I'm a little confused here. There are several polls flying around that would seem conflict with most presidential polls. For instance, there are recent polls that would seem to indicate that at the present time more than six in 10 independents feel that the government is doing too much and nearly the same amount say that the country is headed in the wrong direction. And yet, the one man responsible for both of these occurrences, Barry "Almighty", still leads in the polls. Now, are Americans just plain stupid or what? I mean how can your opinion be that government is too big and that the country, as a whole, is headed in what you determine to be the wrong direction, and yet you still feel compelled to vote for Barry?
And there has been yet another new poll that would seem to indicate that a majority of Americans actually reject the notion of isolationism. Also according to this same poll, Americans do not believe the U.S. spends an excessive amount on defense, and say that it’s important for the U.S. to continue playing a significant role in global affairs, according to a new opinion poll. The commissioning organization, the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), says the findings show that "foreign policy matters" in the election campaign, despite assertions to the contrary. But if foreign policy is important to people, and possessing a strong national defense is also seen as being important, how can anyone vote for Barry?
"[D]espite continuing concerns about the economy and other domestic issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans (92.2%) assign importance to the United States continuing to play a significant role in global affairs, and a very strong majority of Americans (85.7%) still see the United States as a ‘force for good in the world,’" FPI said in a statement accompanying the results Thursday. These are astronomical numbers, folks. And this IS NOWHERE NEAR how Barry "Almighty" views things. Barry sees this country as being a source of evil and his goal is to reduce American influence in the world! Remember his little apology tour? And the continual bowing before every world leader and their brother?
Conducted by some outfit called, Basswood Research from September 15-17, the survey polled 1,000 likely voters, 37.9 percent of whom identified as Republican, 39.9 percent as Democrat, and 20 percent either as independent or not associated with a political party. Forty-nine percent of respondents named the economy as their top concern in deciding how to vote in November, followed by social security/Medicare (13.8 percent), national debt (9.5 percent), health care (8.6 percent) and national security (5.7 percent). And again, if the economy is truly the most important thing on your list, how is it, exactly, that you can vote for a guy who took a bad situation and only succeeded in making it worse?
Despite that relatively low score for national security, the poll, which was conducted several days after anti-U.S. protests and the deadly September 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, also found that recent events in the Middle East had increased national security’s importance in the mind of likely voters. A total of 59.8 percent of respondents said those events had made national security issues more important in deciding for whom to vote, while 31.9 percent said it made no difference. So once again we have another area where a majority of Americans are diametrically opposed to Barry and yet many seem to see it as being appropriate to still vote for him.
And then there was another separate poll, this one conducted by Fox News, that would seem to suggest that a large majority of likely voters actually believes that all Americans should pay some federal income tax, even if it is as little as one percent of what they make. Imagine that! Seventy-nine percent say everyone should pay something according to the poll that was released Thursday. And that includes 85 percent of Republicans, 83 percent of independents and 71 percent of Democrats. According to the IRS, last year approximately 41 percent of tax filers did not pay federal income tax. The Tax Policy Center estimates that will increase to 46 percent this year.
It would appear that there might be some sort a disconnect here, with there being very few, if any, areas that can be defined as common ground between Barry and the majority of us out here in the real world. And yet, if we can believe all of the recent polling dealing with the presidential race, most still of us want to see him re-elected. I just don't get it. Is it me? Does this make absolutely any sense to anyone? I can't help but wonder what must be running through the minds of so many of my fellow Americans. Look, I think the bottom line here is pretty damn obvious. We re-elect Barry and the country maintains it's present trajectory, spiraling wildly out of control and headed straight for the deck.
All of this is why Barry, his many surrogates and even more of those in the state-controlled media, are all so insistent upon convincing us to only look "FORWARD" and not back. Because if we spend too much time looking back at the last 4 years we're just liable to finally realize that hey, maybe all of this crazy shit isn't Bush's fault after all. Maybe, just maybe, like those Republicans have been saying all along, Barry did have a hand in all of this. Can we still be so naïve as to think that any amount of what we're experiencing today can, or even should for that matter, be blamed on the guy who left office 4 years ago. At some point shouldn’t we ‘expect’ Barry to be man enough to except some responsibility? Isn’t that what ‘real’ leaders do?
Other findings of the Basswood Research poll:
--Sixty-three percent of respondents said current levels of defense spending were "about right" (40.1 percent) or "too little" (23.0 percent); while 28.6 percent of Americans said that "too much" was being spent on the military.
--Offered three options as to the biggest contributing factor to the national debt problem, 42 percent chose spending on mandatory entitlements, 27.7 percent said "too many tax cuts," and 14.5 percent selected too much spending on defense.
--Asked which country poses "the most danger" to U.S. national security interests, 45.1 percent of respondents said Iran, with China in distant second place at 7.6 percent, followed by Afghanistan at 6.3 percent.
--As to America’s "best ally in the world today," 54 percent favored Britain, followed by Israel at 15.9 percent and Canada at 8.7 percent.
--Seventy percent of respondents (80.9 percent conservatives, 62.9 percent liberals, 68.5 percent moderates) viewed Israel favorably.
--Sixty-two percent of respondents favored preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, even if that required the use of military force; while 23.3 percent preferred the option of avoiding military conflict with Iran, even at the risk of Tehran developing a nuclear arsenal.
Even self-identified liberals and moderates leaned more towards the former option than the latter one: The poll found 44.6 percent of self-identified liberals, 57.8 percent of self-identified moderates and 78.6 percent of self-identified conservatives, favored preventing a nuclear-armed Iran, even if that meant military force was needed. In contrast, 35.9 percent of self-identified liberals, 26.4 percent of self-identified moderates and 12.3 percent of self-identified conservatives preferred the option of avoiding conflict, even if that meant Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
--More self-identified liberals held favorable views of China (48.6 percent) and Russia (43.8 percent) than did conservatives, 31.1 percent of whom viewed China favorably, and 25.4 percent of whom regarded Russia in a favorable light.
Established in 2009, FPI describes itself as an organization that "seeks to promote an active U.S. foreign policy committed to robust support for democratic allies, human rights, a strong American military equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century, and strengthening America's global economic competitiveness."
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