Obama The Divider
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Obama said he would unite this country. Well, he isn’t, according to Pew Researh Center. In fact, Obama has the widest partisan gap in his approval ratings of any president in the modern era.
For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama’s job performance is the result of a combination of high Democratic ratings for the president — 88% job approval among Democrats — and relatively low approval ratings among Republicans (27%).
By comparison, there was a somewhat smaller 51-point partisan gap in views of George W. Bush’s job performance in April 2001, a few months into his first term. At that time, Republican enthusiasm for Bush was comparable to how Democrats feel about Obama today, but there was substantially less criticism from members of the opposition party. Among Democrats, 36% approved of Bush’s job performance in April 2001; that compares with a 27% job approval rating for Obama among Republicans today.
The partisan gap in Bill Clinton’s early days was also substantially smaller than what Obama faces, largely because Democrats were less enthusiastic about Clinton. In early April 1993, 71% of Democrats approved of Clinton’s job performance, which is 17 points lower than Obama’s current job approval among Democrats. Republican ratings of Clinton at that point (26%) are comparable to their current ratings of Obama today (27%).
I am sure the left will blame Republicans for not drinking the Obama Kool-Aid, but Obama is the one who has no record of genuine bipartisanship, and so far, he has done nothing substantive to reach out to Republicans. In fact he is using fear to push through a terrible budget and is already expanding to role of government in scary socialism-like ways.
While the partisan divide is part of a long term trend, Obama was the one claiming he’d be the one to end all that and bring this country together. Of course, he spent the whole of his campaign being as partisan as anyone could be, so this really doesn’t shock me at all.
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81 Responses to “Obama The Divider”
Caucus of Corruption
Clearly Obama is much loved in Europe. Let’s see if we can put this in some kind of context.
A poll taken in Europe during the election last year revealed that 58% of Europeans would like to see a weaker United States.
Connect the dots.
Europe wants America weakened. Europe loves Obama. Obama responds weakly to North Korean missile launch.
Not all that hard to figure this out, is it?
“what has Obama actually done on the international stage, ”
Well, he gave the queen an iPod and the Prime Minister DVDs that don’t play in Europe.
cluster,
“Hence their renewed refusal to help in Afghanistan.”
“STRASBOURG, France — President Barack Obama won a pledge from NATO allies Saturday to send as many as 5,000 more troops to help in Afghanistan, calling it a ‘’strong down payment” to securing coming national elections and the entire country.”
Sounds like help to me.
“91% of all Americans are emplyed, with home sales on the increase and retail sales showing gains.”
Sounds like Obama’s stimulus is working.
“Sounds like Obama’s stimulus is working.”
SSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPP!!!!!
Ah, the sound of kool-aid being guzzled in massive quantities.
Amazing that the economy is recovering with the vast majority of the stimulus that will not hit the streets until 2010.
tiredoflibbs,
I’m just going with what cluster said. Personally, I don’t think we’ve hit bottom yet.
How come? My $25 DVD player is multi-region. Sounds like the PM needs to get a new player.
tiredoflibbs,
Do you have a link to the poll from Europe you mentioned?
Cap,
The 91% figures pre date Obama, so the slurp is something other than kool aid, I am afraid.
And the 5000 troops are “non combat” troops, peace keepers if you will, and we all know how effective they have been in Darfur.
Are your knee pads firmly on?
cluster,
I think you missed the sarcasm in my post.
“The 91% figures pre date Obama”
True.
“with home sales on the increase and retail sales showing gains.”
But that part didn’t.
You said “Hence their renewed refusal to help in Afghanistan.”
5000 troops isn’t a refusal to help. And who said they were just peacekeepers?
Speaking after the summit, Robert Gibbs, a spokesman for US president Barack Obama, said the new forces comprised 3000 to secure the forthcoming Afghan elections, including 900 from Britain, 600 from Germany and 600 from Spain.
“In addition, 1400 to 2000 troops from 11 countries would be formed into 70 “operational mentoring liaison teams” to train Afghanistan’s national army, and 300 mentors and trainers – led by the French – would assist the Afghan police.”
I would think you would welcome their help. I know I sure do. That takes a little pressure more off of our troops and helps in the overall mission. Don’t you want us to win?
Opps, should have been “that takes a little more pressure off our troops”
you really should pay attention to teaching and stay out of military affairs stooge…you have little potential there…at least in teaching some of the kids are dumb enough for you to fool…
How did ignorance become an American trademark?
Ask your fellow wingnuts–you’re the ones who wish to elevate ignorance to the status of being a virtue.
Ask your fellow wingnuts–you’re the ones who wish to elevate ignorance to the status of being a virtue.
Pot/kettle, anyone? Here’s orlando again with another profound way of saying, “I know you are but what am I?”
orlando, at this point, you’ve rendered yourself beyond relevant. Why don’t you go find a blog where you can impress others with your shallow intellect?
Doesn’t Sesame Street have a blog?
Soooo, Earbama’s such an international success? Not according to a lot of the news outlets over there. they’re branding him as we already know him…
It takes two sides to come together. Perhaps Obama was actually speaking to the Republicans when he made that comment about unclenching fists to shake hands. Compromise requires each side to give a little.
The mistake Obama made was to put his best offer on the table first without setting up a position from which he could negotiate.
The mistake the Republicans made was to underestimate Obama thinking he would cave to their bullying. What they found is that he is not one to wilt in the heat of a confrontation. The Republicans chose their own path and then complained when they arrived all by themselves.
So, I supply a massive list of foreign policy gaffes, and all the left can mention is Afghanistan, with 5k of training troops promised? I guess I was right.
cam1 says: “It takes two sides to come together.”
barry oblunder likes to spew lots of words…but then…hollow rhetoric is his trademark…like tax cuts…that are only a slight of hand trick…deficit reduction….that is another broken promise…transparent government…that is a blatent lie…health care reform…that is nothing but an attempt to federalize the health care industry…
obamacides best offer is to trash the constitution, change our country from a republic to a socialist democracy…
the drums of war on the horizon…listen hard…you can hear them every day…the beginnings of social disobedience are sprouting up everywhere you go…on the tv, radio and the net….
and whats so funny…we dont even know if obamacide is qualified to be president…he still refuses to prove it…
1luv2h8mostlib5 says:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Soooo, Earbama’s such an international success? Not according to a lot of the news outlets over there. they’re branding him as we already know him…
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You are usually good at providing links, Keefer.
It would be helpful if you could give us some from “a lot of the news outlets over there”.
If you have trouble finding the links, the names of those news outlets would do.
Merci beaucoup.
canadianobserver says: (lots of ignorant things)
really…anyone who is capable of reading the common news services can find the news…you must be…a typical stooge to ask for links to them….
js02 says:
April 7th, 2009 at 8:32 am
anyone who is capable of reading the common news services can find the news…
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I have read the common news services, js02.
Keefer is referring to European news outlets dissing the President and his trip.
Why can’t he provide the links or names to back up his claim? We liberals are regularly asked by y’all to do the same.
If you can’t, just say so.
see…the stooge is lazy…he doesnt want to find them…(more like he doesnt know how)
CO, check out worldmeets.us. They have a very good run-down of news from Europe.
Or better yet CO, move to Europe. Then you can be European and get the news all the time.
How super cool would that be?
ricorun says:
April 7th, 2009 at 9:04 am
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Thanks rico. Worldmeets.us seems like a good source.
Didn’t see much of the “branding him as we already know him” type of negativity that Keefer was pushing, though.
CO: Didn’t see much of the “branding him as we already know him” type of negativity that Keefer was pushing, though.
Cut him some slack, will ya? He’s still struggling with the language over there.
If you have trouble finding the links, the names of those news outlets would do.
Merci beaucoup.
Heard the quotes from the European papers on the news, didn’t have time to write them down at 5am. Ever used Google?
Bugger off…
1luv2h8mostlib5 says:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
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Pretty lame comeback, Keefer. I would have thought you could do better than that.
You could have at least provided the name of the news channel (not the hated BBC, I’m sure) which quoted those European papers giving the President a thumbs down.
I know it was early in the morning, are you sure you weren’t dreaming the whole thing?
By the way, Google has very little on negative European response to President Obama but a heck of a lot of it to Bush.
bong o man
Maybe you have a brain injury, or are just drunk, I don’t know. But you’re really dragging down B4V with your spittle-flecked invective and rage. It’s unbecoming for such a fine upstanding Christian as you.
Actually im speaking on a level YOU may be able to relate to,
a stoned stooge!
errrrrrrrrttttttttttttttttt……….craaaaaaaassssh. Another well thought out post comes crashing to its rightful end.
LOL this is proof that Democrats are willing to work together to accomplish common goals in the interest of the country, even if they’re the minority party, while Republicans, every time they’re out of power, whine and scream and bitch and moan and resist every step of the way.