Obama's poll numbers are below those of George W. Bush at same stage of presidency

When Bush took office, first thing he did was to go on vacation. In fact, he set a record for presidential vacation days. Who cared anyway?

It wasn't until 9/11 that people realized he was president. Obama has had to take the mantle from day one.

If McCain were president, can you imagine the disaster that would be happening now????

 

Yes indeed. First legit thing you've posted in this thread.

 

Multi-task? HAHAHA -- wow you must not read the papers very often...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...d-to-give-proper-welcome-to-Gordon-Brown.html

Barack Obama 'too tired' to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown

Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.

OWNED

Sounds like the guy is just in over his head. What else would you expect from the 'show horse'? He's an unqualified, no-experience fraud who is great at reading words off a teleprompter and not much else.

 

If I recall correctly, Bush was appealing a lower court's decision, which is why he was named first.

The original styling of the case(s) that led to Bush v. Gore was Gore v. Harris.

 

That doesn't counter the point that Bush brought the case to the Federal courts.

 

So you are criticizing him for working too hard?

 

I'm not trying to counter that point. Why would I be trying to counter that point?

 

It is only if you compare it to the Republican approval rating.......though it could be within the margin of error cause it barely goes that low.


bwahahahahaha

 

Because you mentioned this earlier.

 

Yeah, I did. What I said was true. It was in the court system because of Gore. It is irrelevant who brought it into the Federal Courts except for disproving T_J's point, which I wasn't trying to defend. I was merely trying to figure out what he was talking about.

All my post was there to prove was that the reason the case was eventually decided by the SCOTUS was because Gore brought it into the court system. Did you not expect Bush to appeal? If Gore had lost, would you have expected him not to appeal?

 

Living in Minnesota and seeing what is going on with the Senate election no I have and had no expections that either side weren't going to appeal but I don't think to lay the blame this on Gore for dragging this into court is exactly correct. Both sides had various court challenges in Florida and technically under the Constitution it is up to the States to run elections. The Bush campaign took it to the Federal level. This was to be expected and I don't blame them but I think the argument that the Gore campaign is somehow to blame for being litiginous is incorrect when both were.

 

He is content with his "presidents" slacking and taking month long vacations at the Crawford Ranch, while the United States crumble on his watch. What do you expect from the lazy, anti people, anti realist, wing nuts who are on the fridge part of the right? The fringe lazy right believes in inheriting power, good jobs, and education through Nepotism for their family members, without much work. This is how the country ended up with an incompetent President like GW. Voters like TJ, accepted laziness and stupidity from W as the norm due to their political ideology. I am a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, but if there is a Republican with real solutions, I have no problem voting for one. In T. J mind, Obama has never once done any good his whole life, and is the antichrist. You can’t reason with a wing nut!

 

We better get out of the way or be washed away by this huge groundswell of nostalgia for the "good ol' Bush" years.

 

Bush's approval rating was good in the beginning he had no large problems to deal with. Then they probably shot even more after 9-11 because people thought he provided good leadership in the aftermath.

 

I felt GW Bush's leadership was very good in the aftermath of 9/11. He struck the right notes regarding both resolve and caution. I think things started going down when the Bush Admin. decided we needed to go after Iraq, treated it as a campaign issue during the 2002 elections and then rammed it through without building up solid international and domestic support and with almost no thought for a post invasion strategy.

 

He is criticizing him about this because he has nothing more legit to criticize him about.

But the logic is amusing. According to TJ, we're better off with a Prez that goes on vacation mostly and leaves the work to the VP (Cheney, um humm Biden) and just plays host to foreign leaders and make sure to give them nice gifts.

 

and gives female german leaders back rubs

 

don't forget choking on pretzels while watching the big game!

 

What a craptastic use of stats to troll up another "us vs. them debate."

If the 'numbers' are below, it's because of the massive propaganda assault by the GOP sissies that have nothing better to do for our country than point at Obama's every breath and say "SEE? SEE? HE WILL FAIL LET'S MAKE SURE OF IT" Had we gone into Bush's terms that way, we probably would never have gone to war at all, and sadly, we might be better for it now. As it is, we gave him just enough rope to hang himself, and are now suffering the effects. If those stats say anything, it's that Dude won't get a fair shake, while Bush got his numbers the old fashioned way... he EARNED them.

That said, arguing this with conservative extremists is pointless. Everything is the Democrats fault, nothing is the fault of Republicans, and they will say or do ANYTHING to make sure that people come around to seeing it their way. Help the country? Regain respect in legitimate ways such as doing their jobs or supporting positive initiatives? HELL NO, they're going to b**** and moan for the next 8 years, and even if and when they ever do get re-elected, anything that people disapprove of is due to the previous Democrats all the way back to freakin' FDR starting in 1933. Asinine.

Rarely have I voted Democrat, but what the GOP and its supporters have become is a disgrace.