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June 18, 2010

Reichpollster - Obama at 41%
— Purple Avenger

...Overall, 41% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. ThatÂ’s the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this president. Fifty-eight percent (58%) now disapprove. ...

Not much longer before he busts into the 30's...you know...George Bush range.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 08:11 AM | Comments (177)
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1 Obviously these results must be squelched. The optics are terrible.

Posted by: John "Studly" Boehner at June 18, 2010 08:12 AM (VXBR1)

2 Hey! Print some money and give it to me!

Posted by: 52 percenter at June 18, 2010 08:13 AM (w41GQ)

3 But Intrade has Obama up by 20%!!!!!!!!

Posted by: In before the troll at June 18, 2010 08:13 AM (Aqzx6)

4 The pollster acted stupidly.

Posted by: mpfs at June 18, 2010 08:13 AM (iYbLN)

5 When he hits the 30s MSNBC will claim poll numbers have switched to Golf rules. the lower score the better

Posted by: Ben at June 18, 2010 08:14 AM (wuv1c)

6 Hitler had better poll numbers than this douchebag.

Posted by: mpfs at June 18, 2010 08:14 AM (iYbLN)

7 Once you got this low, it's all down hill. The numbers will never rise. But of course, we all know he doesn't give a shit because he'd rather be "a really good 1 term President than a mediocre 2 term President."

Which translates to, "I know sooo much better than the American public, so if they vote me out in 2012 then I've done my job of destroying America as quickly as possible. Solid A. No, A+."

Posted by: Editor at June 18, 2010 08:14 AM (pUfK9)

8 Can we call them "30 percenters" soon?

Posted by: Techie at June 18, 2010 08:15 AM (dU6DT)

9 John doesn't like the optics here, so let's keep this on the down-low.

Posted by: Eric "The Brute" Cantor at June 18, 2010 08:15 AM (VXBR1)

10 With the Tom Bradley effect he is already in Bush territory.

Posted by: tommylotto at June 18, 2010 08:15 AM (oHIHU)

11 The racism is so thick, you can cut it with a knife.

Posted by: EC at June 18, 2010 08:16 AM (mAhn3)

12
Barack....Dude ..... you are on your own.

We're busy with our own Hide the Decline....

Posted by: University of East Anglia at June 18, 2010 08:16 AM (J5Hcw)

13 I wonder what Bush's numbers are now. I'd bet they've probably gone up since he left and people saw that things really can get worse.

Posted by: Karl Hungus at June 18, 2010 08:17 AM (/Mla1)

14 Hitler had better poll numbers than this douchebag.

Almost...as I recall reading in some history book, the best Hitler ever did in a real election was 38% plurality.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:17 AM (eKUKw)

15 Yet another racist poll.

We need federal legislation to fix this polling problem. It's obvious that Pres O'bumbles' popularity is much higher than this.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 08:17 AM (9hSKh)

16 The racism is so thick, you can cut it with a knife hammer.

Get the right tool for the job. Sheesh.

Posted by: CaRedneknSC at June 18, 2010 08:18 AM (6cEN2)

Bush started 2006 at 41-58 total approve to disapprove.

Obama is ALREADY at 41-57.

"Put ice on the damn slide! My butt is getting HOT!"

Posted by: y7 at June 18, 2010 08:18 AM (T0dFH)

18 Nah, he won't get to the 30's. Before that happens he'll give out free money.

Posted by: curious at June 18, 2010 08:19 AM (p302b)

19 Not much longer before he busts into the 30's...you know...

I just stumbled upon $20 billion to make sure that never happens.

Posted by: King Barry the Userper at June 18, 2010 08:19 AM (tf9Ne)

Hitler had better poll numbers than this douchebag.

Almost...as I recall reading in some history book, the best Hitler ever did in a real election was 38% plurality.

It wasn't a system like ours. So 38 percent didn't translate into 38% of the seats in the Reichstag, often it meant a largest percentage. Plus in those European systems no one gets more that 50%

Posted by: Ben at June 18, 2010 08:19 AM (wuv1c)

21 People obviously aren't giving the President a fair chance. How was that, John?

Posted by: Mike "Stonewall" Pence at June 18, 2010 08:19 AM (VXBR1)

That's close to a tie. VICTORY!!!!

Posted by: soccerguy at June 18, 2010 08:20 AM (VmtE9)

23 But Zogby doesn't agree, and he's been accurate...

uh... nevermind

Posted by: Frank G at June 18, 2010 08:21 AM (4X0aT)

24 #7 If you get voted out only aftwr one term that mean your pretty shitty to begin with.

Posted by: YIKES! at June 18, 2010 08:22 AM (c3PNO)

When you've lost Rasmussen, well...you've lost Rasmussen.

Posted by: dananjcon at June 18, 2010 08:22 AM (pr+up)

This is with a 90% approval rating in the black community. If this was anywhere near realistic, he would already be in the 30's.

Posted by: MCB at June 18, 2010 08:23 AM (vKDD3)

27 Hitler had better poll numbers than this douchebag.

Almost...as I recall reading in some history book, the best Hitler ever did in a real election was 38% plurality.
Posted by: Purple Avenger

However, Hitler didn't get the Joooish vote.

President Douchebag still has some of my people supporting him, mostly self-loathing Joos.

Posted by: mpfs at June 18, 2010 08:23 AM (iYbLN)

I just stumbled upon $20 billion to make sure that never happens.

LOL! That money will be pissed away to union cronies in the gulf region, most of it never reaching anyone with legitimate claims. When real people affected by the oil never see a dime, expect to see his numbers drop into the 30's.

Posted by: EC at June 18, 2010 08:23 AM (mAhn3)

O/T.

over at HA they linked to an article where someone did the math to figure out how much it would cost to built the death star

Posted by: Ben at June 18, 2010 08:25 AM (wuv1c)

30 "I just stumbled upon $20 billion to make sure that never happens." Now, is it really necessary to say that?

Posted by: John "Studly" Boehner at June 18, 2010 08:25 AM (VXBR1)

Rasmussen is a Germanic name, after all.

Must be a Nazi.

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at June 18, 2010 08:26 AM (DrGKS)

32 "Now, is it really necessary to say that?" You tell'em, John! I love it when you kick ass! Oh, and nice pants. Are those new?

Posted by: Mike "Stonewall" Pence at June 18, 2010 08:28 AM (VXBR1)

33 -21%

Jesss!

Posted by: damian at June 18, 2010 08:28 AM (4WbTI)

34 I have heard that once a Pres. reaches 42% for an extended period.. they never recover.

He is a one term President. If he has numbers like this is Ohio and Florida.. he is done. Who cares if he is the mesiah in NY, or Ca.

Its Florida and Ohio that always matter in the general election.

He wont win Indiana, Nevada... probably has lost Colorado.

One and done.

Posted by: Timbo at June 18, 2010 08:28 AM (ph9vn)

35
Crayons! CRAYYYYYYOOOONNNNNNNNNSSSS@@!!1!11!!1

Posted by: Reichsminister Gibbels at June 18, 2010 08:29 AM (sR1Wt)

36 That money will be pissed away to union cronies in the gulf region, most of it never reaching anyone with legitimate claims. When real people affected by the oil never see a dime, expect to see his numbers drop into the 30's.

Posted by: EC at June 18, 2010 12:23 PM (mAhn3)

What does giving money who are in the tank for you anyway really accomplish? Making sure they show up to vote?

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 18, 2010 08:29 AM (uUgFj)

My mom would counter that she saw a NYT/ABC poll that has Obama at 54%.

Sigh.

Posted by: fugazi at June 18, 2010 08:30 AM (4bvZp)

38 He inherited these poll numbers from the previous administration.

Posted by: gebrauchshund at June 18, 2010 08:30 AM (d7k0J)

39 Yet another racist poll. We need federal legislation to fix this polling problem. It's obvious that Pres O'bumbles' popularity is much higher than this.

Who needs federal legislation? I'll just order cumulative polling.

Posted by: Judge Stephen Robinson at June 18, 2010 08:30 AM (mAm+G)

13 I wonder what Bush's numbers are now. I'd bet they've probably gone up since he left and people saw that things really can get worse.

I think he's now at 45% & climbing.

Oh, & interesting vid in my link. Interesting what the MFM likes to cut from news segments. That is all.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 08:31 AM (Yq+qN)

41 The only thing missing from this post is a noose.

Posted by: can't let go of old memes at June 18, 2010 08:31 AM (4WbTI)

42 This breakdown is harsh:
More Ethical Than Most Politicians 33% Ethics Ex/Good 37% Trust Obama on Economic Crisis 25%

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:31 AM (eKUKw)

43 Any guesses on what Sir Golfs-a-lot's approval ratings will be by this time next yr?

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 08:33 AM (Yq+qN)

44 I sit in the car outside the White House.
I can feel the heat a comin around.
I go to put a stong arm on you.
and you give me look like Im way out of bounds.
Well you let out one of your Reich Wing Sighs
Well lately when I look into your eyes

Im going down down
Im going down down

Posted by: Barrack Springteen at June 18, 2010 08:33 AM (J5Hcw)

45 47% trust his short game though. So he's always got that.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 18, 2010 08:33 AM (0pYSi)

46 What? I told you it would be out in 90 days only 110 days ago.

Posted by: The Pennsylvania State University Mann Report at June 18, 2010 08:33 AM (w9bVp)

47 I've been having this reoccurring dream. I went to see my shrink.

In my dream, I developed an acute infatuation for the neighbor's chocolate lab. During the day, while the owners were away at work, I coaxed their dog, Missy, into my backyard. We consumated our mutual attraction. In my dream, we had a litter of man dogs. Human heads on canine bodies. The neighbors were puzzled although they said the litter looked a lot like me.

I asked the shrink what this dream meant and why I kept having it. He sat back in his chair, gave it some thought and said, "I dunno kid. Cheer up, things could be worse. You could be Oilbama or that Hayward guy."

My spirits were lifted. I cranked out a check for his 200 per hr. rate. Money well spent.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at June 18, 2010 08:34 AM (uFdnM)

48 If he has numbers like this is Ohio and Florida.. he is done.

He's lost all the Hillary dems here that I know.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:34 AM (eKUKw)

49 To be honest one thing that amazes me is that Hilliary and Bill seem to complicate with this anti-Israel anti-American President and willing to see whatÂ’s left of their reputations go down in flames with him?

Posted by: nevergiveup at June 18, 2010 08:34 AM (0GFWk)

50 ...before he busts into the 30's...you know...George Bush range.

If W was polled by one that is weighted like this one must be, it would have been in the single digits.

Posted by: Paladin at June 18, 2010 08:34 AM (AfORa)

51 43 Any guesses on what Sir Golfs-a-lot's approval ratings will be by this time next yr?

Assuming there will be a "next year" before everything falls into chaos...

/Love your moniker for Pres Pissypants.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 08:35 AM (9hSKh)

Timely article by Dr. K:

Barack Obama, Dreamer-in-Chief

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 08:35 AM (Yq+qN)

53 If W was polled by one that is weighted like this one must be, it would have been in the single digits.

Right. Go with that.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:35 AM (eKUKw)

54 No comment.

Posted by: Joe Barton at June 18, 2010 08:36 AM (VXBR1)

55 I just don't understand these insidious poll numbers. I have been advising this President since taking office. How can this be? I was really popular, and Americans loved my administration.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 18, 2010 08:36 AM (r0u40)

56
Posted by: Paladin at June 18, 2010 12:34 PM (AfORa)

Is this a new one, or the same old pathetic erg?

Posted by: Dang Straights at June 18, 2010 08:37 AM (sR1Wt)

57 Doesn't matter what his numbers are, he's still living in the WH, time for this cockholster to go.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at June 18, 2010 08:37 AM (lj9V3)

58 Ben, that was without commercial space service; it will be cheaper with SpaceX doing the hauling.

Posted by: Jean at June 18, 2010 08:38 AM (yGYDb)

59 we are not yet at the utter chaos point, methinks.

You haven't seen some of the Mad Max hoopties driving around my neighborhood.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:38 AM (eKUKw)

60
it will be cheaper with SpaceX doing the hauling.

3000% cheaper!

Posted by: Wee Wee the Greatist at June 18, 2010 08:38 AM (sR1Wt)

61 He's lost all the Hillary dems here that I know.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 12:34 PM (eKUKw)

Once you've lost the flannel & Subaru crowd well....you've lost the flannel and Subaru crowd.

Posted by: dananjcon at June 18, 2010 08:39 AM (pr+up)

62
The lower the numbers, the better? Right? YEYEEAAAA! Where's my PUDDINNGGG!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 18, 2010 08:39 AM (JKe0g)

63 60 we are not yet at the utter chaos point, methinks.

You haven't seen some of the Mad Max hoopties driving around my neighborhood.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 12:38 PM (eKUKw)

You haven't seen my golf swing.

Posted by: Barack in One at June 18, 2010 08:40 AM (pr+up)

64 O/T: "The legislation announced Thursday says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines, or software firms that the government selects "shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined."

Posted by: curious at June 18, 2010 08:40 AM (p302b)

I wonder if this could have anything to do with his skyrocketing popularity?

Don't wait for the translation! Answer the questions!

http://tinyurl.com/24bqprl

full disclosure - my occasional blog

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 18, 2010 08:41 AM (r1h5M)

66 Oh, what we wouldn't give for a 41% approval rating!

Posted by: The House of Representatives at June 18, 2010 08:41 AM (1R6cr)

67 O/T: listening to rush's guest host take a call....it is very scary to hear someone say that "hannity and rush and 'guys like that' should be eliminated from the equation"

It is times like this that I really hope the FBI is listening to Rush

Posted by: curious at June 18, 2010 08:42 AM (p302b)

68 god, krugman has a piece at the times on how austerity measures will destroy the world economies. His constant howling at the Kenysian moon drives me batshit crazy. Yes paul, everyone should just spend like it's monopoly money, because every dollar of gov't spending creates eleventy billion dollars worth of economic growth. I mean, look how well the stimulus worked!

Posted by: Dunkirk at June 18, 2010 08:42 AM (kbHJ6)

69 Don't wait for the translation! Answer the questions!

Cloward Piven.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 18, 2010 08:43 AM (J5Hcw)

70 I did the best I could.

Posted by: Joe Barton at June 18, 2010 08:43 AM (ZESU0)

71 Falling Down is a bitch. He's already got the crazy down right.

Posted by: Michael Douglas at June 18, 2010 08:44 AM (gbCNS)

72 Once he hits the 30's, he will employ the internet kill switch. Its an indication of the utter stupidity of the dwindling remnants of the 52% that think he's doing what he SAID he would do. I maintain that his first lie was bumbling his way through the oath of office. High crimes and misdemeanors, a clear and present danger since then. He won't be finished until Soros says he is.

Posted by: Cynner at June 18, 2010 08:45 AM (NG1gC)

73 Digging a little deeper I found this nugget: Only 16% of all gamblers appove of the president's ability to predict winners. This poll was conducted before last night's Laker win though.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 18, 2010 08:45 AM (0pYSi)

74 The stock market is up .06% today.

Posted by: john Ryan at June 18, 2010 08:45 AM (ZESU0)

75 Yes, I think Obama is doing a fantastic job. I wouldn't change anything Barry Old boy !!!

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 18, 2010 08:45 AM (k7Ddt)

76 If W was polled by one that is weighted like this one must be, it would have been in the single digits.

Posted by: Paladin at June 18, 2010 12:34 PM (AfORa)

Not unlike your IQ fucktard. Bugger off tool.

Posted by: dananjcon at June 18, 2010 08:46 AM (pr+up)

What does giving money who are in the tank for you anyway really accomplish? Making sure they show up to vote?

Them being in the tank for Obama is a given. That money will be used to prop up their bleeding pensions and for campaigning.

Posted by: EC at June 18, 2010 08:46 AM (mAhn3)

78 No comment.

Posted by: Joe Barton at June 18, 2010 12:36 PM

That does it! Pack your trash. We've had enough of your impure optics.

Posted by: GOP leadership at June 18, 2010 08:47 AM (R2fpr)

79 58% disapprove, boy...

Posted by: Mo.Dowd at June 18, 2010 08:48 AM (gQLr2)

80 Ah yes AoSHQ, no poll ever goes without getting danced on.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 08:48 AM (0q2P7)

81
"My mom would counter that she saw a NYT/ABC poll that has Obama at 54%."

Well, your mom is right: 54% of the people at ABC and the NY Times still do support The One.

The rest of us, not so much.

By the way, given the differences in support between blacks and whites, about a quarter of that 41% is black voters. Which means that among whites, supporters are outnumbered more than two to one by rational human beings.

Further, I'm willing to be a bright, shiny nickel that a large portion of that 41% consists of whites who don't want the nice young pollster to think they're racist and so give The One a tepid support, when in their hearts they know that The One, rather than being a "lightbearer" or a "Jedi knight", is in fact the village idiot. Maybe a quarter of them? A third, perhaps?

Hell of job you've done in the gulf, Barry!

Posted by: Brown Line at June 18, 2010 08:49 AM (gXD3B)

From Dr K:

Pres. Barack Obama doesnÂ’t do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing, a bit of faux-Clintonian Â“I feel your pain,Â” a bit of recovery and economic-mitigation accounting. It wasnÂ’t until the end of the speech Â— the let-no-crisis-go-to-waste part that tried to leverage the Gulf Coast devastation to advance his cap-and-trade climate-change agenda Â— that Obama warmed to his task.

Pedestrian is beneath Obama. Mr. Fix-It he is not. He is world-historical, the visionary, come to make the oceans recede and the planet heal. [...]

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 08:49 AM (Yq+qN)

Obama to Europe, "No! Don't abandon socialism yet! I know your socialist idiots couldn't get it right, but hang in there, I assure that we have the absolute best socialist idiots!"

http://tinyurl.com/38me9az

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 18, 2010 08:50 AM (r1h5M)

84 You know right before it creates a crater, a falling meteor is really pretty.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 08:50 AM (0q2P7)

85 "That does it! Pack your trash. We've had enough of your impure optics. Posted by: GOP leadership at June 18, 2010 12:47 PM (R2fpr)" Please--gimme another chance. Can't I apologize, or unapologize, or blow you, or something?

Posted by: Joe Barton at June 18, 2010 08:51 AM (VXBR1)

86

Sir Golfs a Lot is an awesome little moniker for the little bastard who would be king.

I denounce myself

Posted by: s'moron at June 18, 2010 08:51 AM (UaxA0)

87 During his outgassing the other night, Zero already had the "deer in the headlights" look on his face. His hands were jittery and fidgety. After the bad reviews of that speech, he is likely a basket case. Poll numbers in the 30's will likely paralyze him into even less action than he does now. He may golf every day, knowing the cause is lost. He can't take the heat. Hell, he has never had to take the heat.

Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 08:51 AM (OlN4e)

88
Oprah's Money + Ted Turner's Money + Warren Buffet's money + George Soros Money + Bill Gate's Money + Steve Jobs Money + Bing's money + Jerry Seinfeld's Money + Larry David's Money etc...

Tax em.

but wait, there's more money in the 200K range - so lets tax them and watch the economy tank further. Blame George Bush.

Posted by: Flipper at June 18, 2010 08:51 AM (0fzsA)

89 Truth is always adamantly opposed. Then it is ridiculed. In the third stage, it is accepted as self evident. Oilbama is square in the middle of the second stage. I think in another year, Oilbama's effectiveness and overall approval ratings will enter the third stage. And at that point, only the welfare recipients will cling to the bitter truth that "The Won" will save them.

Give chaos a hug. And know that if what that Hawaiian election clerk says on youtube vid is true-that there is no long form birth certificate on file- there is still hope of a constitutional crisis. That's the kind of hope and change I still cling to.

Don't you dare tread on my fantasy, Ace.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at June 18, 2010 08:51 AM (uFdnM)

90 You know right before it creates a crater, a falling meteor is really pretty.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose

Even if you're standing on the crater-to-be?

Posted by: Blue Hen at June 18, 2010 08:52 AM (R2fpr)

91 Barry's popularity is leaking like a BP well head.

Posted by: Top Kill! at June 18, 2010 08:52 AM (4WbTI)

92 schadenfreude futures -- still UP & rising

Posted by: texasmamma at June 18, 2010 08:52 AM (4L69q)

93 god, krugman has a piece at the times on how austerity measures will destroy the world economies

Obviously he suffers from a severe cognitive dissonance. Intellectually he knows this is all suicidal shit, but his political inclination is so strong it overpowers what he knows to be true.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:52 AM (eKUKw)

94 67 Oh, what we wouldn't give for a 41% approval rating!

Our approval rating will be higher once Scam-and-Tax and Obamacare are fully functional.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (9hSKh)

95 I apologize for the racist tone of this poll.

Posted by: the other Joe Barton at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (AZGON)

If you get voted out only aftwr one term that mean your pretty shitty to begin with.

I take umbrage with that statement!!11!!

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (CfmlF)

97 Oy. I need some pudding.

Posted by: Norah O'Donnell at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (T0bhq)

Get to the thirties? You mean like the 1930's?

YES WE CAN!

Posted by: Meremortal at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (7FgWm)

99 I saw that Vermont is the biggest LEECH state out of the 57 states. They must be the left over hippies from Woodstock in Vermont. What kind of twisted soul would elect Sanders and Leahy? Anyone from Vermont with a brain cell can answer this I would appreciate it. Why don't we just make Vermont a County or Township in New York.....Vermont is worthless anyway, what do they produce anyway besides Ice Cream and Teddy Bears??? Look at the retard town of Brattleboro !!!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (k7Ddt)

100 loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth Ã· mockery Ã· condemnation Ã· misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 08:53 AM (0q2P7)

101 I have reverse runningrn disease - can't put on dirty socks like Nancy Pelousi.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 08:54 AM (9hSKh)

102 Give chaos a hug.

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Comin' right up.

Posted by: Rep Bob Etheridge (D- Cong-fu master) at June 18, 2010 08:54 AM (R2fpr)

103 Eh. . .

No matter how much his numbers tank, he's still going to be running our foreign policy like an idiot and appointing appalling activist judges for the next 2.5 years.

At "best" falling polls numbers mean he's going to have a hard time enacting any more of his Socialist agenda through the Congress.

But even there, between the Porkulus slush fund and Obamacare, he's probably shot most of his load already anyway.

Posted by: looking closely at June 18, 2010 08:55 AM (6Q9g2)

104 What does giving money who are in the tank for you anyway really accomplish? Making sure they show up to vote?

True Believers will save some of the loot to buy Osama Obama the votes he'll need to stay in office. That's one reason they want to legalize the illegals: lower-price votes!

Posted by: MrScribbler at June 18, 2010 08:56 AM (Ulu3i)

105 krugman has a piece at the times on how austerity measures will destroy the world economies I'm certain madman Krugman has a lot squirreled away from book deals and syndicated columns and consultant fees. So here's the deal, Paul. Write me a check for 100 large from your fat bank account and I will put an end to my personal austerity. Do your part to end austerity, Paul. Do it, Paul. Do it for the childwens. I'm waiting, cheesedick.

Posted by: George Orwell at June 18, 2010 08:56 AM (AZGON)

106

Wait until someone smashes his unicorn water globe. Totally did me in, I tell ya.

Posted by: Michael Douglas at June 18, 2010 08:56 AM (gbCNS)

107 Even if you're standing on the crater-to-be?

In reality by the time you realized it was going to impact at your location it would be too late.

^{Ooooh Pretty, WAIT WHA.BOOM!}

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 08:56 AM (0q2P7)

108
Funny that the Kraut Hammer should say that.

The other day I called Obama President Fix-it because during the campaign all Obama said was how he was going to fix everything (that Bush and the Republicans destroyed).

People voted for Obama because they were brainwashed into thinking Obama had a 'fix' for everything Bush ruined.

Posted by: a sign post up ahead at June 18, 2010 08:57 AM (uFokq)

109 What kind of twisted soul would elect Sanders and Leahy?

About 20 years ago southern VT was invaded by Bostonians looking to live outside the Boston mess. They still commute into the Boston area on Rt 2.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:57 AM (eKUKw)

110

Obama to Europe, "No! Don't abandon socialism yet! I know your socialist idiots couldn't get it right, but hang in there, I assure that we have the absolute best socialist idiots!"

Yeah, I bet he's wishing he wasn't so dismissive and snooty to them earlier. I don't know why Germany, France or Great Britain would want to give him an assist any more.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 18, 2010 08:57 AM (CfmlF)

111

Hell of job you've done in the gulf, Barry!

You stupid winger, it's "Golf"!!11!!

Posted by: Obama Apologist at June 18, 2010 08:58 AM (CfmlF)

112 I made an unscientific observation today when I was out shopping for Father's Day. I counted at least 6 anti-obama or miss me yet? GWB bumper stickers. That's quite an uptick of expressing dissent or disgust on your automobile that I've noticed in the past couple of weeks. More people are losing their caution to express themselves more openly.

Posted by: magnolia at June 18, 2010 08:58 AM (sSvVc)

113 Head to Head polling with GOP people right now is irreverent. If these are his numbers or close to it in 2012, he is toast.

Posted by: Dan at June 18, 2010 08:59 AM (1jzSs)

114 People voted for Obama because they were brainwashed into thinking Obama had a 'fix' for everything Bush ruined.

He fixed things the way Mugabe fixed Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 08:59 AM (eKUKw)

115
Krugman - what ever he suggests, do the opposite.
Keynesian idiota extraordinaire.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 18, 2010 08:59 AM (0fzsA)

116
They should all tell him to butt-out of their affairs.

heh, I think the phrase is bud out....or in. As in Don't be a budinski.

Isn't it?

Posted by: a sign post up ahead at June 18, 2010 09:00 AM (uFokq)

117

I have reverse runningrn disease - can't put on dirty socks like Nancy Pelousi.

Kratos! Come here! I have just the RX for you!

Posted by: runningrn holding syringe with bigass needle at June 18, 2010 09:00 AM (CfmlF)

118 Those people with those bumper stickers are racist toward Estonian French Gay Dwarf African Americans

Posted by: Frogger MacGee at June 18, 2010 09:00 AM (k7Ddt)

119

114 Yeah, I bet he's wishing he wasn't so dismissive and snooty to them earlier. I don't know why Germany, France or Great Britain would want to give him an assist any more.

Merkel dislikes him, Sarko thinks he's an idiot, & Cameron has a populace foaming with anger at Obama right now. I think the president would be wise to resist advising our former friends & allies, for the present. Otherwise, we may find ourselves in a major crisis & no one will be willing to assist us.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 09:01 AM (Yq+qN)

120 More people are losing their caution to express themselves more openly.

One of my Haitian neighbor was a strident Obama supporter (which was odd since he wasn't a big fan of Aristide who's style is similar to Obama's). Apparently he bought the pitch because it was smooth.

Recently that neighbor has been pretty luke warm on the zero.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 09:02 AM (eKUKw)

121 116 I made an unscientific observation today when I was out shopping for Father's Day. I counted at least 6 anti-obama or miss me yet? GWB bumper stickers. That's quite an uptick of expressing dissent or disgust on your automobile that I've noticed in the past couple of weeks. More people are losing their caution to express themselves more openly. Unfortunately for me, none of my Obama voting friends have lost their love for the man. Some of my co-workers have (as they anticipate life and work under Obamacare). I don't get it. These are really smart people. (Although, their only source of news is the MFM).

Posted by: runningrn holding syringe with bigass needle at June 18, 2010 09:02 AM (CfmlF)

122

I counted at least 6 anti-obama or miss me yet? GWB bumper stickers. That's quite an uptick of expressing dissent or disgust on your automobile that I've noticed in the past couple of weeks.

I continue my program of running cars that still have OBAMA/BIDEN stickers on them into the nearest ditch. Just as OBAMA/BIDEN are doing to the nation.

Posted by: Cicero at June 18, 2010 09:03 AM (QKKT0)

123 Germany, France or Great Britain would want to give him an assist any more.

Because this could be their last chance in a while to see an avowed socialist in the white house.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 09:03 AM (0q2P7)

124 The racism is so thick, you can cut it with a knife hammer sickle.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 18, 2010 09:03 AM (0wk5J)

125

Yeah, remember that knuckle dragging idiot Bush? And how he dragged America into war in Afghanistan without any kind of coalition of the willing? Remember how we had to go it alone?

Posted by: runningrn holding syringe with bigass needle at June 18, 2010 09:04 AM (CfmlF)

126 Kinda OT: More proof that Obama is a dick. Warning, kinds NSFW.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 18, 2010 09:04 AM (xxgag)

127

butt in or butt out, as in "head butt."

pushing your self into a situation is butting in.

Posted by: s'moron at June 18, 2010 09:04 AM (UaxA0)

128

Europe is intentionally making socialism look bad so that Obama will fail to bring us our UTOPIA!

Someone check Bush's travel itineraries, and see how many times he's been to Spain, Italy and Greece since leaving office.

Posted by: KOS! at June 18, 2010 09:04 AM (kC3nL)

129 New thread. You'll never guess the subject...

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 09:05 AM (Yq+qN)

130 An honest unemployment piece?

Unemployment falls in 37 states in May. But most of the declines came as people gave up searching for work

WASHINGTON - A majority of states saw their unemployment rates drop in May. But the widespread declines were mainly because people gave up work searches and were no longer counted.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 09:05 AM (9hSKh)

131 Cowinkidink? 58% support AZ immigration law. 41% dont.

new abc poll.

Posted by: Norah O'Donnell at June 18, 2010 09:05 AM (T0bhq)

132 Hey PA! How about a piece on the lemmings who sucked up that 8k tax credit at inflated rates as opposed to current 30y rates. How long before we make the difference up as home prices continue to sink and lack of demand for mortgages+rising treasury prices drive interest rates down?

Getting ready to pull the trigger late this year...always like to hear our conjoined beliefs in this "recovering" economy...

Posted by: Something Wicked This Way Comes... at June 18, 2010 09:06 AM (uFdnM)

133 and sock off.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at June 18, 2010 09:06 AM (T0bhq)

134

129 Yeah, remember that knuckle dragging idiot Bush? And how he dragged America into war in Afghanistan without any kind of coalition of the willing? Remember how we had to go it alone?

...Back when we had the right kind of allies, & the special relationship still existed, & the right kinds of leaders respected our president. Those were the good old days.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 09:08 AM (Yq+qN)

135 Somehow this seems worth reviewing. The many faces of Barry. In the mirror.

Posted by: George Orwell at June 18, 2010 09:08 AM (AZGON)

136 41%. Ouch. I don't think there is a blow out preventer on this hole.

Posted by: USA at June 18, 2010 09:09 AM (YZISw)

137 130: Epic

Posted by: Truman North at June 18, 2010 09:10 AM (e8YaH)

138 I don't think there is a blow out preventer on this hole. I see what you did there. I like it.

Posted by: George Orwell at June 18, 2010 09:10 AM (AZGON)

139 who sucked up that 8k tax credit at inflated rates as opposed to current 30y rates

They're gonna feel pretty boned about a year from now.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at June 18, 2010 09:10 AM (eKUKw)

140 54 No comment.

Posted by: Joe Barton at June 18, 2010 12:36 PM (VXBR1)

Ditto!

Posted by: Alvin Greene at June 18, 2010 09:10 AM (OtQXp)

141 Obama's Wookie Wife is a Hottie. That is all we need to win over the Europeans ! I bet Sarkozy creams in his pants when he see's Chewy's Michelle's picture compared to what he's got now !!!!

Posted by: Frogger MacGee at June 18, 2010 09:10 AM (k7Ddt)

142 @130 WIN. And WIN again.

Posted by: George Orwell at June 18, 2010 09:12 AM (AZGON)

143 Racist PIGS in California: SAN DIEGO -- A sticker with the phrase, Â“Please donÂ’t feed our bumsÂ” is stuck on storefronts around Ocean Beach, based on satire of The National Park ServiceÂ’s Â“Please donÂ’t feed the bearsÂ” sticker and bringing a serious message.

Â“People who live and work in the area know how it feels to be harassed by these people,Â” said Chaz Lomack, who works at an Ocean Beach business.

The stickers are targeting a new group of homeless, who are young aggressive panhandlers who chose not to work and ask for money instead.

Â“IÂ’ve sat out on the corner asking for spare change. IÂ’m out here for the simple fact that IÂ’m a cancer patient. I have skull cancerÂ…and canÂ’t have a job,Â” said a homeless man who goes by the name of Â“Thumper.Â”

Others who hang around the south seawall in Ocean Beach say they want this lifestyle.

Â“Everything IÂ’ve ever had in the material world failed me miserably,Â” said James Taylor. Â“HonestlyÂ…IÂ’ve never been happier.Â”

An employee at the Ocean Beach store called The Black started carrying the stickers two weeks ago. Ken Anderson did not want to be interviewed on camera but said the stickers are meant to make the community realize the homeless population has become out of control.

Posted by: Frogger MacGee at June 18, 2010 09:13 AM (k7Ddt)

144

What does giving money who are in the tank for you anyway really accomplish? Making sure they show up to vote?

Here's our strategy for November 2012. On say Monday we order all bail bondsmen closed for a day, so no one can make bail.

That'll cut so deep into the Obama vote that we'll win in a walk.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 18, 2010 09:14 AM (0wk5J)

145 If you parse the data, Obama's "strong approves" have been stuck at about 25% for a while.

Most of that crowd are probably individuals who would support him no matter WHAT he did. IE they're enchanted more with the idea of Obama than his actual performance.

The biggest loss for him is just overall "approves".

It appears that he's losing the middle.

Posted by: looking closely at June 18, 2010 09:15 AM (6Q9g2)

146

Vermont is worthless anyway, what do they produce anyway besides Ice Cream and Teddy Bears???

What the fuck do you think I put on my waffles, you jackass?

Posted by: President Breakfast Interruptus at June 18, 2010 09:17 AM (Zi+FQ)

147 #148

That approach didn't work too well for Andre Bauer, even in South Carolina.

Maybe he should run for elected office in San Diego.

Posted by: looking closely at June 18, 2010 09:18 AM (6Q9g2)

148

You put BUTTER on your waffles.... Panty Waist !!!!

Posted by: Oscar Mayer at June 18, 2010 09:20 AM (k7Ddt)

149 It is times like this that I really hope the FBI is listening to Rush

Oh, I'm sure it is. Not to protect him, though.

Also? Somewhere, George W. Bush is laughing very, very hard.

Posted by: Filly at June 18, 2010 09:21 AM (D1TMa)

150

To President Breakfast Interruptus,

The people of Vermont do not produce Maple Syrup... The Racist Homophobic Trees Do !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Fart Tube Jones at June 18, 2010 09:21 AM (k7Ddt)

151 If you parse the data, Obama's "strong approves" have been stuck at about 25% for a while.

I think its a lot of people who think things were catastrophically bad during Bush. I think they think that the unemployment rate back then was 25% and the infant mortality rate was 50% and every single bridge was falling apart. Dumbasses like that.

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at June 18, 2010 09:21 AM (JKe0g)

152 magnolia: "That's quite an uptick of expressing dissent or disgust on your automobile that I've noticed in the past couple of weeks. More people are losing their caution to express themselves more openly."

Yep. The bloom is off the rose.

Two signs in media/pop-culture just about knocked me over. First, Carville's rant tearing Obama a new one was the political dam breaking. Next, John Stewart producing multiple, biting clips (finally the tangential critiques are gone) that hit at the core of Obama's incompetence was the youth vote/Hollywood aura dam breaking.

This was a bellwether month. It's now OK to publicly attack The Precedent and his policies. Obama will not recover.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at June 18, 2010 09:22 AM (swuwV)

153
These are the same people who say Bush screwed things up so bad, that it will take Obama a long time to fix it. I'm sure if you press them on the details of the things Bush screwed up so bad, they will not be able to answer with anything substantive.

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at June 18, 2010 09:23 AM (JKe0g)

154 Don't Forget that Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuush screwed up our relatuions with the Martians and Klingons. Obama has already patched up relations with the Klingons...He married one --- WORF !!!!!!

Posted by: Jim Jameson at June 18, 2010 09:25 AM (k7Ddt)

155 All I know is that if Obama fixed the Spaghettio recall crisis his poll numbers would shoot up to the high 60s.

Posted by: mpfs at June 18, 2010 09:28 AM (iYbLN)

156 Tho' my blood pressure spiked when I saw, no kidding, a bumper sticker that said Obama 2012/Clinton 2016. Stuck on permanent stupid.

Posted by: magnolia at June 18, 2010 09:29 AM (sSvVc)

157 who sucked up that 8k tax credit at inflated rates as opposed to current 30y ratesw

Meh.

If i take the 6500 credit and invest it with a 5% return, then the payout would be about $400 per year.

I can guarantee a risk free 5% return right now by paying down the principle on my 5% rate mortgage with the tax credit. And I could do better, maybe, in the stock market.

If I had bought my house at today's rates (4.5% ), the savings would be about $600 per year.

So I missed out on a little. The thing is, I couldn't predict that rates would go lower at the time i bought. Odds were, they were going up.

Posted by: Warden at June 18, 2010 09:41 AM (fE6tn)

158

158 These are the same people who say Bush screwed things up so bad, that it will take Obama a long time to fix it. I'm sure if you press them on the details of the things Bush screwed up so bad, they will not be able to answer with anything substantive.

They usually answer in vague statements. "The war! Katrina! Big Oil! Lack of jobs!" As far as details are concerned, they just parrot what they heard on the MFM. One of my friends even quotes The View as evidence.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 10:01 AM (Yq+qN)

159 I remember when Bush went below freezing 32 and I think some polls had him at 23%. RealClearPolitics has Obama's support (as an average of 5-6 polls) remaining basically unchanged since Feb. Rasmussen was the last major poll to have McCain winning in 2008.

Posted by: Michael Collins at June 18, 2010 10:07 AM (I+7Zv)

160 Derrr der diddly der duh!

Posted by: Erg Collins at June 18, 2010 10:27 AM (VDgKF)

161 I remember when Bush went below freezing 32 and I think some polls had him at 23%.

So you're saying that Barry still has plenty of downside coming. I can't really argue with that.

Posted by: damian at June 18, 2010 10:32 AM (4WbTI)

162

One of my friends even quotes The View as evidence.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at June 18, 2010 02:01 PM (Yq+qN

Obviously they're not quoting Hasselback then. She may not be the sharpest but compared to the rest of those bitches she does have a functioning brain.

Posted by: buzzion at June 18, 2010 10:33 AM (oVQFe)

163

Rasmussen was the last major poll to have McCain winning in 2008.

And when did he have McCain winning in 2008 you pathetic troll? You want it to sound like he had McCain as winning the Monday before the election. And I really doubt that was the case. Get lost John Ryan.

Posted by: buzzion at June 18, 2010 10:36 AM (oVQFe)

164 Hey, look at the silver lining: 41% is better than 40%.

Posted by: Polly Anna at June 18, 2010 10:55 AM (7eWcr)

165

http://tinyurl.com/2a9hdlo

A patent on emissions trading from 2005. Frankli Raines et al.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at June 18, 2010 11:03 AM (w41GQ)

166

72% of unaffiliated voters disapprove.

Doom.

Posted by: greek chorus at June 18, 2010 11:07 AM (4WbTI)

167 None of this matters, since the Democrats are going to gain 375 seats in November anyway.

Posted by: crapdragon at June 18, 2010 11:08 AM (VDgKF)

168 Faster!

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at June 18, 2010 11:18 AM (pT+8b)

169 Wait until the 52% fucks see the ABC story about the Coast Guard stopping the oil sucking barges for a day to 'check for life preservers and fire extinguishers' Think about that. They couldnt just check while the work continues, like they check your fishing license. They had to STOP SUCKING THE OIL for 24 hours! B+arry WANTS this mess as big as possible and nobody can convince me otherwise.

Posted by: Schwalbe at June 18, 2010 11:20 AM (UU0OF)

170 41% Approval + 45% for Affirmative Action = 86%. A solid B+.

Posted by: kansas at June 18, 2010 11:42 AM (mka2b)

171 Wait, this poll obviously doesn't factor in the Barton apology. I'm guessing that Lord Zero will be back above 60 percent based on the reactions to yesterday's apology.....

Posted by: Luca Brasi at June 18, 2010 11:45 AM (YmPwQ)

172 Take away the black vote and he's at 29%.If he doesn't start giving them lots of free stuff soon, they wont vote against him, they just wont vote. I think he'll be lucky to get 60% of the turnout he had in his election when the midterms come. Unless of course it starts raining money in the inner cities. He does have a lot of leftover TARP money and he did just shakedown BP for a ton of dough, but I don't think that will do it.

Posted by: ck at June 18, 2010 12:19 PM (FilQu)

173

Posted by: Michael Collins at June 18, 2010 02:07 PM (I+7Zv)

Ignorant troll is ignorant. And fucking retarded.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at June 18, 2010 12:49 PM (ieQTh)

174

Obama will never get below 40% approval. 15% liberal hispanic vote+ 12% liberal black vote+13% liberal feminist vote= 40% approval...he can't go any lower than that....etched in stone.

Posted by: eyore at June 18, 2010 01:52 PM (7kgNN)

175 Bush's fault.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at June 18, 2010 02:49 PM (ACkhT)

176

"He's lost all the Hillary dems here that I know."

He never had millions of them. and now those Hillary dems, people like me, will even campaign against ANY demon-rat.

He's not just destroying his presidency, he is destroying the democrat brand, which is what Hillary dems were yelling about.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at June 18, 2010 02:59 PM (ACkhT)

177 laptop batteries laptop batteries

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