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Obama's Approval Ratings

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Air Langhi, Jan 18, 2017.

  1. SamFisher

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    According to Trump they love him, which I guess is why he registered 8 companies there, during the campaign. And that's just the recent stuff; guess which American President sold gaudy crash pads to the Bin Laden family? Hint, he's orange.

    (note, it appears he eventually closed 4 of them in December because it appeared too damaging even for him, I guess not in time to save you the embarrassment)

    Regardless, Casey, please bring this tidbit back to the MGTOW forums that you frequent:

    THIS IS WHAT REAL CORRUPTION LOOKS LIKE
     
  2. DaDakota

    DaDakota If you want to know, just ask!

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    One of the top 5 Presidents of all time, and maybe the best. As a country we were lucky to have him, and he has served with grace, humility and intelligence.

    Nothing we can expect from the next guy.

    DD
     
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  3. Bobbythegreat

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    That's just an adorable opinion so long as you are under 15 years old.
     
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    Excellent troll work.
     
  5. Space Ghost

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    If we were basing a president off of grace, humility and intelligence, our candidate options would be very wide. None of these three represented Hillary in the least.

    Its really sad you base a presidents worth off of theatrical performances.
     
  6. sugrlndkid

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    The American people resoundingly gave their opinion of his "approval rating" in November 2016 at the ballot box...Singlehandedly orchestrated the demise of the democratic party.. and it all started with his partisan legislative efforts in regards to the ACA. Top 5 indeed...smdh.
     
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  7. Bandwagoner

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    Much like LosPollosRetardos, your trolling is confusing and ineffective when I have to google the insults. What kind of stalker are you anyways? You learned nothing from my social media pages? Sad.
     
  8. Invisible Fan

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    What a horrible failure of a President.
     
  9. Bandwagoner

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    They are giving financial and logistical support to ISIL. (Those are the guys shooting at our military)
     
  10. DaDakota

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    There is a reason that his approval ratings are so high, he has done and outstanding job.

    And no amount of FAKE NEWS can change it.

    The country is in a better place because he became President. He led a divided country and had to put up with asshats in the Senate refusing to do their job, and yet, he did that with grace and humility.

    He treats people with respect, his press conferences are informative and well thought out, and his tweets are few, and always intelligently delivered.

    DD
     
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  11. Bobbythegreat

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    Well if you base 100% of your opinion on misleading propaganda then I could understand how you'd fail to come to that conclusion. I mean, the labor participation rate has been steadily falling over the course of Obama's time in office

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    and the national debt literally doubled under Obama.....but I guess none of that matters.
     
  12. Invisible Fan

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    Right...so what's another decade of sustained fighting that's depleted our economic, military and moral standing? How much did Iraq and Afghanistan cost when Bush left? How much do we pay for VA benefits now?

    You sound like of those people who wanted to double down on Vietnam.

    And yet inflation is under control and our economy is the strongest its been in the world in the last decade.

    I'm seriously hoping Trump doesn't pull another Dub**** and inflate our economy to the point where it makes 06 blush.
     
  13. Bobbythegreat

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    LOL so the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is what you think "depleted" our economy? That's a fun take, but a hard one to take seriously. Do you really think the Iraq war caused the housing market crash, or the internet bubble bursting before that?

    Also, what the hell are you talking about when you say "moral standing"?

    Just an overall odd post from you.

    Anyway, yes, I would have preferred doing the right thing in Iraq and leading to a success story as opposed to an embarrassing failure that we ended up with.
     
  14. Invisible Fan

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    $4,000,000,000,000-$6,000,000,000,000

    It's not my idea. Jamie Dimon pulled that one. The war is one of the main causes for historic trade deficits and ultra-low rates. The same rates we're slowly climbing out of.

    There have been times when large imbalances – such as those in trade – sort themselves out without causing massive global disruption. However, it is bad planning and wishful thinking to assume that this will always be the case. These imbalances shouldn’t be allowed to get that large – they create too much potential risk.

    Many other factors may have added to this storm – an expensive war in Iraq, short-selling, high energy prices, and irrational pressure on corporations, money managers and hedge funds to show increasingly better returns. It also is clear that excessive, poorly designed and short-term oriented compensation practices added to the problem by rewarding a lot of bad behavior.

    The modern financial world has had its first major financial crisis. So far, many major actors are gone: many of the mortgage brokers, numerous hedge funds, Wachovia, WaMu, Bear Stearns, Lehman and many others. Some of the survivors are struggling, particularly as we face a truly global, massive recession – and it still is not over.
     
  15. Bobbythegreat

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    That number is moronic due to it being basically the cost of something over like 80+ years because it is factoring in things like future VA benefits to artificially inflate the number. Quoting that in order to drastically inflate the number is intellectually dishonest at best.

    Anyway, even if I accept that number, doing things the way they were done that money was spend to accomplish nothing and actually made things worse. It would have been better to spend more and actually do something good. Make the money spent and lives lost amount to something. Instead, like I said, we made things worse than they were to begin with due to really short sighted policy by Bush that Obama made sure to continue so he could take credit for back when he thought it was a good idea.

    Of course, sadly, Obama has wasted a LOT more money than that in doubling the national debt during his time in office and accomplished pretty much nothing in the process.
     
  16. Bobbythegreat

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    I wonder if you were telling someone how much money you make if you'd give them the amount per year, or if you'd tell them the estimate of how much money you'll make in the rest of your life without explaining that's how you got to that number?

    Oh well.
     
  17. BigDog63

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    Good grief, not even remotely close. What did he accomplish that puts him such rarified air? About the only signature thing that happened under his administration was Obamacare, and it was rammed through single party, and the majority of people don't like it. There are numerous foreign policy issues one could point to, Syria probably being the primary one. Domestically, the economy is struggling, the class divide is markedly higher, wages for workers have decreased (hey, aren't the Democrats supposed to be the party for the working class?). . The national debt has skyrocketed, and racial divisions have reached a flash point. One could easily say he laid the groundwork for the Trump Presidency, then Hillary sealed the deal. Hardly top 5 type stuff. Clinton did a lot more than he did. Heck, I'm struggling to come up with any President since Hoover you couldn't say that about. Your bluegoogles are certainly activated. He seemed to be a good guy, but it takes a LOT more than that to justify the accolades you are bandying about.

    Which, by the way, were same things the left was saying about Clinton at the end of his terms. At least the left is consistent in its misapplication of such grandious statements.
     
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  18. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Got to love the idiots who talk about the decline in labor participation rates as if there was no such thing as baby boomers. Idiots can't figure out that the decline in labor participation rate was predicted in 1980 because of all the people that obviously would be entering retirement age in the first quarter of the 21st century.

    Why can't there be any intelligent conservatives on here to debate with?
     
  19. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    What did the Congress accomplish for 6 years but oppose him on everything?
     
  20. Amiga

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    Dang, not sure what everyone is arguing about in the last few pages.

    Obama has a high rating. Cool. He's a goner soon. Thx Obama for serving the last 8 years. Let's move on.
     

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