cut of the swag from his criminal pals. I’m just enjoying the spectacle of watching the chickens going home to roost; never have I witnessed anything like this in my six decades on this planet.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmDumbya and his cabal would flee to Saudi if the sh!t hit the fan in the USA. They probably have a jet ready and waiting ….
April 26th, 2009 at 5:17 pmpbeeg @112; Very nicely summerizes. Thumbs up!
Flight
April 26th, 2009 at 5:51 pmNeoparody reminds me an awful lot of backup.
April 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pmSee, these numbers prove Obama is polarizing. Look how high his numbers are. That means his disaproval numbers are very low. That means he is polarizing……IMPEACH!
April 26th, 2009 at 9:21 pmI think you forgot to add a /snark tag there eyeswideopen.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:32 pmThe Republican reign of fascism is slowly crumbling around them. The opposition blogs today were very disappointing. I sense a disconnect with reality. Too much of Murdoch’s twilight zone (Fox News) and the three stooges.
I am so sad. It is time to cage the rouge elephant.
humbly, flight
April 26th, 2009 at 10:41 pmI see neoparasite is back begging us to pity him for being so stupid and pathetic. Writing random stupidity. Telling lies. Spewing idiocy. Basically doing what he always does. Acting the poor pathetic piece of garbage he has always been.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:56 amneoparody Says:
i’d appreciate it if you could find anything of mine funny, fire ant. anything. please.
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Could you possibly be just a bit more pathetic? Could you beg us just a bit more humiliatingly to pity you for being so stupid and pathetic? I keep telling you that you arent clever. You are never going to BE clever. You will always be stupid and pathetic. Nothing more, nothing less. Just a stupid, pathetic piece of garbage begging us day in and day out to pity you because you are just flat out too stupid to ever do anything else
April 27th, 2009 at 6:00 amneoparody Says: 34
You are a punk and you are stupid. Embarassingly stupid. We all know Rush has programmed you morons to think there is something bad about a teleprompter, the kind EVERY president has used since they were invented. What an ignorant, brainwashed fool you are. How pathetic do you have to be to be led around by the NOSE by Rush to have him do all your thinking for you since you are just too stupid to think for yourself. What a pathetic little punk you are.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:03 amProud Says:
What can I say?
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You COULD say that you were a worthless, ignorant punkass troll without a single functioning braincell except THAT would be the truth and YOu are a liar
I know, I can be just like the rest of the mindless drones on the left.
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You cant be like anyone on the left. YOU are too stupid. Too much of a liar and a punk. Too brainwashed. We dont DO drones on the left you ignorant punk. Your projection is precious
All hail Obama, our savior and messiah.
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There is no sense in going any further. You have exposed yourself as a pathetic, stupid, propaganda parrot. Ignorant, worthless and pathetic. You are a fool. You are stupid. You are a punkass troll. It is a good thing morons like you have made yourself irrelevant.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:10 amThere’s only one way to go from here.
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April 30th, 2009 at 10:21 am