[Still] The President of these here United States of America

[Clash Cadillac]

Another take on our President...

How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

[NewJerseyRich]

Another take on our President...

How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

Oh yeah, he's a regular Einstein

[philipchevron]

Another take on our President...

How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

Oh yeah, he's a regular Einstein

Compared to every single one of his putative opponents, he sure is! I realise it's been many years since the people of America have found intelligence a necessary, or even desirable quality in its leader, but please understand - it helps to reassure the rest of us.

[Low D]

Another take on our President...

How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics

Oh yeah, he's a regular Einstein

Compared to every single one of his putative opponents, he sure is! I realise it's been many years since the people of America have found intelligence a necessary, or even desirable quality in its leader, but please understand - it helps to reassure the rest of us.

Speaking as a next-door neighbour, let me be the first to agree! I totally grew up with nuclear nightmares on account of seeing "The Day After" on TV at age 10, and realizing it was all up to Ronald freaking Regan! And then while George Sr. wasn't such a dullard, the thought that the responsiblity could land on Dan Quale was truly terrifying.

[NewJerseyRich]

more interesting reading........

Washington Post/ABC News poll

"As President Obama prepares to give his third State of the Union address next week, he faces a dispirited and polarized electorate that is sharply divided over his record, worried about the pace of the economic recovery and deeply pessimistic about the country’s trajectory.
In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 9 percent of Americans see a strong economic recovery — a number that has hardly budged in more than two years. Twice as many say they are worse off financially since Obama became president than say their situations have improved.
Slightly more than half the respondents — 52 percent — say Obama has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing” as president..."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/electorate-sharply-divided-over-obama/2012/01/17/gIQALYx66P_story.html


"...52 percent — say Obama has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing” as president..."
That is of course if you don't include scandal, corruption and circumventing the US Constitution

[philipchevron]

more interesting reading........

Washington Post/ABC News poll

"As President Obama prepares to give his third State of the Union address next week, he faces a dispirited and polarized electorate that is sharply divided over his record, worried about the pace of the economic recovery and deeply pessimistic about the country’s trajectory.
In a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 9 percent of Americans see a strong economic recovery — a number that has hardly budged in more than two years. Twice as many say they are worse off financially since Obama became president than say their situations have improved.
Slightly more than half the respondents — 52 percent — say Obama has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing” as president..."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/electorate-sharply-divided-over-obama/2012/01/17/gIQALYx66P_story.html


"...52 percent — say Obama has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing” as president..."
That is of course if you don't include scandal, corruption and circumventing the US Constitution

Yes. But then again, 62.78% of Americans believe there are fairies living at the bottom of the garden, so who knows what they'll believe on November 6?

[O'Blivion]

Are you sure that's accurate? Seems like it might be a little low.

77% of adult Americans believe in angels.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-573 ... in-angels/


Only 39 percent of Americans believe in the evolution. The good news: only a quarter said they didn't believe it; the remaining portion either didn't have an opinion or didn't answer. (Also, only 55 percent correctly linked Darwin's name with the theory.) However, it appears that views may, um, evolve: younger people believe in evolution at far higher rates than older ones.

Copernicus be damned, 20 percent of Americans were still sure in 1999 that the sun revolved around the Earth. Gallup, the pollster that conducted the study, gamely tried to dress it up by celebrating the fact that "four out of five Americans know Earth revolves around the sun," but we're not buying.

According to NEWSWEEK's 2007 What You Need to Know poll, barely half of Americans were correctly able to state that Judaism was older than both Christianity and Islam. Another 41 percent weren't sure.

According to Zogby, the majority of Americans—three in four—can correctly identify Larry, Curly, and Moe as the Three Stooges. Only two out of five respondents, however, can correctly identify the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as the three wings of government.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/g ... ieve.html#


1 in 5 Americans believe Obama is a cactus.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-1 ... tus,18127/

(oops. That was on The Onion.)

As for the 52% of Americans who think Obama hasn't accomplished much - how many of them believe correctly that it's because the Republicans in Congress (make up your own number for their approval rating, but keep it in single digits) are more worried about Obama not being re-elected than in governing?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/10/m ... tant-goal/

Rich, do you REALLY think America will vote for a plutocrat who believes in magic underwear? If so, I'll gladly wager you $10 on the outcome of the election. That's ten bucks, not the $10,000.00 bets that Romney throws around. Or the $370,000.00 he describes as "not much".

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-hab ... 11264.html

[NewJerseyRich]

ABC News characterises polls and polling below .......

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=43943

[O'Blivion]

Damned liberal media.


So you're not biting on the ten bucks? Or do you think Newt's gonna be the candidate?

I'll bet you TWENTY bucks (or a Tiffany's gift certificate) Obama will kick HIS pompous ass.

[NewJerseyRich]

Mr O'Blivion I will wager you the $10 AND a pint of Guinness at the next Pogues gig we attend. I however do not believe Mr Gingrich will be the nominee though he does make for a good distraction from the issues.



Note: If you do win I will probably be unable to pay you as another four years of the dismantling of our economy and our freedoms and we'll all be in deep deep economic doo doo. I recommend stocking up on survival books now.

[O'Blivion]

It's a deal (especially since that means we'll be at a Pogues show)! And I think we're going to be in the doo doo no matter who wins. Kinda hard to blame the driver when the wheels are all spinning in diametrically opposed directions. Maybe his next term the Republicans can concentrate on working FOR America instead of against the President.

[NewJerseyRich]

It's a deal (especially since that means we'll be at a Pogues show)! And I think we're going to be in the doo doo no matter who wins. Kinda hard to blame the driver when the wheels are all spinning in diametrically opposed directions. Maybe his next term the Republicans can concentrate on working FOR America instead of against the President.

Excellent. Then again I would say they are helping America by being AGAINST the Prez.

[O'Blivion]

We have VERY different ideas of how the two-party system should work. Two years of spinning your tires in the muck gets us nowhere.

[cagliostro]

To O'Blivion's statistics, I present Robert Anton Wilson’s secret of power: “You know how dumb the average person is. Well, half the people are even dumber than that.”

Note: If you do win I will probably be unable to pay you as another four years of the dismantling of our economy and our freedoms and we'll all be in deep deep economic doo doo. I recommend stocking up on survival books now.

This is something I keep seeing over and over again by the anti-Obama folks - Obama is going to cause us all to have to run to the hills and live in caves and we'll need to learn how to survive in the wilderness. Where did this start? No matter how crappy it was with Bush, I never heard anyone spout these doomsday scenarios. I only ever heard people whining that they'd need to move to another country. So where did this "run for the hills" fear come from? Was it one talking head that trickled down to the many (such as my inlaws)? I don't get it.

[philipchevron]

To O'Blivion's statistics, I present Robert Anton Wilson’s secret of power: “You know how dumb the average person is. Well, half the people are even dumber than that.”

Note: If you do win I will probably be unable to pay you as another four years of the dismantling of our economy and our freedoms and we'll all be in deep deep economic doo doo. I recommend stocking up on survival books now.

This is something I keep seeing over and over again by the anti-Obama folks - Obama is going to cause us all to have to run to the hills and live in caves and we'll need to learn how to survive in the wilderness. Where did this start? No matter how crappy it was with Bush, I never heard anyone spout these doomsday scenarios. I only ever heard people whining that they'd need to move to another country. So where did this "run for the hills" fear come from? Was it one talking head that trickled down to the many (such as my inlaws)? I don't get it.

My theory is it's just a resumption of the Clinton-era Right Wing nutso survivalist militia groupthink that momentarily got blown off course when Bush provided a more familiar and apparently tangible bogey man to replace the absent Commie - the Iraqi wedding party.