It was almost worth his being elected for the chance to render the race card useless. Obama is a clown with big ears.
Well, don't feel too bad about it... hell, we were all sick of "W" Bush by 2008. And we could say that it was just rotten luck that both Bush and Obama sucked like industrial vaccum cleaners -- but wait! Both Bush and Obama have had one thing in common: an out-of-control Keynesian Federal Reserve System headed by Ben "Helicopter" Bernanke! And it has been Bernanke and his former Federal Reserve colleague, Tim Geithner (now Obama's Treasury Secretary), who have made ALL the economic decisions for Obama especially! Bernanke was appointed by Bush, and then reappointed by Obama. Hey, no excuses offered by me for Bush being an unintelligent "deer in the headlights", and, no excuses offered either for Obama being an socialist college teacher and inept junior senator from Illinois, who was completely out of his depth pretending to be a "president". "Bush and Obama: proof that two clowns DO make a circus!" No, if there's an "evil genius" in this whole lousy suck-fest, it's Chairman Bernanke and his protege, Geithner... and until these throwbacks to the FDR Depresseion-era are GONE, we'll only get more of the same... or worse...!
Generally true but not unprecedented. Truman had a 35% approval rating just months before being re-elected in 1948. Reagan's approval rating hit a low of 45% in 1983 before being re-elected in 1984.
I can truthfully say that I have not known one single person over the age of 35 with an IQ greater than its equivalent in room temperature who will admit to having voted for our wonderful President Golf Ball.... Although Liberals have been breeding their own constituency since the mid-1960's in "welfare hothouses", they still only make up about 21% of the population: http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/conservatives-single-largest-ideological-group.aspx The future does not look bright for President Jive-ass....
It's not just the low numbers it is the reason the numbers are low - it's all about the economy. Barack Obama has shown time and time again he does not have a clue about how to get the economy back on track. Every action he has taken so far in his Presidency has undermined business and then he wonders why companies are not hiring or expanding. When you are a puppet of Unions and hate the free market economy as he seems to then the economy is never going to turn around. If the economy does not turn around his chance of a second term are nil
The economy isn't going to improve under Obama. As you pointed out, he's part of the problem, not the solution...
True but it's only up about 2% since Obama took office during the greatest recession in recent history and he inherited the recession from a Republican administration. Most independent voters know this and it won't be a significant factor in the 2012 elections IMO.
Ok, then how do you liberals use "republican administration" as an excuse when liberals had the house and senate. But, now that the GOP has only the house, it's no longer the adminsitration who is at fault, rather it's the gop who only controls the house? so which is it? your hypocricy is again showing.
The causes behind the recession go back long before the Bush adminstration and I merely pointed out that there hasn't really been any real change since Obama took office. The reason for that is really quite simple because the cause of the recession is beyond anything the US government can do and it will just have to work itself out. It will eventually work itself out and until then both Democrats and Republicans are just flapping their jaws when they talk about what they would do to end the recession. They throw political barbs at each other but in reality neither can do anything about the recession.
Since the inception of the Obama presidency, the nation wide unemployment rate accelerated 25 percent not to mention the fact that National Debt spending has increased 22 percent and the price of a gallon of gas up over 100+ percent. According to CBO projections (before Obama’s stimulus became law) federal debt equaled 36 percent of GDP in fiscal year 2009. Federal debt reached 100 percent of the GDP in August of 2011, the highest percentage since WWII.
Wanna get the America economy rolling again? Repeal Obamacare. Repeal Dodd-Frank Act (but regulate OTC Derivatives). Shrink the government, (military to a degree as well) and force budgetary control in Washington. And GST tax...for~a~set~non alterable~period~of~time.
Ouch! It's really all about certainty. The moment Obama was elected, even before he took office, he's projected uncertainty for businesses.
Excuses excuses excuses. This is getting old. Obama promised 8% unemployment. Take some responsibility.
That's what happens when you inherit the worst recession in 80 years. Before the stimulus the economy was tanking at a -9% real rate, losing 700,000+ jobs a month, unemployment was 7.8% and skyrocketing, and the stock markets were crashing. Now the economy has been growing steadily for a year and a half, the private sector has created jobs every month for more than a year, 5 million new private sector jobs have been added since Jan 2010, stock markets are up about 75%, and the unemployment rate has fallen from above 10% to just above 9%. Unemployment has increased from 7.8% to 9.1%. That is a 16% increase, not 22%. I doubt that is what the CBO said. The debt was $10.6 trillion when Obama took office and GDP was $13.9trillion. That is 76%, not 36%. Sources: GDP - http://bea.gov/national/index.htm#gdp Debt - http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
I thought I made that point clear about getting it going? Not only can't libs hear, I guess they can't read either Blue .../shrug Although, I might just prioritize differently. Repeal Dodd-Frank first.
Quarter - % chng GDP annualized 2008q4 -9.2% 2009q1 -6.8% <-Obama takes office 2009q2 -0.7% 2009q3 1.7% 2009q4 3.7% 2010q1 3.9% 2010q2 3.7% 2010q3 2.5% 2010q4 2.3% 2011q1 0.4% 2011q2 1.3% Only a partisan hack invested in failure for political purposes could say the economy stayed tanking.
You go by when he was elected. The economy goes by future certainty. Once it became clear Obama was going to be president with a supermajority, employers reacted. That's how it works. It's about projections. Obama projects uncertainty. The economy reacted. When Perry is elected in Nov. 2012, the opposite will happen. There will be a hiring frenzy the moment the election is over.
You figure that uncertainty had anything to do with the Dow tanking 2000 points after the Republican Tea Party pulled its debt ceiling extortion stunt? I guess they knew what they were doing eh?
Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined. US borrowing tops 100% of GDP
