Gallup Poll: Petulant Boy-King Will Soon Get Chance to Find Less Boring Job

By marfdrat on February 1, 2012

From time to time, you hear commenters in the media explaining why Wile E Obama (Geeeeenius) isn’t doing such a hot job as president: the job’s just too boring and pedestrian. It’s way below the skills and intelligence he sharpened as a community organizer. When he gets done, he’ll be able to find something much better-suited to his abilities. Gallup’s recent state-by-state presidential approval numbers indicate he’ll probably get his chance to find that job sooner, rather than later.

From Conn Carroll at the Washington Examiner:

Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers yesterday, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.

Gallup adds:

Overall, Obama averaged 44% job approval in his third year in office, down from 47% in his second year. His approval rating declined from 2010 to 2011 in most states, with Wyoming, Connecticut, and Maine showing a marginal increase, and Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Jersey, Arizona, West Virginia, Michigan, and Georgia showing declines of less than a full percentage point. The greatest declines were in Hawaii, South Dakota, Nebraska, and New Mexico.

http://www.marfdrat.net marfdrat

Um, Cortney (or whatever your name is), this post didn’t say anything about Marxism (though I believe Obama aspires to Marxist ideals) or any thing else you mentioned here. Checking on Disqus, you seem to have a pattern of plastering these long not-related-to-anything comments all over the place. I’m open to having my beliefs and words challenged, but this Liberal Diatribe 101 stuff is just taking up space. Please make your comments relevant to the post, or it’s the blacklist for you.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cortney-Moore/100002464515465 Cortney Moore

I assume you are using the term “Marxist” as hyperbole to emphasize your point, and it’s not meant to be factual, correct? Karl Marx would very much disagree with President Obama’s capitalist ways.

Karl Rove’s breaking new ground came within 100 votes of losing the election for Bush – both times. It created a President who did NOT have a popular mandate to govern, and put him into the history books as the worst Presidents in history, and set the stage for a black man to be elected, which is the worst thing possible from the Republicans point of view.

I don’t mean to be flippant but the vitriol spewing from the right these days is as sound as the juvenile statement above. Now, if any progressive or person of color brings up the fact that the lot of GOP candidates is racist. We get the, “they’re playing the race card argument”. The implication is that it is better not to bring up race, after all we wouldn’t want people of color to adopt a victim’s mentality.

In the following 8 years, under Bush, not Obama, America ran it’s first trillion dollar deficit. Two endless wars, tax cuts favoring the ultra wealthy and unpaid entitlement programs such as Medicare Part D were the primary culprits. Fiscal irresponsibility of the highest order by the republicans in taking a budget surplus to a trillion dollar deficit. Bush’s last years, he left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression. Job losses of half a million or more per month. No job creation, just massive job losses. TARP. Think of September, 2008 when John McCain told us the economy and Wall Street were fine. His people called Americans “whiners” and it was just a mental recession. Ever wonder why the 8 GOP candidates never mention Bush in all their blathering? President Obama took the GOP disaster and has led America forward, although with GOP intransigence, much slower than all of us would like.

Wall Street reform. Health reform that keeps kids covered, that keeps insurance companies from cutting sick folk off their paid for benefits. Saved millions of manufacturing jobs in the auto industry. Supports GOP ideas like cap and trade (McCain/Palin ran on it in 2008!), personal responsibility such as Newt and Mitt supported mandates, and other policies in a bipartisan fashion. But the GOP abandons their own ideas once he agrees to compromise. The GOP won the House in 2010 and promised JOBS JOBS JOBS. Nary a Jobs Bill in sight, but they voted on abortion 7 times. They vote on an existing national motto. That sure saved us, didn’t it? But no help on jobs. We have much, much more work to dig out of this Second Great Republican Depression.

We have gone from continuous months of half million job losses to 23 months of private sector job growth. Job growth of 200,000 per month versus Bush’s astounding job loss record. Much more to go. Americans generally pay lower taxes now than ever before, especially the wealthiest Americans. As has been asked on other thread: when was the last time the ultra rich paid significantly lower taxes? Mitt paid 13% of his $42 million income. Again: when was the last time the ultra rich paid significantly lower taxes than they do now? I do not support Occupy. To link President Obama to communists and black panthers is a pathetic Fox fantasy. Nor do I support giving the car keys back to the political hacks that drove our economy into a ditch.

Republicans almost killed the economy and the middle class a few short years ago.
They have done and said NOTHING to “earn” the chance to destroy our country any further. So hide from facts and scare folks with the story of two jerks in Philly 3 years ago resurrecting the panthers. Your fear and lies don’t play anymore. It’s halftime, America. We have work to do.