Two-Thirds Of Americans Do Not Back Obama's Decision On Bergdahl

In a week dominated by headlines of heroes and D-Day celebrations, we suspect President Obama was hoping for a patriotic bump in his ratings... but as The Hill reports, people in the United States say President Obama paid too high a price for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and largely disapprove of the administration’s handling of the swap, according to a pair of new polls. Only 34% of those polled (by USA Today/ Pew) backed Obama's decision as 'the right thing' but more crucially, it appears the President's ongoing push towards tyranny that is most worrisome as 72% said Obama should have informed Congress before making the deal.

As The Hill reports,

People in the United States say President Obama paid too high a price for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, and largely disapprove of the administration’s handling of the swap, according to a pair of new polls.

Some 45 percent of those surveyed in a CBS News poll said they disapprove of the detainee swap, with 37 percent backing the move. A sizable 18 percent remain undecided on the issue.

Those findings are largely echoed by a USA Today / Pew Research poll, in which 43 percent of people said Obama should not have made the trade, with just 34 percent backing it as the right thing to do.

But a significant majority — 72 percent — said President Obama should have informed Congress before approving the deal. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have criticized the president for ignoring a legal requirement that Congress is informed 30 days before the transfer of any detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The president freed five Taliban prisoners held at the prison in exchange for Bergdahl.

A majority of those surveyed also said Obama paid too high a price for his release. Of those surveyed, 56 percent say Obama gave up too much while 28 percent said the terms were reasonable. That includes nearly two-thirds — 65 percent — of veterans who said the price was too high.

Veterans in the USA Today survey were also among the most likely to express anger with Bergdahl himself, who is accused of abandoning his post in Afghanistan before his capture by the Taliban. Some 33 percent said they were angry with Bergdahl, while just 6 percent said they sympathized with him.

Overall Obama's approval rating was unchanged on the month as minimum wage pressure in Seattle, student loan bailouts, and immigration handouts trumped any negatives from the Bergdahl swap...

Comments

[crazybob369]

This may be somewhat off topic, but I recently saw another poll that supports the NBA's action to force Donald Sterling to sell his team, the LA Clippers.  I thought to myself WTF, the sheeples must be really retarded, or so brainwashed that they have lost their ability to think rationaly.  I will give you the fact that the NBA, being a private rich persons club, can do whatever the fuck it wants.  But for a majority of the American public to support their actions.  First off, I'm not sure that something that a senile old fart says to his trophy squeeze in private should be allowed to become a public matter.  Once it did, symptomatic of what happens in any type of government-like organization, the powers that be had to fix the problem.  Their fix, and punishment, is to make the asshole $2,000,000,000 richer.  That will teach that racist bastard!!!!!  Of course being a senile old coot he decides to fight his "punishment".  Had the league left him alone, players would refuse to work for him, and eventually his team would lose its value to the point where he would have to sell it, probably at a loss.  That would be justice.  But, I fear we are too far down the rabbit hole and completely screwed.  The retard zombies have won.

[little lebowski]

Congress was aware of this transaction nearly two years ago, and had no problem with it. Just sayin'

[Aussiekiwi]

I doubt most members of Congress are aware of what day it is, let alone what they agreed to two years ago.

[Playtime's Over]

Congress is irrelevant.  Obi does what he wants, has a phone and pen too.

[esum]

negrodomus said when push comes to shove he will stand with his muslim brothers.... one is a deserter and possibly a traitor and the other is TRAITOR... THE MARINE IN MEXICO ROTS , THE AMERICAN IN IRAN ROTS  

[lakecity55]

Valjar: "Bath House, my pet, we have only two more years to thoroughly destroy America. I have worked my ass off to get as many illegal immigrants in here to overwhelm the System, bring disease and moar poverty. You have slacked off on Syria, Ukraine, and everything else. Do I have to do Everything?

BH: Hey, I got those buddies of ours released!I heard they're whooping it up in Qatar!

VJ: Five guys? Gimme a break. You need to get that war started ASAP! I have conspired with Iran, where I was born. You had better get those Russians mad enough to lob some nukes over here. I hate this country more than you will ever hate America. I want it turned into a wasteland! Now, get to work!

BH: Yes, ma'am.

VJ: And remember our code! What did our Boss say? Do you remember?

BH: It is better to Rule on Earth than to Serve in Heaven.

VJ: Get to work! Now. I have a "mass" to attend.

[Aussiekiwi]

It was a dumb decision that given the amount of time the administration has had for reflection they would not do again, so lets just move on.