Top 10 reasons to elect anybody but Obama

His poll numbers are rising and the GOP's are falling. Why would he be desperate?

Maybe you should look at all of the post to be more informed before writing your ridiculous seed. Just looking at one poll as a justification that you are right seems idiotic when other polls are saying different. But I expect that from a FOX puppet. Dance Puppet Dance !

Depends what poll you are looking at.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx

I prefer to look at averages of polls. Based on the following, Gallup appears to be an outlier:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

Intrade has proven significantly more accurate for predictive purposes than any of the polling organizations. Right now it places Obama's reelection at 59%, up from 46% in October. A Republican candidate has a 38.7% chance, down from 51% in October. Republicans don't just have to pray for the economic recovery to halt, they have to pray for economic failure, if they hope to win in November.

Sad thing is, they are praying for economic failure. Anybody but Obama and anything but a recovery. Destroy the country: that's what the "patriots" are calling for.

Source?

Bush promised to preserve and protect the Constitution. How did that work out?

Bush promised that we would find WMD's in Iraq. Bush promise that we, America, didn't torture. Bush promised that Iraq would pay for the Iraq illegall invasion.

So times things happen where it doesn't come true, to be honest about it

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Obama himself promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Guess he doesn't know the difference between addition and subtraction

actually he will cut the deficit in half, but the explanation is pretty complex and i'll leave it to polifact to clear the air

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/mar/25/barack-obama/obama-promises-cut-deficit-half-four-years/

but it is clear that he is reducng the massive bush deficits.

Bush is the topic of the seed , everything that the "POTUS" has had to do on your list , was because of what Bush did or did not do! ,and you can add another one that Bush vowed to do and did not! " KEEP AMERICA SAFE" this alone should be enough to keep the Republican's out of office of having to keep" AMERICA SAFE FOREVER" !!!!

BO needs to keep changing the topic because if we stay on the economy and jobless, we have epic fail.

Actually, "BO" should make the message about the economy and nothing but the economy. All this nonsense about contraception is just a right-wing circus sideshow. Newt should be biting the head off a chicken any moment now.

And you have to love Romney telling Michigan that we should have let the big auto makers fail at the same time they are coming roaring back from the dead.

Rick Santorum seems to have lost a bar bet to someone. Why else would he do everything he can to alienate independent women voters?

The GOP has lost its way. Here's hoping it never finds it. We might finally get something done in this country without the constant obstructionism.

@ partriot 8888 # 3.4...

the republicans are the ones that keep changing the subject from the economy because they have no ideas on how to improve it. they blather on about the deficit, obamacare, abortion and now religion.

i'm now watching fox's hannity guests promoting the fallacy to their minions that it's the president who is redirecting the focus from the economy to religion. i'm aghast at the outright mistruths that tumble out of their mouths. they can't help but lie even as they bring up the subject of religion.

they speak nothing of how they'll improve the poor and middle american's standard of living because they have no intention of doing so. there's no way that republican's demand for union members and other workers to take pay and benefit cuts will enhance their living standard. laying off public workers certainly won't improve living standards or the economy either. then they will spew about how americans are worse off than they were four years ago and of course, blame president obama.

i'm so sick of hearing about how the unemployment numbers are being manipulated because some americans have given up looking for work. these individuals may still be looking for work but may no longer be receiving unemployment compensation. whatever the case, the method of tallying the unemployed numbers was not created by the obama administration as the republicans seemly want to deceive us into believing.

Debt, deficit, downgrade, decline.....Why would anyone want four more years of this?

how long are you on the right going to continue to propagate the notion that the downgrade was the fault of the president? the s & p has said numerous times it was done because the republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling in order for the nation to pay it's bills.

@ patriot 8888 # 3.9....

when president obama took office the realized the importance of raising the debt ceiling. how about the repubs that voted to raise it during the bush years but refused to raise it for president obama?

Well, others saw runaway spending on steroids and decided that it was more important not to raise it.

well, these "others" are the ones the s & p has reported are the reason for the credit downgrade. NOT president obama. so some of those on the right need to stop lying about it. yeah, that's going to happen.

blame the correct body for downgrade, Patriot

Absolutely Barack Obama 2012! Yes!!!!

Anybody but Obama shows how desperate the GOP field is. You guys would vote of Elmo before Obama. Oh, that's right. You pissed off the muppets too. Elmo is pro-Obama!

Another reason to elect Obama.

I'm a woman.

#5:Top reason to elect Obama: Everybody else is a Republican. #5.1 -Another reason to elect Obama. I'm a woman.

I wholeheartedly agree with both statements!

See you at the voting polls in November! Carry On!

I'm a old woman on medicare and s.s !

lol welcome aboard katt!

#6:Will that list persuade an intelligent, rational thinking person to vote against President Obama? No.

They -or no one else- have such a list! Forget it.

Wishful dreams and empty memories also known as "promises".

I think you mean that anything BO whines about is probably something bad for America and it's freedom.

I haven't seen an example of the President whining about anything. Got one you can share?

Here:

http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/07/obama-whines-about-divided-government-at-town-hall-meeting/

A blog called "The Lonely Conservative." Nevermind that, in this case, Obama is correct.

and here:

obama whines about taking pictures with the troops

An anonymous, unsubstantiated source. Right.

and here:

obama whines it would be easier to be President of China

Once again, a conservative blog taking things out of context. But even taken out of context, Obama is once again correct. I fail to see how that constitutes whining.

Did I make up any excuses? No. I stated that a) your examples do not constitute whining and b) one them is unsubstantiated and c) the other two he is correct. How is that making an excuse? You don't make excuses when you are in the right.

keep going...

#10..is a religious fanatic who will go to unprecedented measures to quell women's aspirations to equality. a person who willwork to keep women in the place that a 19th century patriarch wants them. is throwing red racist meat to conservative audiences for their votes is a perfect candidate for the ever more racist conservative republican party.

Preach, preach! "Tell the truth and shame the devil"!

#10.2:His ability to cut the BS in the midst of Liberaland has them shaking in fear of his possible election.

Keep dreaming! When you awake, we will still have Barack Hussein Obama as our President. Only he won't be the 44th President of the United States, he will be the 45th. Hello!

You're a Republican Patriot. You'll always have major problems.

It's your core philosophy. Its all wrong.

Nothing but major problems can possibly result from it.

Profit over Planet:

Can't work, never will, flawed at the core. Rejection of scientific fact: Can't work, never will, flawed at the core.

Why don't you convince me: bring me a scientific paper that shows how fossil fuel burning actually benefits the environment.

See thats the whole problem. Basically, as it stands right now, the GOP has embraced an agenda of pure lunacy and total BULLCRAP.

Listening to BO day in and day out will certainly fine tune one's ability to detect distortion.

Is that what you meant to say? While I don't really listen to Obama every day; I might catch whatever soundbite the media decides to play on the evening news; I do believe my ability to detect distortion reached its zenith under Bush Jr. It's the constant and continuous saturation of the right-wing nut jobs on the talk-radio stations that has me worried the most.

No Patriot, you're on the sidelines making baseless remarks about subjects you know nothing about.

Patriot...

Here you go.

1. 1. Mountain of debt

   To say that President Obama spends like a drunken sailor is an insult to drunken sailors. From the stimulus bill and auto bailouts to Cash for Clunkers and green jobs, President Obama’s spending reached epic proportions with annual trillion-dollar deficits. Any of the remaining Republican nominees would turn off the spigot of red ink.

In point of fact, the deficit went from a SURPLUS of $380 Billion under Clinton to an $11 TRILLION debt under Bush. Almost ALL of Mr. Obama’s deficit spending has been forced upon him because the government must cover existing repayments on debts created by George Bush.

2. ObamaCare demise

As long as Obama remains President, the Patient Affordability and Protection Act (ObamaCare), has a chance of remaining the law of the land. Not so with a Republican in the Oval Office, as all the candidates would seek an end to the healthcare law. As long as Obama holds a veto pen, he can stymie conservative legislative efforts to reduce its scope.

You actually have this one right.

“Obamacare” has insured millions of people who did not previously have coverage. My own 22-year-old daughter is one of these people.

In 2014, “obamacare” will outlaw private insurers from dropping people who get sick, and will not allow insurers to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Mandating health insurance has the effect of covering EVERY CITIZEN.

Reason #1 why Mr. Obama will retain the Whitehouse.

3. Capitalism reasserted

Despite Gingrich’s assault on Bain Capital and Romney’s counterattack on Newt’s Fannie Mae contract, the Republican candidates are all, to varying degrees, free-market capitalists. Not so with the current White House occupant, who favors picking winners and losers out of “fairness” or “to help the environment.” So we sink billions into Solyndra and other bankrupt companies in the Utopian hope that creating green jobs will save the planet. As Chevy Volt sales indicate, consumer engineering is best to be left to the marketplace.

Under Bush, a war was started in Iraq, for what we all now know were spurious and untrue reasons. Haliburton, the corporation once led by Dick Cheney, proceeded to make over $100 billion in sales, all of it taxpayer money.

Solyndra was granted $535 million.

Which is better, paying $100 billion for 4,500 american deaths, or $535 million on 4,000 jobs that didn’t happen?

We all know which is better, don’t we.

4. Energy myopia

With his Keystone Pipeline XL ruling, Obama showed his true colors, choosing to placate the environmental lobby over jobs for American worker. His deep-water oil-drilling moratorium in the Gulf sent jobs to Brazil. Vast areas in Alaska and off the U.S. coasts remain off-limits for development. He even admitted his policies would dramatically increase electrical prices. Memo to President Obama: Spending billions to create green jobs doesn’t substitute for a serious energy policy.

1. The Keystone pipeline ruling was a good one, preventing American homes and farms from being destroyed to facilitate a Canadian Corporation’s profits, and preventing serious environmental degradation of unique American ecosystems from taking place.
2. The deep-water drilling moratorium was temporary. Oil companies are now back in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling deep.
3. Electricity prices will rise regardless of government policy. This is a function of capitalism.
4. Vast areas of unique ecosystems that deserve to be protected are protected.
5. The federal Government announced today that an area the size of Delaware in the Gulf of Mexico, with a potential 175 million barrels of oil and 4.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas has been opened up for exploration and development.

Sounds like a serious energy policy to me.

5. Class warfare

A Republican President would cease the insistent class-warfare attacks that Barack Obama wages. The President’s constant references to Warren Buffett’s secretary would end. We won’t hear his repetitive pledge to tax “millionaires and billionaires. ” We would no longer need to hear about evil banks, Wall Street traders, Big Oil and insensitive insurance companies.

So-called “class warfare” attacks are in fact all promulgated from the republican and conservative side.

When billionaires pay less tax than their employees, and are protected from paying more, that is class warfare.

When republicans try to stop tax relief for 160 million americans, that’s class warfare.

When the rich get richer at the expense of the rest of society, and are protected by political leaders, that is class warfare.

When millions of Americans are made homeless by the banking and mortgage industries, and are protected by elected leaders, that is class warfare.

Need I continue?

6. Judicial nominations

President Obama gave us Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor—who for decades will be two reliable liberal votes on the Supreme Court—and he is slowly remaking the entire federal judiciary by advancing activists to the bench. President George W. Bush pushed some bad policies, but he did nominate Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito—two solid conservatives. The next high court vacancy could be critical in tipping its ideological balance.

And the “ideological balance” needs so desperately to be tipped, with conservative bought-and-paid-for justices calling corporations “people” with rights under the constitution previously enjoyed ONLY by actual citizens.

7. Regulatory overkill

This President is more than happy to see the Environmental Protection Agency enact global-warming regulations by fiat and EPA is now moving on getting the nation’s dust in order. The regulations governing ObamaCare are many times longer than the 2,000 pages of the bill itself. Any of the Republicans still in the running would lessen the regulatory burden on small businesses.

No EPA rules regarding “dust” currently exist, have ever existed, and none are in the offing. This is another republican lie.

The so-called “regulatory burden on small businesses” is in reality no more limiting than that under Bush. In fact, small businesses are hurting not because of increased regulation, but because greedy banks won’t extend or even offer lines of credit to existing and new small businesses, making it much harder for them to operate.

8. Union coddling

SEIU (Service Employee International Union) and other union leaders have an open door to the White House, as the mobilization of its thuggish army of workers is critical to Obama’s reelection. So we see the president pack the National Labor Relations Board with anti-business zealots who rule that Boeing can’t build a plant in non-union South Carolina. So much for that laser focus on jobs.

That open-door policy is exactly why the autoworker unions accepted the worst financial setbacks in their history, and is why the auto industry has been saved, and is now profitable.

Boeing opened its new $750 million plant in South Carolina in June of 2011.

The NLRB dropped the union lawsuit in December of 2011, after the Washington state Boeing machinists union, who had brought the suit against the corporation, dropped their lawsuit.

More republican lies. THE PLANT WAS BUILT, AND IS IN OPERATION.

9. War on terror

The Osama takedown notwithstanding, the President is not fully engaged in fighting the war on terror. He refuses to identify the enemy—radical Islamists—and has advanced their cause by turning against allies in Egypt and Libya. His failed Iranian policy has allowed a new power center of Western hate to flourish.

More stupidity and downright lies. Mr. Obama has REPEATEDLY identified our enemy. Mr. Obama has ordered and endorsed the liquidation of more of these scum in his time in office than Bush did in his entire eight years.

Egypt is STILL our ally, but because their rank-and-file citizenry rose up against a repressive dictator, they are going through chaos and violence. If anyone thinks the Egyptian Military is going to give up a billion dollars in yearly U.S. aide, they are complete idiots.

Gaddafi was NEVER our ally. The new government IS OUR ALLY.

Iran policy is working, as basic commodities become scare in that nation, and Iran has allowed nuclear investigators into their nuclear plants.

Any OTHER STUPID statements to make, on this subject?

10. Leadership deficit

Obama often seems disinterested and aloof. He dithers when action is needed. The charismatic campaigner of hope and change has resorted to trotting out...

This is so ridiculous that I hardly need refute it, but I will.

Auto industry bailout: leadership.

Banking Industry bailout: leadership.

Identifying and exterminating our radical Islamic enemies: leadership.

Preventing republicans from rescinding the payroll tax cut: leadership.

Changing the new birth control regulations to protect the rights of churches and affiliated businesses: LEADERSHIP.

Presiding over more job creation in three years than Bush created in EIGHT YEARS: LEADERSHIP.

Getting re-elected in 2012…leadership not required: the republicans are doing a fine job of defeating themselves.

Patriot, I advise professional help, for your rank hatred, before it makes you sick.

No, Patriot - LMAO..."patriot"... now THERE'S a false statement if ever I heard one - it's you and people like you that need to prepare for the fact that your party is pretty much over and done with come November, and it will need some serious restructuring, rethinking and retooling if it does not want to go the way of the Whig party.

The supreme court ruling on Citizens United is a joke, a slap in the face of every freedom-loving american.

The Pipeline ruling ensures that a corporation from Canada doesn't make a profit at our nation's expense.

The payroll tax cut: republicans most definitely did try to rescind it...try reading the actual transcript from the public debate.

Perhaps you should consider moving to Venezuela or Cuba because that's the only equitable solution to resolve all of the evils that you appear to harbor against the US policy and legal structure.

Ah, yes, that time-honored conservative tactic of resorting to insults when the limits of debating skill have been reached. And your SO not good at it. No patriot, I really do think that you and people like you should leave our Great Nation. We don't need you here. The evils you claim I harbor against the government are in fact evils that exist in conservative republicanism...things like greed and bigotry, racism and intolerance.

Under Bush, a war was started in Iraq, for what we all now know were spurious and untrue reasons.

Who told you this? Liberal dogma? Stop parroting the Dem talking points.

Mr. Bush started a war against Iraq. He and his administration claimed that this was neccessary because Iraq held weapons of mass destruction. Bush also claimed that there was a direct link between Sadam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.

These reasons were factually untrue, and Bush knew this. This is what decent, honest people call "lies". What part of these facts do you wish to try and refute?

Oh, yeah, and next time, try responding to ALL of my points...if you dare.

LMAO

Well, we disagree about it being a perfect description. However, my point is that almost every right-winger uses that same word when discussing President Obama. Why? Cannot they think for themselves? Must they get their talking points from a pollster?

@ patriot 8888 # 17.1...

no pat 8888, a perfect description would be insightful and analytical decision making. maybe if the bush administration and congress (including dems) had done more "dithering" we would not have gone into iraq. so much for rushed decisions.

If Bush had left him some money to work with like Bush was left to "F" up , and a economy that was on the right track and no fake war's on a credit card maybe he would not have had to spend my dang money on Bushes $#!+ , THE AMERICA YOU ARE DREAMING OF IS LONG GONE ! and inspite of all of your Republican's tactic's it will "NEVER EXIST AGAIN", you don't have enough "RACIST" to make it happen !!!!!

#18 accidentally voted up

And it wasn't just 1 unjust war that caused this mess either.

Why don't you wish it away since your Republican President let them slip into this country even after they were pre-warned and killed over "3000 AMERICAN'S " at one time, not even counting all killed in the war he started and never finished !

Nothing like a little "facts" for a Tuesday afternoon , for without them history "will" repeat itself and for this country and the people in it , that would be a disaster !!!!!!

the back and forth rhetoric...in the end we are still in a mess currently...that's the present and reality..

The reality is the Republican's "F " ed UP!

B.S. and

P.S. I'm finish with this you will get no more rocks off on me !!!!!!

indeed Patriot

patriot,

did you see the balance sheet for the last bush budget?

Patriot,

no, FY2010 had an official budget,

and the deficit IS dropping, as the economy is slowly improving, but alas, the part that you seem to be missing right now is that it is congress that needs to pass a budget, not the president. So if congress can't produce a budget, exactly how is that Obama's fault?

has nothing to do with the party, there is a SPLIT congress. which means that BOTH parties need to sign off.

Umm...mounting debt. That's not real? Have you looked at the country's balance sheet lately?

Yes and most of it is carry over spending from Bush. If Obama started with a blank slate and none of Bush's spending or policies to pay for then your argument would hold water.

perhaps class warfare - pitting citizen against citizen. Never saw a President do that, did you?

Oh asking the rich to go back to Clinton era rates and pay their fair share to help balance the budget is class warfare. I see, it's only class warfare when it's the middle class/poor vs rich, but when you turn the middle class vs middle class/working poor (union demonizing) or the middle class vs the working poor/poor (welfare queens, lazy unemployed) it's all fine and dandy. The Republicans are waging more class warfare than President Obama has ever come close to.

But the last budget that was actually voted on could not even get support from his own party.

I know, having members in your party with minds of their own who aren't mindless sheep to their leadership is a horrible thing to have.

That argument does not hold any water nor would it ever. Spin away but you will certainly get dizzy.

Backatcha Patriot ;)

Anyone in any job assumes the baggage from the predecessor - yes even the presidency. No one ever starts with a clean slate unless it is a brand new business.

Yep and not everyone gets handed a giant mess when they take over like Obama got handed. Got to take into account what the president is taking over. Bush for example inherited a booming economy and low deficit/debt from Clinton yet he still managed to f it up. Obama was handed a giant mess from Bush and he is cleaning it up. Took Bush 8 years to make the mess going to take close to that for Obama to fix it.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is just a whiner.

No someone who can face reality that there is a huge difference between taking over a good economy and lower debt than taking over a crap economy and out of control spending.

Mindless sheep? That was the electorate in 2008.

Your opinion completely. And I was speaking of congress members, not voters

It seems you have forgotten that they have had an awakening in 2010.

Your opinion again completely. Congresses approval rating has nothing but plummeted since those mindless sheep Republicans who walk lock step with their leadership were voted in an off year election. Don't look too close at the numbers from the two elections now...

37% of 218,054,301 eligible voters turned out for 2010 US election day. Or 87,940,148. The overall ratio was 46 to 53 Dem to Reps or about 5million votes (1.6% of the entire US population, 2.3% of eligible voters.)

2008: The final tally of total votes counted was 131.3 million. Expressed as a percentage of eligible voters, 131.2 million votes could reflect a turnout as high as 63.0% of eligible voters