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Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« on: September 27, 2014, 02:01:04 PM »
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Obama loses the left: Why his low approval rating may be here to stay

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Obama loses the left: Why his low approval rating may be here to stay
   
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Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama (Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Yuri Gripas/photo montage by Salon)

Except for the brief interregnum that separated the Republican Party’s George W. Bush era from its current Tea Party incarnation, President Obama has never enjoyed the kind of high approval ratings that used to accompany most two-term presidents. Whether it’s due to his race, our growing ideological polarization, the poor economy, or a combination of all of the above, Obama’s rarely known what it feels like to be a president of whom more than half of Americans approve. According to the Huffington Post, it only took until the tenth month of his first year before his number dipped below 50 percent.

Fighting as he is now to keep his approval rating north of 40 percent, November 2009 probably looks to Obama like the good old days. And mindful, perhaps, of how he’s previously looked on the verge of irrevocably losing the people’s faith, only to bounce back to his usual place in the mid- to high 40s, Obama may also believe that this current spate of bad polling will eventually pass. Anything’s possible; the economy could start booming. Unemployment could drop. Wages could rise. Obama could recover.

But I’m starting to think this time may be different, and that when it comes to Obama’s relationship with millions of former supporters, there’s no going back.

What’s got me thinking this way is a raft of new polls showing not only that the president is unpopular, but that he’s becoming increasingly so in the very places, and among the very people, he could usually count on for support. A release from Field Poll earlier this month, for example, found the president to have only a 45 percent approval rating in über-blue California. Most strikingly, the pollster reported that California Dems’ support for Obama dropped 8 percent during just this summer and was down 11 percent in Los Angeles alone.


The Kodak Kid Kicks things off with the Saloon article and then the sleigh ride begins.  My favorite comment is below but there are lots more at the link if you have the stomach for a 'DUmp run. :)

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45. The excuses are endless.
 
It's "the pony left," it's because he's Black, it's the right wing, it's everything except the fact that he represents the 1%. His policies reek of it. The Banksters were let off scott free, he's pushing a SECRET TPP deal, he loves fracking, he's PROSECUTED whistleblowers instead of protecting them, he's prosecuted more people for pot than Bush ever thought of, he's marched us into a war with Syria for no other reason than for oil, he's good with ANWAR, he loves the XL pipeline, . . . every time, EVERY TIME he's had a chance to stand up for the poor and middle class he runs to the right. And the "geniuses" on this board have all determined that it's because the Left wants a pony. Either the stupid is strong with them or they're gravely delusional. Personally, I don't care which it is but it ends up hurting the entire nation. And now we're going to do it all over again with Hillary.

I'm a leftist and I'll vote for lefties when and where I can and calls for party unity will go unheard -- as the left has gone unheard by the current incarnation of the "Democratic" Party. 


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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2014, 02:08:30 PM »
All in all, losing the left is a good thing for any president.

Of course these are the same dolts who would vote for him all over again even knowing what they know now.

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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2014, 05:53:34 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on September 27, 2014, 02:08:30 PM
All in all, losing the left is a good thing for any president.

Of course these are the same dolts who would vote for him all over again even knowing what they know now.

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Ain't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? :whistling:
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2014, 06:27:09 PM »
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According to the Huffington Post, it only took until the tenth month of his first year before his number dipped below 50 percent.

Huh.

We went from zero to raycissss in ten months.  So, what were we before, (D)Marxists?

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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2014, 06:28:05 PM »
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Of course these are the same dolts who would vote for him all over again even knowing what they know now.

Course they would....

Quote from: BlueStateSaint on September 27, 2014, 05:53:34 PM
Ain't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? :whistling:

Course they are.....
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2014, 07:05:41 PM »
They voted for Obama.

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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2014, 07:32:45 PM »
The lunatic (now the base) left is still waiting for that day when it is announced a million dollar check is in the mail to them.
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2014, 08:41:15 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on September 27, 2014, 05:53:34 PM
Ain't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? :whistling:

just like voting for the two Rinos in the past two presidential elections...
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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2014, 09:49:44 PM »
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Anything’s possible; the economy could start booming. Unemployment could drop. Wages could rise. Obama could recover.
  Odds are good that if the first 3 happened, the last would also.  Of course, as the first three can't happen until O pulls his head out, he just isn't going to recover. 

What strikes me as hilarious is that the only things O has done reasonably well are those things in which he followed Bush's original plan.  In every area he's gone with his own plans, he's fallen on his face.  It would be sorta fun to watch...if we weren't the ones paying for all his failures.
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2014, 12:06:12 AM »
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...President Obama has never enjoyed the kind of high approval ratings that used to accompany most two-term presidents. Whether it’s due to his race, our growing ideological polarization, the poor economy, or a combination of all of the above, Obama’s rarely known what it feels like to be a president of whom more than half of Americans approve...

The author left out 'Demonstrated incompetence, dictatorial tendencies, and pomposity.'
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2014, 06:46:54 PM »
DUmmies have been burning the midnight hash oil on this one. 

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86. the tragedy of Obama is this:
 
He has, by taking the low road to elusive consensus or the lower road to serving the 1% and the MIC, nullified many Democratic issues that have traditionally helped to win elections.

Much of the proud and righteous Democratic defense of the working class, of our earth, of peace, of equality, of fairness, of justice has been lost now. Because Obama listened to advisors who were not on the side of those principles.

He is either weak, a chameleon, or corrupted somehow.

And I voted for him many times. And I wanted him to succeed, badly. And I am a Democrat to the core.

The damage to the Democratic Party by his capitulation to moneyed interests is incalculable.
 

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Wanted him to succeed badly?  Pardon me but that is how I have judged his performance BAD. Now as for the 'voted for him many times' well isn't that just the Democrat way?  One man many votes.  Yup sounds about like the Democrat plan to me.
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2014, 07:18:18 PM »
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He is either weak, a chameleon, or corrupted somehow.

And I voted for him many times.
Does this befuddled old heifer live in BO's old district?
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2014, 09:19:01 PM »
Around here it's called "freudenschade".
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2014, 10:19:21 AM »
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45. The excuses are endless....
 
..... The Banksters were let off scott free, ... . .

All the DUmmies are taking extra bong hits to celebrate their wonderful Lizzy Warren and her tough words against Goldman-Sachs.
But this whole thing reminds me of Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman and the MF Global scandal, in which Corzine got off "scott free".
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« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2014, 11:28:13 AM »
Quote from: fatboy on September 29, 2014, 10:19:21 AM
All the DUmmies are taking extra bong hits to celebrate their wonderful Lizzy Warren and her tough words against Goldman-Sachs.
But this whole thing reminds me of Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman and the MF Global scandal, in which Corzine got off "scott free".

How about the Whitewater windfall, or the Hildebeast's amazing brilliance in cattle futures.
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« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2014, 12:06:17 PM »
I guess the idiots finally figured out they are not getting that skittle sh***ing unicorn for Christmas after all.
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« Reply #16 on: September 29, 2014, 12:44:28 PM »
Quote from: hillneck on September 29, 2014, 12:06:17 PM
I guess the idiots finally figured out they are not getting that skittle sh***ing unicorn for Christmas after all.

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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2014, 01:48:08 PM »
I'm glad they are seeing what we have been seeing from before he was elected but I do expect an apology for being called a racist just because I didn't agree with his policies. :rant:
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2014, 02:23:24 PM »
Quote from: Gina on September 29, 2014, 01:48:08 PM
I'm glad they are seeing what we have been seeing from before he was elected but I do expect an apology for being called a racist just because I didn't agree with his policies. :rant:

Don't hold your breath. :whistling:
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2014, 02:44:59 PM »
Quote from: Gina on September 29, 2014, 01:48:08 PM
I'm glad they are seeing what we have been seeing from before he was elected...

That's not really what's going on, they're unhappy with him because he hasn't been radically-Leftist enough for them.
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2014, 02:46:25 PM »
Doesn't matter what anyone thinks of him. He's even fine with ****ing over his own party. He's simply hell bent on doing what he wants.

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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2014, 03:08:19 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 29, 2014, 02:44:59 PM
That's not really what's going on, they're unhappy with him because he hasn't been radically-Leftist enough for them.

EXACTLY DAT .  Most of them are still out on the manure pile daily, digging away, hoping to find that pony underneath.   It is all the fault of the VRWC, NEOCONS, (aka the Joows ), Poppy Bush, Shrub, Reagan, Nixon, the Value Voter, Right Wing Fundies, Reindeer, Santa, anyone but the Big "O".  And none of them are clever enough to figure out why he had his records sealed.  < Hint: It was not because he was a brilliant scholar. >  And more's the pity.
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2014, 01:44:49 PM »
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45. The excuses are endless....
 
..... The Banksters were let off scott free, ... . .
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Re: Scha~den~freude Ohh Oh!
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2014, 01:57:41 PM »
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The Banksters were let off scott free
They should get a round of applause.

They broke no laws, and they made a hell of a lot of money for a hell of a lot of people.

It's hard to understand the DUmp rage.

They were deadbeats before 2008, and they're still deadbeats.

And the welfare handouts they receive are fatter now than ever before.

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