Thread: President Obama’s Accomplishments : Discuss

Obama’s polls finally breaking
by Jeff (ILoveCapitalism) at 6:13 pm - June 17, 2013.

For years, Obama has maintained an overall approval rating above 50 as many Americans have refused to dislike him, despite majorities being against his policies and giving him lots of disapproval on key issues.

That seems to be changing. Via HotAir, a CNN poll puts Obama’s approval rating at just 45%, a drop of eight points from a month ago. His disapproval is up nine points, to 54%. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/im...6/17/rel7a.pdf

RTWT. “The drop in Obama’s support is fueled by a dramatic 17-point decline over the past month among people under 30…” “The number of Americans who think he is honest has dropped nine points over the past month, to 49%.”

http://www.gaypatriot.net/2013/06/17...ally-breaking/


Gallup: Bush More Popular Than Obama
Posted by Bruce Carroll - @GayPatriot at 4:44 pm - June 11, 2013.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...lar-Than-Obama

In a Gallup tracking poll released Tuesday, former-President George W. Bush currently stands with a favorability rating of 49%, compared to 46% who see the 43rd president unfavorably. Meanwhile, another Gallup poll shows President Obama with only a 47% approval rating, with 44% disapproving.

John Nolte from Breitbart explains why: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...lar-Than-Obama

After all, Obama fooled everyone when he ran as the anti-Bush in 2008.

Everyone thought Obama meant he would be less hawkish than his predecessor. But as we have seen, Obama apparently has no problem killing American citizens via remote control with drones or greatly expanding on Bush’s surveillance state. This, even though Obama told us he had pretty much won the War on Terror.

http://www.gaypatriot.net/2013/06/11...ar-than-obama/

Obama's approval rating falls after scandals
9 hr ago |By Eli Epstein of MSN News

President Barack Obama's approval rating fell in the past month, from 53 percent in mid-May to 45 percent today, a CNN poll revealed.

Amid controversies involving the Internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency and Department of Justice, President Barack Obama's approval rating has fallen 8 percentage points to 45 percent, its lowest point in more than a year and a half, a new CNN poll revealed.

On May 17, before news broke that the NSA had been collecting Americans' phone records, Obama's approval rating was 53 percent, even in light of accusations that the IRS had unfairly targeted Tea Party groups and news that the Justice Department had seized Associated Press reporters' phone records.

Also, for the first time in Obama's presidency, less than half of Americans, 49 percent, said they believed the president is "honest and trustworthy," according to the CNN poll.

Fifty-one percent of those polled said they believed the Obama administration was "right" in collecting and analyzing phone data to try to locate suspected terrorists. Fifty-two percent said they disapproved of the actions of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked information about the government's collection of phone and Internet records.

http://news.msn.com/us/obamas-approv...ocid=ansnwes11

Barack Obama: A Lifetime of Coincidence?
July 4, 2013

Do you believe in coincidences?

Any one of these ‘coincidences’ when taken singularly appear to not mean much, but when taken as a whole, a computer would blow a main circuit if you asked it to calculate the odds that they have occurred by chance alone. Sit back, get a favorite beverage, and then read and ponder the Obama-related ‘coincidences’ … then super-impose the bigger picture of most recent events i.e. Fast and furious, Benghazi , the IRS scandal and the NSA revelations … then, Please pray for our country.

Obama just happened to know 60s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father just happened to be Thomas Ayers, who just happened to be a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who just happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama just happened to choose as his closest White House adviser, and who just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which just happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which just happened not to properly maintain the housing — which eventually just happened to require demolition.

Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Mrs.Obama), who just happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job.

Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she just happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who just happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who just happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama just happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who just happened to meet Malcolm Xwhen he traveled to Kenya.

Obama, Sr. just happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who just happened to be a friend of Malcolm X, who just happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who just happens to live very close to Obama’s Chicago mansion, which also just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who just happen to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents just happened to have no concern exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists.

After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that just happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul “the Red” Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thesis at Wellesley College, and Obama’s $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers just happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.

Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980′s and just happened to work with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI), through which Obama met Carl David son, who just happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage the U.S. war effort, and who just happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which just happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke, and which just happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a former SDS activist and later public relations consultant who just happened to be a long-time friend of Obama’s political hatchet man, David Axelrod.

Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and who delivered anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-American sermons, which Obama just happened never to hear because he just happened to miss church only on the days when Wright was at his “most enthusiastic,” and Obama just happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the church because it was too radical, and just happened never to notice that the church gave the vile anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.

Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama just happened to receive an impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations, which he just happened to fail to write while using the cash to vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle, and despite his record of non-writing he just happened to receive a second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and he eventually completed a manuscript called Dreams From My Father, which just happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers, who just happened to trample on an American flag for the cover photograph of the popular Chicago magazine, which Obama just happened never to see even though it appeared on newsstands throughout the city.

Obama was hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland, which just happened to specialize in negotiating state government contracts to develop low-income housing, and which just happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his firm Rezar, and with slumlord Valerie Jarrett, and the law firm’s Judson Miner just happened to have been a classmate of Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.

http://tomohalloran.com/2013/07/04/b...f-coincidence/


wait .... that's not all .....

In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit against Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks (Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank), and the lawsuit just happened to result in banks being blackmailed into approving subprime loans for poor credit risks, a trend which just happened to spread nationwide, and which just happened to lead to the collapse of the housing bubble, which just happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the “New Party,” which just happened to promote Marxism, and Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist who just happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.

In late 1999 Obama purportedly engaged in homosexual activities and cocaine-snorting in the back of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young, who just happened to be the gay choir director of Obama’s Chicago church and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama, and Young just happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007, just weeks after Larry Bland, another gay member of the church, just happened to be murdered, and both murders just happened to have never been solved. In 2008 Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and just happened to be arrested immediately after the event, based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who just happens to be the son of Joe Biden.

In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, who just happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights, and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obama’s just happened to have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and just happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters. Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event, which William Ayers just happened to also attend, and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama just happened to have funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers, and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot secure a return of their land, Israel “will never see a day of peace,” and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children’s dance whose performances just happened to include simulated beheadings with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags, and Obama allegedly told the audience that “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” and there has been “genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis,” and the Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but just happens to refuse to make it public.

In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull just happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull’s sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he just happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society.” –Aristotle

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President Obama tells kids his favorite food is broccoli



President Barack Obama made an unscheduled visit on Tuesday to the second annual Kids' State Dinner, a healthy lunch children's event hosted by first lady Michelle Obama in the East Room of the White House. The president greeted the 54 kid guests and made a few brief remarks.

"Food can be fun, it can be healthy," Obama said, according to a White House pool report. "You are setting up habits that are going to be great your entire life."

As he left, Obama was asked what his favorite food is. His answer: "Broccoli."

Not surprisingly, Twitter erupted in mock scorn over the commander-in-chief's purported vegetable enthusiasm. Broccoli was soon trending on Twitter, and a full-on faux "Broccoligate" began to boil.

"Obama tells kid journalist his favorite food is broccoli. And his favorite activity is lying to children," Comedy Central's Indecision blog tweeted.

"Our first broccoli president," Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski declared, linking to a photo mashup of Obama and a head of broccoli.

"What's Obama's favorite food?" Politico tweeted. "Hint: It is the same vegetable George H.W. Bush denounced over two decades ago. http://t.co/MpaGX7TYvM."

"What kind of POTUS says his fav food is Broccoli?" CNN's Ari Fleischer wrote on Twitter. "Same one who in 2008 complained about the price of arugula at Whole Foods."

"All GOP 2016ers will now have to pledge to never eat broccoli again," David Plouffe, President Obama's former campaign manager and senior adviser, tweeted. "Maybe a new angle for Grover [Norquist]."

"Everyone CALM DOWN!" the Washington Post's Ezra Klein wrote. "We have charts about broccoli."

"Baraccoli Obama v. Hillary Caulinton," Matt Separa quipped.

"BREAKING: Venezuela offers asylum to America's broccoli," Twitter user @LOLGOP wrote.

"All of us jokingly making a fuss about the broccoli comment is proof that we're all terrible," the Huffington Post's Elise Foley tweeted. "This town!"

Slate's Dave Weigel added: "This broccoli discussion is more proof that you could fire half the press corps at random and America would be fine."

There is a chance, however, that President Obama was not lying during his kid-grilling. In an interview with Yahoo News' Olivier Knox earlier this year, Michelle Obama said the first family is "a broccoli household." http://screen.yahoo.com/olivier-knox...001036951.html

"It is the one vegetable that my children will eat without creating chaos and havoc,” she said. “There’s never quite clear harmony at the dinner table over the vegetables, but broccoli is a unifier in our household.”


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/oba...211714643.html

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President Obama set out on a mission to revive the U.S. economy today. And, he made it clear that he won't let his Republican rivals stand in his way.

The president pressed GOP leaders to stop their "meaningless" assaults on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and help him shrink income inequality and help America's middle class.

“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball. And I am here to say this needs to stop,” the president said in the first major economic address of his second term.

And, he said, he's going to act with or without them: “Where I can’t act on my own, and Congress isn’t cooperating, I’ll pick up the phone and call CEOs, I’ll call philanthropists, I’ll call college presidents, I’ll call labor leaders — I’ll call anybody who can help — and enlist them in our efforts."

Meantime, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell mocked the address as merely reheated presidential rhetoric.

“With all the buildup, you’d think the president was unveiling the next Bond film or something,” the Kentucky lawmaker said. “But in all likelihood it will be more like a midday rerun of some '70s B movie. Because we’ve heard it all before. It’s old.”

Obama targets Republicans, income gap in economic policy speech
Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News 1 hour ago

Fighting to retake the initiative on Americans' No. 1 concern, President Barack Obama pushed Republicans to stop their "meaningless" assaults on Obamacare and help him shrink income inequality and help America's middle class. GOP leaders preemptively scoffed at what they described as stale rhetoric reheated for political purposes.

“With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball. And I am here to say this needs to stop,” the president said Wednesday in the first major economic address of his second term.

“Job security, with good wages and durable industries, a good education, a home to call your own, affordable health care when you get sick. A secure retirement even if you’re not rich. Reducing poverty, reducing inequality. Growing opportunity. That’s what we need," he said in a campaign-style speech.

Obama was speaking at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he made his first speech on the economy as a national political figure back in 2005. Much of his remarks amounted to a defense of his first-term economic record, a potential vulnerability for Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections.

“Today, five years after the start of that Great Recession, America has fought its way back. We’ve fought our way back,” he said. “Over the past 40 months, our businesses have created 7.2 million new jobs. This year, we are off to our strongest private-sector job growth since 1999.”

But he also threw down the gauntlet to Republicans, saying he would look to act with or without them.

“I will welcome ideas from anybody, across the political spectrum, but I will not allow gridlock, or inaction, or willful indifference to get in our way,” he promised. “That means whatever executive authority I have to help the middle class, I’ll use it."

And “where I can’t act on my own, and Congress isn’t cooperating, I’ll pick up the phone and call CEOs, I’ll call philanthropists, I’ll call college presidents, I’ll call labor leaders — I’ll call anybody who can help — and enlist them in our efforts,” he declared, to applause from the friendly crowd.

But, he told GOP lawmakers looking to undo Obamacare, "stop taking meaningless repeal votes and share your concrete ideas with the country."

Obama’s speech wasn’t packed with new policy ideas or fresh hopes that Republicans in Congress will approve some of his stalled economic agenda. At times, it seemed modeled on the tried-and-true (and bipartisan) presidential message that "now is the time for Americans to set aside their partisan differences — and do what I say."
But the president worked to enlist his de facto political arm, Organizing for America, into an effort to pressure GOP lawmakers during the upcoming monthlong August break.
On his official Facebook page (nearly 36.5 million “likes”) and in a special video aimed squarely at OFA’s grass roots army, Obama pushed for what OFA’s official website dubbed “Action August.”

“During the August congressional recess, make sure your members of Congress know where you stand on the issues that matter most,” implored a message on his Facebook page.
And Obama planned to deliver a series of speeches over the coming weeks to highlight individual components of his economic agenda. (Yahoo news got an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the speechwriting process with Obama's top wordsmith.)

Ahead of the speech, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell mocked the address as merely reheated presidential rhetoric.

“With all the buildup, you’d think the president was unveiling the next Bond film or something,” the Kentucky lawmaker said. “But in all likelihood it will be more like a midday rerun of some '70s B movie. Because we’ve heard it all before. It’s old.”

McConnell pressed Obama to approve the controversial Keystone pipeline and accused the president of unfairly lampooning Republicans.

“Instead of taking responsibility for his failure to lead, he’ll probably try and cast this as some titanic struggle between those who believe in quote-unquote ‘investing’ in the country, and those who supposedly want to eliminate paved roads, or stop signs, or whatever ridiculous straw man he invents this time,” the senator said.

The Republican reception wasn’t any better in the House of Representatives, where Speaker John Boehner acidly noted, “Americans aren’t asking the question ‘where are the speeches?’ – they’re asking ‘where are the jobs?’”

“There are no new proposals in this speech. The president himself said it isn’t ‘going to change any minds,’” Boehner said. "All right, so exactly what will change? What’s the point? What’s it going to accomplish? You’ve probably got the answer: Nothing.”

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-targets-...170314828.html