I HAVE TO WONDER, JUST HOW BAD DO AMERICANS REALLY WANT TO GET THINGS FIXED?

While I think it's way too soon to make any claims regarding how badly Barry may get beaten in 2012, or even if he'll be beaten at all, it does seem that Americans are growing more dissatisfied with his handling of the economy. However, having said that, many Americans don't have a clue when it comes to being able to recognize or understand the severity of our present Barry induced economic and financial meltdown. And many are now saying that it will be hard to vote to re-elect him without seeing significant progress over the next year and a half. By a margin of 61 percent to 37 percent, a Bloomberg National Poll conducted June 17-20 shows Americans say they believe that Barry will have had his chance to make the economy “substantially better” by the end of 2012. Only 30 percent of respondents said they are certain to vote for the president and 36 percent said they definitely won’t. Among likely independent voters, only 23 percent said they will back his re-election, while 36 percent said they definitely will look for another candidate. And I feel pretty confident in saying that that same 23 percent is probably made up of nearly 100 percent of blacks “As far as the economy goes, I don’t see that he has delivered on the change that he promised,” said Sharon Ortiz, a 38-year-old independent voter from Hampton, Virginia, who supported Obama in 2008. “The jobs that he promised -- I haven’t seen it." Sorry Sharon, but you're just not too bright. You screwed up, you trusted him. But don't feel too bad, lots of other folks are right there with you.

At the same time, however, Americans are skeptical that Republican control of the White House and Congress will be a better prescription for their economic wellbeing. I'd like to ask these simpletons one basic question. How could they be any worse? Sixty percent of those asked said that any Republican candidate will need to move so far to the right on fiscal and social issues to win their party’s nomination that it will be very hard to back the nominee. I don't think that's true. And even if it is, is it better that we go broke? The intensity among respondents who strongly agreed about judging Barry on his record of job creation, or lack of, was higher -- 45 percent versus 33 percent -- than those worried about a Republican nominee that might be pushed to the right. With unemployment and jobs ranking as the most important issue facing the country and lawmakers mired in debates regarding how best to cut the nation’s long-term debt, the poll’s findings underscore a central challenge for Barry’s re-election team: making the 2012 campaign a choice between competing visions for the country’s future rather than a referendum on his job performance. “So far Obama’s doing an OK job, not as great as I was hoping for,” said Pam Kaltenbach, 62, a Democratic voter from Chillicothe, Ohio, who supported Republican presidential candidate John "The Maverick" McCain in 2008. “But now the Republicans don’t understand the working man. They don’t tax the rich more, they just want to take away the programs that are needed by the middle class.” I swear, this bitch must have an IQ that roughly the same as her shoe size. No wonder she's a Democrat voter.


In the poll, 49 percent of respondents said they’re worried about Republicans gaining control of the White House and Congress and following through on pledges to slash funding for benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid, outnumbering the 40 percent who said they are concerned about another term for Barry and a continuation of current spending policies. Among independents, 47 percent said they are worried about a Republican takeover compared with 37 percent who are concerned about maintaining the status quo. So I guess that 49 percent of the total and the 47 percent of those noncommittal "Independents" must be pretty pleased with the fact that we're going broke. Correction, make that, we are BROKE! And I guess the prospects of our being broke and being unable to pay for these two massive entitlement programs doesn't bother them all that much either. “I still want them to cut the deficit and debt, but it’s been growing for years,” said Mark Rawls, 44, an independent voter from Orlando, Florida. “If you cut the deficit now, you might cut the legs of people who are trying to get jobs and on Medicare.” Hey Mark, you're a moron, who, I guess, wants to have his cake and eat it too. This is not rocket science, we simply do have the money to continue this train wreck pace of spending that Barry and the Democrats have on. “I voted for him in 2008 because of the financial crisis, the housing crisis and he was new and fresh and it seemed like he had energy and ideas to make headway in this,” said Rawls. “He needs to bring the unemployment numbers down.” Sorry to have to be the one to tell you, there, Mr. Rawls, but you ain't got the brains of an ice cube.


I'm constantly told that Barry’s ratings dip is reminiscent of former President Ronald Reagan's early years in office when he was struggling to manage a slowing economy. Seventeen months before Election Day, Reagan’s presidential approval rating was 43 percent, and he won a second term in a landslide. Barry’s overall job approval stands at 49 percent, with 44 percent disapproving. But the difference is the policies that Reagan put into place were actually designed to encourage economic recovery whereas the policies instituted by Barry are specifically designed to have just the opposite effect. Barry is attempting to force as many people as possible into the position of being completely dependent on the government. The only performance category in which Barry’s approval ratings were higher than his disapproval ratings was dealing with terrorism. And for the life of me I can't understand why. Less than two months after the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, 69 percent of Americans -- including 51 percent of Republicans -- said they approved of his performance on terrorism, while 27 percent didn’t. I'm still not sure how big of a role Barry even played in that event. I figure it was done and then he was informed that it had taken place. With the president poised to announce his plans for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the poll found that 53 percent of Americans support a gradual pullout over the next couple years compared to 30 percent who want them to come home immediately.


Ultimately, the survey showed, Barry’s presidential campaign will hinge on whether the economy improves rather than on any specific national security issues. Recent data shows the recovery is losing whatever little steam it might have had and, with a jobless rate of 9.1 percent, the president has few fiscal options to stimulate the economy. Lawmakers are debating how to cut the nation’s long-term deficits and raise the $14.3 trillion debt-ceiling. Vice President "Slow Joe" Biden, of all people, is leading talks with congressional leaders in an attempt to reach some sort of a deal on reducing the federal-debt ahead of an August 2 deadline, when the Treasury Department projects the government risks defaulting on its obligations -- which Barry, using his normal scare tactics, has continued to warn, would be “disastrous.” Republicans are insisting on trillions of dollars in savings and no tax increases in exchange for a vote to increase the debt ceiling. Democrats, as usual, have refused to allow any major cuts to the Medicare government health insurance program for the elderly, which is contributing to the debt. Their only solution is to raise taxes. Americans, revealing their significant ignorance of the issues, of course are split, 45 percent to 46 percent, on whether Republicans should hold out for more spending cuts even if the delay leads the government to default on its obligations. Only 19 percent say such an outcome would be catastrophic, suggesting such warnings from lawmakers, economists and Wall Street executives aren’t resonating with the public. Still, 52 percent of Americans say a default would be a serious problem.


“Maybe I don’t really understand what all that means if the U.S. defaults, but I do know the other route and I do know what that means,” said Jerry Reynolds, 66, a Democratic voter from Apache Junction, Arizona, who won’t vote again for Barry. “They need to do more on this budget, they need to quit spending money on these wars that are not doing us any good. It’s costing us people and its costing us money.” Of course this guy doesn't understand what happens if we default. First of all, he's a mentally challenged Democrat and secondly, all Barry and that imbecile Geithner have been doing is to lie, and to do their best to scare people. The basic insanity of the American public is evidenced by the fact that, by a slight margin, Republicans would be held more accountable than Barry should the financial markets fall as a result of a failure to raise the debt ceiling. Forty-four percent said they would fault Republicans for digging in their heels on spending cuts, while 41 percent would blame Obama for resisting their demands. I tell ya, sometimes I think Americans are the dumbest people on the entire planet. And I don't believe any Democrat when they say they'll not vote for Barry again. Because they will, they nearly always do. It's in their diseased DNA. In spite of the fact that Barry’s performance ratings drop significantly when the focus turns to his management of the economy, jobs and deficits. By a margin of 61 percent to 32 percent, Americans disapprove of the job Barry is doing to tackle the Budget deficit. Fifty-seven percent of respondents disapproved of his efforts to create jobs and overall 57 percent disapproved of his handling of the economy. But yet, Americans seem to be unsure as to whether or not they want the steps necessary to get our country back on some semblance of a solid fiscal footing, to even be taken. They seem to be perfectly comfortable with maintaining the status quo no matter what the cost and willing to avoid taking any actions whatsoever that would improve the odds of their children having a future worth living. I just don't get it!