freethinker44
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You didn't build that.
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Obama on the skids -- at home and abroad
- Thread starter BlandOatmeal
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You didn't build that.
That is so funny, I did build my own business from the ground up just as I did my last two homes. I set every fence post on my ranch and worked 80+ hours a week.
I started with nothing and became a self made millionaire. Almost no one would do what I done to get what I have and what I gave away.
I have gave to charity more than I have kept for myself. I have gave more hours to help the less fortunate than most people work. You don't have to be wealthy to give of your time. What are the liberals excuse for not doing community programs?
freethinker44
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What do liberals do? How about not try to defund and cut every program designed to help people in need.
How about not putting a wasteful inept government in charge of something the community can correct with local programs.
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Not poor communities.
Good point.
To illustrate how politics do not really bother with national frontiers.
Not sure if there is a point somewhere in there. I fear I still fail to see any.
So that is how you see the GOP? It just does not look much like that from here where I stand.
From where I stand all I see is people who want to be dependant on the government who demand way more money than they are worth. This is not a money thing, this is a no skill want to make a living beyond their productivity thing.
Liberals are too generous with other folks money. Instead of focusing on what others have they need to work on their personal skills and work ethic.
We should champion success not penalise it.
BlandOatmeal
Active Member
Hmmm... seems like some people are getting off-topic. Meanwhile, the slide continues...
Poll: Support For Obama Among Young Americans Eroding
by Adam Wollner
December 04, 201312:53 PM
President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y., in August.
President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y., in August.
Mike Groll/AP
"After voting for him in large numbers in 2008 and 2012, young Americans are souring on President Obama.
"According to a new , just 41 percent of millennials adults ages 18-29 approve of Obama's job performance, his lowest-ever standing among the group and an 11-point drop from April..."
-- Poll: Support For Obama Among Young Americans Eroding : It's All Politics : NPR
Poll: Support For Obama Among Young Americans Eroding
by Adam Wollner
December 04, 201312:53 PM
President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y., in August.
President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y., in August.
Mike Groll/AP
"After voting for him in large numbers in 2008 and 2012, young Americans are souring on President Obama.
"According to a new , just 41 percent of millennials adults ages 18-29 approve of Obama's job performance, his lowest-ever standing among the group and an 11-point drop from April..."
-- Poll: Support For Obama Among Young Americans Eroding : It's All Politics : NPR
BlandOatmeal
Active Member
Big tech companies lash out at government snooping
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, December 9, 4:03 PM
"WASHINGTON ...A coalition that includes Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft lashed out in an open letter printed Monday in major newspapers and a new website, Reform Government Surveillance ."
-- Big tech companies lash out at government snooping - The Washington Post
Welcome to the new face of Barack Hussein Obama, aka "BIG SNOOP DOG", the one voters didn't notice when they voted for him; but they're noticing now.
SKIIIIIIIIIIIIID... AYEEEEH!
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, December 9, 4:03 PM
"WASHINGTON ...A coalition that includes Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft lashed out in an open letter printed Monday in major newspapers and a new website, Reform Government Surveillance ."
-- Big tech companies lash out at government snooping - The Washington Post
Welcome to the new face of Barack Hussein Obama, aka "BIG SNOOP DOG", the one voters didn't notice when they voted for him; but they're noticing now.
SKIIIIIIIIIIIIID... AYEEEEH!
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BlandOatmeal
Active Member
December 10, 2013, 08:20 am
Poll: Obama's approval on economy unchanged
By Mario Trujillo
"President Obama’s approval rating on the economy remains at 37 percent — unchanged from last month, according to a new poll. A New York Times/CBS poll released Tuesday found another 58 percent of people disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy. The jobs report last week, which found the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 7 percent, did little to raise the president’s approval on the issue..."
-- Poll: Obama's approval on economy unchanged | TheHill
That's about the best news Obama has had for weeks, maybe months -- he's actually starting to find a bottom!
I notice that when these pollsters go about trying to take the nation's "pulse", they focus on either (1) economic matters, as though Americans were all unthinking dogs, caring only about where their next meal will come from, or (2) things people don't think much about, but have heard about in the news.
I get bored as sin with these surveys, and usually just hang up the phone when the pollsters call, because (1) I know where my next meal comes from: it comes from God, and has little or nothing to do with any government, and (2) I don't even watch the TV News, commercial programming, etc. Even if PBS were to call, a network I actually WATCH, I could only comment on about a half dozen shows my wife and I like, and tell them to can their political/social engineering BS programs altogether and just run Oregon Field Guide and British murder mysteries.
Do you know what sort of survey questions I would respond to? If they would ask me truly relevant questions about the Bible. This would have been the case throughout all of the 400 years of North American history, before the "TV Age"; and even today, in the age where people only talk to the person next to them via text messaging, it is the only way one might find a plurality of Americans to give meaningful answers other than something they were instructed to say by some media sound byte.
So much for opinion polls; but so much, also, for people like President Obama, whose depth of conviction on any matter seems to be as shallow as the questions asked on those polls. Obama has picked his milleu, and not risen above it; and he is now mired down in it.
Is he comfy?
Poll: Obama's approval on economy unchanged
By Mario Trujillo
"President Obama’s approval rating on the economy remains at 37 percent — unchanged from last month, according to a new poll. A New York Times/CBS poll released Tuesday found another 58 percent of people disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy. The jobs report last week, which found the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 7 percent, did little to raise the president’s approval on the issue..."
-- Poll: Obama's approval on economy unchanged | TheHill
That's about the best news Obama has had for weeks, maybe months -- he's actually starting to find a bottom!
I notice that when these pollsters go about trying to take the nation's "pulse", they focus on either (1) economic matters, as though Americans were all unthinking dogs, caring only about where their next meal will come from, or (2) things people don't think much about, but have heard about in the news.
I get bored as sin with these surveys, and usually just hang up the phone when the pollsters call, because (1) I know where my next meal comes from: it comes from God, and has little or nothing to do with any government, and (2) I don't even watch the TV News, commercial programming, etc. Even if PBS were to call, a network I actually WATCH, I could only comment on about a half dozen shows my wife and I like, and tell them to can their political/social engineering BS programs altogether and just run Oregon Field Guide and British murder mysteries.
Do you know what sort of survey questions I would respond to? If they would ask me truly relevant questions about the Bible. This would have been the case throughout all of the 400 years of North American history, before the "TV Age"; and even today, in the age where people only talk to the person next to them via text messaging, it is the only way one might find a plurality of Americans to give meaningful answers other than something they were instructed to say by some media sound byte.
So much for opinion polls; but so much, also, for people like President Obama, whose depth of conviction on any matter seems to be as shallow as the questions asked on those polls. Obama has picked his milleu, and not risen above it; and he is now mired down in it.
Is he comfy?
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BlandOatmeal
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Time out for a selfie
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oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I think you got this wrong.....
His speech at Nelson Mandela's memorial (a couple of days ago) was the most popular of all, and, as usual, impressed most of the world.
Most Brits that I talk with think he's one of the best Presidents you've ever had. You'll be sad when he's no longer the President. Well, maybe not you, eh?
Which Presidents do you think of as having been more worthy than President Obama?
Obama is the master of creating the positive image.Most Brits that I talk with think he's one of the best Presidents you've ever had. You'll be sad when he's no longer the President. Well, maybe not you, eh?
But this is all the Limeys see.
They don't have to try to sign up for Obamacare or pay the taxes.
Reagan, Clinton & Kennedy
But Obama has some positive qualities:
- He doesn't run around on the mrs.
- We're not invading Iran or Syria.
- He's a hottie (not my type though).
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freethinker44
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I have no problem with Clinton or Kennedy, even though I don't see what Kennedy did that was so great aside from being assassinated, but I've always seen Reagan as the beginning of all of our troubles today. His "trickle down" economics plan was a joke that increased wealth disparity and poverty, he opened the door for the ultra conservative, extremist christians to take over government, and what did he do for foreign relations? The Iran Contra? I honestly don't understand why people don't think he was a terrible president.
BlandOatmeal
Active Member
I'd say 43 of our 44 Presidents were more worthy of the office than B.O. You Brits may have him, if you want him.I think you got this wrong.....
His speech at Nelson Mandela's memorial (a couple of days ago) was the most popular of all, and, as usual, impressed most of the world.
Most Brits that I talk with think he's one of the best Presidents you've ever had. You'll be sad when he's no longer the President. Well, maybe not you, eh?
Which Presidents do you think of as having been more worthy than President Obama?
Did you know that millions of Americans are related to Sir Winston Churchill (including me)? His mother was an American, with roots in New England that many of us share. Needless to say, I would rather have the British Bulldog as Pres than what we have now; but God put cigar-puss in a good place where he served well.
I'm also related to B.O., by the way, and to about 2 dozen Presidents, as are many more Americans. He simply is very poorly qualified for the job, and lacks core American values. That's just an aside, though. Please take him. The Brazilians want him too, so you'd better move quickly!
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BlandOatmeal
Active Member
He doesn't? I don't know.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
What can I say but people are easily impressed. I found his speech to be vomit inducing. I really can't stand the man's oration with its quirky emphasis at the end of every other line. He has all the passion of a bowl of corn flakes. In your terms, the man has no bottom, as it were.
Then again, you folks elected David Cameron, so it's not like Brits are terribly up on this kind of thing.
Just sayin'.Trust me when I say I won't be shedding any tears. On a happy note he may be giving us an unexpected gift though liberals are a bit slow to understand the gravity of his failure and inherent incompetence. But hey, he gives good speech.
Virtually any of them.
BlandOatmeal
Active Member
Obama disapproval rating hits new high. What's driving poll numbers?
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found that 54 percent of respondents did not approve of the job President Obama is doing, and Quinnipiac found 57 percent disapproval.
By Peter Grier, Staff writer / December 11, 2013 ...
-- Obama disapproval rating hits new high. What's driving poll numbers? - CSMonitor.com
Highest disapproval ratings of past Presidents:
GW Bush 71 (Oct. 2008)
Harry Truman 67 (Jan 1952)
Richard Nixon 66 (Aug 1974)
GHW Bush 60 (July 1992)
Jimmy Carter 59 (June 1979)
Ronald Reagan 56 (Jan. 1983)
Barack Obama 55 (Aug. 2011)
Bill Clinton 54 (Sep. 1994)
LB Johnson 52 (Mar. & Aug. 1968)
Gerald Ford 46 (Apr. 1975)
FD Roosevelt 46 (May, Nov 1938)
Dwight Eisenhower 36 (Mar. 1958)
JF Kennedy 30 (Sep., Nov. 1963)
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating
I don't think B.O. deserves to be on the same list with the above, or with any other US President; but that's beside the point. Maybe we can make him President of some other country. I think God gave him to us, like He gave the frogs and locusts to the Egyptians. God knows what He's doing -- and I actually expect that our worst President is yet to come! God, help us!
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found that 54 percent of respondents did not approve of the job President Obama is doing, and Quinnipiac found 57 percent disapproval.
By Peter Grier, Staff writer / December 11, 2013 ...
-- Obama disapproval rating hits new high. What's driving poll numbers? - CSMonitor.com
Highest disapproval ratings of past Presidents:
GW Bush 71 (Oct. 2008)
Harry Truman 67 (Jan 1952)
Richard Nixon 66 (Aug 1974)
GHW Bush 60 (July 1992)
Jimmy Carter 59 (June 1979)
Ronald Reagan 56 (Jan. 1983)
Barack Obama 55 (Aug. 2011)
Bill Clinton 54 (Sep. 1994)
LB Johnson 52 (Mar. & Aug. 1968)
Gerald Ford 46 (Apr. 1975)
FD Roosevelt 46 (May, Nov 1938)
Dwight Eisenhower 36 (Mar. 1958)
JF Kennedy 30 (Sep., Nov. 1963)
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating
I don't think B.O. deserves to be on the same list with the above, or with any other US President; but that's beside the point. Maybe we can make him President of some other country. I think God gave him to us, like He gave the frogs and locusts to the Egyptians. God knows what He's doing -- and I actually expect that our worst President is yet to come! God, help us!
My favorites on the list, by the way, were Harry S. Truman and Lyndon Baines Johnson -- both Democrats and, ironically the closest blood relatives of Obama from among the Presidents.
Johnson was honestly vexed at not being able to end the Vietnam War, a war he inherited from his predecessor Kennedy. By having his hands tied in Vietnam, moreover, he was forced to let the Israelis defend themselves in 1967; and they knocked the Arabs' socks off. When he saw that he had failed to prevent the US from becoming deeply divided, he honorably refused to run again.
Truman inherited WWII from Roosevelt, and made the tough decision about dropping the atom bomb. He also successfully rescued the S. Koreans from invasion, getting little thanks from a war-weary American public. He, more than any other world leader, was responsible for the creation of the State of Israel, despite continual attempts by others to persuade him this way or that. In the end, he decided to let the others all go to hell and to do what he felt was right.
Those were men of guts and conviction, and the fear of God; and I admire them for it.
Johnson was honestly vexed at not being able to end the Vietnam War, a war he inherited from his predecessor Kennedy. By having his hands tied in Vietnam, moreover, he was forced to let the Israelis defend themselves in 1967; and they knocked the Arabs' socks off. When he saw that he had failed to prevent the US from becoming deeply divided, he honorably refused to run again.
Truman inherited WWII from Roosevelt, and made the tough decision about dropping the atom bomb. He also successfully rescued the S. Koreans from invasion, getting little thanks from a war-weary American public. He, more than any other world leader, was responsible for the creation of the State of Israel, despite continual attempts by others to persuade him this way or that. In the end, he decided to let the others all go to hell and to do what he felt was right.
Those were men of guts and conviction, and the fear of God; and I admire them for it.
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