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Zogby Report Card: America is 'just giving up' on Obama
The Washington Examiner's Washington Secrets ^ | July 12, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 07/12/2014 7:54:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that the troubles dogging President Obama and his inability to handle them have prompted even his most ardent supporters to give up.

"Now some people have really bad weeks. Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff got an 'F' after the nation's soccer team lost to Germany.

“But President Obama's week was just as bad. Israel and the Palestinians are at war again. The president should have visited the U.S.-Mexican border where so many immigrant children are in danger and so many American citizens are worried.

“It just seems that even those who have been so hopeful of this president are finally just giving up. Things just appear to be out control, at least out of his control. A very bad week."

Grade: F

Zogby is the senior analyst for Zogby Analytics and author (with Joan Snyder Kuhl) of "The First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing our Millennial Generation."


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: gaza; immigration; obama; polls
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Last week was more like 5 days of unexcused absences.


61 posted on 07/13/2014 6:51:23 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: TalBlack

I cannot fathom that most people don’t realize this. We are living the Masque of the Red Death.


Good analogy. That is one of the most maddening parts of all this.


62 posted on 07/13/2014 8:41:19 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I gave up on him when I first saw him lip sync from the TelePrompter at the Dem convention.


63 posted on 07/13/2014 9:09:53 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: SkyDancer
0bama doesn’t care - he has the MSM watching his back and he just goes off golfing or making inane speeches about how great he is ....

"Honey badger Obama doesn't care..."

64 posted on 07/13/2014 10:26:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Logical me
miss Romney yet?

Romney wimped out on campaigning as forcefully against Obama as he did against Republicans in the primaries. He had no narrative to oppose Obamacare, since he owns Romneycare. He decided that 47% of US citizens weren't worth campaigning for their votes. He backed off on condemning Obama and hillary for Benghazi. We thought Ryan was a constitutional conservative, but his true Chamber of Commerce allegiances began to show. Romney never got past the corporate raider resume and explained to average US citizens specifically how it would be easier to start businesses in a Romney presidency.

No, I don't "miss Romney". Does Romney regret not running a serious, passionate campaign?

65 posted on 07/13/2014 10:35:17 AM PDT by grania
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To: a fool in paradise
Don't know what Obama means ... I spell the name using a zero which is what he is ....
66 posted on 07/13/2014 12:12:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: goldi

LOL, Goldi


67 posted on 07/13/2014 12:34:02 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now, if America would cough him up like a hairball.


68 posted on 07/13/2014 12:44:15 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: nathanbedford
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

I see what you're saying - that Cloward-Piven is a good strategy for the Communists, since people will perceive the feds as their friends in the face of a crisis. You're right that essentially all of our social institutions would back up that perception.

But I don't think that when the dollar crashes, inflation takes off, and the feds open the borders to illegals to take what few jobs there are that people will look to Washington for answers. No, they'll look to their neighbors, to their counties, to their States.

In short, the problem with Cloward-Piven is that it seeks to centralize federal power while pursuing a strategy that undermines the actual levers of federal power itself - things like a sound national currency, reliable and even-handed regulation of interstate commerce, federal courts exercising power within their Constitutional jurisdiction, zealous protection of the States from things like invasion, managing a sane foreign policy that recognizes real threats like the rise of Islam. Our Marxist overlords do none of those things. Indeed, they undermine each and every one of those things point for point.

By the time they achieve their Cloward-Piven moment, there won't be any real federal power to centralize. What will the federal government be by then? A centralized bank account for printing worthless dollars and then circulating them through the tax-and-spend system? All they will be is a make-believe bank printing up Monopoly money that they pay to people who do nothing but vote. They sure don't work. They sure don't produce anything. Nobody will care - at least not anybody who counts.

If the Marxists were serious about it seizing power, they'd do what Lenin did and actually create infrastructure. They'd build things like the Keystone Pipeline and the other big infrastructure projects. Now there's a lever of power - a transnational pipeline carrying life-giving energy across the entire midsection of the country and to an international port where it would be refined and shipped to everybody around the globe thus making our dependence of foreign oil less and everybody else more dependent on us for to keep their wheels turning.

But they don't do that because that would make them feel bad. They're not ruled by reason. They're ruled by emotions. For liberals, politics is all about making them feel good about themselves.

In short, they're deluded. Like a monkey with a hand grenade they can do terrible damage, but ultimately they can't run things, as has become abundantly clear after 5 years of libtard rule.

It's unavoidable. They can concentrate all the feel-good bee-ess into federal hands that they want. Ultimately, it's just unicorns and fairy dust. They can't hope to win.

69 posted on 07/13/2014 1:36:47 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Look, there is no reason obama can’t be isolated and irrelevant in the white house, with government operating around him. In fact that’s what I expected when the guy was “elected”. I am amazed it hasn’t happened earlier.


70 posted on 07/16/2014 5:07:36 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: nathanbedford

I hope you are wrong, too ... but I doubt it.

Once progressives had a lock on education, it was only a matter of time until the population was so dumbed down they didn’t know any better, nor had the intellectual capacity to look for historical examples of what works and what doesn’t.

And the media simply reinforces their ignorance and shapes what our culture is and should be. We have a long battle ahead of us, on so many fronts. The task is daunting to say the least.


71 posted on 07/16/2014 5:56:14 AM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: nathanbedford

Your posts are always well thought out. I enjoy reading them.


72 posted on 07/20/2014 2:12:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
Thank you, June, I appreciate that very much. :-)
73 posted on 07/20/2014 10:41:23 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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