Comments on: Poll: Mixed Reviews For Obama On AIG

CBS News Survey Finds Only 41 Percent Approve Of President’s Handling Of Bonus Scandal, Though Overall Approval Remains High

[skyk-2009]

why are u american voters bent out of shape? u all voted them crooks- the dumbobrats in. it does'nt matter, once it's calm down, u all gonna be stupid to vote them in anyways.
Posted by amputate at 1:41 AM : Mar 24, 2009

You think a 64% approval is the Voters "bent out of shape"? Go play with you Limbaugh Doll!! LOL

[skyk-2009]

What a bunch of liberal clowns! They pass out the trillions without strings attached, AIG puts the money where the libs don't want the money put then, want to illegally tax AIG for their own mistakes! Apparently, Obama (and his TV guest shots), the liberals and the news media's constant attacks on AIG and big business only had partial success.
Posted by budmag06 at 12:43 AM : Mar 24, 2009

Who EXACTLY are the "Liberals" here? You poor ditto heads have been fed this hate target for so long and so often, I really don't think you have a clue! Do you even know the meaning of the word??

[hunterdon6]

AIG gave out millions of dollars to the politicans last fall to get elected. 70% to the Democrats and 30% to the REPS. Most of the money went to O'bamas and Dodd's campain. And look who's in the middle of this whole mess.....Dodd and O'bama. And we still have 3 years and 9 months to survive before the next president takes over.

[skyk-2009]

Obama's has done well at somethings so far but he has screwed this up big time.

Obama and his teleprompter need to go back to the drawing board. They have had 6 months to figure this thing out.
Posted by jedi0849 at 9:48 PM : Mar 23, 2009

I know that the fact that THIS President is very intelligent and can speak to the people in complete sentences, thus the constant harping on Teleprompter s, but I really don't think it's working for you! Honestly speaking, what options do we have here. There is NO Republican Party left or at least not one that has even a clue about any policy change to move us away from the failure of the past.

[skyk-2009]

You put a junior senator with 143 days experience in the white House. He appointed a TAX CHEAT to be secretary of the treasury. His camapign spending was the largest in history. He never disclosed where the campaign funds came from. He doesn't have to now. Look who he is taking care of. TOO LATE AMERICA. YOU VOTED FOR HIM
Posted by grabandgo at 3:39 AM : Mar 24, 2009

Are YOU "Punch Drunk"?? LOL We had a decision to make between a worn out old man who wanted to continue "Trickle Down" and a fresh Young Leader who inspired the very best in all of us. What's to decide!? Maybe you should check that bias at the door and move on into the future.

[eroosevelt08]

If it is not constitutional to tax the bonus payments at an extremely high rate of tax, then it should not be done. President Obama was a teacher in the exact area of Constitutional Law. If President Bush had understood the Constitution, our civil rights would not have been trashed like they were under his watch. The Patriot Act provided that the government could arrest any one of us United States citizens and never tell us or our families why, never let the matter go to court. This is a democracy and we have to what is right. I do not like that those AIG fatcats got those bonuses, either, but right is right even if it does not suit me.

[nolies74621]

I have been perusing many of the political stories on CBS.com. I have noticed many calling Obama a great President. I will give BHO a chance and hope he succeeds, but I do believe that many are pinning the Great Banner across his chest just a little to soon. It may come back to bite them and they will have no grounds with which to complain in the future. I wish BHO luck, not because I like him, but for the good of the country.
Posted by nolies74621 at 3:43 AM : Mar 24, 2009


PS Personally I do not like him as a person or a President.

[nolies74621]

I have been perusing many of the political stories on CBS.com. I have noticed many calling Obama a great President. I will give BHO a chance and hope he succeeds, but I do believe that many are pinning the Great Banner across his chest just a little to soon. It may come back to bite them and they will have no grounds with which to complain in the future. I wish BHO luck, not because I like him, but for the good of the country.

[grabandgo]

You put a junior senator with 143 days experience in the white House. He appointed a TAX CHEAT to be secretary of the treasury. His camapign spending was the largest in history. He never disclosed where the campaign funds came from. He doesn't have to now. Look who he is taking care of. TOO LATE AMERICA. YOU VOTED FOR HIM

[jedi0849]

Obama's teleprompter is messing up big time!

[budmag06]

What a bunch of liberal clowns! They pass out the trillions without strings attached, AIG puts the money where the libs don't want the money put then, want to illegally tax AIG for their own mistakes! Apparently, Obama (and his TV guest shots), the liberals and the news media's constant attacks on AIG and big business only had partial success.

[jedi0849]

Obama's has done well at somethings so far but he has screwed this up big time.

Obama and his teleprompter need to go back to the drawing board. They have had 6 months to figure this thing out.

[idlepugilist]

Considering the embarrassing recession and bumbling lack of awareness of the Bush White House that allowed subprime mortgages to continue while taking credit for a housing market that hadn't yet tumbled, I'm surprised Obama is getting even 41% approval considering the uncomfortable/tough calls he has to make to start facing down his inherited chaotic mess.

[whitemale08]

President Obama has to dump Tim Gheitner NOW!

If not then I hate to say it but Republicans need to step in and pressure his removal like Democrats did with Gonzales.

The latest Public/Private partnership bailout will not work and leave the United States bankrupt and America with no choice but to endorse the British plan of neo-fuedalism and serfdom under global military tyrrany.

[curse914]

In a March 23 article about the GOP's strategy to use "furor" over AIG bonuses to boost its congressional election chances in 2010, The Washington Times' Sean Lengell reported that "the Connecticut attorney general said AIG papers showed that the company paid out $218 million in bonuses -- $53 million more than had been disclosed previously." Lengell went on to report that "[t]he blame, Republicans say, rests squarely with the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress for including a provision in the $787 billion economic-stimulus package last month that allowed AIG executives to receive their bonus checks" and quoted Republican strategist Dave Winston asserting of Democrats: "This is their action. This is not something they can point to George Bush. ... They own the issue of giving bonuses to the AIG executives."

At no point did Lengell note that the $53 million in bonuses to AIG that the article mentioned were reportedly paid out in December under the Bush administration, or that Neil Barofsky, a Bush-appointed special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), stated in March 19 congressional testimony that the Bush administration Treasury Department knew about the AIG bonus contracts and did not insist on their abrogation as a condition of AIG's receiving bailout money.

Posted by jimsmename at 8:02 PM : Mar 23, 2009

Duplicity.

[aldon62]

I find them amusing. Have you ever watched the "farting preachers" on youtube?
Posted by jimsmename at 8:24 PM :........

LOL! No I have not. I don't generally have an appreciation for either of those.
Posted by irishwench-2009


Go try it ... you will laugh until you cry.
Posted by jimsmename at 8:29 PM : Mar 23, 2009

Two irish people, hope you both had a great St. Patricks day!

[dj292009]

In a March 23 article about the GOP's strategy to use "furor" over AIG bonuses to boost its congressional election chances in 2010, The Washington Times' Sean Lengell reported that "the Connecticut attorney general said AIG papers showed that the company paid out $218 million in bonuses -- $53 million more than had been disclosed previously." Lengell went on to report that "[t]he blame, Republicans say, rests squarely with the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress for including a provision in the $787 billion economic-stimulus package last month that allowed AIG executives to receive their bonus checks" and quoted Republican strategist Dave Winston asserting of Democrats: "This is their action. This is not something they can point to George Bush. ... They own the issue of giving bonuses to the AIG executives."

At no point did Lengell note that the $53 million in bonuses to AIG that the article mentioned were reportedly paid out in December under the Bush administration, or that Neil Barofsky, a Bush-appointed special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), stated in March 19 congressional testimony that the Bush administration Treasury Department knew about the AIG bonus contracts and did not insist on their abrogation as a condition of AIG's receiving bailout money.
Posted by jimsmename

And there are reports out that the Obama administration new about the latest round? So what is your point?

You know I would be willing to bet that you give the democrats a pass while they had the majority in congress since January 2007. Funny thing is, when the GOP had control, this country was in a better position

[dj292009]

See the democrats see our Dow Raising for a few days is so great, when really the dow spent more time under bush raising

[bendewald]

Only liberal CBS would call it mixed reviews.

[dj292009]

GW BUSH CREATED THE BONUSES ON HIS WATCH, HE CREATED THIS MESS, HE

ALLOWED AL QUAIDA TO ATTACK US ON 9/11, HE STARTED THE WAR TO NOWHERE

IN IRAQ, ALL WITH THE HELP AND SOLID VOTES OF EVERY REPUBLICON,


WE PRAY OBAMA CAN SAVE US FROM THIS REPUBLICAN DISASTER
Posted by thomaso188 at

Lets point fingers to the other side and blame them for this mess


GW BUSH CREATED THE BONUSES ON HIS WATCH, Now show us where bush had any say in the business.

Then show us how Chris Dodd lied to people about the banks