Yet he was reelected comfortably. Someone please explain that to me.

Corruption on the part of Democrat election officials in many swing states. Compliant acceptance on the part of the Republican Party, and trolls in the electorate. I’m glad I’m old because I won’t have to face the ultimate collapse of the union.

President Obama earns a 39% job approval rating for his handling of the economy, similar to his ratings on the issue one year ago. Among domestic issues, Obama’s rating on the economy is above only his 31% rating for handling the federal deficit.

Yet he was reelected comfortably. Someone please explain that to me.

Doughboy on February 12, 2013 at 8:44 AM

There are a significant number of people who think he needs to spend more, tax the wealthy more, Krugman would be an example of a person who would respond negatively to Obama’s handling of the economy from the far left.

WHEN OBAMA CALLED UPON AMBASSADOR STEVENS TO SERVE IN LIBYA, STEVENS ANSWERED THAT CALL!

WHEN OBAMA CALLED UPON THE NAVY SEALS TO KILL OBL, THEY ANSWERED THAT CALL!

WHEN AFTER 2 PREVIOUS TERRORIST ATTACKS, WHEN AMBASSADOR STEVENS CALLED FOR ADDITIONAL SECURITY, OBAMA IGNORED THAT CALL!

WHILE 2 NAVY SEALS CALLED FOR HELP WHILE FIGHTING OFF 100 TERRORISTS FOR 7 HOURS, OBAMA IGNORED THAT CALL!

Your friend, by staying home, did just as much to help get Dear Leader re-elected as did those who actually voted for him. And the exact same thing happened in ’08.
Did your friend sit out last year’s election “to teach the Republicans a lesson”?
If so, the joke is on him.
Del Dolemonte on February 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM

He’s not political and has never voted before. I tried to get him to the polls but he was stubborn. I’m sure he’s learned his lesson and will be voting from here on out.

Libya:
o Qaeda-backed terrorists aided
o 20,000 shoulder-launched missiles unprotected & in hands of terrorists
o 1st Ambassador in 30 years assassinated after 2 previous terrorist attacks, multiple requests for additional security which were rejected, & a warning from Stevens that he would not survive a 3rd attack

Egypt:
o Aided TERRORIST GROUP te Muslim Brotherhood come to power
o $16.5 trillion in debt but GIVING the Muslim Brotherhood, while under seige by a protesting civilian population 16 new F-16 fighters & 200 Tanks

ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11
o Multiple Embassies abroad unprepared, sacked/overrun
o 1st dead Ambassador in 30 years
o Ordered Marines guarding Cairo, Egypt Embassy – also overrun/taken – NOT to carry Live ammo

NATIONAL DEBT / DEFICIT
o Called Bush ‘unpatriotic for adding $4 trillion in 8 years then added $6 trillion in only 4 years; obversaw 1st downgrade of U.S. Credit rating; no budget passed (A CRIME – required by law) in 4 years

SEQUESTRATION
o A Plan OBAMA CREATED
oo Will GUT / WEAKEN / DEVASTATE the MILITARY / National Security
oo Promised during 3rd debate would NOT happen

IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO ‘FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE U.S – 2008!

He has overseen/aided the rise of terrorism world-wide, terrorist regimes abroad, & the continuing devastation of the U.s. Military while U.S. body count as a result at home & abroad increases!

Did your friend sit out last year’s election “to teach the Republicans a lesson”?

If so, the joke is on him.

Del Dolemonte on February 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM

Dante, bayam, astonerii, floating rock….

B) If you subtract the black 13% from his numbers, O’Bozo isn’t even fooling the nitwit white liberals. Blacks are so culturally insecure that they’re afraid to acknowledge anything about this clown.

3) just like in the election campaign, his evil team knows that their only hope of support is a partisan brawl, where the Democrats who realize how stupid and incompetent he is will nonetheless join him in any fight against Those Nasty Rethuglicans.

A good friend of mine who sat out the election was doing his taxes last night. He was not happy at all. Says he regrets not getting more involved and wishes he had voted for Romney.

jawkneemusic on February 12, 2013 at 11:09 AM

Your friend, by staying home, did just as much to help get Dear Leader re-elected as did those who actually voted for him. And the exact same thing happened in ’08.

Did your friend sit out last year’s election “to teach the Republicans a lesson”?

If so, the joke is on him.

Yet he was reelected comfortably. Someone please explain that to me.

Doughboy on February 12, 2013 at 8:44 AM

Chicago Way vote manufacturing GOTV efforts in key urban areas of swing states. Or so the official story goes. Lots of early voting and mail in ballots I hear.

That’s a big part of it, but liberal media bias has gotten 100x worse since 2004.

Look what they did to Sarah Palin.

sentinelrules on February 12, 2013 at 10:05 AM

They are still doing it…

WaPo:

“An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that Sarah Palin planned to contribute to the Al Jazeera America news network.”

Gee you think?

How could they have been fooled with a story that sounds so legit (/s):

Late last week Al Jazeera America announced the former vice-presidential candidate would be joining their news network.

“As you all know, I’m not a big fan of newspapers, journalists, news anchors and the liberal media in general,” Palin told the Web site The Daily Currant. “But I met with the folks at Al-Jazeera and they told me they reach millions of devoutly religious people who don’t watch CBS or CNN. That tells me they don’t have a liberal bias.”

Gallup: Obama only gets positive marks on national defense

For basically continuing most of the policies of GWB. And in the cases of assassinations by remote control drones and escalating Afghanistan, the latter albeit reluctantly and half-heartedly, putting them on steroids.

Comrade O has sacrificed far more US lives in Afghanistan that GWB, for no real gain. Every month the body count gets closer to that in Iraq. When was the last time you heard a word about it from the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine or the Hollywood celebrity crowd. Instead they all pretend real progress is being made in Afghanistan as US soldiers and Marines die and we plan to bug out ASAP.

Complete incompetence in Libya and Benghazi resulting in the murders of an American ambassador and some of his staff by al Qaeda affiliated terrorists on the anniversary of 9/11 is ignored.

Since he is a lefty his fellow travelers, including those in the media and in Tinseltown, have no problem with any of it.

Polish Rifle on February 12, 2013 at 10:42 AM

The lines about St. Lucie are not factually accurate. Breitbart initially ran with that line as well. It has been debunked here at Hot Air and at Twitchy.

The gyst from Twitchy:

Voter turnout in St. Lucie County, Fla., was not 141 percent. The confusion arose because uninformed people mistakenly conflated the number of “cards cast” (the number of ballot pages submitted by voters) with the number of voters. Since most voters submitted two ballot pages, voter turnout in in St. Lucie County was roughly half the number of cards cast. Thus, turnout was roughly 70-71 percent, not 141 percent.

I agree there were extensive irregularities in polling locations with 100% of the vote going to Obama, and the Democrats played games booting GOP poll watchers out. We all need to be careful to not push false cases, it is all our opponents will focus on. Let’s keep the attention on the cases that have a factual basis.

Polish Rifle on February 12, 2013 at 10:42 AM

Obama’s so great that even people’s imaginary childhood friends turned out for him! But I heard that a few teddy bears were stopped from trying to cheat the system. /

NOTE: Obama won in every state that did not require a Photo ID and lost in every state that did require a Photo ID in order to vote.

Imagine that!

According to Steny Hoyer just now on CNBC we don’t have a spending problem, we have a problem paying for stuff we already promised to buy. See the difference?

ctmom on February 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM

..so the “semanticization” of this could be that it’s an “already spent” problem. But that only works if they don’t continue on the shopping spree.

Who are these 39% who think the economy is GOOD?

These are the people who thought 5.5 percent unemployment in 2007 under Bush was the “worst economy since the great depression”.

Richly ironic that this recovery is the worst since FDR.

DavidM on February 12, 2013 at 10:32 AM

According to Gallup Obama’s approval rating on the economy breaks down like this:

Republicans: 10%
Independents: 30%
Democrats: 75%

It has the largest partisan split and D/I split out of any of the issues polled.

Democrats for some reason are in favor of high unemployment and negative GDP growth.