Obama is Less Popular than Dubya
The Lying Liberal Media won’t tell you that Barack Obama is less popular than George W. Bush was at this stage of his presidency:
Gallup reports that 56% of the public believes that Obama is doing an excellent/good job. Gallup reported 62% approved of George W. Bush’s job performance after the first 100 days. MSM tells us how popular Barack Obama is but the numbers tell a different story especially when used comparatively. Comparing the Gallup poll taken following the first 100 day of George W. Bush and Barack Obama is rather informative especially given the highly contentious nature of the 2000 election.
Here are the numbers for other presidents:
April approval ratings in first year in office
Bush now 62%
Clinton, 1993 55
Bush, 1989 58
Reagan, 1981 67
Carter, 1977 63
Nixon, 1969 61
Sampling error: +/-3% ptsNow justify these headlines:
Gallup: First-100-Days-Obama-Meets-Exceeds-Expectations. By the way, the wording of the question is most suspect as many (including me) expected him to do just as poorly as he is doing. But Gallup is going even further. It uses his daily tracking poll to cover up the results of the 100 day poll.
USAToday:Poll: Public thinks highly of Obama
Chicago Tribune: Obama riding high in polls
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April 24th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I think republicans should boycott congress if democrats nuke the filibuster or in the leadup to threatening to do so.
April 24th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
If somehow Obama can just fall a few more points before the dems nuke the filibuster option, it will help create more of a divide and get Obama worried about his reelection.
I don’t know though, I bet a lot of other polls still have him in the 60′s.
April 24th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
U.S. Military executed Japanese soldiers who engaged in waterboarding torture for war crimes.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
This post will greatly upset Oak Leaf, who worships Barak Obama. Oak Leaf based the war in Iraq just like a good little liberal.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
This post will greatly upset Oak Leaf, who worships Barak Obama. Oak Leaf bashed the war in Iraq just like a good little liberal.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I want to waterboard Invalid10…
Truth is, the soldiers were EXECUTING and toring prisomers in a variety of ways.
Also, critcal to your profound but ridiculously weak argument, the “waterboarding” they were performing was upturning the prisoner on a gurney and pouring waterinto their nose and mouth.
That is effectively drowning the prisoner.
We never did that. We cover the nose and mouth- the Sensation of drowning still results, but no ill effects.
NOT torture, and NOT the same thing by any stretch, any questions, I will gladly demonstratye the difference on your scummy self, our way first.
Let me know when your in the Texas Hill Country!
April 24th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Gerry Owen,
We’ve killed over a 100 detainees\prisoners who have been in our custody. We’re those simulated deaths too? The miltiary officially warned Bush that what he was doing in memos that this was torture and his lawyers ignored them. The doctors also warned that this water boarding technique was not a safe procedure…although I don’t know why they were participating in the first place.
Here’s a memo from the OLC memos that explain how water may enter their nostrils, and the methods that were used if the detainee tried to adapt to the water boarding. They note the detainees even try to swallow the water to stop it form filling their mouth so they can breath. One man was water boarded a 180 something times in one month aliong with a variety of other torture techniques used on him.
http://waterboarding.org/official_procedure
“Letter at 1. When the time limit is reached, the pouring of water is immediately discontinued and the cloth is removed. We understand that if the detainee makes an effort to defeat the technique (e.g. by twisting his head to the side and breathing out of the corner of his mouth), the interrogator may cup his hands around the detainee’s nose and mouth to dam the runoff, in which case it would not be possible for a detainee to breathe during the application of the water. In addition, you have informed us that the technique may be applied in a manner to defeat efforts by the detainee to hold his breath by, for example, beginning an application of water as the detainee is exhaling. Either in the normal application, or where countermeasures are used, we understand that water may enter – and may accumulate in – the detainee’s mouth and nasal cavity, preventing him from breathing. Either in the normal application, or where countermeasures are used, we understand that water may enter — and may accumulate in — the detainee’s mouth and nasal cavity, preventing him from breathing. In addition, you have indicated that the detainee as a countermeasure may swallow water, possibly in significant quantities. For that reason; based on advice of medical personnel, the C.I.A. requires that saline solution be used instead of plain water to reduce the possibility of hyponatremia (i.e., reduced concentration of sodium in the blood) if the detainee drinks the water.”
April 24th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
The way I look at it, anything we do that is less severe than what the Islamists do (hacking heads off, stoning, caning, bullet to the head, hanging, etc.) is fair game and should be considered preferential treatment.
The islamists would hack your head off with a dull knife and then piss down your nostril.
You’re a pussy and they’ll get you first.
April 25th, 2009 at 6:32 am
The irony is amazing. Most of the places a terrorist will attack are in liberal places,like NYC,LA,Dc. And someday North korea will be able to reach Seattle,another liberal hotbed.
April 25th, 2009 at 6:53 am
We’ve killed over a 100 detainees\prisoners who have been in our custody
acroso
More acroso bravo sierra. prove your assertion with more than specious letters from malcontents. You are so full of crap it’s laughable.
April 25th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
The Gallup poll quotes an error of +/- 3%, meaning Obama and Bush have equal approval ratings within error.
April 26th, 2009 at 6:21 am
April 29th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Uh, the USA under FDR imprisoned American citizens who looked Asian.
Took their property and money. FDR stacked the Supreme Court.
He said Social Security was not a tax, then his staff told the Court it
was. The Japanese sort of engaged in years of heinous and deadly
torture and imprisonment of actual uniformed soldiers….. The NY Times
also lied in the number of times it said the waterboarding was used: not
187 or so….less than half that. All lived. Used sparingly on a few suspects.
It did result in saved American lives. That is reason enough to have done
it at the time, after 9/11, with the threats still very real.
Sorry, facts suck don’t they? Real history does too.
Obama is a popular new president. OK. I get it. He is in the same
general area as Bush and others were. Difference is that he is beloved
by the media, and the teachers and university faculty, and MTV, pushing
his icon status daily. But, Bush, Sr. had an 80% approval at one point,
as did Dubya,and Reagan was popular w/thepublic, and hated by the
media…and elites in academia for years, and still is.
He won the election, er’, the media and Obama won the election.
To the victor go the spoils.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:38 am
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