Majority Don't Think President Deserves Second Term, According To CNN Poll

Of course the politicians are playing to the mainstream media. When you look below the surface and see who owns the American mainstream TV/radio media.. And more closely still to see what connections their owners have to factions that are realy objectionable..,things start to gain a new perspective. And just where were these courageous, stalwart, upstanding paragons of sterling integrity and unimpeachable character during the 8 years that George Bush Jr. & Dick Cheny were running America into the ground like a Winter rat, and ignoring creating any new jobs ? Likely silent whenever the teleprompters were being reprogramed like the marquis of a movie theatre anticipating new entertainment in between shows. The Corporate TV media prosttitutes are a bad joke. They prosper in a culture where people are too lazy to read the printed word, and even more lazier to think for themselves. TV is a free baby sitter to occupy the attention of their kids, a handy mind control device to tell them what to buy, what to think, and whom to vote for. The mainstream media never questioned Hitler Bush/Cheny when they were the occupiers of 1600 Pensylvania Ave. because those 2 were carrying out the instructions of the Corporations who owned the TV media like pimps run C note hos. I make it a point never to watch TV for "news" because it's doublespeak. If it's genuine news, BBC radio will carry it, the papers will print it, and some soul here on Current,com will share it with us. I got Dish network for the DVR, the commercial free movie channels like Encore Westerns, and satellite radio's Moodscapes & City Lights channels. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Even in a culture overloaded with garbage as Bob Woodward might comment..

you are absolutly right americans are like sheep being led by the few.
what is it that washington dc does for us anyway other than take our tax money.
can someone clarify this?

No doubt about it! I see nobody on any-side that can match up with President! Good luck trying too find one.

96 out of 500? So he broke over 80 % of his promises !

Dagum, it would be best if you actually read the website. 200+ of his promises are "in the works" 15 have been broken, 96 completely fulfilled, 33 were accomplished via compromising and 85 have stalled. So no, the President has not broken 80% of his promises. He's accomplished 20% of them in his first year and over 40% are in the works.

That sounds like a much more reasonable account of the truth than some of the closed minded opinions posted here.

15 have been broken 33 have been keep. About a 1 to 2 broken /kept promises ratio. But comparing affirmative lies to kept obligations is comparing apples to oranges.

It shouldn't give you much solace. He still directly broke 15 of his pledges to the American people and he has only been in office for a little over a year

Furthermore these numbers don't quantify the value of the promises he broke.

No. 234: Allow five days of public comment before signing bill, No. 240: Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials.

These are just two example of important promises relating to transparency and, quite frankly, his administrations ethical character yet they were tossed to the wind.

In regards to promises "in the works," for the sake of the public opinion they are as good as broken.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/promise-broken/

So true atalanda, its called pessimistic.

don't know why you are getting thumbs down on this comment, China owns our ass and no one seems to acknowledge this.

there are a lot of old people where i work and whenever we attempt to change the culture of our business operations the old people get pissed. that's how we know change is happening.

change is happening in this country right now else the old folks wouldn't be in an uproar.

The only substantive change that has taken place from Bush to Obama is the increase in the number of home foreclosures and the increase in number of people collecting unemployment. Which old folks naturally are upset about because taxing the income of the unemployed does little to fund Social security and Medicare.

it's been one year. many promises have been fulfilled already. you can blame bushy for our deficit woes before you even try to compare it to obama's spending. he fell into this hole and is digging our way out.

in another two years, maybe you'll have a case for promises - but you don't yet. if you want to look at numbers - add the surplus bush was given to the deficit he handed obama, then we'll look at spending for a worthless currency.

Obama voted for all the spending increases during his 2 years in congress. I dont think he inherited them. He actually helped create these problems that he has only made worse.

right on! repubs are responsible for a considerable amount of
the debt regan and george jr . all they have to do is read a little
but the truth isnt high on the priority list.

They will slant, insinuste and leave out information to achieve that end.

Good answer, that's what I call 'spinning'.

Great quote, man. " Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home ". 100 years ago the USA was anything but the World's #1 top producer of garbage and deadly weapons, but though it should bring a tear to the eyes of any patriotic citizen to admit that truth, sadly, it is so now. I worked in a recycling plant once for a while. Yet, I found Gold, Silver, Copper (which you won't even see as coined money anymore). I found U.S. currency, foreign coins, valuable art,valuable books, enough Playboy magazines to put together a vintage collection and sell that too. I routinely found enough moderately valuable items, that if I were allowed to claim them, I could clean & disinfect them, open up a trading post, and barter whatever I couldn't sell out of my garage, and have a self supporting business. Whatever we produce, we waste. Whatever we produce, we destroy. And then we vote for shitbags like Dub'ya over Gore, and wonder why the place looks a mess. I drove through Colorado Springs in 1978, and it was a beautiful place. Look at it now after all the neglect. Haste makes waste. Waste not, want not. Because the thing, or person, you're so quick to throw away is likely something which/whom you'll need someday.

You can disagree with Obama on his policies and opinions, but incompetent? That's pretty ridiculous.

they have a picture of bush next to that word.

Not at all.
Incompetent:
Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application.
Devoid of those qualities requisite for effective conduct or action

He has been totally ineffective as a President. He promised that his stimulus bill would create jobs. The unemployment numbers continue to grow. Real unemployment topped 17%.
His "stimulus" bill was rife with waste. They included a provision for "weatherizing" houses that we now know cost us $51,000 per house. What a waste.
He enacted a "Cash for Clunkers" program that was so poorly administered it cost twice what they expected and they couldnt pay the dealers for months what they owed them.
He proposed a health care reform but didn't come up with a bill or suggestions of his own, just let those boobs on the hill screw it up.
He promised transparency and then ran one of the most fucked up, secretive, corrupt administrations we've ever seen.
His cabinet positions have been repeatedly marred by incompetent vetting, resulting in one failure after another.
He opposed the surge, then after it was in place said that it was not working, and now wants to take credit for it.
He promised you Lib fools he would exit Afghanistan and then followed the Bush surge plans instead. I actually agree with that, but was that the "change" you wanted?
He asked for a strategy in Afghanistan, got one, then got cold feet, months later asked for another, received recommendations for 40,000 troops and sent less than requested, repeated the George Bush mistake in Iraq when General Shinseki told him early on in the Iraq war they would need hundreds of thousands of troops to maintain the peace. So if this "genius" is so goddamn smart, why didn't he learn from the mistakes Bush made (and subsequently corrected)?
With complete control of the House and Senate, he failed repeatedly to find concensus and get his major bills passed.

Shall I go on? There's still more! You guys voted for a face and a color, not a skill set, and now we see the results.
Obama: "Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application."

http://Current.com

They have a picture of Dub'ya associated with the term incompetent, and historicaly, the facts prove that. I blogged a Current.com article recently confirming Bush/Cheny were so hot to exploit their positions of power to accumulate their own personal wealth, that they ignored and neglected the basic maintenence the USA needed even to stand still. 0 jobs were created from Jan, 21, 2001 through Jan.21, 2009. When you realize people are living longer, and still not in any position to retire.. That a larger population is producing more people coming of age, and needing jobs to be hired to support themselves...then it should be the first order of business to do whatever it takes to promote the creation of new jobs. Yet starting wars in 2 countries to fulfill his oil family dynasty agenda took precedence. And creating new jobs took the backmost burner. Did you see Current TV's cartoon caricature of the Bush Administration ? The inept, bungling, incompetent cronies Bush gave jobs to for political patronage favors eg.the head of FEMA saw Hurricane Katrina show them up for what they realy were. Though the cartoon caricatures were intended to ridicule as comedy, I knew it was tragic, and got so nauseated I switched the channel.

You're right. I admit it. I overstated the information. He has kept 96 of 503 promises. So he's kept about 19% of his promises.

I think most people are upset that on the major issues like ending the wars, lobbyists in government, transparent government, etc. he broke those.

i agree with cameron, lets see just how corrupted obama becomes and if a better candidate emerges

a real "fucking retard" could do a better job.

Agreed2 - however, I also believe we need one-payer and anything else is just giving more away to the insurance industry.
They seem blinded with 'anything will do' - one-payer will be good - anything else will be a negative.
I voted for him for every reason that was good and hope he pulls up out of the clouds.

Atalanda, I didn't vote for Bush, but learned to respect him in the end. There is NO denying that Bush had the skills and the right team to accomplish what he set out to do, whether you agreed with his policies or not.

Most importantly, he put al Qa'eda on the run and kept them there, and his aggressive war-footing on terrorism was the right approach. Obama's Kumbaya theory of international politics has set us up for terror attacks.

One more attack, and he and his cohorts are DONE.

you are in the minority, pal. all the polls are showing it. get used to it. the "one" who gave Chris Matthews shivers up his leg now just produces goose bumps and nausea.

lol like that vast majority that voted mcsame to the white house, oh wait... that didnt happen.

If you realy are in the minority, Conniepae, count yourself as sensible & intelligent. And
please also count that, of all but 4% of the ones who did vote, they did so for Palin and the War 0 which means this country is still in a lot deeper shit than any economic recovery could ever resolve. Because after all the extreme damage and neglect which Dub'ya & Cheny managed to wreck on the USA, things would have been a damn site worse with those 2 maniacs at the helm. As always, people should count their blessings. It's never been a matter of whether things could have been a lot better. Only realisticly a matter of whether things could have been a lot worse. Maybe some refuse to think of McCain/Palin as more rather than less worse that one more term of Bush/Cheny. But simply because the law prevented the identity of Bush from remaining in the white house, doesn't mean that much would have changed anyway. The Corporations have been controling the Gummint so much for so many years by now that who can realisticly say that things realy could have changed that much. They can make virtualy anyone resemble Homeboy D. Clown on the TV series, In Living Color. When you take into account how overwhelming the gas lobby was to inhibiting Edison from lighting up NYC with the first electric light bulbs, it's a miracle that realisticly ever changed either when it did.

@curtisreed...Perhaps if you only listen to Glenn Beck as your primary news source.

Multiple parties just weaken the field. If one wished for a better process, you'd have to join up and fix the party of your choice.
But the political parties and Congressional government has been bought off - they do not function as the Constitution specifies.
We do not have the America of promise.
There needs to be responsible people come forward and engage in a process that will result in a corrected governance.

yeah they need medication.

PLease dont make me drop the r word on you. CNN is owned a operated by a crew of far left leaning individuals including ted turner. They are also a sister company of G.E which is ran by one of the most far left individuals out there.

This isnt a source this is just funny.

http://wikiality.wikia.com/Ted_Turner

hey genius, CNN is a slightly left of center outfit. don't try to fool yourself that it's a conservative network.

nice try tho

True

just keep telling yourself that.

and you'll soon see how "fox news got all the republicans elected"

OR, you Libs could start holding your out-of-control Dems to account and call them up and tell them to move back to center or face losing control.

Just a fact

Agreed.

why? He sucks NOW and there is nothing about him that suggests he will rectify his actions.

three years is too long to wait.

so if you keep saying something, does that make it the truth?

What has he done in this 1st year that sucks so bad? Sounds like you've been drinking the Fox Kool Aid.

@curtisreed: I think you're being paid to say what you're saying.

"so if you keep saying something, does that make it the truth?" Nope. It's my opinion on his performance, and 52%+ of America agrees with me. It's obvious to anyone who simply looks at what he has done (or NOT done) to see that he is a total and complete failure. With a super majority in the Senate and total control of the house, the Dems, led by Obama were incapable of accomplishing one single thing. He claimed to be a candidate of concensus, but he can't even get his Democrats to agree. Why? Because Obama is too arrogant, inexperienced and incompetent to realize that he can't simply decree that America will do as he says, against the wishes of the Center Right country.

Clinton was a MUCH better President. He understood that he had to represent the majority of Americans, not just the socialist left.

I don't have to prove anything. His record speaks for itself. You can't show one accomplishment on his behalf, so until you can do that, shut your pie hole

Typical Lib horseshit. I'm not on anyone's payroll to post any damn thing. I'm just saying what the majority of americans now believe. He's an incompetent, inexperienced and lying worm.

My point is this: You're speaking in broad, sweeping statements ("majority of americans believe" etc.) which are mainly used by either the pundits of the extreme right or left -who ARE getting paid to take such a public stance. So, if you're not on someone's payroll for holding such a far-leaning opinion...why not?

My next jump in this line of logic leads me to believe that your source of education in these political matters is fairly biased. Your comments sound EXACTLY like some radio show extremist. My conclusion thus far:

Only paid pundits and suckers expend their energy on polarizing the discussion.

And you my friend are the epitome of right wing nut job paid for rhetoric. Look in the mirror and see what stares back at you, everything you accuse others of being and doing.

What Mr.Obama has done in his first year that sucks so bad in the mind of his most grand high exalted Offensiveness here is that the Chief Exec has reformed banks' credit card practices which should have been done 50 years ago. Yet he claims that YOU can't tell him one accomplishment. Why bother ? I wouldn't either. He's the one who's been consistently voted down for his insulting sarcasm, extreme prejudice and one sided negativity nearly every time. Yet noone but he, himself apparently thinks his shit doesn't stink with all the stereotypes he tries to brand others with. You can tell he gets swept away with emotionalism by all the errors he makes, not the least of which are errors in rational judgement.

yes and his refusal to bring the Bush administration to justice for war crimes,his refusal to get rid of the Patriot Act,which takes away our Constitutional rights,his bailout of banks and corporations with our money,all this is criminal as far as I am concerned! he has done nothing,not one thing ,to make america a better place, in fact he has made sure that the right wing nut jobs get back into the power in 3 years! "change we can believe in" what a crock!