Obama's approval rating falling faster than your 401k

[Wagner]

Poll: Obama approval drops 7 points over last 100 days - CNN.com
Obama's Approval Rating Drops to 50 Percent, Poll Shows - Political News - FOXNews.com

Obama is now down to about a 50% approval rating.....
So that said, when with the admin learn that Czars and socialism are bad moves?

Bush had a 56% approval rating at his 6-month term...for those that love to compare Obama to Bush.

[Viperfreak2]

What did Bush think about his approval ratings over the complete 8 years?

When George W. Bush was campaigning for president in 2000, he promised Americans he would be “a uniter, not a divider.” He would reform Washington D.C., he said, and govern as a ‘compassionate conservative.’ He would bring back moral values to the White House, and end the partisanship that marked the Clinton era.
Eight years later, Bush has one of the lowest approval ratings in history. According to a recent CBS poll, the 43rd president of the United States will leave office with only 22% support. Even Richard M. Nixon could count on more support in the final days of his presidency.
73% of Americans say they disapprove of the way Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.
Bush’s approval ratings stand in stark contrast with those of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, two other presidents who finished two terms; both left office with an approval rating of 68%. George H.W. Bush and even Jimmy Carter performed remarkably better with 54% and 44% respectively.
The lowest approval rating ever measured when leaving office was 32% for Harry Truman.
The comparison with Truman is one Bush and his main supporters like to make; they see Bush in similar terms. Truman may have left office with little support, but history has redeemed him.
Bush is most unpopular among Democrats; only 6% of Democrats approve of him. Independents too think little of their president; only 18% believe he did a good job. This explains why Bush’s approval ratings are so low: he can only count on the support of a majority of Republicans. Everyone else hates his guts.
Having said that, even Republicans do not think too highly of him; when only 57% of your own voters think you did a good job, it’s pretty safe to expect your approval ratings to be extremely low.

By the way, your 401K "Dropping" analogy sux. On January 1 my 401K was down 15%, TODAY it is UP 20%.

[Wagner]

not much probably, too busy with his war on "terrahh"

[chile1]

Originally Posted by Viperfreak2

What did Bush think about his approval ratings over the complete 8 years?

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This is inheriting a great economy and ruining it in 8 yrs. I would venture to say that if Obama had inherited a great economy his approval rating would be 80/90% after 100 days in office.......

[Viperfreak2]

I do hope history redeems him, just a little. He was correct about fighting the war(s) on terror. He just targeted the wrong country.

[Wagner]

Originally Posted by chile1

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This is inheriting a great economy and ruining it in 8 yrs. I would venture to say that if Obama had inherited a great economy his approval rating would be 80/90% after 100 days in office.......

[Wagner]

Originally Posted by Viperfreak2

I do hope history redeems him, just a little. He was correct about fighting the war(s) on terror. He just targeted the wrong country.

History isn't going to.....Obama will though Although, Bush 99.9% of the time was a freakin' moron. Wonder when people will realize it was Freddie/Fannie, BoA and Citigroup that caused "the financial crisis" that has resulted in Obama's now 13%+ deficit spending?

[Thunder22]

Originally Posted by chile1

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This is inheriting a great economy and ruining it in 8 yrs. I would venture to say that if Obama had inherited a great economy his approval rating would be 80/90% after 100 days in office.......

Oh b.s.

The economy prospered under Clinton not because of Clinton but because of the internet boom. how the hell did Clinton have anything to do with that other than Gore's claim of inventing it?

Bush didn't inherit a thriving economy, he inherited a bubble that had just burst and was on it's way to the cellar, add in 9/11 and the war on terror and you've got a mess on your hands.

I would have loved to have seen Slick Willy or Obama deal with those things as a comparison. Without a doubt, Bush didn't handle it optimally, but neither Clinton nor Obama, nor probably anyone else for that matter, had the experience to thwart the mess we're in now.

The honeymoon is over, Obama had better stop trying to spend our way out of this and get some better advice on how to fix the economy, or we're all in for an even bigger mess.

[X5rolls]

Is it just me or does it actually seem like the American public is finally waking up to the fact that big government spending is going to ruin us?

[motordavid]

Originally Posted by X5rolls

Is it just me or does it actually seem like the American public is finally waking up to the fact that big government spending is going to ruin us?

...but, imo it is too late and "too little" for what any of us,
even as a large population, can do to effect any real change or
correction.

For some scary/make you mad stuff, GOOG Town Hall
Meetings, and check out the elected idiots responses to being
questioned by us, the Great Unwashed. I love the part where
some unelected/appointed "officials" want photographs of the
questioning unruly, ID & background checks, and those foolish
enough to "question", being put on a "watch list". WTF?!

I don't want to sound like some anarchist in the bunker, but while
the gloss and veneer are blinding most, it is just more biz as usual
by the largest scab in "our system".

Meanwhile, they voted themselves some new G550s so they can
fly non-stop from DC to Beijing to look at the Tbills/Tbonds we
sucked the Chinese gov't into buying.