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GALLUP: ONLY 39 PERCENT HAVE POSITIVE VIEW OF AMERICA
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Posted on 01/22/2013 1:34:34 PM PST by SMGFan

When people say that Barack Obama is the worst president since Jimmy Carter, they’re not kidding; a new Gallup Poll taken between January 7-10 shows that when Americans were asked whether they had a positive view of the country, only 39% agreed.

This is the lowest percentage since August 1979, when Carter was president, inflation was out of control and the economy was hurtling toward the abyss. The percentage of those who believe that things will be better in five years is only 48%, the lowest since that same time period under Carter.

Another 40% said things will be worse. When they were asked whether the United States stood five years ago, 55% said things were better, indicating their belief that the more they have seen of Barack Obama, the worse they have felt. But even that figure is revealing in other ways; the 55% number is the most negative number since 1991. In contrast, at the beginning of George W. Bush’s first term, in January 2001, a whopping 73% of those polled were positive about America.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2013polls; bho44; obamalegacy
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To: SMGFan
America --the idea. Love it with all my heart.

America the modern reality? Not so much.

21 posted on 01/22/2013 2:48:16 PM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: brownsfan

“America is done. It’s on the edge of the toilet bowl, ready to fall in, and take it’s rightful place.”
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I agree, yet the Marxist media keeps showing his mug on TV and
and proclaiming him to be the most popular in history, as if he were the second coming of the messiah.
I am sick at the sight of him and instantly cut the TV whenever he pops up on the screen or on my computer.
I am so thankful not to be in Obozoland.


22 posted on 01/22/2013 2:52:53 PM PST by AlexW
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To: okie01

“Cahtah, as bad as he was, wasn’t a rigid, committed Marxist ideologue!”
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You are right. Jimmah was just a simple peanut brain.


23 posted on 01/22/2013 2:55:35 PM PST by AlexW
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To: SMGFan

Sounds like a bunch of underemployed Liberal Arts Majors /Obama voters answered their phones to respond to this survey.


24 posted on 01/22/2013 3:22:40 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: SMGFan
"On the morning of 21 December Ceauşescu addressed an assembly of approximately 100,000 people, to condemn the uprising in Timişoara. Party officials took great pains to make it appear that Ceauşescu was still immensely popular. Several busloads of workers, under threat of being fired, arrived in Bucharest's Piaţa Palatului (Palace Square, now Piaţa Revoluţiei – Revolution Square) and given red flags, banners and large pictures of Ceauşescu. They were augmented by several bystanders who were rounded up on Calea Victoriei.

In a speech laden with the usual Marxist-Leninist "wooden language", spurting out pro-socialist and Communist Party rhetoric, Ceauşescu delivered a litany of the achievements of the "socialist revolution" and Romanian "multi-laterally developed socialist society". He blamed the Timişoara uprising on "fascist agitators."

However, Ceauşescu was out of touch with his people and completely misread the crowd's mood. The people remained unresponsive, and only the front rows supported Ceauşescu with cheers and applause. Eight minutes into the speech, some in the crowd actually began to jeer, boo, whistle and utter insults at him—a reaction considered unthinkable for most of Ceauşescu's rule. Workers from a Bucharest power plant started chanting "Ti-mi-şoa-ra! Ti-mi-şoa-ra!"—a chant that was soon picked up by others in the crowd. In response, Ceauşescu raised his right hand in hopes of silencing the crowd; his stunned expression remains one of the defining moments of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe. He then tried to placate the crowd by offering to raise workers' salaries by 100 lei per month (about 9 US dollars at the time, yet a 5–10% raise for a modest salary) and student scholarships from 100 to 110 lei while continuing to praise the achievements of the Socialist Revolution. However, a revolution was brewing right in front of his eyes."

Romanian Revolution of 1989

25 posted on 01/22/2013 3:23:39 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: SMGFan

That’s correct, under the present Administration, what the public thinks means absolutely nothing. This is particularly true among the Democratic Party mainstream news media, which is breathless from telling us how wonderful Obama is.


26 posted on 01/22/2013 3:26:52 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: 3Fingas

Let me qualify my own statement by saying... I have a positive view of most of America’s history, but I certainly am not happy with the history of the last 20 years or so. The last 4 years have been absolutely terrible.


27 posted on 01/22/2013 3:28:37 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: SMGFan
At least a third of those who think negaftively regarding America's future don't think we're bat-shit crazy liberal enough! Thats how bad things are!
28 posted on 01/22/2013 4:32:52 PM PST by subterfuge (CBS NBC ABC FOX AP-- all no different than Pravda.)
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To: SENTINEL

Agreed


29 posted on 01/22/2013 4:34:02 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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