Comments on: Obama Approval Rating Slips to 57 Percent

CBS News Poll: President Loses Support Amid Concerns About Economy; Loss In Backing Comes From Democrats And Independents

[beaumuff]

You can't really blame Obama, he has never ran a cr wash, you must blame the ones that put this community organizer in to start with. One clue, The check is not in the mail and it will not be coming. Only thing you will be getting is more bills to pay for this. Ask Jimmy Carter, he knows.

[eightsigma]

I still believe in the change. It's just not happening quickly enough.

[impeachbhb]

The American people are finally beginning to realize this is change we cannot beleive in. The long slide in popularity has begun!!!

[sam-kiley]

autre chose qu'il soit né au ghana ou ailleurs, il est citoyen américain et presidentde tous les américains... et a été élu par le peuple américain..merci

[actornaught]

wee wee...

[Joe_NY_15]

Translation into English:

something else that it was born to the ghana or elsewhere, it is American citizen and presidentde all the Americans... and was elected by the American people.. thank you
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It was born to the Ghanga.....I mean Ghana

[eightsigma]

Obama is neither the best nor the worst. He's the elected representative of a majority who wanted a change in direction:

A more rational national defense policy
More regulation of business
A fair tax policy
A science-based approach to environment and social policy
Guaranteed health care

It's a tall order we've placed, and he's making reasonable progress given the economic crisis he inherited.

I'm disappointed with the failure to hold accountable the authors of our torture policy. Since I see this as an existential issue for America, count me as one of the disappointed independents.

I'm trying very hard to not let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

[sam-kiley]

bonjour
les sondages n'ont jamais été une référence, encore moins une certitude, ils ne reflétent que l'avis d'une partie et non de tous les américains...aussi, monsiuer obama n'est là que depuis quelques mois, et il n'a pas arrété de sillonner la planéte, sa visie au moyent orient..un espoir pour régler le conflit, en afrique,et l'aide dont bénéficiera ce continent sa decisin de fermer le camp de guantanamo, le nouveau plan pour la santé, il a évité a général motors de tomber plus bas ...la nomination de sotomayor etc en plus d'etre un bon pére et un bon époux..ce n'est que le début

[IThoughtItWasFunnyNOPE]

Ya'll give the dullar Obama too much credit...the man clearly doesn't understand what the HELL he is doing...he's just hell bent on communism, destroying the US because he hates it...and he doesn't really care what congress spends as long as they put his little commie tidbits in the legislation they pass that nobody seems to have the time or prerogative to freaking read and understand...

The unemployment rate is due to the commies YOU sent to Congress...we have lost 20 MILLION jobs since January of 2007...GET A FREAKING CLUE! No business on the planet is going to invest in the US when you have a communist freaking government hell bent on taxing the people and businesses to support their re-distribution of the wealth from achievers to BUMS...

How's that been working out for you since 1964? Your country owes more freaking money to communist China and Saudi Arabia than your income for about 20 years to come! All to support the freaking re-distribution of the wealth socialist freaking programs....

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DUMB AND DUMBER that refuse to raise themselves out of poverty with a free education, and FREE FREAKING everything for the last 44 years!

GET A CLUE!!!!

[sean58z]

Barack Obama is not popular because the price for gasoline is too high. State Governments are not spending efficiently. For example, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is 14 days over the deadline for an approved state budget. Ed Rendell suggests that the budget should receive more funds for education, despite a lack of revenue for the improvement. Republicans want a lean budget without a tax increase. Barack Obama should reduce fat contracts made by George W. Bush.

[IThoughtItWasFunnyNOPE]

by gravyboat4000 July 13, 2009 6:54 PM EDT
Well, to be fair, GW did hand Obama this economy. That said, how has he,"failed"?

He's 7 months into a four year term.

Or is it that you WANT him to fail?

Just like Rush...and Hannity

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Still pushing the old myth that he was handed this economy by Bush, when the commies in congress had been making appropriations for two freaking years already and the employment rate dropped like a ton of bricks the minute the commmies got control of both houses...just like the employment rate drops every time they get control?

All I can say is, no wonder the country is in such a mess when it's full of STUPID PEOPLE!

[gronamox]

I have finally come to the end of the rope that is attached to Polling. It must hang by the numerals until dead. I read results wearing dark glasses in order to protect my eyes from melting into goo as they peruse the tainted *** radioactive "bogus" percentages that are tortured out of loaded questions and samplings that include some farm animals. I include every survey, electronic counter, television rating, audit that comprises this filthy out house of corrupt human services that tell us one thing over and over. Obama is going to lose, he doesn't have a chance, you are all idiots, McCain is wise, no he does not **** the bed...wait.yes he does and oh my God, Obama won.(Pause-cue Limbaugh to please stop farting and...go) He is a flash in the pan, the numbers show he is near death, he has a 79% of dying in a crack house...let's talk about this great State of Texa, where a man can become a queen, and a girl is still a distant second to a boy and every White Southerner is affordable and available to cast someone's vote for anything you want if you could just keeping calling them rabid harbingers of end of times who are related to some form of vermin or Bernie Madoff-and every word uttered by the knuckle walkers aka Republicans is a pathetic lie.
Where is my proof? They never reflect how I am feeling, nor have they ever contacted me in over sixty years of urban life. So, I am well within my rights to conclude that the polls and their meaningless results are used solely as offensive weaponry by the highest bidder. I cannot recall the exact number of times, 2 billion or possible 3, when the media has commented on the fatuousness of polls, especially if their disdain is in direct proportion to an insider loyalty for a particular network, faltering newspaper, Southern bigot, personal payday or even a psychotic chairman or two. The parasitical hacks who insist on poll accuracy and the critical need for the accumulation of daily data are the semi-human descendants of Con men, grifters, snake-oil salesman,and Republicans, down to the missing link, the perpetually masturbating lizard-(sarapalinestril) One thing I know I can take to the bank: there is not one honest person in this entire country. Everybody is a damaged soul who hides within the masquerade/trappings of brand names which don't possess even a whiff of quality and neither does their clientele. The common man is a indeed common as dirt and is chronically depressed because he fears he is guilty of allowing corruption to nearly drown the victims instead of the perpetrators of all the rot, aka Pharoah's murdering horde, aka The National Republican Party, the walking dead.

[tbbaot]

Obama's numbers are on the down escalater for sure. It's hard to point to any accomplishment so far. Seven months into his presidency and he and his cronies are still blaming Bush for everything that has happened. Even the koolaid drinkers can only hold so much before they realize we are headed south.

[USASTILLONTOP]

Are we really surprised? You voted in a guy with zero experience. He has no clue. People put him on a pedestal and expected miracles. Blame yourselves. It will only get worse.

[eiddam]

The republicans have blocked some of what Obama intended to do, also it took our country 8 years to recover from Bush SR.- and will take at least 20 years to recover from Bush JR.- Obama's rateings have went down some, because he was naive as to keep the Bush generals, and to follow the Bush path to Bloody wars, destruction and misery.

[longtree-2009]

does not matter what obama, or his administration, does or does not do. China owns the USA, China is replacing the USA as the number one financial and military power in the world. we might be witnessing the beginning of the end of the USA as a world power such as England, Spain, the USSR have fallen from world dominance.

[MitchellVII]

You are correct! The raw data showed the democrats with a 6 point sampling advantage. The "weighted sample" they used to get the final number gives democrats a 12 POINT ADVANTAGE! So they just randomly double toe dem advantage in the sample even though relaity showed them otherwise? This poll is a LIE people.

[MitchellVII]

PROOF THAT THE MSM LIES WITH THEIR POLLING!

If you need proof that MSM polling is a lie, look no further than the latest CBSNews Poll showing Obama with a 57% Approval Rating.

In their RAW NUMBERS, they showed Democrats with a 6 points party affiliation sampling advantage. This is in line with both Rasmussen and Gallup's latest findings.

BUT, in their WEIGHTED SAMPLE, the Democrats suddenly have a 12 POINT ADVANTAGE! So, even though the actual poll gave the Dems a 6 point advantage the pollsters just randomly DOUBLED THAT to get the 57% number they wanted!

Incredible!

Last week, the MSM released another poll where Dems had only a 3 point advatage in the sample, but that EXPLODED to a 14 POINT ADVANTAGE in the weighting!

Give this poll the PROPER WEIGHTING and they would find the same as Rasmussen, Obama's Approval hovers close to 50%.

[spiritwalk]

Since nobody else has gone there I might as well.

Rather got sandbagged. He was fed that Bush NG info and then the ones who fed it to him pulled the rug out from under him.

He was taken out. But why?

9/11 he was on the air reporting and he heard over the radio the words PULL TOWER SEVEN! Rather knew that was a term used in demolition that meant someone was about to blow up Tower 7. He got them to point the camera at the Tower just as it imploded.

However, the story was put out that there was no explosives in the tower and it fell on its one. Rather heard the radio call, interpreted what it meant and got the cameras pointed in the right place at the right moment so the world could watch what the government claims did not happen.

He had to be discredited.

[Mac]

I think he was born in Ghana to an American citizen (his mother) which grants him citizenship by birth. I think he grew up in New Zealand with a mother who may have relinqished her citizenship but its not clear how that would affect his. But it appears that he moved to Hawaii before he was 18 and his grandmother obtained some form of "certificate" so he could enroll in school. Its not clear if that is legal citizenship or not.

So, its a very muddy question and one the courts are loath to address. That is why we will never know the truth. But, it is pretty clear, he was born in Ghana but that does not mean he wasnt/isnt a natural born citizen.

[searingtruth]

If I became President promising to reverse the Bush and Republican policies of illegal kidnapping and indefinite detention of anonymous global and American citizens in secret prisons without representation, where they are always tortured and sometimes murdered, but then fought in court for the right to continue their crimes, then I would expect to lose popularity also.

And if I became President promising to value working Americans over the ultra rich, but then gave trillions of dollars to billionaire bankers, while letting companies that employ actual working Americans go bankrupt, I would expect to be a one term President.

And live off the illegal money earned by my corruption and ultimate betrayal of the American people.

As I'm sure Obama will.
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[patronejohn]

To be candid, I voted for Obama but was concerned that he didn't have the experience as some others navigating his way around Washington. I am a little disappointed as I am with mosr politicans on either side of the aisle, that they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
Haven't we been down this healthcare path already with the Clinton-era Administraion?

The stimulus did not work despite what anyone says, unemployment continues to rise, and we continue to help out Wall Street and Main Street continues to get the bill. I can't name one person that the stimulus helped... however I can name several banks.