Poll: Do you still have Obama's back or are you tossing him under the bus?

[Tx4obama]

21 votes, 20 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	I trust him to seek out the 'facts' and make the right decision regarding Syria. I've got his back!
	18 (86%)
	Turning my back on him and tossing him under the bus.
	3 (14%)
	20 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Puzzledtraveller]

1. LOL

[peacebird]

5. Total *push* poll...

[chimpymustgo]

2. He tossed me/us under the bus. Time and time again.

Won't be fooled again.

[snappyturtle]

15. +1

[whoiswithme]

23. Yep

[sharp_stick]

31. I need a puke smiley

really, there are so few times it fits so well.

[chimpymustgo]

32. Here ya go:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. False dichotomy much?

[hrmjustin]

4. I always will love the President. I may not always agree but I will always support him.

[sheshe2]

52. Hey Justin~

Me too!

[hrmjustin]

53. .

[Warpy]

6. Neither. I think he's being lied to and I don't support him on Syria

so take that.

Do I think McGramps or Romney would have been any better? Of course not, they'd both have been disastrous before things got to this point.

I just wish Obama would take a step back and consider history for a few minutes.

Now our only hope lies with the Clown Congress. Is their ODS severe enough to get them to vote against their favorite toy, war? Or is war just too shiny and enticing to them to deny it to a Democrat?

That's the only question at this point.

[bunnies]

7. push poll is pushy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. In a democracy, the people aren't supposed to "trust" the politicians.

It's our responsibility to hold them accountable.

[markpkessinger]

17. +1000! n/t

[99Forever]

9. I don't want him down here...

... with those of us that still have Democratic values.

[JHB]

10. Poll: Are you serious?

[whatchamacallit]

11. Let's sing 'Stand By Your Warmonger' n/t

[NuclearDem]

12. A push, a poll.

[onehandle]

13. Kerry! = Obama! = Hillary! = Rice! = Mrs Carlos Danger!

I have their back.

[tokenlib]

14. The President walked under the bus with chained CPI.......

..yup, I'm not forgetting. He lost a lot of political capital with that idea....

Yes he is still better than the GOP..and I know I have nowhere else to go..but that doesn't mean some of us are going to let him off when he is wrong...

We can always find money for Raytheon and the other military contractors...

[marew]

80. Exactly! nt

[City Lights]

16. Crap poll.

:raspberries:

[woo me with science]

18. ...

[markpkessinger]

19. He's supposed to have our back, not the other way around n/t

[Zavulon]

83. Bravo. Agreed x 10,000. (NT)

[1awake]

20. Let's just say no more than he is tossing me under the bus. n/t

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[Politicalboi]

29. Yes We Scan! Yes We Scan!

Saw that at or heard about it a rally a while back.

[peacebird]

21. The percentages are off, they SHOULD include those who choose not to accept the offered options

Then the first option would NOT be 100%

[DisgustipatedinCA]

22. Neither. I got his back...and I tossed it under the bus.

In the history of ridiculous OP's, this is somewhere in the top 100.

[markpkessinger]

24. That's one helluva push poll you got going there, Tx

As of this writing, the only people willing to even participate in it are those who share your view. 16 users voting with you, 25 declining to participate. Congratulations on one of the most fraudulent polls in the history of DU!

[David__77]

25. Proud to "pass" on this nonsense poll.

...

[zipplewrath]

26. I think you made a mistake

<<<<< BOG is over there.

[progressoid]

56. correction.

BOG is to the right >>>>>>>>>>

[zipplewrath]

82. LOL!

they'd probably correct you and say Obama is always right.

[Curmudgeoness]

27. Other---he is throwing us under the bus.

The people of this country do not want this. We have had to listen to all the politicians tell us how we didn't have enough money to continue running the government. And now, the bus is running over all of us.

[Warren Stupidity]

28. I've found that the latest threads page has improved a lot.

Since I trashed the bog.

[Thinkingabout]

30. Who would have guessed the ODS bunch would have so many post, hard to believe

They would have ever commented.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

33. .

[morningfog]

34. He is lying to us. I don't have his back on this. I oppose it 100%.

I think this is the worst decision put forward since the Iraq invasion. This is going to be his legacy and our burden.

[Tx4obama]

35. IF I was a snarky type of person I would ask: ''Is that you Joe Wilson?''

but since I'm not a snarky I won't.

[morningfog]

36. Too cute by half. I just can't figure out why Obama wants this illegal war so badly.

Putting his legacy on the line for it.

[Tx4obama]

37. The images of all the 'dead gassed children' affected him deeply.

I can't figure out why THE WHOLE WORLD is not up in arms over this issue,
especially folks that believe in human rights.

[morningfog]

39. So, what is the objective?

I understand being affected. I don't understand military strikes as a solution.

[sheshe2]

54. Bingo!

[morningfog]

57. I get that. But, what is the objective?

How will we get there?

[sheshe2]

63. The situation is heartbreaking, morningfog.

It is not a black and white situation. There are grey areas.

This is part of what I have read.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-strategy-in-syria-2013-9

I don't want to see us involved, yet can we really sit back when so many are dead 110 thousand died from that attack. Assad will do it again.

and the terrified citizens are hemorrhaging from their country.

More than 2 million refugees have fled Syria's violence in an exodus that shows no sign of letting up and could destabilize neighboring countries, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

Antonio Guterres, head of the Office for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said an average of almost 5,000 citizens a day are flowing out of Syria, many of them with little more than the clothes they are wearing.

What's particularly alarming, Guterres said, is that number of refugees has surged by 1.8 million in just 12 months — up from almost 231,000 a year ago.

They are leaving with the clothes on there backs.

http://www.npr.org/2013/09/03/218399159/u-n-refugees-fleeing-syria-top-2-million

It makes me want to cry. The inhumanity of a crazed dictator, destroying it's people. When does it stop?

There are many here that say, F**k Syria. Some are joking about it. Really? Destroying a human life is not a joke.

I don't know the answers. However I do believe that this President will make the right choice.

It is late for me and I have to work tomorrow. This is the best that I can give you at this time.

Respectfully, sheshe2

[Logical]

43. You just did. Really not that clever. n-t

[Nevernose]

50. Is he lying to us?

Or merely repeating the lies he's been told?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. i dont support this war or push polls. nt

[fujiyama]

40. I think he got under this bus himself

and gave Kerry the keys.

[LondonReign2]

41. Thank you, we hadn't had a loyalty poll in hours

[Logical]

42. LOL, not a shock from you. You should do push polls for the GOP! n-t

[Liberal_in_LA]

44. lol. excellent poll

[Solly Mack]

45. Damn

[scarletwoman]

46. Highly telling that you put "facts" in quotes. We are being propagandized with carefully chosen

"facts". Even you have subconsciously recognized it.

I suppose I might have gone ahead and voted "have Obama's back" in your poll, since his back is all I'll ever get when it comes to a great many issues. Yeah, I guess I could say that all I've got is his back when he's turned his back on me.

[Dragonfli]

48. I remember when the most religious of the believers used to post a picture of him

with his back turned to us, and they wondered why it was received as just that.

I think it was supposed to mean we should "HAVE" his back or something, but most took it as the obvious - that he had turned his back ON us. I know I did.

[rhett o rick]

49. Good point. It isnt that the left "has his back", the left gets his backside. nm

[scarletwoman]

51. Thank you for saying what I meant so succinctly!

It isnt that the left "has his back", the left gets his backside.

Exactly!

[cui bono]

71. Thank you for an observant and great post. n/t

[Dragonfli]

47. This is a joke poll right? Some caricature of something Stephen Colbert would have come up with?

It's got to be.

No one can be that much of a manipulative tool. (well maybe Kerry in his latest incarnation as creepy animated war puppet)

[Douglas Carpenter]

85. +1000

[TDale313]

55. How very "Yer either with us or aginst us"

Think I'll pass on the push poll and continue holding my politicians accountable.

[Erose999]

58. I don't trust Obama at all, he's proven time and again he's a neo-lib technocrat. Drones, NDAA, NSA

spying, and now he's starting another Mid East war.

[Faryn Balyncd]

59. This poll sounds like North Korea.

[Marr]

60. Lame. /nt

[last1standing]

61. If you give me the choice of supporting war without reason or throwing him under the bus...

I choose the bus.

Satisfied?

[Iggo]

62. I don't have his back on Syria, but he climbed under the bus all by himself.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

64. Fess up, you're just looking for more DUers to add to the banned-from-the-BOG list.

Amiright?

[Tx4obama]

66. I am not a member of the BOG, so I think you are NOT right.

[quinnox]

65. I know this poll would score 100% in "I have Obama's back!" in the BOG, but I'm not a fan of that

mindset of blind obedience and support. It just was never my thing.

[donheld]

67. Does he have our backs?

[DiverDave]

68. push poll much?

pretty GOP of ya.

[cui bono]

69. What a pathetic poll. I would expect this from some Rovian types.

This is what DU has become. So sad.

[cui bono]

70. Your poll approval rating is the same as your idol's. But with only Dem responders.

[cali]

72. wow. nice push poll.

More people chose NOT to participate in your poll than "have the President's back"

[LostOne4Ever]

73. I both oppose the war and support president Obama

Just because I support Obama does not mean I am giving him a blank check on Syria.

Just because I oppose military strikes in Syria does not mean I am going to toss Obama under a bus.

If you want me to do something other than pass on your poll you need to give me an option I will support.

[badtoworse]

74. Bullshit poll, I passed

[eridani]

75. Still personalities over policies, I see. I'm against his Syria policy

I'd be against it if it were Rmoney's policy as well. McCain's proposals are even worse.

[MNBrewer]

76. Stupid poll options

[Douglas Carpenter]

77. As with Jesus Christ - he is to either be Lord of ALL or Lord not at all -The only 2 possibilities

For crying out loud! When I supported him for President - I never realized I had to accept him as my personal Lord and savior!

He's a lot better than the alternative - but he IS making the wrong decisions on Syria. You will see.

[NCTraveler]

78. Obama is driving the bus.

He is no victim being thrown under the bus. He is the President. His decisions determine the citizens support for him. We are the ones outside the bus. Not sure why so many don't get that.

[liberal N proud]

79. It's not an all or none thing

I support Obama on many things, just not bombing Syria or any other nation without provocation!

[sendero]

81. It's not about Obama...

... it's about whether it makes sense or would be right or moral to begin yet another pointless war in another country. It wouldn't, not if Obama wants it, not if Ghandi wants it not if Mother Theresa wants it not if the Pope wants it.

Picking right from wrong based on who is "for" it or "against" is is stupid and an abdication of one's responsibility as a citizen of a nominal Democracy.

[Andy823]

84. I trust the president

At the same time I don't want to see another war, no matter where it's at. The president has a tough choice to make and he will be damned one way or the other. I for one would not like to be in his shoes. As for all the crap about anyone who supports the president being "warmongers", or cult loyalists or any of the other BS that's being slung, well it's pretty obvious that some here have gone off the deep end and the only agenda they seem to have is bashing the president and those who support him.

[Bluenorthwest]

86. Pass on this really disgraceful poll

Very KKKarl Rove. Barf on your tactics.

[magical thyme]

87. I'm issues oriented. It's not a game about supporting our dear leader no matter what.

If he is wrong on an issue, he is wrong on the issue and I write my senators and congressperson to advise why he is wrong.

[geek tragedy]

88. I hope he fails for his own good on Syria

More importantly, for the country's good.

[TransitJohn]

89. Obama's thrown us under the bus eom

n/t