Posted on 06/25/2012 5:57:36 AM PDT by sunmars
Via Jammie Wearing Fool, the numbers are as brutal as he says. In a poll taken by The Hill after last weeks assertion of executive privilege by Barack Obama in the Operation Fast and Furious probe, only 29% of likely voters supported Obamas move to block access to Department of Justice documentation, while a clear majority disapproved:
A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill.
The Hill Poll found that likely voters disapproved by an almost 2-to-1 margin of Obamas assertion of presidential power in the case. Overall, 56 percent of voters disapproved of his action, while only 29 percent approved.
The news is even worse among independents, and its not exactly a slam-dunk among Obamas base, either:
The defense is not proving an easy sell with voters, particularly independents.
Sixty-one percent of independents said they disapproved of the presidents actions, and just 25 percent approved. Among Republicans, opposition to the presidents use of executive privilege was more entrenched at 78 percent.
Even 28 percent of Democrats, and 30 percent of self-identified liberals disapproved of Obamas position.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Watch the Dems scatter and retreat after reading this poll.
WOW and this is with the ignoring / downplaying /cheerleading of the MSM.
Could you imagine he numbers if this was reported accurately?
Why would anyone think it would be popular? I swear we have entered an alternate dimension of “conventional wisdom”.
“That the DemocratsCommunists are thinking about running Hillary as the Vice.
Yeah, like Hillary is going to support the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF. (heh,heh,heh)”
Yeah, but the Clintoons have “friends”. She wouldn’t be “vice” for long. Look what happened to Vince Foster and others who tried turning on the Clintons.
If thats the case...you know Obama had to know...that this was gonna be unpopular...which means there is a red-hot smokin’ CANNON in those documents....
A Border Agent died, then Holder lied.
If this is the case, I’m curious as to what caused Boy Zer0’s job approval to spike +5 in a single day to 51% (Gallup Sunday).
Hillary wont run as VP, she would not hitch herself to that administration for 4 more years if she was gonna run in 2016, she’d only listen if they dumped his sorry butt and put her up in 2012 instead, there is still time for them to pull that switch.
“stickin’ it to da man”
They think this is still a winning attitude.
To paraphrase Arsenio Hall...
It’s a ‘rat thing, you wouldn’t understand.
more dems traditionally polled on weekends as republicans generally have lives at weekends to get on with.
At this point, I think Hillary is tired and just wants out. It’s Bill and Chelsea who want her to take over.
Did they poll 50% Dem, 40% Ind, and 10% Rep?
During the Bush Presidency, in March 2007, the University of Chicago Law School published an article on its website stating the standard to be met by Bush's claims of "Executive Privilege." The author is given as "sunstein." The Univ. of Chicago Law School's website states that Cass Sunstein was a faculty member from 1981-2008 ( Link-1, Link-2 ). The standards include the follow excerpt:
8. ...The privilege is limited to communications authored or solicited and received by members of an immediate White House advisers staff who have broad and significant responsibility for investigating and formulating the advice to be given to the President on the particular matter to which the communications relate....According to those standards, how can Obama claim both "Executive Privilege" and his non-involvement in the false flag operation called "Fast and Furious?" Only with the abject complicity of his democrat party media!9. Direct decision making by the President is required. If the President himself is not directly involved, there is no privilege. ...
after this disaster of a poll, you watch the normal suspects manipulate the polls this week to make dumbo look better.
“I’m curious what caused.... spike +5.... (Gallup Sunday)”
It’s Gallup... propaganda. I don’t believe anything they put out.
Male 48%
Female 52%
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18-39 40%
40-64 44%
65+ 15%
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White 77%
Black 11%
Other 12%
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Rep 36%
Dem 33%
Other 31%
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SEE LINK here: http://thehill.com/polls/234465-voters-obama-over-reached-in-blocking-fast-and-furious-docs
“...there is still time for them to pull that switch.”
The dems can’t pull that switch without branding themselves as racists UNLESS they are willing to throw him behind bars for one or some of the illegal acts he has committed sine becoming muslim in chief. An accident on the otherhand after the elections, well, wouldn’t that be just dandy for hillary?
In the same time frame, Bowbama went from -14 Approval to -22 Approval at Rasmussen. Overall approval went from 47% to 44%. Don’t know what Gallup’s poll is all about.
No indication from the Gallup site... but just four days ago, his approval was at 43%.
True. But....it's as if this regime could care less, though. Hmmmm.
Margin of error, small sample size. Don’t put a lot of stock in the daily Gallup.
Op-ed The Boston Globe
CASS R. SUNSTEIN
Defining executive privilege
By Cass R. Sunstein | July 12, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/07/12/defining_executive_privilege/
Hillary (thank the Lord) is implicated, too. F&F may even have been her brainchild.
Hussein's life expectancy would get considerably shorter, and the klinton "Death List" would be dusted off and ready for additions.
I guess this might be fitting - 0bama faces a 'Death Panel' composed of Bubba and the Beast.
bfl
Someone was commenting recently on how Hillary seems to have “changed” .... letting her hair down (literally & otherwise), slovenly appearance, having fun (out dancing, drinking beer), etc. She has said she won’t serve in an Obama 2nd term if he gets one. IF Hilliary is ‘smart’ (and she is, unlike Obummer), she will distance herself from his administration. She won’t be VP to a guy who is going to go down in history as the person who caused the collapse (or came close) of the US - she’d never get rid of the stink from the close association. I just don’t see it. I think there are enough Dems out there running from Obama that they will want to ‘preserve’ Hillary for 2016 where I think she would likely win if Romney wins & does what I think he’ll do (actually, more like ‘not’ do). The skanky appearance these days is to let folks know visually how ‘hard’ she’s working and to keep people thinking she no longer has political aspirations. Bill is frantic to get back in the WH before he kicks the bucket (not looking too good these days either) but I don’t think it would bother Hillary one bit to be in the WH without him if Bill doesn’t make it another 4 years. Just my musings this morning on one cup of coffee ....
Ahhh, it’s working ..... she has you convinced she’s no threat, not interested in politics, on the verge of mental collapse ..... :-) She’s got 4 years to bounce back & I believe she will.
I suspect Issa Already has copies of the documents he is seeking from the administration. He knows the dates, times and authors of those documents and the administration knows it. Issa is demanding documents and knows what those will mean. They are screwed because he knows that they are basically a kin to murder. Their logic for this program can not be explained any other way. They will have to resign.
Even the journ-o-list that was so impressed by a crease in Obamas pants in 08 is not impressed with his judgement in 2012...
David Brooks: Obamas use of executive privilege politically stupid, a winner for the GOP
He didn't do it to be popular. He did it because he can't ever let the voters find proof of what anyone who is paying attention knows for a fact: Fast & Furious was designed to cause death, calamity, and chaos on both sides of the border, to further the left's anti-Second Amendment power grab.
If Romney gets it and then governs as a liberal (odds are he would), then Hillary will be a very viable choice for the Dems in 16.
There must be Democrats who believe that Mr. Obama is acting like a dangerous dictator. They’re just keeping their mouths shut.
Only sixty-one percent? Surprised it's not higher... Elite dems live in a bubble of lies - twisted circuits of untruths fed back and forth between dem PR firms, MSM / MSNBC, liberal elites and New York Times sycophants.
They start thinking the American people are with them... and they're not.
In your photo it looks like Hillary is with her "ever-present" "most powerful" and "closest of assistant" (MSM descriptions) Huma Weiner Abedin.
With the Muslim Brotherhood taking the Egyptian presidency, contemplate what a Huma "assisted" Hillary taking the US presidency would mean.
First from "How is Huma Abedin connected to Egypts new President?" by Walid Shoebat - 6/24/12:
"One year ago, when Walid discovered the names of 63 leaders who make up the Muslim Sisterhood which is essentially nothing more than the female version of the Brotherhood we learned that Humas mother, Saleha, was one of those leaders. Little attention has been paid to the other 62 leaders, however. One of them is Najla Ali Mahmoud, the wife of {the new Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt} Mursi. "So the mother of Hillary's Huma serves with the wife of Egypt's Brotherhood President Mursi as leaders in the female branch of the Muslim brotherhood. That's what a Huma assisted Hillary taking the US presidency would mean!
Huma as Hillary's Islamic equivalent of FDR's Communist Alger Hiss?
Thanks for the additional article on the same subject. Makes it much more than probable.
Arsenio Hall reference?!? I have now seen everything on FR. :)
I agree. I particularly don’t think she would make a run in 2016. She’s ready to stay home, be out of the limelight.
My guess is that the 29% who backed 0bama’s executive privilege assertion as the mind-numbed robots who would back Clinton, Carter, and think that FDR was a fantastic president and don’t think twice about supporting 0bama because he has a (D) behind his name. Just my opinion.
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Boxers or Briefs Eric?
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>>If this is the case, Im curious as to what caused Boy Zer0s job approval to spike +5 in a single day to 51% (Gallup Sunday).<<
Easy, you poll during church services when most Republicans are not at home to answer the phone, or have their cell phones turned off during services.
Obama’s approval/disapproval rating at Rasmussen dropped from the -12 to -16 level it had been running for weeks to -22,-22,-22,-20 the past four days, immediately following his executive privilege announcement. It hurt him, badly.
This was from three days ago...
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