The morning after, now what?

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President Obama's approval rating dropped to his lowest levels as the public hammers him on his handling of each of the major crises facing the country, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll, released on Friday.

The survey, taken the last week of July, found that only 38% of the public approves of the job Obama is doing as president, while 53% disapprove.

That's a 10-point negative swing in just the past month.

Obama hit an all-time low in the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index, which fell 3.2 points this month to 41.5. That's almost precisely where the leadership index stood at this point in President Bush's second term, just before Democrats swept the House and Senate in the 2006 midterm elections.


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He's the most popular Kenyan in Africa, speaking to the largest delegation of Africans ever in the US tonight, and pledging $33BILLION of our grandchildrens' debt to China to Africa.

Go figure. Billions to Africa while USA infrastructure fails.

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He's now dropped to 40% in today's poll. How the heck can they find 40% who approve of the way he's handling things?

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He's now dropped to 40% in today's poll. How the heck can they find 40% who approve of the way he's handling things?

Factor for people who have the time, availability and inclination to be polled.

That rules me out. How about you?

Pass that poll out at board meetings and see how it goes.

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College students and Welfare Queens.

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Those on the take still have lots of love for their abilities to collect, right?
Surprised it is as low as 40%.
Keep hearing more than 50% of population withdraws instead of contributes to our "society".
And like said...the 50% that pay in are too busy to reply.
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You have to watch their 50% numbers and goofy reporting like that. However, there are over 2000 federal subsidy programs currently. I think the number of programs has increased by almost 25% since Obama has been pres.

The current number of people who receive government checks is around 49.1% (the latest actual numbers are first quarter 2012). However, that includes 16% who receive Social Security which certainly should not be called a subsidy. 16% receive Medicare, which is arguable either way I guess. To me it is a subsidy.

The numbers are roughly:
54,000,000 receive social security.
29,000,000 people and dependents receive welfare.
28,000,000 people and dependents receive unemployment.
11,000,000 people and their dependents are government employees.
3,000,000 people and dependents are military.

The food stamp and medicaid numbers are rolled into the welfare and the unemployed so as to not double count. Those number are roughly 50,000,000 receive food stamps and 60,000,000 receive Medicaid.

Anyway, the point is who do you count? Certainly not social security and military in my opinion. Other government employees, maybe? Who else??????

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Interesting that now his poll numbers are so bad he decides to try to help the Iraqi's he abandoned. Appears to be way too late though, we'll see. At least he didn't let the issue in Iraq, the mess in Afghanistan, the issues in Crimea, or the disaster on the border interrupt his vacation, (once again).

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The man is a joke. Saying it wasn't his idea to pull out all the troops and advisors from Iraq.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tere...ot-my-decision

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I rarely take a vacation. Of course, I'm accountable for results and I answer to a board of smart businesspeople.

Unlike an elected politician.

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They came out today saying they do not pay ransom for hostages. That is of course unless the hostage is a deserter and the ransom is terrorist leadership.

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In January Obama thought ISIS was the ‘jayvee’ team. Now they’re a threat ‘beyond anything we’ve seen

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By Robert Laurie August 23, 2014

Back in January it was clear to everyone whose name isn’t Barack Obama that our Middle East pullout had created a massive power vacuum. Filling that vacuum was a variety of Rebel groups - Al Qaeda offshoots that had gained a foothold in Syria and Iraq. We now know them as ISIS or ISIL, and we’ve been witnessing their brutality against Christians, Jews, and resistant Muslims for months. If only someone could have talked to President Obama at the beginning of the year and warned him that this new insurgency was a genuine threat that needed to be taken seriously.

Oh wait. Someone did.

In an interview with the New Yorker, Obama was asked about these various “rebel factions.” His response was a mish mash of non-interventionist rhetoric and naive, flippant, dismissal:

And yet thoughts of a pacific equilibrium are far from anyone’s mind in the real, existing Middle East. In the 2012 campaign, Obama spoke not only of killing Osama bin Laden; he also said that Al Qaeda had been “decimated.” I pointed out that the flag of Al Qaeda is now flying in Falluja, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria; Al Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too.

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said, resorting to an uncharacteristically flip analogy. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.

“Let’s just keep in mind, Falluja is a profoundly conservative Sunni city in a country that, independent of anything we do, is deeply divided along sectarian lines. And how we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn’t lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology are a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.”

According to President Obama, ISIS was just another junior varsity team - a bunch of pretenders. They weren’t a threat to the United States.

So, seven months later, what does Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel say about them?

“ISIL is as sophisticated and well funded as any group that we have seen. They’re beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded.

Oh. This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.

So, we must prepare for everything.And the only way you do that is that you take a cold, steely, hard look at it…and get ready

...When you look at what they did to Mr. Foley, what they threatened to do to all Americans and Europeans - what they are doing now, I don’t know any way to describe it other than ‘barbaric.’ They have no standard of decency - of responsible human behavior - and I think the records pretty clear on that.

So yes, they are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it’s in Iraq or anywhere else.”

From J.V. team to imminent threat in just 7 months?

Either ISIS has one heck of a training camp, or the administration so desperately wanted to score the talking point of “ending George Bush’s war” that they were willing to ignore any potential threat that might deflate the pullout narrative.

We’d love to believe that the President has learned his lesson and is now taking ISIS seriously. Sadly, since he’s willing to run back to the golf course just seven minutes after making a statement on ISIS beheading an American citizen, we’re somewhat less than convinced…

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65500