Poll: Is Obama President?

[d.mcc]

Besides changing the subject, it's not a good point at all. Right to life issues were effectively Federalized nearly 40 years ago by the Supreme Court and I don't remember Bush having to backpedal on that specific issue.

Property rights and religious freedoms have been around longer than that. What'ya know?

[Big Dog]

He will have a second term. Bet on it!

[65memories]

What Big Dog said.

[Jimaz]

Thirded10 chars!

[firstandten]

Sadly he is president because a bunch of liberals voted for him, and lets face some facts. Obama also won by a large black vote. Most of the black people who voted for Obama only voted for him because he is black, and that is the only reason why they are standing by him. If he were white he probably wouldnt be in the white house.

That's a bunch of BS you need to come stronger than that.

He won because he got a lot of the independent vote, along with the democratic base, plus he turned some red states blue.

Bunch of liberals and blacks voted for him is a weak analysis

[firstandten]

....and nothing to show for it - what a waste of borrowed money that our children's grandchildren will still be having to make the interest payments on

Do you really think that "reviews", "reengagements", "announcements of good intentions" will impress the independent voters? I think they are looking for results. By the way, the only balls Obama has put into play are the little white ones during his weekly rounds of golf.

There's a reason why results are hard to come by and I'll let you figure out the reason for that. Plus do the words Crawford Texas and vacation have any correlation for you

[firstandten]

Do you really think that "reviews", "reengagements", "announcements of good intentions" will impress the independent voters? I think they are looking for results.

Here's a better list thats not so heavy on the "reviews, reengagements and announcements of good intentions". There are more but I kept it to 90

1. Saved the collapse of the American automotive industry by making GM restructure before bailing them out, and putting incentive money to help the industry

2. Shifted the focus of the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, and putting the emphasis on reducing terrorism where it should have been all along

3. Relaxed Anti-American tensions throughout the world

4. Signed order to close the prisoner “torture camp” at Guantanamo Bay

5. Has made the environment a national priority, and a primary source for job creation

6. Has made education a national priority by putting emphasis and money behind new ideas like charter schools, but speaking directly to school children in telling them they have to do their part.

7. Won the Nobel Peace Prize

8. $789 billion economic stimulus plan

9. Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court

10. Attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles

11. Authorized construction/opening of additional health centers to care for veterans

12. Renewed dialogue with NATO and other allies and partners on strategic issues.

13. Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military 20 years after the Cold War to a more modern fighting force… this includes new procurement policies, increasing size of military, new technology and cyber units and operations, etc.


14. Better body armor is now being provided to our troops

15. “Cash for clunkers” program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars; stimulates auto sales

16. Changed the failing/status quo military command in Afghanistan

17. Closed offshore tax safe havens

18. Deployed additional troops to Afghanistan

19. Ended media “blackout” on war casualties; reporting full information

20. Ended previous policy of awarding no-bid defense contracts

21. . Ended media blackout on war casualties and the return of fallen soldiers to Dover AFB.

22. Ended previous policy of cutting the FDA and circumventing FDA rules

23. Ended previous practice of forbidding Medicare from negotiating with drug manufacturers for cheaper drugs; the federal government is now realizing hundreds of millions in savings

24. Ended previous practice of having White House aides rewrite scientific and environmental rules, regulations, and reports

25. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created 2.1 million jobs [[as of 12/31/09).

26. Ended previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions

27. Ended previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs; the new policy is to promote in-sourcing to bring jobs back

28. Ended previous policy on torture; the US now has a no torture policy and is in compliance with the Geneva Convention standards

29. . Launched Recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, an unprecedented step to provide transparency and accountability through technology.

30. Ended previous practice of protecting credit card companies; in place of it are new consumer protections from credit card industry’s predatory practices

31. Ended previous “stop-loss” policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date

32. Energy producing plants must begin preparing to produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources

33. Established a National Performance Officer charged with saving the federal government money and making federal operations more efficient

34. Established a new cyber security office

35. Expanded the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children

36. Expanding vaccination programs

37. Families of fallen soldiers have expenses

38. . Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs [[VA) with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America’s Veterans.

39. Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research

40. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 schools

41. Responded with compassion and leadership to the earthquake in Haiti

42. Immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters

43. . Launched Business.gov – enabling conversation and online collaboration between small business owners, government representatives and industry experts in discussion forums relevant to starting and managing a business. Great for the economy.

44. Improved housing for military personnel

45. Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military hospitals

46. Changed failing war strategy in Afghanistan.

47. Improving benefits for veterans

48. Increased infrastructure spending [[roads, bridges, power plants…) after years of neglect

49. Donated his $1.4 million Nobel Prize to nonprofits.

50. Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program

51. Provided tax credits to first-time home buyers through the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 to revitalize the U.S. housing market.

52. Increasing pay and benefits for military personnel

53. Increasing student loans

54. Instituted a new policy on Cuba, allowing Cuban families to return “home” to visit loved ones

55. Cracked down on companies that deny sick pay, vacation and health insurance to workers by abusing the employee classification of independent contractor. Such companies also avoid paying Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance taxes for those workers.

56. Limited salaries of senior White House aides; cut to $100,000

57. Limits on lobbyists’ access to the White House

58. Protected 300,000 education jobs, such as teachers, principals, librarians, and counselors through the Recovery Act that would have otherwise been lost.

59. Limits on White House aides working for lobbyists after their tenure in the administration

60. Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act on February 4, 2009, provides quality health care to 11 million kids – 4 million who were previously uninsured.

61. Lower drug costs for seniors

62. Making more loans available to small businesses

63. Many more press conferences and town halls and much more media access than previous administration

64. . Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis

65. Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals

66. New Afghan War policy that limits aerial bombing and prioritizes aid, development of infrastructure, diplomacy, and good government practices by Afghans

67. Announced creation of a Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record for members of the U.S. Armed Forces to improve quality of medical care.

68. New federal funding for science and research labs

69. New funds for school construction

70. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending

71. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices

72. . Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals.

73. Phasing out the expensive F-22 war plane and other outdated weapons systems, which weren’t even used or needed in Iraq/Afghanistan

74. Reengaged in the agreements/talks on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions

75. Provided tax credit to workers thus cutting taxes for 95% of America's working families.

76. Reengaged in the treaties/agreements to protect the Antarctic

77. Removed restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research

78. . Helped reverse a downward spiral of the stock market. On January 19, 2009, the last day of President Bush's presidency, the Dow closed at 8,218.22. In February 2010, the Dow closed at 10,309.24

79. Renewed loan guarantees for Israel

80. Restarted the nuclear non-proliferation talks and building back up the nuclear inspection infrastructure/protocols

81. Provided attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles.

82. Returned money authorized for refurbishment of White House offices and private living quarters

83. Sent envoys to Middle East and other parts of the world that had been neglected for years; reengaging in multilateral and bilateral talks and diplomacy

84. Unveiled a program on Earth Day 2009 to develop the renewable energy projects on the waters of our Outer Continental Shelf that produce electricity from wind, wave, and ocean currents. These regulations will enable, for the first time ever, the nation to tap into our ocean’s vast sustainable resources to generate clean energy in an environmentally sound and safe manner.


85. Signed national service legislation; expanded national youth service program

86. States are permitted to enact federal fuel efficiency standards above federal standards

87. Students struggling to make college loan payments can have their loans refinanced

88. Successful release of US captain held by Somali pirates; authorized the SEALS to do their job

89. The FDA is now regulating tobacco

90. Ended the previous stop-loss policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date.

[barnesfoto]

what a waste of borrowed money that our children's grandchildren will still be having to make the interest payments on

Funny, that's how I would describe the two wars that Obama inherited from Mike's cult...It would be necessary to add tens of thousands of lives to the equation, and lifetime health care costs for the tens of thousands of wounded American Military, but we know that Mike's cult doesn't really give a rat's ass about "life" once "life" has left the womb. [[Some may recall that the leaders of Mike's cult boldly assured us that the oil "liberated" from the Iraqi people would cover all the costs. It didn't.)

I also wonder if we've already paid off the debts that Mike's cult ran up during the Reagan years, such as the cost of training, funding and arming radical muslims to fight a superpower in Afghanistan, but perhaps that's material for another thread.

[jerrytimes]

Here's a better list thats not so heavy on the "reviews, reengagements and announcements of good intentions". There are more but I kept it to 90

1. Saved the collapse of the American automotive industry by making GM restructure before bailing them out, and putting incentive money to help the industry

2. Shifted the focus of the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, and putting the emphasis on reducing terrorism where it should have been all along

3. Relaxed Anti-American tensions throughout the world

4. Signed order to close the prisoner “torture camp” at Guantanamo Bay

5. Has made the environment a national priority, and a primary source for job creation

6. Has made education a national priority by putting emphasis and money behind new ideas like charter schools, but speaking directly to school children in telling them they have to do their part.

7. Won the Nobel Peace Prize

8. $789 billion economic stimulus plan

9. Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court

10. Attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles

Have you been fooled. I'm only going to comment on the first ten things here, since I don't have all night. I'll just put in a number and then my comment to the corresponding statement above.

1. The government did not bail out the auto industry. They loaned them money, which they have paid back. A bailout is something that does not have to be paid back.
2. OK, I like this one, but the troops are still there..... If I recall they were supposed to be home within 18 months of his presidency.
3. Are you serious? All he does is apologize about how horrible the USA is.
4. Guantanamo isn't a torture camp and it's still open, as it should be.
5. Good thing here. Cleaning up the environment is good, as long as it at the same time isn't overstated. Too bad it really hasn't created any new jobs. Hopefully that will change.
6. Great, Charter schools, something that will further ruin public schools and from reports in the news, aren't meeting educational standards, especially in Detroit.
7. And what did he do for it? Nothing....
8. Still waiting for that stimulus plan to do something. Unemployment has risen since the plan was enacted.
9. Funny how race and nationality isn't supposed to matter since we are all equals, yet this is for some reason is something good that he's done. Forgot to mention that she doesn't deserve it.
10. That's nice.

[jerrytimes]

Sadly he is president because a bunch of liberals voted for him, and lets face some facts. Obama also won by a large black vote. Most of the black people who voted for Obama only voted for him because he is black, and that is the only reason why they are standing by him. If he were white he probably wouldnt be in the white house.

I disagree. He is president because he fooled many independents into thinking that he had a plan. Blacks and Liberals would have voted for anyone that was a Democrat so that's nothing new. I just wish people weren't fooled by his reading/speech skills.

[Detroitej72]

The government did not bail out the auto industry. They loaned them money, which they have paid back. A bailout is something that does not have to be paid back.

I seem to recall the conservative media clowns and the tea-bagger's kept referring to it as Obama's auto bailout. Now that it has proved successful, suddenly all are cheering. If left up to a McCain presidency, the cons would have let GM and Chrysler close, which would have added hundreds of thousands more to the unemployed ranks.

So yes, by this one step alone, Obama saved the U.S. from unemployment skyrocketing even further.

[Mikeg]

There's a reason why results are hard to come by and I'll let you figure out the reason for that. Plus do the words Crawford Texas and vacation have any correlation for you

What does Bush's vacations have to do with President Obama's failure to deliver on his promises? For that matter, what does that weasel-worded, 90 item list have to do with the long list of broken promises Obama made to the voters?

As for the $.8 trillion stimulus spending plan that was sold by Obama on the promise that it would prevent unemployment from rising beyond 8.5% [[insert laugh here), I think this story from VP Biden's "Summer of Recovery Victory Lap" is illustrative of why results are so hard to come by:

SPIN METER: What Biden didn't mention on stimulus
By GARANCE BURKE [[AP)
Aug. 27, 2010

FRESNO, Calif. — Vice President Joe Biden said this week that the Obama administration "hit the accelerator" toward spending $5 billion under the economic stimulus law to weatherize people's homes, create thousands of jobs, help consumers save money and put the nation on track for energy independence.
Yet the weatherization program the vice president highlighted in his visit Thursday to New Hampshire is widely considered among the least organized spending projects under the $814 billion economic stimulus law and has regularly been targeted for criticism of its slow progress by auditors and outsiders. Biden didn't hint much at its troubles. Nearly 18 months since it started, the stimulus weatherization program has experienced spending delays, inefficiencies and mismanagement. In Biden's home state of Delaware, the entire program has been suspended since May, and last month federal auditors identified possible fraud. [read the rest]

Everything in Obama's stimulus plan was supposed to have been "shovel ready" so that spending could begin as soon as possible - which is what needed to happen if there was to be any stimulating effect on the economy.

Instead, 18 months later we have examples like this weatherization program that the bureaucrats can't get off the ground as well as the inexcusably slow pace of stimulus spending at the US Dept. of Energy, where 91.6 percent of the stimulus money that was to be used for energy and conservation block grants remains unspent [source].

The Dept. of Energy's Inspector General explains that they were "hampered by numerous administrative and regulatory challenges associated with implementing a new program", which neatly explains why stimulus results from government spending are so hard to come by.

[firstandten]

Have you been fooled. I'm only going to comment on the first ten things here, since I don't have all night. I'll just put in a number and then my comment to the corresponding statement above. Good, I'll make comments on your comments

1. The government did not bail out the auto industry. They loaned them money, which they have paid back. A bailout is something that does not have to be paid back. Ah ! but the loan came with conditions they had to change their business plan because what they were doing wasn't working. Loan, with no assurance it would be paid back or gift its still a bailout

2. OK, I like this one, but the troops are still there..... If I recall they were supposed to be home within 18 months of his presidency. He missed by a few months, the previous administration was going to keep us in an never-ending war
3. Are you serious? All he does is apologize about how horrible the USA is.
Are you serious ? when did he do that

4. Guantanamo isn't a torture camp and it's still open, as it should be.
that statement flies in the face of the facts going on there. The reason its still open is because we can't convict some of the harder core terrorists because they were tortured.

5. Good thing here. Cleaning up the environment is good, as long as it at the same time isn't overstated. Too bad it really hasn't created any new jobs. Hopefully that will change. agreed

6. Great, Charter schools, something that will further ruin public schools and from reports in the news, aren't meeting educational standards, especially in Detroit.
Charter schools are public schools, and some are meeting standards. The point is that it provides more choice

7. And what did he do for it? Nothing....
Depends on your POV my number 3 gives a good hint as to why he got it

8. Still waiting for that stimulus plan to do something. Unemployment has risen since the plan was enacted.
Because of politics the stimulus amount stopped the bleeding but the amount was too small to fully heal the economy

9. Funny how race and nationality isn't supposed to matter since we are all equals, yet this is for some reason is something good that he's done. Forgot to mention that she doesn't deserve it.
Who are you to determine what she deserves. Do you know her record ? Based on her record she deserves it as much as at least two of the right wing hacks currently on the court

10. That's nice. Sure is

If you don't like him fine, I get that but to say he hasn't done anything flies in the face of facts

[firstandten]

What does Bush's vacations have to do with President Obama's failure to deliver on his promises? For that matter, what does that weasel-worded, 90 item list have to do with the long list of broken promises Obama made to the voters?.

You're the one that mentioned golf as in reference to Obama not doing anything so the reference to Crawford Tx was appropriate.

Go to some fact-checking websites[[ you know the third party ones not the ones with an agenda) and check on Obama's campaign promises and how he is doing on them. He generally gets good marks on most of those sites.

[Whitehouse]

Yes, he can....

[MickeyMac]

That's a bunch of BS you need to come stronger than that.

He won because he got a lot of the independent vote, along with the democratic base, plus he turned some red states blue.

Bunch of liberals and blacks voted for him is a weak analysis

It was a strong analysis and the truth.

[firstandten]

It was a strong analysis and the truth.

So you just ignore all the poll's which showed he won the independent vote.

I don't mind if you want to re-write history

[DetroitPole]

It was a strong analysis and the truth.

Care to back that up with any kind of facts? Or are you just going to keep bullshitting? Obviously it must be a strong analysis because you say it is.

Blacks overwealmingly voted for Obama. Even if race was a factor [[as if people didn't vote against him because of race), Obama won the popular vote by about 10 million votes. About 16 million blacks voted. Now, if what you say is true, he would have to completely bomb the black vote worse than any other demographic in order to lose. Blacks overwealmingly vote Democratic in the first place, regardless of race, so even if he were a Martian, there is virtually no way the vast majority of blacks would vote against a Democratic candidate, causing him to lose.
Basically the only way for him in this scenario, even if he were white, Asian, or otherwise, as long as he were a Democrat, to lose would have been to bar blacks from voting entirely. Which I'm sure you'd be okay with.

In case you didn't know, blacks only make up a little over 10% of the population of this country, and not all of them vote. Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote to a sorry 45.7%. The vast majority of that 52.9% was non-black voters. Obama won countless other demographics besides black people.

[Johnlodge]

Care to back that up with any kind of facts? Or are you just going to keep bullshitting? Obviously it must be a strong analysis because you say it is.

Blacks overwealmingly voted for Obama. Even if race was a factor [[as if people didn't vote against him because of race), Obama won the popular vote by about 10 million votes. About 16 million blacks voted. Now, if what you say is true, he would have to completely bomb the black vote worse than any other demographic in order to lose. Blacks overwealmingly vote Democratic in the first place, regardless of race, so even if he were a Martian, there is virtually no way the vast majority of blacks would vote against a Democratic candidate, causing him to lose.
Basically the only way for him in this scenario, even if he were white, Asian, or otherwise, as long as he were a Democrat, to lose would have been to bar blacks from voting entirely. Which I'm sure you'd be okay with.

In case you didn't know, blacks only make up a little over 10% of the population of this country, and not all of them vote. Obama won 52.9% of the popular vote to a sorry 45.7%. The vast majority of that 52.9% was non-black voters. Obama won countless other demographics besides black people.

I pointed these exact numbers out previously, but certain people can't hear too well when their fingers are in their ears and they are screaming "LA LA LA LA LA" at the top of their lungs.

[Danny]

Obama did 90 things to social reform this nation. He didn't a post-Soviet way. Many folks including the republicans didn't like his policies and regulations, but its best way to clean up our broken government. Sacrifices have to be made for the greater good of our nation, our future and our free world.

WORD FROM STREET PROPHET

God bless Amerika, Comrads!

Neda, I miss you so.