President Barack Obama is ending his fifth year in office with the lowest approval ratings at this point in the presidency since President Richard Nixon, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday.
Obama’s approval rating in the poll stands at 43%. By comparison, President George W. Bush had a 47% approval rating at the end of the fifth year of his presidency. And all other Post-World War II presidents had approval ratings above 50% — with the exception of Nixon, who, amid the Watergate scandal, had a dreadful 29% approval rating.
The brutal numbers underscore what has been something of a lost year for the President. His approval ratings have been plunging recently as a result of the botched implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In the Washington Post/ABC poll, only 34% approve of how Obama is handling his signature health law’s implementation.
You can always blame this on Obamacare alone, but why sell him short on all the other failures? It will be interesting to see what catchy slogans the R’s and D’s can wow us with in the near future, and of course, which morons will fall for it…..again.
Obamacare was just a catalyst hitting almost everyone. Same as Nixon, low rating is from sustained, pervasive lying and using executive power for political purpose.
NOT same as Nixon!
Yes, Nixon did some very bad things. And yes, he wasn’t much of a President or much of a human being either (paranoid as hell). However, he did end Vietnam and did help open up China.
But the one thing Nixon did NOT do was expand government quite the way Obama has — not even CLOSE! However, Nixon did help expand big business by promoting more corporate welfare.
So it’s a close call who was worse. However my vote for overall worst President since WWII still has to go to Jimmy Carter. But then, we haven’t exactly got to 2015/2016 yet either.
Nixon went to China to get instructed how to control a billion slaves — That’s our model here now.
Why Carter? One of the no war Presidents. Maybe it was Billy that pissed you off?
Interest rates under Carter were at almost 22% by the time he left.
And yeah, there was Billy Beer….that shit was bad enough to start a war over.
Aaahh..the good ol’ days..When you knew how much the bank was going to take from you before you gave them your money..
Nixon expanded the government quite a bit. EEOC, EPA, Head Start, wage and price controls.
The EPA when acting in the public interest is a good thing. When allowed to run rampant over everyone and write endless regulations it’s the enemy of freedom and prosperity.
Head Start actually did what it was meant to do. It took under privileged kids and got them ready for kindergarten. Most of them do very well in kindergarten and are still on grade level 3 yrs later. I call that success.
It doesn’t fix the dysfunctional homes most of these kids come from and expecting the kids to preform like they have good homes isn’t really all that rational nor do I see any justification for sticking every kid in the nation in head start.
I have to wonder where we would be at the end of Mitt’s fifth year
DEFINITELY not the same place!
Good or bad is another question.
Different but just as much closer to the precipice.
Pls don’t say precipice. It’s a nasty sounding word.
Wow. You get a point for not ejaculating that ‘your messiah has moved us away from the precipice’ instead of helping to bring us closer just like any R/D governance would/does.
Don’t say ejaculating, either.
Don’t you mean McCain’s fifth year? (and Sarah’s by the way – the REAL reason Obama won the first time). In that case the NSA data center would have ended up in Arizona.
You can hate her all you want. The evidence rather than your hate suggests that she was a competent, down to earth, pragmatic administrator. You’re spewing invective because she didn’t kill her youngest kid and has a completely different set of values than you do but the nation would have most likely have been in better condition for everyone including you if she had been elected President. Yeah I know McCain was the one running for that office.
And next year so many employer health plans get canceled too.
It’s not like Obama is auditing his political opponents.
A niggling point: “Race to the Bottom” while understandable in your use is most apt for describing the effect of competing economies on wages for the working/middle classes. Its most glaring component is failure to raise minimum wage for…. how long has it been?
Should every job in America provide a living wage? Its debateable with pros and cons to each side “but” if you think it should be open to a Ron Paul Darwinian Struggle of the fittest, then you are engaged in the Race to the Bottom.
America is becoming a society of 90% entry level jobs and 10% high tech/expertise. What are we to do with the bottom 90% of society? No need to “race” them in any way. They are at the bottom afterall….. what kind of race is that? I can only conclude those against raising the minimum wage would like to see the race run backwards from the starting line?
Ha, ha. Silly Hoomans.
LMK when President Obama reaches Reagan’s low point of 35% or either of the Bush’s who scored in the 20’s.
Reagan’s high score was when he was well into his dementia.
I think we’re pretty much there now Skippy. But I’ll be sure to give you the update when it goes below that.
http://gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx
Okee Dokee , Scooter.
The important thing is you acknowledge that despite the 24×7 coverage of the national Obamacare website crisis , Obama remains in the top 25 best presidents ever!
Out of 44 total presidents, that isn’t saying much. That means he’s in the bottom half of all presidents.
You can’t get accepted to college with that kind of class standing.
He’s actually ranked 15th best in a popular poll (and 5th in another ranking) – and already went to Harvard.
I used 25th to be conservative. I’m quite conservative when it comes to polls and pass it through my own low pass filter.
URLs please.
Of those 57% of dissatisfied people less than half would have voted.
30% are guaranteed to be always be dissatisfied (most of the putz’s in here) even if Jesus personally came down and handpicked the POTUS. Another 15% will always approve any POTUS and 20% don’t care and never will.
That leaves about 35% who have a reasonable and thought out opinion (I’m one of the those of course).
I’m not a big believer in sheeple opinion polls. They’re fickle and unpredictable.
“Our inaction and apathy has led to the creation of the very aristocracy Jefferson and the Founders sought to guard against. Our political class in this country enjoys an 85-90% reelection rate while voter confidence in government has plummeted to the worst level in half a century. Stagnation produces a Congress less popular head-to-head than colonoscopies and used car salesmen, according to a 2013 Public Policy Poll. Those permanent incumbents who serve ten, twenty or thirty year careers in elected office create political fiefdoms that assure they will over time be accountable to fewer and fewer voters.”
http://forbes.com/sites/thomasbasile/2013/07/19/jimmy-carter-may-actually-be-right-this-time/
Vote em all out. Evey single one of those lying greedy fucktards that represents you.
This story needs a BS meter.
Historians will note the extraordiary consistent approval ratings Obama has had.
Sure, he goes down a little and then bounces back up.
It is nothing like the wild swings of Bush or even Reagan.
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/President-Obama-Approval-Rating-Over-Time1.jpg
“Historians will note the extraordinary consistent approval ratings Obama has had. ” Ha, ha, even if that were close to being true, who gives a fuck, the guy is full of shit and so are you.
Actually the Presidential Seal needs to be a bullshit meter, because every time he gives a speech, that sucker would be smokin’.
Obama will go down for:
1. Reversing Cowboy Diplomacy
2. Breaking for profit healthcare
3. Splitting the Puke Party in half by energizing the TeaTurd faction into committing hari-kari.
4. What else? Oh well…. thats three more than most.
What a miserable group for the bestest country in the world to produce.
I wonder what’s up wid dat? Our election system corrupted by money/special interests/two party extremism/imbedded extremists at the heart of the primary process/gerrymandered election districts?
Hard to tell when there are SO MANY reasons.
………….and then the candle went out.
Don’t fool yourself. The candle has been out on you’re side of the coop since you were HATCHED!
“Obama will go down for:”
30 Bucks, minimum.
Hey you set it up, I slam dunked it.
Fair call.
Bullshit. Nixon was by far the worst. To make a fair judgment on past presidents it helps to be part of the constituency at the time of their term. So unless you have lived through their term then all you are presenting is conjecture or regurgitated reformed history.
Agreed.
As complicit in breaking the law, I agree Nixon was the worst – at least in my lifetime. Carter was a great president in terms of a great achievement in the peace between Israel and Egypt. This alone probably avoided the US intervening in countless conflicts – much to the chagrin of the defense industry.
Still, Carter was handed a shitty set of economic circumstances. Also, the Republican back door ‘deal’ with the Ayatollah to release the hostages after the election was a stroke of genius by the evil party.
I just gotta ask: Do you think LINCOLN was a bad president?!
I mean, Vice President Johnson was impeached and run out of office almost the same day Lincoln was shot. So doesn’t that make Lincoln a bad president for having had such bad judgement to have allowed Johnson to be so close to him in a time of war and possibly exposing Lincoln to the same corruption – or for both of them being REPUBLICANS?! Or was it the fact that Lincoln drafted/signed the 13th Amendment which freed the slaves that made him such a good one?
Isn’t the official record the only thing we should use to judge our past/present Executive leaders by? Or should we also include the press’s opinion and other common beliefs?
I ask since there is one little fact that you seem to have missed with regard to Watergate: NIXON WAS NEVER IMPEACHED since all anyone was doing at the time was threatening impeachment. But Andrew Johnson (Lincoln’s VP) actually WAS impeached AND prosecuted but with only a slap to the wrist for punishment.
And the fact that Ford pardoned Nixon before any prosecution of Nixon could take place – and in clear violation to any rule of law, didn’t that make Ford one of the worst presidents? (And I bet you can’t even remember who Spiro Agnew was.)
What about ‘ol Slick Willy Clinton who was impeached too — just not prosecuted?
How about how both Clinton and Obama received Nobel prizes while Lincoln still hasn’t got one? We still regard the Nobel prizes pretty highly, don’t we? So how about how Nixon never got prize for ending the war in Vietnam nor for opening up U.S. China relations? What about Jimmy Carter who’s only contribution was to get a couple of buttheads in the middle east (Sadaat & Beigan) to sign a peace treaty?! By the way, some of this is NOT true but it IS a common BELIEF!
So isn’t it all just a matter of perspective until you get to those presidents who actually NEGATIVELY affected the citizens? Presidents like OBAMA or even LBJ – the other Johnson?!
Try to remember that LBJ didn’t have anything like a 13th Amendment to rescue his legacy. Although LBJ did succeeded with other notable legislation. We just tend to forget the COST he left us. Things like the lives in Vietnam and his massive tax increases.
Now look at Obama. About all I can say there is, what a WASTE! So isn’t a wasted Presidency what makes HIM the worst?!
The US House of Representatives approval rating is a whopping 12%.
They should do better in 2014 now that Boehner is standing up to the Teanderthals and with the budget deal under way. I predict their approval rating will be ahead of Al Qaeda by February .
I don’t think the ACA web site issues and Obamacare have had as great an effect on his approval ratings as the NSA spy programs have. He may not have initiated them, but he has steadfastly defended the government’s effort to monitor the communications, movements and expenditures of law-abiding Americans.
I don’t think the NSA thing is something he will ever fully recover from.
I agree sheeple vote in Legislators to Congress to enact laws they ultimately dislike and then blame the executive office for using them.
You appear to be one of them.
So now Dallas thinks Obama should not be blamed for Obamacare. Even he is starting to see the light that ObamaCare is bad.
His HHS Secretary declared ObaaCare to be a human-caused disaster in a letter today to Senators.
Increased consumer spending over the summer helped the U.S. economy grow more than expected in the third quarter of 2013. The Commerce Department saw a 4.1 percent annual growth rate in the economy—higher than the 3.6 percent they’d predicted and the biggest gain the U.S. has seen since 2011. Commerce says the change is due to an annual 2 percent growth in spending over the summer—with people making purchases that range from big things like refrigerators to daily and monthly expenses like gas and healthcare. This is just the latest good news for the economy, predicting even higher expectations for growth this year.
Read it at The Wall Street Journal
There is great news out there!
Loving the Demonstration of No Think Label Making, No Pardon for Obama’s Crimes! says:
12/19/2013 at 8:11 pm
That was “tongue in cheek” satire. // So was P/M’s comment. Who here thinks they are the only ones with a sense of humor?
Liberal logic is non falsifiable, empirical facts are irrelevant, its all smear and demonization of any opposing view. /// Boilerplate BS Nonsense.
To illustrate, America was racist if it didn’t vote to elect Obama president; /// Not true. I recall certain people/groups saying that certain people/groups would not vote for Obama because he was blacks, and that others would ALL because of racial issues including racism. I don’t recall anyone phrasing the issue just as you have. My guess—you made this notion/statement up out of whole cloth/hazy recollection/moronic stupidity.
Having elected him twice should mean America is not racist. /// No, for the same reasons stated above.
Have you heard any liberals say that? Of course not, the race hustlers make more money now than ever, and MSNBC touts America’s racism at every turn, especially when people object to Obama lying to their face: “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period” caused a drop in the polls, the lie was irrelevant, clearly those polled are racists. /// Again–I haven’t seen anyone say this. If you can find such a quote, then you have 1-2-3 examples of really stupid people. Would they all be selfies?
Two good examples: obboB and No Pardon. Non-thinking label hangers devoid of any real analysis. Do I think Obama lied about keeping your plans if you liked them? I don’t know..but consistent with the theme of this thread, the difference between the truth and that judgment is insignificant in that Obama has a duty not only to be truthful but also to be accurate. He did fail that challenge. To go from that to issues of racism or liberalism is just simply head up your ass stupid.
Yea, verily.
> Non-thinking label hangers devoid of any real analysis.
Very cryptic.
African American kids can now grow up and aspire to be president and see that these dreams can be realized.
Before Obama, they only had people like Dennis Rodman or a rapper to be a role model.
Today more than ever, young African Americans have a decent role model to look up to.
The other side of the coin was electing John McCant who despite being in the Senate for 20 years didn’t have any ideas to fix the economy before winning the nomination because “he hadn’t had time to think about it much” (gee, inspiring!)
And John McCain didn’t actually know anything about the internet, hadn’t used email before and wasn’t familiar with cell phones or student loans.
I’m sorry the Vietnamese had John McCain imprisoned, but not so much so that I would have wanted an imcompetent old out-of-touch boob to be president.
Obama was easily the best candidate in that election. Any Republican should have jumped up and down for joy in 2008 that Hillary wasn’t the candidate.
Keep it real. I mean seriously.
Let’s be honest.
Obama hasn’t pushed any envelopes and it is ridiculous to say that he has.
The NSA and such are just doing what they want to do, do you really think Obama can bothered with any of the fine details while he is out golfing. Nonsense.
Obama is about the president we have had in a while, he hasn’t done all that much (excluding Obamacare) and deficit spending is nothing new.
Exactly WHAT has Obama really done that is “wrong”.
I can even give him a free pass with Obamacare because it is such a royal mess (with a few good items that made insurance slightly more fair … ) that Congress will have to clean up all the bullplop to get it to be workable.
Obama hasn’t touched guns, the economy already sucked (Romney would have fixed that, but isn’t it just easier to get used to a bad economy and adjust to that? I mean, let’s keep it real) — he hasn’t done anything really crazy. Sure he has sort of mini-amnesty but geez have a heart — why screw over kids that already live here and go to school.
Republicans ran stuff for 8 years, thumbs up asses and took bribes — Democrats talked dumb ideas to get elected but never actually acted on them because they talk horseshit to get elected just like Republicans (example: where is “card check” legislation? Where is green legislation? Face it, democrats are in corporate pockets too).
Obama’s indifference has been his greatest asset. He did have Osama killed and has been a mostly “do nothing” president — which is the best kind. Clinton didn’t do much. George HW didn’t do much. Europeans are fine with Obama continuing wars because Obama won the nobel peace prize. Gitmo is still open.
It’s gonna be O.K.
HMyers…. dare I say: well done? Has something happened in your life to cause an attitudinal shift…. like an LSD trip or something?
You know….. before Obama was even elected, I read a critique that noted Obama grew up as a black learning how to excell in the white mans world. He is as you say: a “do nothing” or as the article said: “non confrontational//not an angry black” or as I might give it a twist: “just another black man doing the shuck and jive for whitey.”
We will never know the counterfactual: what Obama could have done if not confronted by the worst if not treasonous Congress in History. Add that into your future evaluations…..course…. it will make having strong opinions just a bit harder.
….. but good job nontheless.
Hmeyers is dead on.
Obama: straddle the yellow line
Bush: Jesus take the wheel
Look over there at all that heinous “phone metadata.” Something must be done to stop that from being accumulated.
Meanwhile, DON’T LOOK OVER HERE at all the leaky fatpipes we’re jacked into that send duplicate streams to Utah for storage. (It’s almost as if fatpipes were leaky by design. But surely that couldn’t be so.)
Who is responsible for the integrity of the backbone where it’s vulnerable? Anybody have a running count of how many “taps” are in place at this moment? Is there an electronic method to monitor whether a fatpipe has been “penetrated”? Who’s in charge of that & when will they be reporting in? Is Congress looking into it? LOL
There is no news to be had. Only diversion & misdirection.
I can’t wait till 2016 when I can vote for a Clinton or a Bush to replace Obama.
Much better picture with the Santa hat. He looks amazing/
Even the New York Times has figured out how bad ObamaCare is.
After Nixon’s drop. he still engaged in military operations to save Israel, in the lesser known 1973 war. Perhaps we will still see Sy Hersh’s war with Iran that you guys like to repost. Why haven’t you posted his attacks on administration lies about Syria?
Imagine his poll numbers without a slavish fan club media (and WITH the media who investigated Nixon 24/7) or the unshakable love of those who share his skin color?