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Has the Death Knell Sounded for the Obama Presidency?
PBS ^ | Friday, June 20, 2014 | Domenico Montanaro

Posted on 06/20/2014 1:20:24 PM PDT by kristinn

It has been a rough week for President Barack Obama.

The prospect of the United States being dragged back into Iraq, a war the president thought he had ended, has spurred criticism on both sides and presents yet another foreign-policy complication that threatens his presidency.

Foreign hotspots – from Iraq to Syria to Ukraine — have tested Mr. Obama and taken a toll on his standing. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.pdf) this week found him with the lowest foreign policy approval of his presidency — just 37 percent. His approval is down from 52 percent in Dec. 2012 right after he was re-elected.

The president finds himself in a difficult spot. He’ll get blamed for problems around the world, even ones with no tidy solutions. But there’s little indication war-weary Americans want the U.S., and specifically American troops, to do much about them.

But even bigger than just foreign policy, the NBC/WSJ poll also found Obama’s presidency on the edge–if not worse.

(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; enoughalready; obama; obamalameduck; obamalawless; obamapoll
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To: kristinn
Obama's MO is to do nothing and hope events work out by themselves. If something must be done, he'll slow-walk through the process.

Too bad for him, and the country, that events tend to zip along at lightening speed.

21 posted on 06/20/2014 1:42:59 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: kristinn
If there were an ounce of testosterone in the collective Republican Congressional Delegation, or a single vertebrae among them, maybe. Otherwise, the Obammunist will do just fine, advancing his agenda of becoming Emperor for Life.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

22 posted on 06/20/2014 1:44:23 PM PDT by wku man (Veterans, it's up to us to save the Republic...let's roll.)
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To: Jonty30

Obama will not resign. And he will only be impeached if the democrats realize he’s destroying their party. Period.

If the dems decide he’s toxic then and only then will he be impeached and convicted until then he knows he cAn violate the law with abandon


23 posted on 06/20/2014 1:46:24 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Kansas58

“apples and oranges in these polls.
Heavily populated areas tend to be Democratic. If a Democrat District has 70% approval for Obama so what? In Congressional races the only votes that count are the votes within the specific district.”

All true, but both the RATs and RINO’s have abysmal poll numbers, and for good reason. Just look at these circle jerks going on in the various House “Oversight” Committees. Lot’s of heat, but very little, if any light; and it’s been going on for literally years in most cases. If the House were a private enterprise, most, if not all of the members would have been fired long ago. Shame on all of us for not doing our job as their “board of directors.”


24 posted on 06/20/2014 1:46:59 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Fungi

They are obviously truly demorats with an R next to their name.


25 posted on 06/20/2014 1:50:51 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: kristinn

Obama still has a lot of damage to do, and plenty of time to do it in.


26 posted on 06/20/2014 1:54:35 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Fungi
The RNC should be on the airwaves and boob tube (even though I do not own one) day and night, constantly pounding the Rats for all the scandals and Obozocare until even the low information voter can recite them by heart.

And how, exactly, do they do that? The "airwaves and boob tube" still belong, by and large, to the Ministry of Truth -- which has no interest in broadcasting the truth about a Democrat administration.

That's like saying "Arrest all the SOBs in the IRS and cast them into jail"...when the DOJ is the instrumentality which must arrest the SOBs and put them in the clink.

We've got to be realistic about this: We don't have the media. We don't have the DOJ. We don't have a brave and impassioned Republican party which knows how to work their will (or necessarily wants to).

So...what's the solution?

There are a lot of smart people on this website. Between us, surely we can compound an effective plan that amounts to more than baying at the moon.

27 posted on 06/20/2014 1:57:09 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: caligatrux
"His presidency may be ending, but I think his reign is just beginning."

Absolutely correct. Foreign relations doesn't mean squat to Obama. He is obsessed with transforming America and knowing that no one will dare try to stop him for fear of having the media label them a racist means full speed ahead with domestic and environmental totalitarianism for the next 28 months ...then come the pardons.

28 posted on 06/20/2014 2:14:38 PM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: kristinn

Foreign policy...who did they survey, Israel? surely not Russia or Iran.


29 posted on 06/20/2014 2:25:35 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: jimmyo57

Did Bokassa just have a muffin with Imperial margarine?


PLEASE don’t give Obumbler any ideas ;)


30 posted on 06/20/2014 2:29:43 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: kristinn

“obama’s fault”


31 posted on 06/20/2014 2:31:13 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: vette6387

I am actually very please with the Republicans in the House. They are supposed to fight, and they finally are starting to fight.


32 posted on 06/20/2014 2:32:17 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Baynative

Does 40,000 innocent children brought to the US/Mexico Border due to illegal promises and illegal Executive “Dreamer” Orders from Obama qualify Obama to be placed on the US State Department’s Blacklist for Human Trafficking?


33 posted on 06/20/2014 2:32:31 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: kristinn
Headline?

Public tires of radicals occuping Beltway University's giant campus
Remove the Campus Radicals, Now!
"MSM employees adore them, but they are just a bunch of mau-mauing, spoiled brats. Enough already! They made their point. Now get out!"


34 posted on 06/20/2014 2:38:14 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: kristinn

We need to start several petitions at the White House. One could be for a special prosecutor and another for the child illegal immigrant influx.

Use their own weapons against them

I would like to see millions of signatures on these petitions!


35 posted on 06/20/2014 2:41:44 PM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: Graewoulf

In my opinion, YES - that and more. But as shown by my votes and political preferences over the years, my opinion matters little.


36 posted on 06/20/2014 2:42:08 PM PDT by Baynative (How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
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To: kristinn

has he gone yet ???


37 posted on 06/20/2014 3:21:07 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: kristinn
It has been a rough week for President Barack Obama.

Has been a much, much rougher five and a half years for America!!!

38 posted on 06/20/2014 3:26:48 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: GoldenPup

If justice is served to Clown Prince nobama he will have many “rough” weeks in prison.


39 posted on 06/20/2014 3:31:33 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: kristinn

I really don’t think Obama likes being President. He likes the benefits, but he doesn’t like being the President. I also don’t think that he’s the leader of the Democrat Party. If we had a real press, they’d smoke out whoever it is that’s actually running the country. Obama is just a spokesmodel. He’s like Marie Osmond. She does a nice job of selling that nutrisystem, but she isn’t running the outfit. Same with Obama.
That’s why the real fight is with the Democrat Party. If Obama leaves, the puppet master just puts up a different puppet. It’s not Obamacare, it’s Democratcare. It’s not Obama’s foreign policy failures, it’s Democrat foreign policy failures.
We have to put the puppet master out of business. When the puppet master can no longer make money, he packs up the puppet show and leaves.


40 posted on 06/20/2014 3:40:41 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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