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Despite "Better Economy" & Tumbling Unemployment, Obama Approval Rating Sinks To Record Low
“Unemployment down, jobs up,” President Obama exclaimed, adding gloatingly that "manufacturing growing. Deficits cut by more than half. High School graduation up. College enrollment up. Energy production up.” As Spectator's Ralph Reiland points out, Obamanomics, allegedly batting a thousand - everything that should be up was up and everything that should be down was down. “By every economic measure, we are better off now than we were when I took office,” declared President Obama... so why, if everything is ponies and unicorns, is President Obama's approval rating at record lows. 61% of Americans disapprove of Obama's foreign policy with only 42% approving of the President overall.
With just weeks to the mid-terms, it appears the president is not helping matters for his team (as WaPo shows below)
Perhaps this is why?
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In Liberia, the president doesn't allow such polling.
Executive Orders
Get ready.
Too bad the risk of cantagion will prevent elections in the USA.
Pretty bad when the FSA isn't happy
You can fool some people some time but... meh, fuck Ebongo the banksters' puppet and clown-golfer-in-chief.
Everyone has finally figured out that the propaganda coming out of Washington is just that, propaganda... Falsehoods, lies, obfuscations of the truth, coupled with malfeasance and outright ineptitude... All for political gain... The democrats would rather kill the country than to relinquish control... The GOP is no better... In other words, the whole system is irreparably broken...
Keyser, you've got it. Pretty much everyone on ZH has figured out "that the propaganda coming out of Washington is just that, propaganda", but it's much broader than that. Joe Sixpack, Edith Bunker and Willie Lohman have too!
Indeed, my experience is that if I really dig beneath all the layers of bullshit, it really is everybody. They may not agree on what's true, but if I patiently take them still deeper I can find a level where almost everybody agrees on that.
But not that many have got it that "everyone has finally figured it out!" The ultimate spell that's been cast is the shared illusion that "all those other stupid people out there" believe the bullshit.
So Keyser, Keep on sayin' it!
I pledge allegiance to EBT of the banana states of 'murca, and to the free-for-all, for which it stands, one mob, er, divisible, with burrito toppings for all.
And the congregation said Amen.
I thought Valerie Jarrett was the President...
I don't think the guy even wants the job anymore.
Wasn't he looking at houses in Florida a while ago?
He wasn't looking too hard. It was a good chance to get in a rare round of golf.
The economy is not better. Unemployment is at 23%. GDP is flat. Middle America is 40 percent poorer than it was in 2008. 92 million Americans are out of work. The article is more bullshit.
42% still approve, overall. We. Are. Screwed.
I have to declare broken arrow. Here are my coordinates...
Precisely the problem. Obozo and the lib media have conditioned the dumbfuck populace into a liberal mindset over all shit going on in the world. He's cornered the minority vote. His approval rating should be in the teens based on average to low IQ dwellers in these respective demographics, and all others polling favorably for obozo are either clueless or beneficiaries of his discombobulated vision of America, which is what.. see, I can't even characterize or define his nonsense.
It's called voting against one's self interest, and loyal voters of either of the false two-party illusion (they work for the same people, and use a social wedge issue strategy of divide and conquer to stay in office while colluding on the substantive crimes against the American Citizenry) are equally culpable.
Americans have been extremely well trained to vote against their self interests; then again, neither party gives any sincere concern to the concerns of and problems facing the common citizen (Americans), so it's a moot point at this stage.
Why people hate him ..... probably has something to do with doing everything he can to weaken and destroy the United States.
It's like the data is meaningless or something
#theDJIAisnotAmericasreportcard
Does anyone really think 'elections' matter in the Land of Electronic Spying and electronic 'vote' counting ?
The criminals in charge just need to make sure they aren't so completely blatant in their thievery & dictorial behavior as to cause mass riots & revolution in the streets.
Given the stupidity of much of the population, we're a very long way from that.
Someone said that it takes enough intelligence to know why freedom is important and it takes enough courage to fight for it. Both qualities are in short supply.
51% of the useless eaters would vote for him again.
Exactly. When Carter was president, people needed jobs to feed their family so he was voted out. Since that is no longer necessary, they will elect anyone that is passing out free stuff.
well...doc
some of us worthless eaters served our time protecting 100% of our country..
and earned our pensions...
my family was hard right...but still lined up for their pensions and SS benefits...
then it was ok..
Protecting our country from what? Last I looked, our freedoms and rights have been steadily eroding for at least 80 years, and the military hasn't protected us one bit from Congress, the Supremes, and various fascist administrations and their unelected, untouchable 'regulatory agencies'.
Listen Fed.
Your USSA military are as much a part of the FSA as the Ferguson, Mo. protesters.
at my level...
all that was above my paygrade...
but thats ok..
WHERE WERE YOU, FIGHTIN AGAINST THE ABVE YOU LIST...
WELL, HERO...IM WAITING...
I never claimed to be protecting our country. All I can do is try to awaken my fellow sheeple, the military has much more power than I do. The US military has never protected the US. It has only been used as a profit generator for the big banks and weapons makers and materiel suppliers. And undertakers.
what part of abve my paygrade didnt you get?
and didnt say you were protecting our country..
i said, for the second time, where were you fighting against all that you listed...
AND RUNNING YOUR MOUTH DOESNT COUNT...
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well, im waiting for you..
I wasn't attacking you personally, just trying to get you to think about the statement 'protecting our country'.
Didn't down arrow you either.
BTW, someone give me an example of the US military actually protecting us from an outside (or domestic) enemy. America has been under constant attack from DC, yet no military response.
think about the statement...WTF are you talking about...while you were thinking, i was serving...
and at my level, i dont care if 9/11 was real or not! not my paygrade!!!
you can DEBATE (RUN YOUR MOUTH) if it was an inside job, 19 guys and a camels, or frickin ALIENS...
I DONT CARE!
it was my job to do what i was told...
and thats why i get a PENSION...
and OH< ENOUGH!
Doing your job and protecting our country are not necessarily the same thing.
That defense has already been tried and rejected.... just saying. I was in the Army and I don't believe any of the hero bullshit. It was a clusterfuck of mostly alchoholic retards.
hero...NO
doing my job...YES!
Congratulations on being an unwitting pawn of the Military-Industrial Complex, and then double congratulations on invoking the Nuremberg defense to justify the scraps that that are thrown to you from the master's table for being a good house slave.
If you were truly "doing your job" - the oath that you swore says that you will support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic - then you should have picked up your rifle and marched on Washington DC
Judging from the down arrows, a lot of people sure love their government and their endless wars.
they damn sure do. time to review. war is a racket.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
X.inf.capt think about the statement...WTF are you talking about...while you were thinking, i was serving...
and at my level, i dont care if 9/11 was real or not! not my paygrade!!!
you can DEBATE (RUN YOUR MOUTH) if it was an inside job, 19 guys and a camels, or frickin ALIENS...
I DONT CARE!
it was my job to do what i was told...
and thats why i get a PENSION...
and OH< ENOUGH!
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Fuck this pay grade shit. That is the same argument that elites use for their agenda. We need them to save us because they are so smart and are the pay grade while we are serfs. I call BS on that.
Listen P0.
The guy's a total USSA idiot. But what is astounding is the shear number of similar mindsets in the USSA.
"Kill 'em all and we'll sort them out in the morning", and the golden carrot is the warm comfortable thought of the government tit that he gets to suckle at the end of each day.
Sick fuckers and they have no idea, none whatsoever.
So if they tell you to shoot Americans, would you do that too, for your pension, y' know? I mean, it's your job, right?
You guys were fighting the wrong people. Iraqis and Afghans aren't the ones taking away our rights
but they were close. just too far east. more like south of lebanon, west of jordan, north of egypt.
"the wrong people". Yes.
They hate us for our freedoms.
And they're striving everyday to remove them all, for our safety and sercurity, of course.
I'm not talking about the people who worked their ass off to make a living. I'm talking about the people (yes I'm including corporations as well since the Supreme Court declared them to be people too) who continually take from the system without giving something back.
Blaming Obama is like blaming Bush, with everyone stuck in the facade of the left vs right paradigm. Bottom line is Obama is the closer for the NWO Globalists because nobody else would have gotten as far as he has without opposition. There are no more elections people are now selected. The real question is who are the 42%
OH fck you and the NWO. The NWO isn't holding US elective positions with their families living here. Nor are the real criminals of the Bureaucracy, and their families living next door to you members of the NWO. They're just running the trains and maintaining the railroad tracks.
NO! fuck you and your stupidity, but keep your head in your ass because you probably like the smell
Look at the list of who's on the Council on Foreign Relations and look at who's in office. You'll find a lot of the same people. Next look at elected officials and higher ups that are dual US and Israeli citizens. You'll find a lot of the same people. The NWO is here. They live here. They live in Europe. They live in Israel. It's a well organized conspiracy. And they are not just running the trains.
Plenty of libs and long time Dems would vote for him again too. I don't know how many of the above I've spoken to who have Absolutely No Idea what Obozo has helped bring about in this country.
Hey maybe Ebola will spike the employment rate long incinerators!
Actually it might. Disease can and will disproportionately kill the elderly and infirm. If it gets loose in a big way, expect real wages to rise in many places as the population gets cratered.
Of course, tax breaks should keep in lock-step with the diminishing elderly population, but everyone knows that taxes only go down if you're a millionaire these days.
The US is a consumer economy. You don't think that killing off a good chunk of the population will affect consumption?
Most likely in the short term, but I also see it killing off more people in population dense areas and countries and affecting government budgets. Also in the event you are over 55, my bet is the fatality rate goes up exponentially.
There will always be consumption. People consume just to exist. I'm not going to cry myself to sleep at night if 1000 less Cadillacs get sold. I'm more worried about some jackass with executive power using my tax revenues to prop up/recapitalize failing businesses (to the tune of a cool 4 trillion) and then taxing me again to refill the coffers.
Because the economy sucks and unemployment is not tumbling (career employment is though).
Add not getting us out of pointless wars, allowing flights in from Ebola infected regions, not one Wall Street crook in jail, astronomical healthcare costs, inflation everywhere, etc.
The 99% aren't experiencing a booming economy or low unemployment. You can tell them it exists or that it is coming but after 5 years of recovery there isn't much there unless you are a still employed banker or politician. Even the public unions are feeling it now that the stimulus money is all gone.
This bitch is going to rip through the booty slam community like shit through a tin horn.
dis sheeet be razizt cause it dizpopotiontley afekt'n blackz n azenz.
Yass rite. Bez be dibersafficated!
En, don' be ofenzive, yo.
Not the majority, but a very sizable minority approve of Obama and his flying monkeys. Sorry the glass is half full, not half empty for the pig in human skin.
problem is - its actually the top 1% of the glass that is filled.
Are 100,000,000 receiving some sort of TaxPayer check? Well, then this polling isn't worth using as anus wipe.
Some welfare reciepients get their welfare via EBT cards, some people get their welfare via Stock Price and Government handounts and kickbacks
Man!!! Where be my free $hit?!?!?!?!
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Worst...
President...
Ever...
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Makes Carter look like boy-genius president.
I never imagined Carter would be trumped. This fucker has taken the cake. There is a common bond with Carter and Obola. They're both fucking terrible leaders. Carter was a weak motherfucker just like Obola. I'll still never forgive Carter for giving away the Panama Canal.
Carter can't even be compared with O'bomb-a. Carter was a nice, good, Christian man who had very good intentions and loved America. He was just in way over his head and couldn't play the Game. O'bomb-a is a phoney, narcissistic, malevolent homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with that) who hates America. Carter is occasionally misguided in his attempts at altruism, but from what I've seen, he has always acted from a desire to be a good man and really try to help others. After (if) O'bomb-a leaves office, he will set up a 'charitable foundation' to preserve his wealth, take speaking engagements at $250K a pop, and do everything he can to further the toxic progressive agenda. Carter actually did something to deserve his Peace Prize. O'bomb-a got one for saying he was going to do something.
Not to mention that "Dutch" fucked him on the hostage deal. It felt worse during Carter, but as someone said there was a smaller FSA then. I see there is now talk of permanent QE - which will fund permanent wars, until it doesn't.
Carter had Kissinger, Rockefeller, and Brzezinski in his cabinet.
'nuff said
Despite current diseased, fashionable opinion, and that cute little popular, wholly overplayed phrase you deployed, NO, there is PLENTY wrong with being a homosexual.
On many levels.
Which FSA do you belong to, Main Street? Or the FSA on Wall Street. The latter did quite well.
This is the largest conspiracy in history! Over 300 million people are in on it, pretending the economy is a total fucking disaster. Walmart is part of the conspiracy too. And Netflix.
I think he'll wait maybe 48hrs after he looses the senate to announce the one party state via cramnesty. Crammin it down our throats as is everything he does. Phone and pen like.
Obama doesn't care about Congress. Congress is completely irrelevant. He wants amnesty and he's going to do it shortly after the elections.
After that, if you want my best guess how he gets to one-party rule, I would guess he goes after the Electoral College system. Ditch that system in favor of popular vote nation-wide and you have eliminated any chance of an opposition party (Republicans or ANY other party) ever having the Presidency after that.
Three percent overthrew the relatively benign King George III. 43 percent supporting Papa Doc Barack is a mandate to step on your throats.
A few years after the next President is sworn in people will look back and reminisce at these heady days when there was food in the stores, gas available, no rioting and no brownouts. Rejoice, as this is as good as it's gonna get.
Clearly racist to point out incompetence ;-)
There's incompetence all over the place. Just that none of it is his fault. He's doing the best he can against a huge conspiracy of people working against him, lying to him, keeping him in the dark about important matters. You have no idea how hard he's trying. He's on your side. He really is. He's going to fix this. He just needs more time. Like another 8+ years. Maybe longer. He's just not going to quit until the job is done, OK? I know you understand and support him in this.
Get over yourself Gwennyth.
Not racist at all! It's racist not to treat him like a fellow white guy and just call him a dumbass to his face. Obama can't release his grades cause he's stupider than Jupiter.
Obama is the only guy in the entire history of ALL the Ivey League law schools, not just Harvard, to never have written a single paper as president of the law review... that's over hundreds of years, each school. Then, at the University of Chicago he was initially turned down for a job because the interviewer said, "He didn't know anything." A phone call was made from "upstairs" to make him get hired.
If Obama can't take it he's got the wrong job.
Please supply graph with Ebola approval rating. The other approval rating is irrelevant ..
Despite all the lies, the blacks and psychopaths won't budge off their "approval" of the dog eater.
Ratings down because record numbers of us are sick of the lies and bullshit?
I'll go out on a limb and say a civil war is coming if 40% still can believe in this insanity.
Right you are...the Obamanation unleashed. No different MO than what the socialists/communists used and accomplished in every land.
The problem with CW II or a Revolution is that it requires REAL leaders, and "first-in" men who are willing to die for the cause.
The first wave will be mowed down by well fed, well-sheltered, whore-supplied government goons. We have see this in history before. After that, as numbers increase it becomes easier. However, the first cut is the deepest.
I'm not sure we have such principled men, or such a mindset, in this country any more. At least, not until REAL hardship is numbingly relentless, and there is no other way out.
42% work for the government. Sounds about right.
That's an NBC poll, so the real numbers are twice as bad as that. Here's how NBC Pollsters really phrase their questions to make Obama look as good as possible in the polls:
NBC Question: "Do you approve or disapprove of Obama's nice suits when he talks about the economy."
A. Disapprove 51%
B. Approve 42%
C. Not Sure 8%
suck it barry you fucking cartoon
Why does he poll so bad? Could it be because he is a lying scumbag piece of shit? It's like asking why the stock market is down. Imminent end of QE plus a dose of Ebola fear as a precipitating trigger? These things are just obvious.
It's probably the 100 million Americans who don't have jobs, that disapprove.
If I was scum banker I would be worried as they are coming for you next!
The biggest lie of all is that the Obama hatred is not racist. Obama has quietly endured vicious mockery that would have sent his predecessors into a vindictive fury. For all his faults, he has shown strength and grace under pressure.
The motley collection of knuckle-dragging creationists, gold bugs, gun nuts, Xenophobes, and zombie-hallucinating survivalists who claim to be the "real" Americans despise this articulate and prudent President because he is a civilized man. God help us when they elect the leader they deserve.
The mercantile triumph of ZeroHedge is that it has become a magnet for the festering anger of simple-minded people with toy-like models of how the world works. These people are immune to facts and prize their hatred above any practical gain. ZeroHedge profits from encouraging this mob, and this is a deeply shameful business.
This is either new levels of sarcasm OR the author has hit onto a new mutant strain of LSD!
ZHers are simple minded racists and you are what now ?
If ZHers were simple minded racist then he must be a drooling thug who is constantly looking for another excuse to loot, rob and steal. A perpetual victim who thinks GED is an accomplishment.
Leave the trolls be. He's got a government job.
MBD's Bro?
Just fallen out of your pram, have you? Too young to remember Bush Derangement Syndrome, and Bushitler and all the other attacks directed at Bush who didn't appear to fly into the "vindictive fury" you mention, nor sent the IRS after his opponents, nor refused to abide by the law the way Obama and Holder have done?
Nothing like slandering all the other posters on a site because they don't share your views. Is that an example of "vindictive fury"?
Anyone got a website hack that would enable me to downvote every 10 seconds, this dribbling spew of racist, wholly ignorant, Communist propaganda?
I might have voted for Obama if I was a one-eyed Chinese lesbian dwarf. And he probably would have won my vote if I was a deeply autistic metro-sexual with a Master's Degree in the drone targeting of mildly autistic heterosexuals.
ZH readers and posters are a very mixed bag. But seriously, where else can you go to follow the unravelling of the Empire in real time?
better than what?
The problem is twofold.
One, the economic numbers are manipulated. People falling off unemployment are hidden, bad jobs are counted the same as good jobs, etc. Low approval in that context is legitimate.
Two, many Republicans are just plain stupid. Corporate profits are through the roof, just like they wanted, but they're angry at the Kenyan Muslim Nazi Socialist Fascist Cookie Monster anyway. Because reasons.
There is only one solution. A takeover by the military in which every member of Congress and the executive branch is summarily tried and executed for treason. This would be a national day of liberation for America. I would love to see all these bastards shot by firing squad out on the white house lawn. Dump their worthless bodies in a ditch.
execute them first and forget the trial. why should they have any rights when they worked so hard to take them away from the rest of us. theat should send a message to, at least, one generation of politician. all of them need to be mussolinied.
A takeover "by the military"? By the top brass? Seriously? And where do *their* loyalties lie?
I don't really know the answer to that question, but the officer corps was always recruited from the children of the elite by design; are they still?
Those at the top are wined and dined at the tables of the super rich and courted by the MIC. So who has their ear, and if they call all the shots, who will they serve?
They're barred from "fraternizing" with their own enlisted men. Their connection with us regular folk, their ability to connect with us as fellow humans or even as fellow Americans is broken by design, so they can send us to our deaths with less regret or hesitation. Is that who we want making the strategic decisions?
If you ask the enlisted men and the veterans if they want their generals and colonels to take over the country, what would they say?
The MIC is owned by JPMorgan and the Goldman Sachs. They're continued existance is wrapped up in keeping the Keynesian Ponzi propped up by ensuring aggregate demand and that all those towel heads keep taking our credit we create out of thin air for their finite oil supply.
think about this. the usa has had two of the worst presidents in the usa, a stupid silver spooned boy who pretended to be a red neck rancher and a black guy who has confirmed for everyone paying attention that the office of the presidency is ceremonial. the advantage an incumbent has(congress has record low approbval ratings that make obambam look popular) is the guy running against him is as stupid and incompetent as he is so the vote goes to the known loser rather than the new loser because the result doesn't change.
It would have been an easy addition to the article to have GW's and the Obama's numbers. I am thinking the numbers were similar.
Seems like we are worse off though, now, of course many of these problems were seeded earlier.
Employment is up and unemployment is down? What fucking planet is this guy from? If it's the third rock from the sun, I say to O bombya: GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY PLANET!
Look at the silly humans! Please, you can keep him, but stop the world, I want to get off.
My, how soon some here have forgotten killers
Bush, Rumsfeld and Darth Cheney.
Arsenic or strychnine are the two choices for presidents.
Obama is simply a taller tanner Bush.
42% of Americans are delusional
Stuck in Hawaii, my vote won't matter but I'll try voting against any democrat on the ballot
Democrats? Well that takes care of the RINOS.
I assume when you say "Democrats", you are actually referring to the Communists, who have assumed complete control of that political party.
Obbamma is gonna prove that his types are lethal for the society, for America and to the whole world.
He is only disgracing a whole lotta ppl of his type.
What a shame.
The Obama White House is reminding me, more and more, of the Second Term Reagan White House. The President is at least partially disconnected from reality. All the best people in the Administration (slim pickings to start with) are gone, and he's surrounded by second-rate intellects and yes-men. Unfortunately, the problems facing the country now are significantly more complex - and dangerous -than in 1986. The next 27 months are going to be rough.
42% of people approve? I didnt realize 42% of the people work for Goldman