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It's Official: Obama Is Now The Worst American President As His Approval Rating Plunges Far Below Carter's
We doubt many will be surprised by the latest presidential polling update from Gallup, and certainly not the record nearly 50 million Americans on foodstamps, but here it is nonetheless, from US News: "President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history. Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent." One can only imagine what would happen to Obama's ratings if indeed the Iranian hostage situation escalated and the president was forced to get involved, in addition to oil spiking to "doomsday" levels of course as Pimco's worst case predicts: "Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy. The early days of the crisis helped Carter's ratings, though his failure to win the release of captured Americans, coupled with a bad economy, led to his defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980." And while some may say this is merely a one time blip, a longer-term average shows otherwise: "Gallup finds that Obama's overall job approval rating so far has averaged 49 percent. Only three former presidents have had a worse average rating at this stage: Carter, Ford, and Harry S. Truman. Only Truman won re-election in an anti-Congress campaign that Obama's team is using as a model." On the other hand, neither Ford nor Carter has such erudite opponents as Herman "I did not sleep with those 999 women" Cain.
Here are the job approval numbers for other presidents at this stage of their terms, a year before the re-election campaign:
- Harry S. Truman: 54 percent.
- Dwight Eisenhower: 78 percent.
- Lyndon B. Johnson: 44 percent.
- Richard M. Nixon: 50 percent.
- Ronald Reagan: 54 percent.
- George H.W. Bush: 52 percent.
- Bill Clinton: 51 percent.
- George W. Bush: 55 percent.
That's right. Not one, but both Bushes...
And here it is graphically via Gallup.
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Actually he's the most UNPOPULAR, not the worst. The worst was probably George W. Bush, but Harding, Hoover, Grant, Obama, and a few other can compete.
How do you define "worst"? Be specific.
That racist socialist Wilson runs away with that award sorry you're WAY off.
Wilson doesn't hold a candle to the bastard Lincoln, who destroyed States rights and cemented powerful, centralized Federal government:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-official-obama-now-worst-american-pres...
If you're okay with GOP fascism then you might just like Lincoln.
and the current crop of R's who used their votes against the citizens they purport to "represent":
http://warisacrime.org/content/heres-how-your-senators-voted-udall-amend...
almost exclusively R's looking to militarise the "Homeland" - for who?
(thanks to whoever I picked up that link from, sorry I didn't keep your name - very interesting stats)
Excellent link and info C.A. thank you for sharing. +1
+1000 (the ticker only allowed me +1)
Right? President of the US of A, you mean... Not America! Talk to the Mex and the Canucks and the lot...
I bet his real numbers are 5 to 10 points lower than what they publish. All of the newsmedia has been covering for him and fawning over him. Best muslim president so far.
'One can only imagine what would happen to Obama's ratings if indeed the Iranian hostage situation escalated and the president was forced to get involved, in addition to oil spiking to "doomsday" levels of course as Pimco's worst case predicts: "Back in 1979, Carter was far below Obama until the Iran hostage crisis, eerily being duplicated in Tehran today with Iranian protesters storming the British embassy.'
Sit this one out 'Merika. You've been undefeated on the road for decades now. Let Israel and the UK go in alone on this one. See how it all pans out... I'm sure it'll all work out just fine.
Undefeated? Maybe in Grenada. But not much else.
It's like going in to Wisconsin!
Hmmm, so the UK will invade Iran and Obama will boycott the summer Olympics?
Sadly... That's not funny...
Jimmy Carter singlehandedly took away my chance of going to Moscow in '80...
My story is not half as bad as Snipes Nehemiah, but sad just the same...
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS PASS NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Here's how the vote turned out:
DEMOCRATS VOTE YES = 95
DEMOCRATS VOTE NO = 90
REPUBLICANS VOTE YES = 227
REPUBLICANS VOTE NO = 6
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Of course RON PAUL was one of the six that voted no. Anyone who is what I call a CONSERVATIVE WANNA-BE who thinks they are something by regurgitating what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hanity says... you might as well get a frontal lobotomy. Either way your dead from the neck up.
I don't adhere to either party, but here we can see what the REPUBLICANS TRUE COLORS are.
Time to get ready for the BIG COLLAPSE. As you can see those in govt are preparing for....I sure hope each and everyone of you are as well.
I am sure I will get a serious number of NEGATIVE VOTES on this post. Can't make everyone happy all of the time....LOL
It was my understanding that this bill is before the Senate, not the House in which Paul is a member. I looked at Google News and I'm not seeing anything about the vote you cite. Link, please?
Crockett... don't take my word on this. Why don't you go right to source:
STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH:
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT VOTE:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-375
he cant find on the news because it was voted in may, right?
Right. I believe that the legislation linked to above is the current incarnation of the law which is expiring. There's a new version currently before the Senate which supposedly includes language which will make it possible for the armed forces to arrest anyone, anywhere, anytime without warrant or trial.
There are only 100 total possible votes in the Senate (not counting ties).
According to my public school social studies classes I believe the bill has to originate in Congress, be passed there, and then head to the Senate - where it currently sits. Senatorial vote within 48 hours and Obama will sign it like his life depends on it. His life probably does. No Presient can be this corrupt without a proverbial gun to his head.
A bill can originate in either the Senate or the House. "Congress" refers to both the Senate and the House together.
Figures that it's a public school.
Speaking of regurgitating - did you actually read the Referred in Senate version? What specific section of this bill should concern us? For the last 48 years there has been a NDAA. All it does is specify the budget and expenditures of the US DOD. There is nothing in this bill that points to some extreme measure the government wants to take because of an impending "Big Collapse." That's a bunch of BS
By "referred in senate version" do you imply that there are revisions not yet in the mainstream media? I've read the one on the .gov website and if you refer to sections 1031 and 1032 you will find the language that we are talking about.
Here is an excerpt from an article covering this language. If the link in the excerpt doesn't work then click on the link at the bottom or google S1867 and you can access the actual bill there.
"
If enacted, sections 1031 and 1032 of the NDAA would:
1) Explicitly authorize the federal government to indefinitely imprison without charge or trial American citizens and others picked up inside and outside theUnited States;
(2) Mandate military detention of some civilians who would otherwise be outside of military control, including civilians picked up within the United States itself; and
(3) Transfer to the Department of Defense core prosecutorial, investigative, law enforcement, penal, and custodial authority and responsibility now held by the Department of Justice.
The Washington Post of course did its part to make sure it appeared this bill was about “terrorists”, who could be held indefinitely, who could be subject to extraordinary rendition (transferred to countries like Egypt for extensive torture) and glossed over or totally avoided mentioning the fact that the provisions of this bill could be applied, and are actually intended to be applied to US citizens on US soil.
The language of the bill is intentionally very broadly written to allow later interpretations that will be used to redefine yet again, our rights, our protections, striking each one down under the false flag use of “the war of terror”.
In the last several years we have seen the militarization of our local law enforcement under the direction of Homeland Security. We now have major US cities armed with military tanks, drones, and outfitted like star wars storm troopers; all for use against US citizens in their own communities. Local law enforcement has been remade into extended military units to enable them to become a working military unit in tandem with military control. These law enforcement units have ceased operating as “protect and serve” civil service operations and instead have become direct threats to the communities which are forced to endure them. The escalating violence against the citizens, the abrogation of rights, the violation of standing laws and the protection provided to these units by the courts should have us all demanding an end to Homeland Security interference in local law enforcement activities and reverting law enforcement back to one of community protection and service.
We have seen the creation of the White House Rural Council along with other newly created agencies that all include the military as part of their structure. This is no accident. There is no plausible reason the military would be included in any Council making preparations to unlawfully enter into the states, unless military action against the citizenry was anticipated.
S.1867 is a catch all bill. Its intention is to make legal (not lawful) the crime of unlawful detention without due process. By extension, the bill would condone the practice of extraordinary rendition for the purpose of torture of US citizens who could be kidnapped from our streets without being charged with a crime, having access to the courts for redress (the bill condones the military holding tribunals outside of the US court system at its discretion) and holding US citizens indefinitely without charging them with any crime.
This bill is one of the final steps necessary in striking down any remaining Constitutional protections or rights, all under the phony war of terror being perpetrated by our own government against its own citizens. This is not a right or left, Democrat or Republican plan……they are all in it together. They will all vote for it together knowing full well that it is an assault on the people of the US.
In my opinion, it is an open declaration of war against the people by our own government."
http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/s-1867-hunting-americans/
As I understand it, there was a Udall amendment also being considered which supposedly lessened the ability for the military to detain/arrest on US soil but I don't know the content/language of that amendment
The Senate version has not been voted on yet.
There isn't a section 1031 in the act.
Section 1032 says: Applicability to United States Citizens and Lawful Resident Aliens-(1) UNITED STATES CITIZENS- The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States.(2) LAWFUL RESIDENT ALIENS- The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to a lawful resident alien of the United States on the basis of conduct taking place within the United States, except to the extent permitted by the Constitution of the United States.
I give up. It seems like misinformation gets spread on the web but no one takes the time to really validate it.
dated 29 November 2011:
"Here's How Your Senators Voted on Udall Amendment to Strip Out War and Imprisonment Power Grabs"http://warisacrime.org/content/heres-how-your-senators-voted-udall-amend...
and I might be wrong, but I think this is something that is budgeted, & hence voted on, yearly.
of course, like anything these asshats vote on, shit gets snuck in between the lines - that's pretty much par for the course.
Strange that Carter should have been so unpopular considering fiscally we were in far far better shape.
Inflation then was really payback for the excesses during the GD 1 (or so I would like to think).
Carter was hated by TPTB, and was unmercifully pilloried by the media at the time. And he got fucked over with the hostage deal.
I liked Carter at the time and even did whatever a 13 year old could do to campaign for him. Wasn't crazy about him by the time he left office. But I do believe that he's the only decent human being to have held the office of President during my lifetime.
Inflation during Carter was JFK/LBJ's Vietnam War and LBJ's War on (to Increase) Poverty. Also Nixon going off the gold standard.
soon his poll numbers will look as bad as if Gallup polled John W Booth about Lincoln.
It's unfortunate that with Obama at record low approval levels all we have to look forward to is 4 more years of the same under Mitt Romney. High Spending. High Printing. Came across this amazing video of Ron Paul speaking 10 years ago about the housing bubble. Not something you'll see on the mainstream media......
http://www.ftense.com/2011/11/look-back-in-time-2001-2002.html
What's so special about the 44th White President?
his uncanny knack for bringing "colour" into every argument.
And yet the opposition has nobody who can beat him.
What opposition?
Stop acting like Ron Paul doesn't exist. Stop repeating the establishment's line that he has no chance. Do not let it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Alone or together, I will support Ron Paul at every opportunity.
so much for hope and change
He sure talked a good game during the campaign.
Too bad it turns out that that's apparently all he's got. He's really great at talking about all the problems that need to be addressed, he just doesn't address them.
Looks like a lot of his cabinet goes about doing whatever the hell they please without any concern about Obama keeping them in line too. Kind of like Grant's administration during the Gilded age.
Time has shown that he is not a very good speaker, he is a very good liar. Not any more.
perhaps he's on specific *meds* that keep his mind, and voice, pre-occupied for the duration. . .
ever notice how quickly the Prezzie's grey up?
Ronald Reagan, I mean Ron Paul, bitchez
Do you realize how you've just argued that elections are futile?
Paul disavowed Reagan before the end of Reagan's second term. Reagan could talk the talk but he didn't walk the walk. He did, however, nap the nap.
Reagan was an actor who could deliver great speeches. That is all. I see llittle difference between him and Obama, other than Obama has a more annoying delivery.
Under his term a lot of nasty stuff went on which we are still paying for today.
Doin a heck of a job, Blacky.
Isn't he just as much Whitey as Blacky?
The Shadow knows.
Yes he can
Sammy Davis, Jr.?
http://www.amazon.com/Yes-Can-Story-Sammy-Davis/dp/0374522685/ref=sr_1_1...
I like Ike.
Yet you'd never know it from the media who still carry this long legged mack daddy pile of turds around on their shoulders like he's emperor.
you do understand who runs the media, right? They're cousins with the people who run the race hustling machine.
What a wise guy
Bush's fault
Time for Obama to come out and let us know that the first Osama killing was just a joke but that he has indeed been killed for real this time.
Who?
This is totally off topic, but I just remembered I had a dream last night that Osama was found still alive and living as a gay hairdresser in NYC.
Also O/T
I had a dream that Michele Obamas nipples excreted BBQ sauce
That wasn't a dream.
^--- Ha ha ha! Great dialogue guys...
Rumor has it, that it's not a dream.
He's Number One!
according to the poll... He's #2
And on the same day, we're told "consumer" confidence shot up this month to 56 from 40.
What is a Tsar to believe?
If McCain were President, he'd be in the same boat. And, with our fragmented electorate, if Ron Paul were President, he'd be in the same situation, too! No, really!
nanana
Ron Paul is consistent, uses common sense, and has a proven track record of being steadfastly principled.
Most importantly he talks to us like adults and does not patronize us and pretend we are children.
BD,
And you think that most voters wanted to be talked to like adults? LOL!
Hey Bob, Ron Paul might have a chance if ignorant cunts like you disassociate yourselves from him.
with you guys' paucity of intellect and perspicacity of wit typically on par with a can of tuna, it's no pretense
nigga pleaz
And for some more humor, I cannot stop laughing at this, harsh? Sure, but DAMN that's funny!!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3967502/Tatt-poo-for-cheating....
Paul could win the nomination then go on to defeat Obama and the press would still not report on it.
Milk went out my nose.
It would have been funnier if a nose would have come out of your milk.
Ba-dum-ba! I'm here all week! Try the veal and tip your waiter generously.
Thank you!
What, you think that's a joke? Oh no, friend, it's not. It's a coffee shark.
http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Shark-Attack-Porcelain-Mug.html
Who?
Paul is running a brilliant campaign to date. Everything is coming to him in terms of the global situation so all he really needs to do is avoid the pitfalls that keep bringing down the other contenders around him. Just being quiet during debates is actually boosting his numbers. Slowly but surely the interest is growing, he just has to peak at the right moments.
Next up (assuming Cain is now effectively gone) is Newt Gingrich????!!!!!
The thing really boosting Ron Pauls numbers are the reports the mainstream media is ignoring him. Everybody loves an underdog, but more importantly, the idea that a particular candidate isn't getting a fair shot because he's "blacklisted" is reprehensible to most people in this day and age. I believe the unfairness, perceived or otherwise, plays to RP's advantage as it causes people reach out and try to understand exactly what is so off putting to that media, and in doing so, it enlightens those same folks to RP's message. It's a good plan, actually.
Strangely, the hated Obama still has the best odds (50.5%) of winning:
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/?eventId=84326
Another 50% odds...either he will win or he wont win. Its like my 50% odds of banging Drew Barrymore by next Nov.
Your odds of bedding Drew Barrymore closely approach the limit of zero. You're not talking about an equally weighted coin here.
Drew Barrymore = yowza.
What do you think my chances are with Myrna Loy?
Where's she burried?
I didn't know the time machine was in the shop.
more milk
On a long enough timeline everyone could get to bang Drew Barrymore...
isn't she like 50?
Right, but he is #1 in frequent flyer miles.
I believe the events that are sure to unfold in the next several months are going to change things. Ultimately, there has to be a breaking point due to the weight of so much corruption and I am actually starting to welcome the inevitable chaos ...
"When you see those lights go out," said Galt, "then you will know that our job is done."
Having awaken to much of what the presidency has meant while the true power of the fed has been masked I would say these ratings would be a lot different had the sheeple knew then what sheeple are waking up to now.
Having said that no president other than Jackson for being the last president to fend off a central bank and JFK for trying to end the fed should have a rating over 50 because of their involvement in destroying the democratic ideals this country was founded upon.
We have a winner!! People simply won't accept that they have been living under a one world government since the official estblishment of the Federal Reserve that was only made stronger by the U.N. A real president for the people would be a REAL threat to the private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve.
thanks, both of you.
you can't fight back against something you haven't begun to acknowledge.
...There was a peaceful town called Rockridge. Where people lived in harmony. They never had no kind of trouble. There was no hint of misery...
Sorry about that, somebody just said something funny and this song came to mind.
Not being from the US, is this kind of like bad for that nice man in the White House.
I always thought tricky was the worst.
OT, because I'm not sure Obama really cares about this stuff, but is anyone else wondering about all those pesky explosions at Iranian nuclear sites? Even the MSM has picked up on it. Another one a few hours ago?
What would Obama have accomplished if he had been given a country in the same shape as the one given to Bush? Or if the GOP had actually worked with him instead of obstructing EVERYTHING. I'll grant you that Obama has not performed very well, but IMO it's because he is still doing the bidding of the financial elites instead of protecting the average American citizen. Obama is simply a continuation of Bush in many key ways.
Who would do a better job than Obama? Gingrich? Romney? Don't make me laugh.
Ya think?
The responses to this post leave me very worried about zerohedge as a haven for informed, intelligent analysis of anything.
So in effect you are saying the Obama serves the same masters as Bush so if I take this to its logical conclusion this means that you are complaining that Obama inherited the same economy he would have given himself if he had been president instead of George Bush?
Ron Paul.
You can laugh at the too, but with Ron Paul you'll be laughing all the way to the bank -- first to give the plutocracy the heave-ho and then to avail yourself of sound money and the attendant miracle of compound interest.
how low can he go
Stay tuned... you'll see.
He has a way to go to catch up with Congress.
Wasn't Bush down into the low 30's in 2007?
At this time during Bush's presidency (which would have been Nov. 2003) he had a better job approval rating, it would be a few more years before people realized he was a brainless fuck up who loved bankers and pointless war.
People have just realized this sooner with Obama, but he'll win another term because of the rot gut the R's are running... Newt Gingrich, are you fucking kidding me?
Yeah, but his handicap has gone from 27 to 25!
Is that for the front 9 or the back 9?
Anyway... It would have been 24 except for the 2 foot putt that Boner didn't concede on the last hole... Which he yipped...
@ Mr Boompi try Ron Paul
Bush had a approval rating of 22%... so I will say this post is BS
An approval rating.
and you, sir, are a functional illiterate.
everyone! glance at my avatar, and take the hint! he's got matching outfits for michelle, the two sniblings, and bo the dog! whatever happened to his mother in-law? was she booted out of the doghouse?
Media experiment gone bad
The shocking part of this stat is that there are still people who think the hopey changey shit this bumbling teleprompter robot spits out is OK. WTF? When a President of the US NEEDS a fucking teleprompter to speak with third-graders at grade school, and you don't see a problem, what the hell is wrong with you?
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
The Stepford President
If voting really lead to change, it would be illegal. Same as it ever was.
I love these politically lopsided comments.
While the powers that be are getting away with the biggest scam in the history of this planet, the people are too busy taking left vs right political potshots!
Cue Freddie bleating about "the muslim".
The news media told us John F. Kennedy + Martin Luther King, to the Abraham Lincoln power. =(JFK + MLK)^AL for you Excel users.
What we got was a banker.
One can wax on endlessly about his biterness, divisiveness, ineptitude, mean-spirited, corporatist-socialist tin-horn dictatorial ways .. but at the end, one word sums this man up .. BANKER.
BANKER cock sucker...
There, fixed it...
If humans were sane, Obama would be at 0%.
If humans were sane then a lot of things would be different and the banksters and paper-pushing fucknuts would have been dead a long time ago.
+1e308
too many conflicting definitions of sanity....
Here is my favorite definition of sanity:
Sanity is seeing what's in front of your face, and not seeing what isn't.
sadly, the mind will interpret what it sees "in front of" its face, and the results are what we call "humanity" - what a sociopath "sees" is sane to him, in other words.
"reality is relative"
Reality is relative? Oh brother.
Reality is exactly and precisely what it is.
You should know that "seems" is different than "is".
Yeah, but Consumer Confidence is up ..... I mean that's what they said right ?
And the WallMartWaffleMama's will vote him back in....
You watch....
Making the sheeple even more eager to accept the next puppet for the NWO.
They need to fish out the corpse they claimed was Osama bin Laden for his watery grave and kill him a second time, or find and kill a living look-a-like and claim that this second time they really got.
It’s not a racism thing, honest.
Home Depot up 4.5%
New 52-week highs
Where's the recession?
In my house.
Wanna come over and see it?
No kidding.
you are the king of dadaism.
i will keep an eye on you
Are you an Obama supporter?
No. And I support nobody for president.
No Democrat or Republican, that is.
That was directed to the guy in the bra above.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country
He is not actually the worst president, but he is presiding over some of the worst times. Obama has added a little over 2 trillion to the debt... Bush added 6 trillion.
fact check
Whoever is giving you your info is lying to you
National debt has increased over 4.436 trillion under Obama in 3 years.
It increased 4.9 trillion under Bush in 8 years.
My understanding as well, + 1
percentage wise. Bush is still the winner.
coupla trillion here, coupla trillion there... pretty soon you're talking some real fiat...
It is unfortunate that Carter's dismal ratings won us Ronald Regan, that creepy old bugger. He began the process of shipping American jobs and manufacturing overseas. He gave away our way of life, the judas. Thank God he was too senile during his second term to actually function and Nancy called the shots or who knows what we would have ended up with. If your lifestyle is slipping you can thank him in Hell. I hope they stuffed that that old vampire's mouth with garlic and buried him face down with a stake through his heart. God grant he lie still.
but, man, what a great stock market run. would love to have another of those. fuck the jobs.