Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, 44th president of the United States — socialist, radical, and enemy of Americans who believe in the constitution. Here are hundreds of articles on this man.
What’s a socialist President to do? He needs to raise the debt limit to keep spending, & the debt limit for his political base, but the public will punish him for doing it.
Hoo boy, what’s a socialist President to do? He needs to raise the debt limit so he can keep spending, needs to increase the debt limit to satisfy his political base, but a new poll indicates that he’d be punished in the polls for doing it.
Want more money? Just crank up the printing presses and let 'er rip!
CBS News reports Obama’s awkward situation:
Despite Obama administration warnings that failing to do so would devastate the economy, a clear majority of Americans say they oppose raising the debt limit, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.
Just 27 percent of Americans support raising the debt limit, while 63 percent oppose raising it.
Eighty-three percent of Republicans oppose raising the limit, along with 64 percent of independents and 48 percent of Democrats. Support for raising the debt limit is just 36 percent among Democrats, and only 14 percent among Republicans.
Note that 48% of Democrats oppose raising the debt limit. That means the President is appealing only to the extremists in his own party when he says, “This has worked so well that we should do it again.”
To tell the truth, we’re not actually sure they the extremists. They may actually be morons.
The numbers are devastating for Chicago Jesus and his Democrat apostles in latest CBS/New York Times poll. Absolutely devastating.
The numbers are devastating for Chicago Jesus and his Democrat apostles in latest CBS/New York Times poll. Absolutely devastating.
You never know what’s going to happen in politics, and eighteen months is an eternity, but it appears that Obama’s brand of Chicago socialism has been thoroughly rejected by the American people.
The people were angry and they casteth stones, for they learned that Chicago Jesus was a false prophet
The Washington Examiner reports the ugly details:
70% of Americans feel things in this country are seriously off on the wrong track. That is the highest number since the 79% registered in 1/11/09 when President Bush was still in office.
80% rate the national economy as bad (44% fairly/36% very). Only 19% rate it as good (2% very/17% fairly).
39% think the economy is getting worse, only 23% say it is getting better. Last month those numbers were even at 26. In February they were flipped at 32% better, 22% worse.
57% disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy. That is the highest disapproval measured by the CBS/NYT poll. His 38% approval is matched only once by a pre-Democractic election wipe out October poll.
59% disapprove of Obama’s handling of the federal budget. Also the highest CBS/NYT has ever measured that number.
Obama’s Libya approval numbers have completely flipped from 50/29 approve in March to 45/39 disapprove today.
46% disapprove of the way Obama is handling foreign policy. That is the highest number ever for Obama in a CBS/NYT poll. His 39% approval on FP is also his lowest score ever.
55% tell NYT/CBS they would rather have a smaller government providing fewer services. Only 33% want a bigger government with more services.
When asked “Do you think Barack Obama has the same priorities for the country as you have, or doesn’t he?” 53% said no and 43% said yes. When Obama was inaugurated those numbers were 65% and 28% no.
These numbers prove one thing: Chicago Jesus was a false prophet, but there is a God.
Apparently, Prince William and Kate Middleton will only allow make-believe morons to attend their wedding, which explains why Mr. Bean made the cut, but Mr. Obama didn’t.
Rumor has it that President Obama is pissed that he got dissed and didn’t make the list.
Apparently, Prince William and Kate Middleton will only allow make-believe morons to attend their wedding, which explains why Mr. Bean made the cut, but Mr. Obama didn’t.
The Associated Press reports that affirmative action can get you to the White House, but not to Westminster Abbey:
David Beckham, Elton John and Mr. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson will mingle with dozens of royal guests at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, according to an official guest list released Saturday that includes one uncomfortable presence — the Bahraini crown prince accused of a brutal crackdown on protesters.
Here’s one of Mr. Bean’s most famous clips. It’s already had an incredible 58,000,000 views on YouTube. Please note that he works without a Teleprompter.
Please allow us to paraphrase what President Obama said: “I can’t wait until tomorrow, because I get more perfect every day.”
Please allow us to paraphrase what President Obama said during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California: “I can’t wait until tomorrow, because I get more perfect every day.”
“If you had to do anything differently during your first four years,” one questioner asked, “what would it be?”
If you don't think Saint Barry of Nairobi is perfect, just ask him
After several minutes of taxing his remarkable intellect (yes, the guy will tax anything) to think of something that hasn’t gone perfectly during his first two and a half years in office, he finally gave up.
“There are all sorts of day-to-day issues where I say to myself, oh, I didn’t say that right, or I didn’t explain this clearly enough,” Obama noted, “or maybe if I had sequenced this plan first as opposed to that one, maybe it would have gotten done quicker.”
But actual mistakes? None. Not one. He referenced the contentious ObamaCare debate and said, “I’ve asked myself sometimes is there a way that we could have gotten it done more quickly and in a way that the American people wouldn’t have been so frustrated by it?”
But that wasn’t Obama’s mistake and he was quick to point that out. “I’m not sure I could have because there’s a reason why it hadn’t gotten done in a hundred years … It’s hard to fix a system as big as health care and as complicated as our health care system.”
After wracking his brain for several more minutes, the President just plain gave up on trying to think of any mistakes and began talking about anything that came to mind. He rambled into a long list of unrelated topics, like immigration reform. And the deficit. And energy. And education.
But mistakes? By this time he was hoping that the audience had forgotten he question.
“¡Si, Se Puede!” was the Spanish version of “Yes we can!” Does anyone know how to say, “No we can’t” in Spanish?
“¡Si, Se Puede!” was the Spanish version of “Yes we can!” Does anyone know how to say, “No we can’t” in Spanish? It might come in handy at campaign headquarters because President Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics has dropped from 85% in May of 2009 to 47% today.
"Yes We Can" has turned into "This guy's a pinche puto"
Gallup reports the muy malo noticias:
As President Barack Obama was preparing to meet at the White House on Tuesday afternoon with a group of business, religious and law enforcement leaders to talk about immigration reform, the Gallup poll released its latest weekly presidential job approval numbers indicating that Obama’s approval among Hispanic Americans had dropped to an all-time low.
In the week of April 11-17, Gallup reported, only 47 percent of Hispanics said they approved of the job Obama was doing as president.
This was only the third week during Obama’s presidency that his job approval among his Hispanics has been lower than 50 percent. The previous two occasions were Sept. 20-26, 2010, when Obama’s approval dropped to 49 percent among Hispanics, and the week of July 26-Aug.1, 2010, when it dropped to 48 percent.
Now if the Republicans could just come up with a better presidential candidate than Donald Trump, we could end this national nightmare.
Paul Ryan? Chris Christie? Marco Rubio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
There’s no way of really knowing but we’re pretty sure that when Moses instituted the first passover his intention wasn’t to celebrate the architects of yet another holocaust.
When it comes to sharing, Barrack Obama has a pretty skewed view of things. A view so skewed, in fact, that we can only sum it up with the phrase “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.”
His majesty’s hypocrisy is by no means limited to the American taxpayers. He also seems fond of applying it to the Jews. And this time around its not enough for them to give their country over to people who want to kill them. Now he expects them to cede their holidays as well.
President Obama pretending he cares about Jewish tradition
Israel National News has the whole spiel on President Shmendrik’s chutzpah:
Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, the unique redemption whose goal was a G-d given way of life to be led in the Holy Land, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in Muslim uprisings.
In his annual message, prior to his third straight participation in the Passover Seder, President Obama stated, “The story of Passover…instructs each generation to remember its past, while appreciating the beauty of freedom and the responsibility it entails. This year that ancient instruction is reflected in the daily headlines as we see modern stories of social transformation and liberation unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa.”
There’s no way of really knowing but we’re pretty sure that when Moses instituted the first passover his intention wasn’t to celebrate the architects of yet another holocaust.
The latest controversy about The Donald is that he won’t release his tax returns until Obama releases his birth certificate.
Donald Trump has more skeletons in his closet than a … a … well, maybe we should really figure out how sentences are going to end before we begin them.
Nevertheless, the latest controversy about The Donald is that he won’t release his tax returns until Obama releases his birth certificate.
Is there any proof that Donald Trump's hair was born in the United States?
The New York Daily News reports:
Donald Trump has a deal for the President: He’ll release his tax returns if Obama releases his birth certificate.
The billionaire businessman and aspiring presidential candidate laid out the conditions for his financial records disclosure Tuesday.
“Maybe I’m going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate … I’d love to give my tax returns. I may tie my tax returns into Obama’s birth certificate,” he told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.
We say the American people are concerned with issues far more pressing than Obama’s birth certificate.
For instance, what exactly is going on with Trump’s hair? Is it real? Is it a comb over? Is it a weave? Is there any proof that it was it born in the United States?
When it comes to the subject of Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly is schizophrenic. Some nights he supports him and demands that conservatives back off, other nights he wants his head on a stake.
When it comes to the subject of Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly is schizophrenic. Some nights he supports him and demands that conservatives back off, other nights he wants his head on a stake.
Monday night was in the latter mode. He told Brit Hume, “The danger to the country lies in the executive branch and president Obama … I think absolutely the president wants to take from the rich and give to the poor.”
Jerome Corsi, the same author who helped sink John Kerry’s presidential campaign with Swift Boat, has penned a new book called “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President. Pre-order here!
The Drudge Report just announced that a new book may just uncover and reveal the hidden secrets in Barack Obama’s life.
“It’s utterly devastating,” reveals a source close to the publisher. “Obama may learn things he didn’t even know about himself!”Does Corsi definitively declare the location of Obama’s birth?
Will the president’s attorneys attempt to interfere with the book’s distribution? [The publisher vows to vigorously fight any legal action that may be taken.]
Will the book finally — once and for all — put an end to the growing controversy?
Or will it just ignite new ones!?
“When Donald Trump said he sent PIs to Hawaii to get to the bottom of all this, he meant this book,” declares an insider.
Can’t wait. If this one’s half as good as Swift Boat, it’s going to be very good. The Editor and the Administrator have already ordered copies. And in a blatant attempt to make a few bucks, we’re making it easy for you to order yours, too. Just order through the link below and a few pennies goes in our pocket. We appreciate it:
We have to give Jon Stewart a little bit of credit for turning his guns on Obama’s newly-minted phrase “spending reductions in the tax code.”
We have to give Jon Stewart a little bit of credit here. Despite being reliably liberal, he occasionally find fault with those on the left.
Take this video clip for example. Stewart begins by making fun of preposterous liberal depictions of Paul Ryan. Funny thing is, the audience doesn’t seem to realize that Stewart’s making fun of liberals when he says Ryan’s plan includes beating seniors to death with an Ayn Rand novel.
Then Stewart turns his guns (please pardon the violent rhetoric) on Obama’s newly-minted phrase “spending reductions in the tax code.” Stewart uses a couple colorful analogies to explain exactly what it means.
The audience was undoubtedly confused by Stewart’s criticism of Obama, but they surely rationalized it to themselves by thinking, “Heh-heh-heh. Must be funny. Heard dirty words.”
They say there are two things that are certain: death and taxes. Let’s add one more: The certainty that the government will take those taxes and do something inconceivably stupid with them.
They say there are two things that are certain: death and taxes. Let’s add one more: The certainty that the government will take those taxes and do something inconceivably stupid with them.
GPS: Leave it to the government to screw up a good thing
We give you exhibit A.
The federal government is allowing a company called LightSquared to build a ultrafast broadband network.
Well, you say, an ultrafast broadband network sounds pretty cool. And it is. Except for one thing.
The broadcast frequency used by the LightSquared system just happens to be right next to the existing Global Positioning System band. Tests conducted by Garmin, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of consumer GPS products, indicate that the overwhelming power of the broadband network is likely to cause major problems for all existing GPS products.
Perhaps the folks at the FCC aren’t aware of this, but GPS is kind of a big deal. It’s used by millions of American to navigate around the country’s rapidly deteriorating highway system that our tax money should be spent repairing. And let’s not forget military, civilian aircraft and emergency users.
Here’s what’s at risk:
“The potential impact of GPS interference is so vast, it’s hard to get your head around,” said Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel of Trimble Navigation Ltd., which makes GPS systems. “Think 40,000 GPS dead spots covering millions of square miles in cities and towns throughout the U.S.”
Don’t worry, though. The federal government always has multi-billion dollar solutions for the problems it causes. In this case, LightSquared suggests that current GPS users retrofit their systems, adding filtering capabilities to counteract the interference they cause.
Unfortunately, no one knows who is going to pay to retrofit more than a billion current GPS systems. Certainly, LightSquared isn’t offering to pony up the money.
We have a sneaking suspicion that the people who end up paying for this – one way or another – will be those poor suckers known as the American taxpayers.
We look forward to the day when the line charting President Obama’s approval rating crosses the line charting the unemployment rate. And at the rate we’re going, that day isn’t too far off.
We look forward to the day when the line charting President Obama’s approval rating crosses the line charting the unemployment rate. And at the rate we’re going, that day isn’t too far off.
His approval is down, but his chin is still up
The Los Angeles Times reports on Obama’s latest Gallup disaster:
It could be gas prices, the budget debate, or simply the usual ups and downs of public opinion polling. But President Obama’s approval rating has dipped to a five-month low in Gallup’s daily tracking poll, reverting to post-midterm election lows.
… Obama’s low approval rating is not the result of the major speech he delivered on Wednesday. Some of the polling took place before he delivered the speech. Rather, a Gallup official believes the results reflect broad public dissatisfaction with the economy.
Forget the obesity epidemic we supposedly have in this country. If 41% still think this guy’s doing a good job, what we have is a stupidity epidemic.
Now comes the sad news that L’Obama, a bar in Northern Burgundy, France named after the President has closed its doors and a rental agent is looking for someone to take over the lease.
Isn’t it humiliating enough that unsold Obama memorabilia is clogging the shelves of Washington, DC souvenir stores?
Now comes the sad news that L’Obama, a bar in Northern Burgundy, France named after the President has closed its doors and a rental agent is looking for someone to take over the lease.
Unfortunately, Obama the President will outlast Obama the bar by several years.
Patrons of the bar may have had alcohol-fueled hangovers the morning after, but Americans will suffer from an economic-fueled hangovers for many years to come.
BECAUSE HE HAS THE BALLS TO SAY THING THINGS EVERYONE IS THINKING, BUT NONE OF THE OTHER COWARDLY REPUBLICANS WILL SAY!
Want to know why Donald Trump does so well in all the polls of Republican voters?
BECAUSE HE HAS THE BALLS TO SAY THING THINGS EVERYONE IS THINKING, BUT NONE OF THE OTHER COWARDLY REPUBLICANS WILL SAY!
Excuse us for screaming, but we get incredibly frustrated with the gentlemanly behavior of this year’s crop of spineless, gonadless Republicans.
Here’s Trump being Trump during an interview with Sean Hannity:
Trump: (Starting at about the 1:50 mark) He’s been a horrible president. I always said the worst president was Jimmy Carter. Guess what? Jimmy Carter goes to second place. Barack Obama has been the worst president ever. In the history of this country, Barack Obama is number one.
OF COURSE, HE’S THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY. WHY ISN’T EVERY REPUBLICAN SAYING THIS?
Excuse our screaming again.
The whole interview is worth watching, but if you only watch the segment with that quote, it’ll enough to make you scream, too.
President Barack Obama’s approval among the poorest Americans dropped to an all-time low of 48 percent last week, according to the Gallup poll.
He’s been abandoned by independents, whites, the young and the elderly, but President Obama can rest assured that he can always count on the poor.
The poor have reached the end of the line with President Obama
Wait. Not so fast.
CNS News has the results of a new Gallup poll:
President Barack Obama’s approval among the poorest Americans dropped to an all-time low of 48 percent last week, according to the Gallup poll, leaving the president with less-than-majority approval among all income brackets reported in Gallup’s presidential approval surveys.
Each week, Gallup publishes the president’s average approval rating for the previous week among four income brackets: those who earn $2,000 per month or less, those who earn between $2,000 and $4,999 per month, those who earn between $5,000 and $7,499 per month, and those who earn $7,500 per month or more.
For the week of April 4-10, Obama’s approval rating was 48 percent among those making $2,000 or less per month, and 46 percent among those in each of the three higher income brackets.
This was only the second time in his presidency that Obama’s average weekly approval rating among the poorest Americans had dropped below 50 percent. The first time was three weeks ago—in the week of March 21-27—when his approval dropped to 49 percent among Americans who earn $2,000 per month or less.
Obama = Titanic, reality = iceburg. And you know how that story ended.
The IMF is worried that the geniuses in the Obama administration have no rational strategy to stop our piling up public debt that may trigger another worldwide economic crisis.
When the profligate leftists at the International Monetary Fund start to worry about a nation’s economy, you know there’s a problem.
The black hole that is the American economy
But worried they are. Worried that the geniuses in the Obama administration have no rational strategy to stop our piling up public debt and that the policies they do have may trigger another worldwide economic crisis.
Financial Times has the depressing details:
In an unusually stern rebuke to its largest shareholder, the IMF said the US was the only advanced economy to be increasing its underlying budget deficit in 2011 at a time when its economy was growing fast enough to reduce borrowing.
To meet the 2010 pledge by the Group of 20 countries for all advanced economies – except Japan – to halve their deficits by 2013, the US would need to implement tougher austerity measures than in any two-year period since records began in 1960, the IMF said. In its twice-yearly Fiscal Monitor, the IMF added that on its current plans the US would join Japan as the only country with rising public debt in 2016, creating a risk for the global economy.
Carlo Cottarelli, head of fiscal affairs at the Fund, said: “It is a risk that if it materialises would have very important consequences … for the rest of the world. So it is important that the US undertakes fiscal adjustment in a way sooner rather than later.”
The only problem with the IMF’s assessment is that it ignores the distinct possibility that the Obama administration wants to trigger another global meltdown.
President Obama this week declared his intention to seek reelection, but just over one-quarter of voters say they share the same political views as the president.
On Monday, President Obama officially threw his hat in the reelection ring and it sounded suspiciously like an old joke.
Moonbats? Zombies? Doesn't matter. Both blocs vote solidly Democrat.
Man: Ask me what makes me so funny.
Woman: What makes you …
Man: Timing.
Because on Thursday Rasmussen released a new poll that made the reelection bid seem a bit quixotic:
President Obama this week declared his intention to seek reelection, but just over one-quarter of voters say they share the same political views as the president.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 57% believe the president is more politically liberal than they are, while just nine percent (9%) say he is more conservative. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of voters say their political views are about the same as the president’s.
Of course, that’s just 28% of living voters. Democrat polls show that Obama’s political views are shared by 100% of dead voters, so he’s expected to cruise to an easy reelection victory.
A very John Kerry-like Barack Obama was against raising the debt limit before he was in favor of it.
A very John Kerry-like Barack Obama was against raising the debt limit before he was in favor of it. It’s all excusable, of course, because he was against it when George Bush was for it, which is like a Papal dispensation to Democrat flipfloppers.
The Associated Press tells the story of the President’s press secretary twisting himself into knots in an attempt to explain away the Presidential contradiction:
The White House says President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit.
A fight over raising the debt limit is looming, and the White House is trying to explain away the apparent contradiction between Obama’s previous opposition, and his position now that it must be increased.
Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Obama believes his vote was a mistake. He said Obama now realizes that the debt ceiling is too important to be trifled with.
Can we all accept this as an admission that he trifled with it back in 2006?
You won’t believe this one. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) invited Alec Baldwin to Washington, DC to talk about campaign finance reform.
You won’t believe this one. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) invited Alec Baldwin to Washington, DC to talk about campaign finance reform. (Unbeknownst to us, the actor has apparently developed an expertise on that subject in between screaming at his young daughter and shooting a ratings-challenged sitcom.)
Baldwin was asked if President Obama has lived up to his expectations. That’s when we learned that poor ol’ Obama just hasn’t been able to spend enough money.
CNS News reports Baldwin’s bizarre theory:
“Well, I mean, I think so because I think that when you come into office and you want to put your mark on things — this is just my opinion, when you want to put your mark on things, you want to be able to spend. And what’s crippled Obama’s administration, as far as I’m concerned, is the financial crisis and it’s prevented him from doing any new spending,” said Baldwin, who publicly supported Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.
“He’s not able –- if the country was as flush as it was under Bill Clinton and he had money — these things cost money — he could have made more of a mark,” said Baldwin. “I think right now he’s had to do a lot of counter-punching; a lot of back peddling. He inherited this crisis from Bush and Paulson. He had to extend the TARP. I think it’s been very difficult for him to spend his whole first term trying to, you know, correct our course financially. I think a second term of Obama, we’ll see a lot more of what we want to see from him.”
Obama and Baldwin are perfect together. One can’t speak without a Teleprompter, the other shouldn’t speak without a script.
This is the second time in two weeks that we’ve found ourselves agreeing with an Iranian madman about President Obama.
We hope this isn’t the beginning of a trend, but it is the second time in two weeks that we’ve found ourselves agreeing with an Iranian madman. Last week is was Ayatollah Khamenei, this week it’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Don't you hate it when a madman makes more sense than your president?
Iran’s FarsNews has the details:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted the US administration for its deceitful policies, and warned that US President Barack Obama will have to face an end far more embarrassing than what his predecessor, George W. Bush, encountered.
… Stating his interpretation of the Obama policy, Ahmadinejad said that the difference between Bush and Obama lies in the fact that the current US president uses force and at the same time deception and conspiracy unlike Bush who clearly resorted to weapon and military action to save the capitalistic system.
As regards the future of the US administration, the Iranian president stated, “I believe that he (Bush) left the scene of politics with shame, but his successor (Obama) will have to leave the scene of politics with much more shame because of his resort to both force and deception.”
We’re still awaiting Ahmadinejad’s comments on Obama’s foreign policy.
Based on an interview with Hearst Magazines, Barack Obama mistakenly thought he was running for President of his neighborhood Rotary Club instead of President of the United States.
Based on an interview with Hearst Magazines, Barack Obama mistakenly thought he was running for President of his neighborhood Rotary Club instead of President of the United States.
It was, apparently, a huge surprise when he woke up one day in the White House and discovered that he was the most powerful man in the world and bore the burdens that come with that job.
Millions of Americans are eager to help President Obama achieve his dream of walking in the park anonymously
The Columbus Dispatch has the tear-jerking story (more jerk, assuredly, than tears):
“I just miss — I miss being anonymous,” he said at the meeting in the White House. “I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. I can’t take a walk.”
He says he enjoys golf but is not the fanatic that some have portrayed.
“It’s the only excuse I have to get outside for four hours at a stretch,” he said.
His impossible dream: “I just want to go through Central Park (in New York) and watch folks passing by . . . spend the day watching people. I miss that.”
According to the latest polls, there are huge numbers of Americans who can’t wait until his dream comes true.
The American people’s love affair with Barack Obama cooled off a long time ago. Now he’s losing even his most ardent liberal admirers, too.
The American people’s love affair with Barack Obama cooled off a long time ago. Now he’s losing even his most ardent liberal admirers, too.
Rasmussen has details of the downward trajectory:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20.
Today’s numbers reflect the lowest level of Strong Approval yet recorded for this president. There has been a sharp decline in enthusiasm among liberal voters.
Currently, just 37% of liberals Strongly Approve of the president’s performance. That’s down from 63% a year ago, 57% at the beginning of 2011, and 52% a week ago. Some liberal commentators have expressed disappointment with the president over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, the military action in Libya, and, most recently, the budget deal to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government. While liberal enthusiasm may be declining, 57% of voters believe the president is more liberal than they are.
As if things aren’t bad enough for the President, he’s going to give a speech to the nation on Wednesday night in which he explains that his solution to the debt crisis is to raise taxes.
In the words of Dandy Don Meredith, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.”
Once monolithic, blacks’ support for the first African American president has declined about 7% in March; Hispanics support dropped 11%.
Now hold on just a gol dang minute. We thought the only people who opposed President Obama were evil white racists. Isn’t that what we’ve been told since the day the media anointed this guy?
So how does that jibe with the results of this new Gallup poll as reported by the Los Angeles Times:
Once monolithic, blacks’ support for the first African American president is still. . . . immense. But for unclear reasons it’s declined about 7% from well above 90% to 85% in March. That’s a new low since Obama’s inauguration 26 months ago.
Equally ominous for Obama in 2012, his approval among Hispanics, the nation’s fastest-growing demographic, has also fallen to again tie his term low of 54%. That’s a drop of 11 points from its early high of 65%.
Gallup seems puzzled by the unexpected decline, mentioning March’s major news as possible reasons: the ongoing fight with Congress over no fiscal 2011 federal budget and Obama leading the country into a new military combat zone over Libya.
Gallup seems puzzled? Perhaps. But we suspect that it’s the über liberal Los Angeles Times that’s really puzzled.
There was a time when Presidents had power. And when gas at $2.50 a gallon and unemployment at the unheard of level of five percent, it was most assuredly George W. Bush’s fault.
There was a time just a few short years ago when Presidents had power. When Presidents were men of responsibility. And when gas at $2.50 a gallon and unemployment at the unheard of level of five percent, it was most assuredly George W. Bush’s fault.
The god who walks among men cannot control oil prices
Regretfully those days are long gone. And in the new America not even the smartest, coolest or most able President ever can be expected to do a thing about the cost of gas approaching (and no doubt surpassing) four dollars a gallon.
Fox reports. We deride:
“I’m just going to be honest with you. There’s not much we can do next week or two weeks from now,” the president told workers at a wind turbine plant. It’s a theme Obama’s struck before as he tries to show voters he’s attuned to a top economic concern with gas prices pushing toward $4 a gallon.
But just in case Obama decides that he wants to try and do something about skyrocketing energy costs we suggest he look into the following solutions.
1. Lower taxes on gas.
2. Increase fuel efficiency by getting the ethanol out of our gas tanks.
3. Drill here, drill now, pay less.
4. Adopt economic policies that strengthen the dollar.
5. Restrict the First Lady to 12 vacations a year.
If you were thinking, oh, Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy or maybe even Franklin Roosevelt, you’d be wrong. At least in the unbiased opinion of Politico’s Roger Simon.
If you were thinking, oh, Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy or maybe even Franklin Roosevelt, you’d be wrong. At least in the unbiased opinion of Politico’s Roger Simon.
“The bloom isn’t entirely off the rose between Obama and the press,” Simon said, “but reporters are starting to concentrate more than ever on what he says rather than how he says it. We will stipulate that he’s the greatest orator of modern times, but now we’re looking beyond that in every speech for what he’s actually telling us.
Stipulate away, Roger. But you might want to go to YouTube and search “obama gaffe” before you say that in public again.
