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Here are the results of the Obama Job Performance Poll.

And here are your comments.

From DesertMac on August 30, 2011 at 9:03 pm. 

 

Don I, you’re quite the history revisionista, aren’t you. That’s not a question. Why is it that you rightwingnuts feel compelled to lie ALL the damn time? I’m not saying there weren’t dems like Larry Summers involved in deregulating the banks, but everyone with half a brain and the simplest of memories knows it was republiscum like Phil Gramm who crafted and championed those bills, and gutting Glass Steagal. And it has been republiscum who have fought tooth and nail against every miniscule attempt to regulate the banks and protect the consumers put forth by democrats. NOT ONE consumer protection bill related to banks has been introduced by a republiscum. Go spout your lies on some red state blog.

As for Obama, I voted "Bad". He has betrayed the people too damn many times to forgive him. Everything from extending and enhancing the Patriot Act and sanctioning warrantless wiretapping to protecting the big banks and surrounding himself with Wall Street crooks, stopping investigations of the banks and mort industries, stopping investigation and prosecution of the Bush criminal regime, to keeping the wars going (50K soldiers in Iraq still is NOT and end!) to appointing the Monsanto VP lawyer to "advise" the FDA, to proposing 36 billion for loan guarantees for nuke plants to stripping the public option from healthcare before the game even started to actively pressuring the 50 state AGs to give the mort banks a free pass….. I could go on and on with things he has done and not done that he led us to believe he would act in the opposite direction when we voted him into office.

I will vote for him as a protest vote against whomever the republiscum put up there, since we know it will be another mental midget hell bent on destroying the country faster than Obama could possibly act to destroy it— which he is doing.

 

From Marva on August 25, 2011 at 11:59 am. 

 

I hope I’ll be able to raise his rating in my opinion from Bad to at least Fair before I’ll have no choice but to vote for him. I don’t dislike him. I think he believes the right stuff (that is, the things I do), but he continues the insane attempts to work with the Republicans when they’ve flat out stated they won’t. I think some executive orders would help. How about vetoing earthquake aid to Cantor’s District? Guess he can’t do that. No unilateral presidents.

 

From Don I in reply to Marva on August 28, 2011 at 3:54 pm. 

 

You believe in destroying the country?? If Obama doesn’t have that as one of his first priorities, it seems he’s doing a much better job at getting that done, than he is at solving any of our problems.

 

From Willow2884 on August 24, 2011 at 8:16 am. 

 

I think President Obama has tried too hard to govern from the center. I think he believest that if everyone is not quite happy, then he has done his job. However, he did campaign on specific promises and has not kept his end of the bargain. He has in the eyes of many democrats become milk toast to the GOP. Why did he not speak up in support of Unions while they were being demolished in Wisconsin? Why did he not push harder for the public option for health care? Why did he allow the Bush Tax Cuts to go through, then allow the GOP to tell us all we’re broke? He has had many successes also and needs to regain his confidence going forward or he will lose his support. Where is the Obama that was fearless, confident, strong and unwavering? We want that guy back!

 

From Don I in reply to Willow2884 on August 28, 2011 at 4:33 pm. 

 

Our country is NOT broke. The govt has more than enough monthly income to pay for its bills. It just came to a point where Obama and the Dem’s couldn’t spend any more without increasing the Debt ceiling.

The real culprit was the legislations Dem’s passed and amended over the years that deregulated banking and financial businesses, allowed lenders to make super risky and just palin BAD loans, FORCED the lenders meet govt mandated quotas or be penalized, and made Fannie Mae buy up the bad loans (placing the liability for the bad loans squarely on the tax payers shoulders).

Unions should NOT be allowed to force all workers at a business to join them or NOT be able to work. People should have the freedom to choose whether they want to join or not. ALL states should be "Right To Work" States, where businesses can decide whether unions will be allowed to represent their workers or not. A person could decide whether to apply for work at a company knowing they may or may not be able to have representation by a union.

Can you tell me what the difference between a union and what the mob used to be? The Mob of (was illegal), used to allow people to do business in the area they controlled IF the businesses paid them off with weekly or monthly dues (for protection). If you didn’t pay them off and play the game the way the mob wanted you to, you were at best, run out of business, and at worst you wound up dead.

Today, Unions (are legal) allow people to do work at a business they control negotiations with, IF the person pays them off with monthly dues (for job security). If you don’t pay them off you don’t get to work any more.

 

From Ann on August 18, 2011 at 4:55 pm. 

 

He doesn’t walk what he talks and the people who voted for him got betrayed in his attempt to appease the Republicans who will continue to stab him in the back. Maybe corporations and banks are too powerful even for the president, but still, there doesn’t seem to be genuine fight in him,… JFK might have been our last true ‘for the people’ president and well, they certainly made an example of what happens if speak too loudly for the people…

 

From Bonnie on August 15, 2011 at 10:10 am. 

 

He’s tried to get things done and the Republicans are against everything he does. He tries way too hard to be liked by Republicans and capitulates on things that are important to the People. Independents and Republican vote is more important than his base and he’s running for votes not for the good of the people.

For the record, the right-wing extremist was banned from commenting for personal attacks.  He snuck in through the back door.  I reported him.

We had a broad spectrum response with good and fair garnering the most votes.  To evaluate the results for terrible, consider that it includes both right wingers and the extreme left.

I voted fair.  He has caved into to Republicans so many times that he should have realized by now that, when you have to use Vaseline on your butt, it’s not bipartisanship.  He has fallen short of campaign promises on human rights and transparency.  On the other hand, given the level of Republican obstruction, and considering that he never had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, because of Lieberman and Nelson, it’s amazing that he accomplished anything at all.

The new poll questions how Obama should proceed on jobs.  Don’t forget to vote.