Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's...according to gallup:
President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index (http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Job-Approval-Center.aspx) has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst [font=]job[/font] (http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/obamas-job-approval-drops-below-carters#) approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 29, 2011, 02:07:39 PM
Obama's Job Approval Drops Below Carter's...according to gallup:
President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index (http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Job-Approval-Center.aspx) has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst [font=]job[/font] (http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/obamas-job-approval-drops-below-carters#) approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
I got to say Henery, you never give up or give up hope. keep dreaming Henery. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Quote from: The Troll on November 29, 2011, 05:16:47 PM
I got to say Henery, you never give up or give up hope. keep dreaming Henery. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Which of of your clowns are you going to bet him with, Newt. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :wink:
Trick question ....
Which president had the worst approval rating in history?
Which was next to the worst?
A quick bit of research led me to Harry Truman having the worst, and Nixon being second to worst. Do I get an A on the pop quiz? ;D
Quote from: Locutus on November 30, 2011, 02:34:21 PM
A quick bit of research led me to Harry Truman having the worst, and Nixon being second to worst. Do I get an A on the pop quiz? ;D
A+, my friend. Give that man a cigar!
Truman - 22
Nixon - 24
Why all this fascination and comparison to Carter's approval rating?
G.W. Bush - 25
Only then do we get to ....
Jimmy .... 28!
Obama is now at 43% approval (according to Henry's link.) Nowhere close to those lows.
Now we wait for the rest of the class to respond.
Grading will NOT be done on a curve!
that still does not negate the following....Obama has the worst approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
it is a fact that gallup pointed out.
Make what you want to out of it........I just thought it might be fun to post it on here to some, who thinks he is doing a DANDY job.
Obama was screwed from the git-go. He had the potential to be something everyone was proud of, but his handlers, what he inherited from past administrations, and politics in general all were against him. I don't blame the man, but the system. Whoever won was destined to catch a ton of crap for not being able to make everything perfect for everybody.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 30, 2011, 03:10:23 PM
that still does not negate the following....Obama has the worst approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
it is a fact that gallup pointed out.
Make what you want to out of it........I just thought it might be fun to post it on here to some, who thinks he is doing a DANDY job.
And your source says nothing of the sort.
A big fat F for Henry.
Quote from: Olias on November 30, 2011, 03:27:15 PM
And your source says nothing of the sort.
A big fat F for Henry.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/obamas-job-approval-drops-below-carters
Quote from: Henry Hawk on November 30, 2011, 04:13:04 PM
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/11/29/obamas-job-approval-drops-below-carters
Time's up Henry. You already turned in your work and it was wrong. Now can you tell me who had the worst approval ratings EVER?
Don't worry. This one is an open book quiz.
Quote from: Mr442 on November 30, 2011, 03:21:56 PM
Obama was screwed from the git-go. He had the potential to be something everyone was proud of, but his handlers, what he inherited from past administrations, and politics in general all were against him. I don't blame the man, but the system. Whoever won was destined to catch a ton of crap for not being able to make everything perfect for everybody.
I actually agree with quite a bit of that.
I wonder what George W. Bush's rating is, since he has left office. I'll bet it's a high score. :laugh: If it is, :azz: :rotfl: :rotfl:
JOBLESS CLAIMS TOP 400,000 -- AGAIN... (http://www.cnbc.com/id/45506837)
Quote from: Henry Hawk on December 01, 2011, 10:45:29 AM
JOBLESS CLAIMS TOP 400,000 -- AGAIN... (http://www.cnbc.com/id/45506837)
let's see, John Boner said that when the Republican took Congress he was going to create jobs. I guess he didn't do it. The Republicans haven't created one job.
When are your Republicans going to get off their ass and create some jobs. Just like I said when Boner said it. "IT'S ALL Lies. :rant:
Quote from: The Troll on December 01, 2011, 01:12:15 PM
let's see, John Boner said that when the Republican took Congress he was going to create jobs. I guess he didn't do it. The Republicans haven't created one job.
When are your Republicans going to get off their ass and create some jobs. Just like I said when Boner said it. "IT'S ALL Lies. :rant:
If Obama would pass the pipeline, there WOULD have been thousands of jobs created........but, Nope.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/havent-we-heard_618462.html (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/havent-we-heard_618462.html)
As I sat and watched the State of the Union speech last night, it seemed as if he was merely repeating himself with fluffy BS.
This video PROVED it. It is amazing, how so many folks out there thought it was a great speech.....it is the same old BS as he always says, and now PROOF, he will not do anything about it....all he knows how to do is talk. :rant:
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 25, 2012, 01:10:31 PM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/havent-we-heard_618462.html (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/havent-we-heard_618462.html)
As I sat and watched the State of the Union speech last night, it seemed as if he was merely repeating himself with fluffy BS.
This video PROVED it. It is amazing, how so many folks out there thought it was a great speech.....it is the same old BS as he always says, and now PROOF, he will not do anything about it....all he knows how to do is talk. :rant:
And don't you think those things bear repeating?
Isn't it better than what the Republicans have been repeating ever since he took office?... "NO, NO, NO ...."
Quote from: Olias on January 25, 2012, 02:21:15 PM
And don't you think those things bear repeating?
Isn't it better than what the Republicans have been repeating ever since he took office?... "NO, NO, NO ...."
Tired of that BS talking points....the republicans have passed bills that encouraged jobs creations (i.e. keystone pipeline), bills that would reduce borrowing, bills to actually reduce our budget (something obama and the dems have yet to even have) like the Paul Ryan House budget resolution bill, bills to reform entitlements (also from Paul Ryan), only to be shot down time and time again by the president and his Democratic Senate cronies.
Obama has had NO plans to try to work with the republicans...........remember when he said that republicans can go along for the ride, just keep out of the way....he sucks at being bi-partisan, HE is not trying....and blames it ALL on the republicans. BOTH sides are guilty....BOTH sides.
And I am tired of hearing about that ecological disaster of a bill, the Keystone pipeline. Had the POTUS not vetoed that bill I'd hate to hear the lambasting you would give him when the damned thing leaked into the aquifer and polluted the water that supplies 30% of the food in this nation!
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 25, 2012, 03:02:25 PM
Tired of that BS talking points....the republicans have passed bills that encouraged jobs creations (i.e. keystone pipeline), bills that would reduce borrowing, bills to actually reduce our budget (something obama and the dems have yet to even have) like the Paul Ryan House budget resolution bill, bills to reform entitlements (also from Paul Ryan), only to be shot down time and time again by the president and his Democratic Senate cronies.
Obama has had NO plans to try to work with the republicans...........remember when he said that republicans can go along for the ride, just keep out of the way....he sucks at being bi-partisan, HE is not trying....and blames it ALL on the republicans. BOTH sides are guilty....BOTH sides.
Henery you have got to be brain dead. :knife: Have you read about the shit this oil is and the damage it would do this country without leaking. All of the jobs you talk about is bullshit. It would create a lot of jobs if it spilled. Study the damn thing. Paul Ryan's bill is shit too. :haha: There is only one person who might be more stupid than you is "ME". :haha:
Your damn Republicans will let this country go to hell. Remember what you guys said. "Our main job is to make Obama a one term president. Assholes! :rant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsc8Cl5RhUs&context=C39db13bADOEgsToPDskIAo5sS2-TcP8VYQl8twcXi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsc8Cl5RhUs&context=C39db13bADOEgsToPDskIAo5sS2-TcP8VYQl8twcXi)
Quote from: Henry Hawk on February 07, 2012, 01:07:00 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsc8Cl5RhUs&context=C39db13bADOEgsToPDskIAo5sS2-TcP8VYQl8twcXi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsc8Cl5RhUs&context=C39db13bADOEgsToPDskIAo5sS2-TcP8VYQl8twcXi)
What are you trying to say, I don't get the logic. Just think this before your Republican Supreme Court Judges change the election laws about money in elections. :rolleyes: :razz:
Foreclosures on the Rise Again http://www.cnbc.com/id/46401756 (http://www.cnbc.com/id/46401756)
so much for those wonderful policies that are going to save families and thier homes....
President Obama described his fiscal year 2013 budget – the most expensive in United States history (http://freebeacon.com/obama-spend-it-now/) – as "a blueprint for an economy that is built to last."
But even his own Treasury Secretary does not agree with that assessment.
For the second year in row, Timothy Geithner admitted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDlVVP1M6A&feature=youtu.be) before the Senate Budget Committee that President Obama's budget takes no action to meaningfully reform entitlement programs, putting us on an "unsustainable" fiscal course.
"Even if Congress were to enact this budget," Geithner said, "we would still be left with–in the outer decades as millions of Americans retire–what are still unsustainable commitments in Medicare and Medicaid.
In fact, Geithner said the same thing about the president's budget last year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdcQGJF_jmY&feature=youtu.be).
Quote from: Henry Hawk on February 16, 2012, 04:55:04 PM
President Obama described his fiscal year 2013 budget – the most expensive in United States history (http://freebeacon.com/obama-spend-it-now/) – as "a blueprint for an economy that is built to last."
But even his own Treasury Secretary does not agree with that assessment.
For the second year in row, Timothy Geithner admitted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDlVVP1M6A&feature=youtu.be) before the Senate Budget Committee that President Obama's budget takes no action to meaningfully reform entitlement programs, putting us on an "unsustainable" fiscal course.
"Even if Congress were to enact this budget," Geithner said, "we would still be left with–in the outer decades as millions of Americans retire–what are still unsustainable commitments in Medicare and Medicaid.
In fact, Geithner said the same thing about the president's budget last year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdcQGJF_jmY&feature=youtu.be).
What you have just shown or said is that it boils down too what George W. and the Republican Party did to this country and what the Republican Congress, the party of "NO" has done to stop Obama from doing anything to put this country back into the black economically. What get me is that you want to put the thieving bastards back in. :doh:
:zoners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q)
Obama...by his own standards and words....IS unpatriotic and irresponsible.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on March 07, 2012, 10:31:08 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q)
Obama...by his own standards and words....IS unpatriotic and irresponsible.
Is that all you got Hawk? But you have your new savior coming Mitt Romney who will take you to the promised land of milk and honey and ever lasting life. Let us pray. :pray: :pope:
Quote from: The Troll on March 07, 2012, 01:37:15 PM
Is that all you got Hawk? But you have your new savior coming Mitt Romney who will take you to the promised land of milk and honey and ever lasting life. Let us pray. :pray: :pope:
what do you mean, Is that all you got?................it THAT all YOU got?..........it is okay for him to set all time records in the trillions of deficit....but Bush is irresponsible and unpatriotic for doing HALF the damage that this creep has.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on March 07, 2012, 01:43:30 PM
what do you mean, Is that all you got?................it THAT all YOU got?..........it is okay for him to set all time records in the trillions of deficit....but Bush is irresponsible and unpatriotic for doing HALF the damage that this creep has.
You trouble is that all of us know you're lying. He hasn't set an all time record. It seems that you have a problem of thinking straight. I really think you need to see a psychiatrist. Between wrong thinking and this all consuming hatred of black people, I think you need mental help. :yes: :wacko:
Quote from: The Troll on March 07, 2012, 03:24:06 PM
You trouble is that all of us know you're lying. He hasn't set an all time record. It seems that you have a problem of thinking straight. I really think you need to see a psychiatrist. Between wrong thinking and this all consuming hatred of black people, I think you need mental help. :yes: :wacko:
when President George W. Bush took office, our national debt was nearly $6 trillion.....when Bush left office, it had nearly doubled, to around $11trillion.
So I admit, Bush's record on spending SUCKED!!!!!.......during his presidency, our national debt rose by an average of $607 billion a year.
Now lets look at Obama's..........during his presidency to date, the national debt has risen by an average of $1.7 trillion a year
That is a jaw-dropping
$1.116 trillion more, per year, than it rose while Bush was in office......
You can call it lying all you want, but it is all true.....do some research and look for your self....it is all simple math.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on March 07, 2012, 04:09:48 PM
when President George W. Bush took office, our national debt was nearly $6 trillion.....when Bush left office, it had nearly doubled, to around $11trillion.
So I admit, Bush's record on spending SUCKED!!!!!.......during his presidency, our national debt rose by an average of $607 billion a year.
Now lets look at Obama's..........during his presidency to date, the national debt has risen by an average of $1.7 trillion a year
That is a jaw-dropping $1.116 trillion more, per year, than it rose while Bush was in office......
You can call it lying all you want, but it is all true.....do some research and look for your self....it is all simple math.
Back out the costs of the wars for oil initiative that the Shrub started and see where that leaves us!
According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion dollars by 2017 .... that is 2.4 billion a year over a 10 year period....
Take that away from the $1.116 trillion per year Obama is outspending during bushs's years and it is STILL just under $1 trillion.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on March 08, 2012, 08:21:42 AM
According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion dollars by 2017 .... that is 2.4 billion a year over a 10 year period....
Take that away from the $1.116 trillion per year Obama is outspending during bushs's years and it is STILL just under $1 trillion.
I hear all of you bullshit figures. Tell me where is he spending that money and where does the Congress share in that spending. You do know that the Republicans control the House lock stock and barrel. I just don't get where Obama is suppose to get all of the blame.
But, then with all of your hatred for O0 Obama we know you will give him no quarter in any way. :zoners:
I never said he got ALL the blame...but if you can blame Bush, then I will blame Obama..isn't that the way it works?
Obama and Pelosi, Reid.....said they was going to cut the deficit and pay off our debt........well they didn't come close....and they controlled all levels of the house, senate and wh.
they only made it worse....unpatriotic and irresponsible......by Obama's very own words......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q)
watch it again......or those of you who have not taken the time to do so.
Govt. sets record deficit in February
The federal government (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/federation/) recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February, according to a preliminary report Wednesday from the Congressional Budget Office (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congressional-budget-office/) that said the deficit in fiscal year 2012 is already more than half a trillion dollars
Quote from: Henry Hawk on March 08, 2012, 01:09:31 PM
Govt. sets record deficit in February
The federal government (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/federation/) recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February, according to a preliminary report Wednesday from the Congressional Budget Office (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congressional-budget-office/) that said the deficit in fiscal year 2012 is already more than half a trillion dollars
I wonder why, hell we're still in a Republican depression. It took years and years and World War II to get us out of the Republican Hoover depression.
It is amazing how you can't see this. If you given all of the jobs away and nobody has money but the super rich and they don't want to pay taxes, how in hell do we pay our way out of debt.
You can't do it, especially when you have a bunch of lock stepped Republicans to are stopping Obama from doing anything and their only job is to make Obama a one term president. :rant:
(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/hlovett_2008/job_losses_and_creation_by_month_20100707_1046763226.jpg)
The Blue indicates the impact of the stimulus plan, despite the protestations of some. . .
(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/hlovett_2008/2010-11-16bud-f1.jpg)
Debt with, and without, the Bush Tax Cuts
(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/hlovett_2008/800px-Impact_of_Bush_Tax_Cut_Extension.png)
(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/hlovett_2008/24editorial_graph2-popup.gif)
Now. . .who REALLY caused this tsunami of debt?
(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/hlovett_2008/12-16-09bud-rev6-28-10-f1.jpg)
Here's the real story. . .
New claims for unemployment benefits remained at 374,000 last week from the week prior. Claims were expected to fall to 370,000 from an initially reported 372,000.
Sorry to inturrupt the conversation HH but I found this interesting article and thought it might explain some things about our "smart and educated" posting buddy's. I do believe it can be applied to things other than science too. :wink:
QuoteWhy Are Smart People Some of the Most Gullible People Around?
Former DISCOVER editor Paul Hoffman consults with the hotheaded naked ice borer to find out why our species has such a consistent tendency to be fooled.
by Paul Hoffman
From the October 2010 issue; published online February 10, 2011
The hotheaded naked ice borer now has its own Wikipedia page and appears on lists of the greatest hoaxes of all time. Tim Folger, who has labored in the pages of this magazine to painstakingly unpack string theory (here, here, here, and here) and the extraordinary world of Stephen Hawking (here and here), fears that it is his fictitious account of the repulsive little carnivore for which he'll be remembered. "It's kind of pathetic," Tim told me, "that this may be my writing legacy."
All of our sham stories found their believers, despite what I thought were abundant red flags. The Neanderthal researcher, for example, was named Todkopf ("Deadhead") and hailed from the nonexistent Hindenburg University (get it?—a school of hot air). But creationists trumpeted the ancient music story as further evidence that Neanderthals were just like us. (Creationist theology does not permit another human species; that would undermine our God-given uniqueness.)
As for the ice borers, many readers of the original report noted that the April 1995 issue of DISCOVER was peppered with true stories—about rats on Prozac, mini-mammoths, and buddy-system birds—whose authenticity might well be questioned. Indeed, the very image on the cover of the magazine could be suspect—a grotesque blowup of a false-colored micrograph of a 0.03-inch Microphthalmus, accompanied by the oversize headline "Exclusive Photos: Aliens on the Beach! The Unseen Creatures Beneath Our Feet." (I apologize for the hyperbolic wording—my compensation was based on newsstand sales.) And the ice borer itself was just a fantastic twist on a hardly more believable animal, the Namibian naked mole rat, a nearly blind mammal that has a social structure like an ant's. To fake a photo of an ice borer that accompanied the hoax story, the magazine's art department Photoshopped a red-tinted trilobite onto the head of a naked mole rat.
I now feel a pang of guilt about the hoaxes. As a man of science, I was smugly delighted that creationists seized on the Neanderthal tuba but dismayed that zoologists and other scientists also believed our fakes. Magicians often say scientists make the best audience because they think they're too smart and observant not to trust what they see with their own eyes. Ricky Jay, the sleight-of-hand master, told 60 Minutes (video) that "the ideal audience would be Nobel Prize winners....They often have an ego with them that says, 'I am really smart so I can't be fooled.' No one is easier to fool."
I told the magician Penn Jillette about the ice borers. "Smart people learn to believe things that are counterintuitive," he said. "Black holes, string theory, germs, trips to the moon, radio waves—they've had practice believing crazy s--t." Penn was right, of course. Is a bowling-ball-size fundamental particle any less plausible than 26-dimensional string theory? Or smog-clearing bellows any less harebrained than, say, BP's plan to plug its oil geyser with golf balls? We live in interesting times. Modern physics is incomprehensible, and cowboy engineering schemes—private companies racing to get to the moon or to sequence our genomes cheaply—are commonplace and may be our salvation.
Science has always aimed to explain the world around us, and humanists used to portray scientific explanations as draining the joy and mystery from life. These days, though, scientific explanations often defy everyday experience. The fact that creationists are citing science to further their agenda is a sign that scientific discovery has become as marvelous and inspiring as any tale from religion.
Richard Dawkins says there is an evolutionary advantage in believing what authority figures tell us: Children would wander off into the woods if they didn't heed their parents' admonition to stay near their homes. Toddlers cannot understand how a stovetop could burn them, yet most of them follow their parents' warning to stay away from the range (as well as believe whatever they are told about Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and Dawkins's favorite bugaboo, the Almighty).
I asked Stephen Greenspan, the author of Annals of Gullibility: Why We Get Duped and How to Avoid It, to explain why intelligent people accepted our April Fool's stories. "People trust authority—and DISCOVER is an authority for science news—unless the authority says something too far-fetched," he said. Our economy and all other social interactions are based on trust and would collapse if we all doubted one another, he added. In other words, a society of paranoids and cynics would not function as a society. It is sobering to realize that human beings blindly trust authority and that authority figures like Nobelists are the ones most easily duped.
When I learned that Greenspan, perhaps the world's foremost scientific authority on gullibility, had put $400,000 of his own retirement savings into funds that invested with Bernie Madoff, I no longer felt so stupid believing that Matt Damon was starring in a film about shogi. Come to think of it, the plot of the purported movie sounded a lot like Invictus.
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/oct/13-why-are-smart-people-the-most-gullible/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=
That is really a good one me........the phrase.... 'I am really smart so I can't be fooled.' No one is easier to fool."...says it all. :yes:
Quote from: Henry Hawk on August 30, 2012, 11:42:32 AM
That is really a good one me........the phrase.... 'I am really smart so I can't be fooled.' No one is easier to fool."...says it all. :yes:
Yep.
It's amazing how you people can sit back and revel in stupidity and actually be proud of it.
Quote from: Olias on August 30, 2012, 11:48:16 AM
It's amazing how you people can sit back and revel in stupidity and actually be proud of it.
you people?
Quote from: Olias on August 30, 2012, 11:48:16 AM
It's amazing how you people can sit back and revel in stupidity and actually be proud of it.
Classic example HH.
Quote from: me on August 30, 2012, 11:50:45 AM
Classic example HH.
And your ignorant sidekick.
Quote from: Olias on August 30, 2012, 11:51:05 AM
Yes ... you, paleface.
You fit this story .... spot on.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on August 30, 2012, 11:50:03 AM
you people?
Start with capitalizing "Y" in the word "you" because it is the first word in a sentence, you people. :wink: :smile:
Quote from: The Troll on August 30, 2012, 07:25:46 PM
Start with capitalizing "Y" in the word "you" because it is the first word in a sentence, you people. :wink: :smile:
Well, would ya look who's correcting someone's sentences. Isn't that precious?
Quote from: me on August 30, 2012, 07:45:15 PM
Well, would ya look who's correcting someone's sentences. Isn't that precious?
:biggrin: It sure is, Precious. :kiss: