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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:41 PM Nov 2014

I think Obama has got to be the most 'unpopular' popular President ever

I mean the guy's ratings aren't that hideous. I believe Bush was way worse and Congress is almost half of what Obama's is.

Yet left to what the media thinks this guy is a piece of infect ebola goo.

Frustrating.

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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
1. Have you seen the "14 facts about the Obama admin that most people don't know"?
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:46 PM
Nov 2014


14 Facts About The Obama Presidency That Most People Don’t Know

People have many perceptions of how the US economy or the country as a whole is doing in recent years. Depending on your political views, you may think the country is doing exceptionally well or on the verge of collapse.

Listed below are 14 objective facts, without interjecting any opinion, about the state of America under the leadership of President Obama. Every statement is followed up with a link to a source where you can verify these facts for yourself.


http://jeff61b.hubpages.com/hub/14-Facts-About-The-Obama-Presidency-That-Most-People-Dont-Know

1. We've now had 63 straight months of economic expansion.
3. Unemployment has dropped from 10.1% in October of 2009 to 5.9% and projected to reach 5.4% by summer of 2015.
5. The Federal budget deficit is shrinking. It’s been reduced by two-thirds since 2009.
7. For 95% of American taxpayers, income taxes are lower now than just about any time in the previous 50 years.

Mr Dixon

(1,185 posts)
2. IMO
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:05 PM
Nov 2014

This not a confusing situation more like a deliberate narrative, the Media is owned by the corporate elite, the must maintain a balance of insanity within the public to ensure their power and influence. Just like kicking an ant hill, once it settles kick it again, guess who plays the role of the ants?

RedCloud

(9,230 posts)
3. The wrong use simple solutions for low info voters.
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:09 PM
Nov 2014

They speak of Obamacare as a job destroyer.
Use the President's name as a curse word.
Yet have no plans other than let's get to starving so the rich can throw money away. One of every eight dollars is hoarded worldwide. Fuck the rich I say.

unblock

(52,205 posts)
4. we might go from worst 8 years of stock market performance to best 8 years,
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:25 PM
Nov 2014

and yet people still think obama's a bad president.

it's a testament to the power of propaganda that a president can more than double the stock market (possibly triple is by the end of his 8 years), cut unemployment in half, cut the deficit in half, extend health insurance to 10 million or so --

-- and so many still see him as not just poor, but a complete failure or worse.

so completely, objectively wrong, yet said often enough people believe it.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
6. It's a joke. In Delaware the Republicans have signs about how the GOP will finally create jobs
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:47 PM
Nov 2014

I keep wondering what the hell all these new jobs were created these past 6 years?

it is mind boggling.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
5. Bush at this point wasn't even campaigning for Republicans in safe Republican states.
Mon Nov 3, 2014, 02:26 PM
Nov 2014

That tells you how unpopular he was. But whatever. The media sucks.

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