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New Poll Results: More Than Half Of Americans Disapprove Of Obama’s Job Performance

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A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released today reveals that more than half of Americans surveyed now disapprove of the job performance of President Obama. Roughly six out of ten have a negative view on the White House efforts to help the economy and create jobs. The only possible solace that the administration can take from this poll is that those polled still blame the GOP more than the President.

Writing for the ABC News blog Julie E. Phelan, and Gary Langer report:

Those results and others underscore the depths of this summer of economic discontent. With unemployment stubbornly over 9 percent, 77 percent say the country is headed seriously off on the wrong track, up 17 points this year to the most since the end of George W. Bush’s presidency.

In a further sign of the deep hazards to Obama, Americans by a 2-1 margin, 34 percent to 17 percent, now say his administration’s efforts have done more to harm rather than help the nation’s economy. The number who say his economic program has improved the economy has plummeted by half since January. And 47 percent say it’s had no effect.

Obama has scheduled a major address on the employment situation Thursday evening before a joint session of Congress. He’ll face a tough public audience: In this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, a record 62 percent disapprove of his work on the economy, as many disapprove of his work on job creation specifically, and by 50-45 percent slightly more describe themselves as pessimistic rather than optimistic about employment in the year ahead.

Watch Jake Tapper‘s report on Good Morning America below, courtesy of ABC News:

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  • Anonymous

    President Obama is better qualified then the seven dwarfs running against him. Queen Tears and the Confrontational TEA party have corrupted the GOP!

  • Anonymous

    President Obama is better qualified then the seven dwarfs running against him. Queen Tears and the Confrontational TEA party have corrupted the GOP!

  • Ajolily

    I find it interesting that when interpreting the polls journalist keep suggesting that the questions about approval / disapproval of Congress denotes public upset with republicans. Congress is made up of the house and the senate and the disapproval of the public with congress is that they do not produce anything helpful either. This means for me that even though I like what the house is trying to do I still answer that I do not approve of congress. When a poll is taken that ask how you feel about the house and how you feel about the senate then it would be an indicator of how the public feels about the job being done in Washington by Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    And still they prefer him over Romney and Perry.

  • Anonymous

    Results matter… or do they just matter when the Presidents last name is Bush? Obama ran knowing the economy, sub-prime market, job rates, etc, and said… I can fix it. He has failed. He focused on his Great Society project of universal health care instead of making the buses run on time. And now we are living the consequences. I am no Hillary fan, but she would have done a better job and the country would have been better off. As of this moment Obama’s prsidence is a complete failure for the American people.

  • gordonbloyershow

    Obama will lose 40 states. He could win the other 17.

  • ROTFLMAO

    Is that all???
    I can’t believe that many people are NOT paying ATTENTION !!

  • Norbit

    50-50.

    And I think Tea Party approval may inch even lower than that!!

    LMAO!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc&feature=related TOTUS-Click Obama sans TOTUS

    Nice article you wrote on DailyKOS……too bad your sockpuppets are such idiots elsewhere on the web.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/04/1013415/-70-Years-of-Tea-Party-Obstructionism?via=search

  • Norbit

    It’s still early, but the question starting to appear is “how much of the Democratic Party will he take down with him?”

    Now we finally know what the meaning of all that hope & change was about!
    heh-heh-heh

  • Anonymous

    No one EVER asks MY opinion and I’m 68 years old. My question: WHO does get asked their opinions?

  • Anonymous

    A quick check at Gallup shows he hit 51% disapproval in August 2010.  Nothing new here.

  • Anonymous

    A quick check at Gallup shows he hit 51% disapproval in August 2010.  Nothing new here.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t matter who gets the blame for the state of the economy in 2008. It’s 2011 and we have a president who said he would turn it around in 3 years.  President Obama, Feb., 2009: “A year from now, I think people are going to see that we’re starting to
    make some progress. If I don’t have this done in three years, then
    there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
    He also promise to cut the deficit in half, have the most transparent administration in history, be bipartisan, etc. He lied about all of those things and more. The American people who got fooled are now waking up to this reality. Nearly everyone I know who voted for him now regrets it and can’t wait to vote him out in 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Obama leading ” real ” Americans and libs down the wrong track is at a staggering 74%. 

    You left wing zealots just keep on clinging to you dashboard messiah ( Obama ) bobblehead with both hands. 

    It won’t be long now till the brick wall or a cliff puts you out of your misery……..unless?

  • Obeezy

    The question is. What the hell are the other 49% looking at? Maybe they are the criminals and welfare states that make up the Dem party. They, of course, would love the way he is performing his job. Since they get paid to stay home…

  • Anonymous

    All politions lie when they campaigning.  He is no different than the new ones running today. 

  • Anonymous

    Government recipients.  All the Democrats need are 51% of the voting block addicted to government handouts and they win. They don’t push the handouts because of their big hearts they push them because of their lust for power.

  • Anonymous

    It’s just too bad a president can’t play the ‘retire to spend more time with his family excuse’ and just choose to be a one-term president.   Truly is his only hope to avoid a Mondale-style loss in 2012.   

    Anyone  non-liberal saw this complete poll meltdown coming a mile away.  It’s too late, but The Obama WH needs to truly work with bi-partisan republicans on a grand compromise right now and hope the repub nominee has a Howard Dean meltdown.   

  • Anonymous

    I would like ONE person, just one, to tell me that McCain would have done a better job with this mess.  Explain in detail what he may have done different.  If you can convince me how a Republican can do better I will vote for him/her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000981006695 Wayne Black

    We’re better off with Obama on a very bad day than any Rethug on a good day!!!!

  • SammyC

    Yeah that would be 25% of Americans who hate black people and 25% of those who would never approve of a Democrat anyway.

  • Anonymous

    What jobs performance? Rhetoric cannot be measured as performance.

  • Anonymous

    But…but…but…we elected Obama with promises of rainbows and unicorns. Remember we weren’t going to have to worry about paying our mortgage or putting gas in our cars? We were going to get Obamamoney from his stash. The world was going to love us and the oceans were going to stop rising. Everything was supposed to be Bush’s fault damn it!!!! I want to know who exactly did not get the memo that paradise was supposed to be queued at his inauguration.

  • How Sad

    There we go if you disapprove with this Presidents job performance your a racist. Libs have nothing left how sad.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    absolutely right, results matter and i expected much more from obama.  he should have delivered this jobs speech last year when he extended the tax breaks for the americans hurt most by failed economy.  

    he should have made this jobs speech when he realized the american recovery and reinvestment act funds that, according to the cbo, has increased the number of people employed by 1.4 and 3.6 million was not large enough.last month’s job report was disappointing, to say the least, but you can’t deny we were losing upwards of 800,000 jobs a month when he took control of this economy, and by the end of last year obama had overseen the creation of more jobs than bush did in his entire 8 years of his administration.http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/08/its-official-more-private-sector-jobs-created-in-2010-than-during-entire-bush-years/he had also overseen the completion of the troubled asset relief program and recovered all the funds and, according to the cbo, has made a profit.  http://247wallst.com/2011/03/31/tarp-might-make-money/those two reasons alone should merit his inclusion of a jobs bill even if it is a year or two too late.  anything to assist the real americans whose jobs were lost during the george bush economic disaster…i just wish he had done this a long time ago.

  • Anonymous

    The false comparisons are their version of being clever and smart while causing a diversion.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Depends on the nominee. If it is Tollbooth Perry, Obama wins Texas.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    even if i am disappointed with obama over his weak economic policy, i know that if he presents a jobs bill that is successful it will be good for the country and i will be behind it 100%.  
    even when bush went into iraq i didn’t agree with him but i never wished him to fail because it would have been terrible for our country.

  • Anonymous

    Like I always say: “Any rationalization in a storm”.
    So, Obama’s spectacular “achievements” don’t deserve such low ratings. Is that right?

  • Anonymous

    We agree…….

  • Anonymous

    When you consider how many Americans are putting their lack of character out there on display in order to support Obama, it is very troubling.

  • Anonymous

    Please do tell what makes Oblamer “better qualified”!!

    What has the immature, incompetent community organizer accomplished that makes him qualified to run anything?
    Advancing his career on skin color is not an accomplishment!

  • Anonymous

    I’ll take that bet. Texas may not love Perry (nor do I) but remember… he would be running against Obama.

  • TruDat

    The other half not only disapprove, they dispise the guy.

  • TruDat

    It’s what happens when you vote for a bumper sticker.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    cheers

  • Anonymous

    he certainly couldn’t have done any worse

  • Anonymous

    So, if ABC/WaPo poll says 6 of 10 have a negative view of the president’s job performance, you can bet the actually number is closer to 7 in 10.  Or higher

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    why does it always come down to race with you guys?

  • Chucker

    Saying “the other guy wouldn’t have done any better” is a false premise, and an avoidance of the fact that this president was the most unqualified of the four major candidates (Biden and Palin with McCain) to hold the office which he now occupies.  I speak for myself as a conservative when I tell you that McCain was never my candidate, but my options were hijacked early in the primaries.  I think the nation needs to move to a single primary date, or perhaps two days simultaneous with no results released until all polls are closed.  Under such a system, I think you might have seen Hillary Clinton running against Mike Huckabee.

    Regardless, the article is about Obama and his failure as president, not a hypothetical about McCain.

  • Anonymous

    Because it is a fact…he didn’t get into Harvard because he was smart!!

  • Anonymous

    How is a president that got elected with a resume as a community organizer with just about the only experience is a  talent of reading teleprompters get the democrat party to stand behind him and not someone like Hillary?
    He is drowning now and his only response is still to blame Bush and everyone else! 

  • Anonymous

    Well Hell, I guess he’s excused then.

  • Anonymous

    I am sure that out the 50%, there at least some Black voters that hate White people.  What say you?

  • Anonymous

    Well for starters McCain was mocked for suspending his presidential campaign – you know putting country before party, to address the economic crisis while Obama and the media mocked him mercilessly. When Obama was forced to show up at the table he offered nothing- still does. However when he took office suddenly we are in “the greatest recession since the depression” his mockery of everything and anyone who does not believe in him or respect him is petty. 

    Obamacare would never have torn this country apart, because it would never have been the focus of the first 2 years of McCain’s presidency- the economy and jobs would have been. Would the car dealers who didn’t vote for a Obama have lost their dealerships/jobs – no.  Would Barney Frank still be in charge of housing oversight & Fannie/Freddie- hell no. Would we be legislated by Czar’s unaccounted for by congress- no. Would terrorists be called ‘man-made disasters’ and the Ft. Hood massacre be describes as anything less than terrorism- no. Would American’s have been embarrassed by his posturing to foreign leaders who typically regard America with scorn or treating our nation’s friends shamefully.

    There would have never arisen a Tea Party as a backlash to Obama’s penchant to “tax without representation” policies.

    But then all that is speculation right? 

  • Texan

    The 16%ers are whistling past this thread. ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    I don’t believe anybody wants President Obama to fail. If he fails America suffers. I want him to do what is best for the country. But what is best? His instincts lead him to believe that long-since debunked policies which inevitably lead to ruin will somehow, magically work this time because HE is at the helm. The first stimulus proved that government payoffs do not create jobs. It has actually had the opposite effect. Sanity dictates that a larger stimulus would have had the same effect as the “too small” (if nearly a trillion dollars can be considered too small) one he passed – but on a larger scale – 15% reported and 25% real unemployment, perhaps. If all he offers tomorrow is more of the same, he is essentially finished as a leader.

  • Anonymous

    I have an ACNeilson electronic thing in my house and get frequent polling calls. I never really know who is polling but answer honestly any question asked.  They seem to like that as they call back and ask more questions.

  • Anonymous

    I have an ACNeilson electronic thing in my house and get frequent polling calls. I never really know who is polling but answer honestly any question asked.  They seem to like that as they call back and ask more questions.

  • Anonymous

    Accepting attitudes like yours are why we keep getting screwed over, year after year after year. If we would just have the fortitude to hold the lying bastards accountable and vote them out when they fail, we would all be better off. If they aren’t who they say they are and don’t do what they “promised”, be rid of them.
    I don’t know about you, but if lies were ok, I’d still be with my first wife. She was great at screwing but totally lacking in ethics and integrity. Guess you would have thought her a great politician.

  • Anonymous

    Obama will get another job easily . Mr. Trumka will get him some no-show work back in Chicago or he may want to try out as a panelist on The View .

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get the image posted with this article? Is it suppose to portray a ‘humble’ Obama, a ‘praying’ Obama? What? Put one up of a man who looks very happy and satisfied with his own self, he is exceedingly proud of his record his efforts as president.

     Why make him appear pensive and thoughtful- that would be sending the wrong message.

  • Anonymous

    Would that be the same 51% that pay no federal income taxes?
    I don’t think that Obama will be able to hold on to all of those people either.
    A percentage of them will be found to have ethics as well.

  • Anonymous

    What troubling is that Obama’s lack of character actually helped get him to the WH.

  • Anonymous

    Man! that was disturbing. Joelgp is way out there on the fringes of reality. If you didn’t know any better, you’d almost think it was plausible from the way it was written. Just enough sprinkle of fact to make it believable.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    To quote the former Republican Vice-President (Dick Cheney)… “F*ck the Polls!!”

  • Anonymous

    What you say is so true. I know of two individuals that flew to other states to participate in caucuses and brag about voting in primary elections in other states. Listening to these two, I am convinced that there is a concerted effort among some “progressives” to tinker with Republican primaries.

  • Anonymous

    That is indeed scary.

  • L_Salazar

    The President is clueless.  He is in over his head, his advisors are in over their head.  Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi acted like kids in a candy store when they got Obama Care passed.
     
    Seriously, they are the dumbest bunch of self anointed intellectuals I have ever known.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    I don’t think a Mondale (or McGovern) style defeat will ever happen again. Obama will win the west coast, parts of the north east, MI and IL. Too many true believers there. There are a few states he would normally be able to rely upon which will be in play – MN and WI, for example. But, with the massive swing toward Republicans in a census year and redistricting, he has a massive uphill battle to reach 270 electoral votes this time around. At this point, I don’t see him hitting 200.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2012.svg

  • Anonymous

    Indeed!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    the american recovery and reinvestment act has, according to the congressional budget office, Increased the number of full-time-equivalent jobs by 2.0 million to 5.2 million compared with what would have occurred otherwise (see Table 1). (Increases in FTE jobs include shifts from part-time to full-time work or overtime and are thus generally larger than increases in the number of employed workers).
    http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/119xx/doc11975/11-24-ARRA.pdf

    and it had stimulated the economy 3.5%.http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/23/usa-economy-stimulus-idUSN2311303720100223

    you can actually see on the chart of jobs that shows the jobs lost during the end of bush to the first year and a half under obama and his stimulus http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/08/its-official-more-private-sector-jobs-created-in-2010-than-during-entire-bush-years/

    how it turned around to actually gaining jobs instead of losing them and now that the stimulus is running out, the unemployment is going up.
    so you are wrong in saying the stimulus had the opposite effect of creating jobs.  we were losing up to 800,000 jobs a month when bush left office and before the stimulus was passed.  in fact, the whole bush administration was terrible with job creation. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    This is essentially the same premise as the “it would have been worse” meme we get to listen to every time this administration claims the stimulus worked. Sure, it was supposed to create millions of jobs and keep unemployment under 8% – so it’s a failure by every metric used to sell it to us – but the soothsayers in the west wing know it would have been an even bigger disaster had we not spent nearly a trillion dollars we didn’t have on thinly-veiled payouts to Democratic interests. If they are so sure of this alternate reality, why are they not able to look into the future and see the results of other policy proposals and only choose those which will be most effective? Absurdity reigns supreme.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    you use the word ‘fact’.  i do not think that word means what you think it means.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    If 25% are racist and 25% would never vote for a Democrat, how did Obama get nearly 53% of the popular vote? Are you claiming he stole the election?

  • Anonymous

    Really? President Obama graduated Magna cum laude and became Harvard Law Review’s first black president , Really? Not smart? Really? Please give me a break!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    I agree. I think the Bradley effect is in play here. There are a slew of uninformed voters in the mushy middle who voted for Obama because they felt like it was time we had a black president and they liked what that vote said about them. It was a statement of narcissism. These people, out of white guilt, will never admit that they don’t like his petulance or the job he’s doing. But, if they can be bothered to vote at all, when the curtain closes on the ballot box next year, they will not check the Obama box. 

  • Anonymous

    Why will Obama win again? The answers.1) No Democratic challege .2) He is running as Incumbent 3) No third left leaning third party challange.Which I believe Sarah Palin will do. Run Sarah Run !

  • DietCokeHead

    Riiiiiiight. Uh huh.

  • Anonymous

    The Republian party will divide!

  • Anonymous

    I love the princess bride!!!

  • Anonymous

    Where did Bush graduate from???

  • DietCokeHead

    You do understand that Harvard, and all the other Ivy League schools provide spots open to students of minority status based on nothing but that, right?

    Are you purposely obtuse or are you as ignorant as it would appear?

  • DietCokeHead

    Ok,  you’re beyond stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Polls mean Absolutely nothing 14 months before any elections.Look at history!

  • DietCokeHead

    How sad is it that after only 3 years of this affirmative action failure, your only hope is that Palin will run as a 3rd party candidate?

    That son, is pathetic.

  • DietCokeHead

    Did you request to have one of those things in your house?

  • richs

    Texas reelected Governor Perry three times and, the the real racist king, thinks that is a sign that Texas doesn’t like Governor Perry.

  • DietCokeHead

    Can I have her number?

  • Anonymous

    George W. bush graduated Yale in 1968 with a 2.35 GPA. His rank is not listed online.He did not  graduate Magna cum laude. He was not actually a very stellar student. Very average..  

  • Anonymous

    George W. bush graduated Yale in 1968 with a 2.35 GPA. His rank is not listed online.He did not  graduate Magna cum laude. He was not actually a very stellar student. Very average..  

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, mark halperin – you set the GOLD STANDARD for the best description of “YOU LIE!” obozo that anybody could ever come up with (“he’s a DI*K”). In Jan 2013, when America celebrates the inauguration of our new president, we’ll all think back to the moment halperin blurted out his word (on the “YOU LIE!” hussein regime’s wholly owned network,  M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) no less!) as the seminal event that guaranteed ONE TERM for the obozo.

  • Anonymous

    There are actually people who think he is doing a good job? Seriously? God bless this Country from the idiots that vote skin color, ability to read a teleprompter and for nice smiles over substance and qualification!

  • Yukon Jack

    Would Justin Beiber be able to fill the shoes of Luciano Pavarotti?

    Would Barack 0bama be able to fill the shoes of Jimmy Carter?

  • Texan

    She’s using that good ole fashioned loon logic…

  • Yukon Jack

    About 95% of 12% of the population.

    Certifiable, welfare freeloading idiots. 

  • Anonymous

    Like Haffa said…we’ve each have a vote and Obama’s days are numbered!

  • Anonymous

    That statement always prompts the next question: if he is so smart why is he so sensitive about showing his grades? or why didn’t he publish anything as the editor of The Review?  Where is all that Constitutional Law brilliance displayed in court briefs or legislation he drafted (not signed or co-sponsored), where are his students exclaiming what a profound moving, inspiring professor he was? 

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Half of Americans are racists then.

  • Anonymous

    I agree! There is plenty of time to change everything and anything before the next election. 

  • Anonymous

    Obama Is Less Popular in… California?!

    …Yeah, but that’s because he’s NOT SOCIALIST ENOUGH, he’s NOT EXTREMIST ENOUGH, he DOESN’T TAX ENOUGH and he DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINAL RELATIVES for the lunatic-leftists in the most morally, ethically, socially, politically AND fiscally bankrupt state in the world.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    well…if you put it that way you must be right.

    please dispute my links genius.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    actually, bush had one of the lowest i.q.’s among presidents in the the last 100 years and compared to clinton…

    Second, Bush’s IQ is below average relative to that subset of the U.S. citizens who also managed to work their way into the White House. In fact, his intellect falls near the bottom of the distribution. When compared with twentieth-century presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through Clinton, only Harding has a lower score (at least on three of the four estimates). A similar conclusion is suggested by the Intellectual Brilliance measure, albeit in this case there are now two twentieth-century presidents with lower scores, namely, Harding and Coolidge. Moreover, Bush’s IQ falls about 20 points–more than one standard deviation–below that of his predecessor, Clinton, a disparity that may have created a contrast effect that made any intellectual weaknesses all the more salient. Clinton’s intellectual attainments as a Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate, his demonstrated capacity for mastering impressive amounts of complex and detailed information, his verbal eloquence and fluency, and his logical adroitness and sophistication–at times, as during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, verging on sophistry–places Clinton head and shoulders above his successor in terms of intellectual power.http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/gary/iq.html

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You can say dick on here and you REALLY need to work on your acronyms.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    let’s not say palin will get any significant amount of votes cuz, let’s face it, even the tea party is not that dumb.  let’s say bloomberg enters as third party after the republicans nominate mittens.  it would be pathetic to think that wouldn’t split votes coming from the conservatives.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    and the award for most appropriate response goes to…

  • Anonymous

    No, my new, non-sleezy wife was was asked if she wanted to participate. I think she got it via her hotmail, but it could have been by phone.

  • Anonymous

    Not my only hope. Obama will win if there isn’t a third cadidate.Just a scenerio anyone can easily see if they took notice. Your party has been feeding not only on the Democrats But also on itself.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    When rush limbaugh and other conservatives say they wish Obama will fail they dont mean that America will fail.  They hope for the good of the country the version of socialism Mr Obama is trying to implement is unsuccessful.  The problem is Obama was successful in achieving his agenda and America dream is in danger because of it.   

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    why does Obama defenders hide behind Mr O’s skin color to defend his failed polices??  If you change the name from Obama to Carter there would be no difference in what we would be saying about the president. 

  • Anonymous

    DietCokeHead wrote:”Ok, you’re beyond stupid” ,,,,,,, Nice comeback.Dear sir,Insult me ! This a great civil debate were having here. Anymore  insults?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    actually if you read Obamas own words about how he became Harvard Law Review’s first black president your eyes will open up.

    Do your own research and discover the truth yourself :)

    enjoy the journey.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    what exactly is Obamas IQ?

    we cant even get his school grades they are top secret…why?

    John kerry, Bush, ALgore, McCain all released theres but obama…nope.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    bloomberg couldn’t even handle a snowstorm in NY…..if he ran today for reelection in NY he would lose in a land slide.

  • Anonymous

    Hey we can agree on something. Nice!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    The links you posted are just more soothsaying nonsense. The CBO is required to grade legislation according to the rules congress gives them – even if those rules are based on false assumptions. There’s no way to know what would have happened. We only know what has happened – after the stimulus, we ended up with the largest percentage of the American populace who is not working since the great depression.

    You can trot out any fudged numbers you want, they don’t make up for the number of people who would like to be working but can’t find a job. As you know, the 9ish% unemployment rate does not count people who have quit looking or are no longer eligible for benefits. Include them and the rate increases to about 13%. The unemployment number also does not include those who would have joined the work force for the first time but haven’t been able to find a job. The US economy needs to add over 100k jobs a month just to compensate for immigrants, teens, college grads and mothers returning to work. So, even with Obama’s alleged “positive” job growth, the number of unemployed who wish to be working has increased steadily. More taxes, more spending and more regulation will not reverse this trend. 

    Here’s a nice little analysis of the pending job speech. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904537404576552731916410772.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    The links you posted are just more soothsaying nonsense. The CBO is required to grade legislation according to the rules congress gives them – even if those rules are based on false assumptions. There’s no way to know what would have happened. We only know what has happened – after the stimulus, we ended up with the largest percentage of the American populace who is not working since the great depression.

    You can trot out any fudged numbers you want, they don’t make up for the number of people who would like to be working but can’t find a job. As you know, the 9ish% unemployment rate does not count people who have quit looking or are no longer eligible for benefits. Include them and the rate increases to about 13%. The unemployment number also does not include those who would have joined the work force for the first time but haven’t been able to find a job. The US economy needs to add over 100k jobs a month just to compensate for immigrants, teens, college grads and mothers returning to work. So, even with Obama’s alleged “positive” job growth, the number of unemployed who wish to be working has increased steadily. More taxes, more spending and more regulation will not reverse this trend. 

    Here’s a nice little analysis of the pending job speech. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904537404576552731916410772.html

  • Anonymous

    Elaborate please.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    Here’s a debunking of the jobs chart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJPivGcDj8

  • Anonymous

    What a class act!

  • Anonymous

    ROLFL

  • Anonymous

    God bless the world. Dear sir.

  • Bob Uda

    He is not a leader–just an empty suit and a Chicago political hack.  Vote him out in 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    If IQ is all that matters to you, you should elect me. My IQ is more than 2 standard deviations above Obama’s claimed IQ and about one above Biden’s.

  • BADDOG$&

    Hoffa, you can come up miss just like your kin did!

  • Anonymous

    Everyone has racial animosity. Some more than others. The question really is can you control it?

  • baddog$&

    You have it backwards jackass! OBAMA IS A COMMIE SON_OF _A_ BITCH AND YOU VOTED FOR HIM? YOU ARE THE IDIOT AND EVERYONE ELSE THAT FOLOWS THIS MUSLIM S.O.B. ! You are a comunist yourself! OBAMA,He still Can’t prove he was born in the USA! ALL you want is !  ASSHOLE!

  • BADDOG$&

    YOU JUST WANT THE FRE BEE”S FROM  THE GOVERMENT AND AS LONG AS HE GIVES YOU YOUR CHECK AND FOOD STAMPS, THEN YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THIS F–KED UP IDIOT JUST LIKE YOU< BRAINWASH ! THAT IS WHAT THEY DO BEST< BRAIN WASH THE THE DUMB BUTT!  

  • BADDOG$&

    YOU JUST WANT THE FRE BEE”S FROM  THE GOVERMENT AND AS LONG AS HE GIVES YOU YOUR CHECK AND FOOD STAMPS, THEN YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THIS F–KED UP IDIOT JUST LIKE YOU< BRAINWASH ! THAT IS WHAT THEY DO BEST< BRAIN WASH THE THE DUMB BUTT!  

  • baddog$&

    I’ Not Against him cause he is Black, Friends of mine are Black, But he is a COMMUNIST MUSLIM and a Son- of- a- bitch! SO IS JAMES HOFFA,  YOU-LIBER-COMMIE IF HPFFA WANT WAR < LETS GET IT ON JACKASS!

  • Anonymous

    Look, a lot of people are unhappy with the President’s performance. Whether they’re willing to replace him with one of the lunatics, fanatics, or imbeciles running against him is another story. This ain’t over.

  • baddog$&

    THAT IS THE ONLY WAY HE COULD GET IN OFFICE! CAUSE WE HAVE DUMB ASSES LIK<E YOU THAT THOUGHT THEIR RENT AND GAS AND FOOD BILL WOUL BE FREE! YOU got it OK! Foodstamps, welfare check, and you can pay for all of you bills, but you need more! He forgot to include your drug habit ! He is a PIMP! COMMUNIST RAT MUSLIM! 

  • baddog$&

    THE  only reason you are blue is that you didn’t get enough foodstamps and a fat check each month! He is going to say the same damed thing he has said before and he only wants the jobs for his UNION THUGS and voters! James Hoffa better shut his mouth or someone might shut it for him! He might get lost like his KIN DID! If you have any! ANY brain,vote this OBAMA SON-OF-A- BITCH out of our White house, and stop the AFRICAN QUEEN  to plant her own garden on her own ground and quit telling us what we can eat and can’t give our children! GET THE DICTATOR OUT OF OUR LIFES! 

  • Nature Freak

    Nice to see in your face racism and bigotry at Mediaite (sarc). We get your message loud and clear.

    What is wrong Yukon Jack? Is Stormfront’s web site down?

    If Stormfront is down, perhaps you can go to KKK.com.

  • baddog$&

    What kinda COMMUNIST ARE YOU ARE A JOKE!

  • Anonymous

    The House TEA/GOP has worse numbers, so what!

  • Anonymous

    BADDOG$& wrote.:”What kinda COMMUNIST ARE YOU ARE A JOKE!”…….MARXIST  Harpo was my Favorite!

  • Anonymous

    BADDOG$& wrote.:”What kinda COMMUNIST ARE YOU ARE A JOKE!”…….MARXIST  Harpo was my Favorite!

  • Anonymous

    it would be nice if you didn’t use the same, and without the insults.

  • Anonymous

    Keep moving Along people….Nothing to see here…. No animosity here.

  • Anonymous

    Keep moving Along people….Nothing to see here…. No animosity here.

  • Anonymous

      surfergrl wrote:”Obama’s penchant to “tax without representation” policies.”. …………………………….Have you ever heard of The House of representives?.They poll below 18% 

  • Anonymous

    Why would any patrioic American says they want their president to fail?

  • Anonymous

    President Obama’s numbers have tanked and the real reason is the Confrontational Conservative Libertarian TEA party extremist! The president can ask for anything or request all kinds of economic incentives and nothing will be done by this “do nothing-inhibit the president” Congress.

  • Anonymous

    The big-eared, cigarette-smoking OBAMO laughed when asked about the phantom ‘shovel-ready jobs’ from the first stimulus that didn’t stimulate.

    Expect major laughter Thursday night, aimed right back at his Donkey Ass.

  • Anonymous

    Little Boy OBAMO is going to hop up on his high horse Thursday night and attempt scolding everyone into obeying him. Since OBAMO’s ‘high horse’ is really just a Shetland pony, the night will not go well for him.

  • Anonymous

    Obama isn’t qualified to wash my jock.

    The Liar-in-Chief is finished electorally. He can run any race he wishes – people have concluded that he is more like Jimmy Carter than FDR.

  • Anonymous

    You would think that the Dimwitted Left would stay away from mentioning the stim. Yet they can’t help themselves to try to keep it alive.

  • Anonymous

    Two words:

    Affirmative action.

    Obama has been skating along his whole life. He finally got into a job – the Presidency – that people see he is absolutely unqualified to hold.

    If Obama were white, liberals wouldn’t have an argument as to why he should win a second term.

  • Anonymous

    People think, now, that Obama is a failure, and is unqualified to be President.

    That ain’t gonna change in the next 14 months.

  • Anonymous

    Obama wouldn’t win Texas if his opposition was deceased for 20 years, like Ted Kennedy.

    Obama is like Alfred E. Neuman.

  • Anonymous

    “Why will Obama win again?”

    Here’s the only ways that Obama could win in 2012:

    1. The GOP nominates Alf. If so, Obama wins 52-48.

    2. Obama enacts the “No Republican Can Vote in 2012″ Act.

    3. Obama stages a terrorist attack the day before the election.

    4. He calls out The Black Panthers to monitor all voting precincts where white people might vote.

    Barring this, Obama is finished next year. FINISHED.

  • Anonymous

    “Obama will win if there isn’t a third cadidate [sic].”

    Delusions seem to rule your life.

    Does your family know? Have they looked into some good institutions to stick you in for an extended stay?

  • Anonymous

     FYI: Reagan and Bush 43 had about about the same favorabilty 14 months before their 2nd term.

  • Texan

    nice rebuttal,…

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Obama .. you shot your wad with “yes we can” and then you didn’t… next President please.

  • Anonymous

    Only about 2,000 days left for him.

  • Anonymous

    He said teleprompter!

    Drink!

  • Anonymous

    He said teleprompter!

    Drink!

  • Anonymous

    I got polled once. It was about schools, and was biased, but only in the last question. The last question indicated that I should come up with a reason why kids had better things to do in the summer than going to school. Other than that, the answers were yes or no about kids getting enough schooling under our current (general) system, nationwide.

    The poll was by Rasmussen, and Rasmussen works for Republicans, mostly. I guess they didn’t like my answers, and I never got called again.

  • Anonymous

    The rest of the Democratic party deserves to be taken down as cowards who won’t stand up for what they believe in. Some of them are finally getting the hint, and taking some heat for waking up and being vocal again.

  • Anonymous

    You forgot the UN black helicopters with blue helmeted troops and hypnosis gas.

  • Anonymous

    Remember, even as low as it is, Obama’s approval rating is more than twice as good as the entire Congress’ approval rating. That includes all Teapublicans.

  • Anonymous

    You wish

  • Anonymous

    You wish

  • Snake5875

    Obama isn’t liked by the teabaggers because he went past 6th grade, didn’t marry a blood relative, and doesn’t want to bend over for every millionaire “job creator” the only jobs they create start with blow and are from small children that’s why they go on their “sex vacations”. California feeds most you nut bags by the way and while you were lynching blacks I was going to school with them as an equal  and don’t say that’s the past you still have segregated high school proms because your afraid the black my rub off.
      So you can stay with your nature hating, racist, idiot brigade, maybe god will save you but I think not unless he created this planet because he hated it, hates the animals, hates the plants and animals and can’t wait for us destroy them. Profit over everything I’m sure Jesus would of agreed with that: F*CK them they are poor, minorities, gay, handicapped, elderly money is the ONLY thing that matters.

  • Snake5875

    He is not a communist, a Muslim, etc. if you do have “black friends” they are OREO’s. I see you are obsessed with violence well I know of a lot of people that will accommodate you. Hell you would probably wet your pants going to the store where I grew up candy asses always think they are all that. You are probably just like your idol Rush the coward who got out of Vietnam by having an ingrown hair on his *SS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1497076194 Travis Pierson

    Harvard graduates more straight-A students than any other college in the world. Is that because the students at Harvard are smarter, or that the university just likes to place their grads in high profile positions? Frankly, I’d prefer DeVry grad with a C average who attacked a problem head on, pragmatically & didn’t look for excuses.

  • Anonymous

    Ask Mitch and cohorts why their doing everything they can to see the POTUS fail!!

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