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Why So Many People Still Regard Obama Positively
American Thinker ^ | 07/17/2015 | Richard Winchester

Posted on 07/18/2015 6:20:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

He has The Ministry Of Propaganda behind him propping him up and covering for him.

If we had an independent press in this country telling the citizens the truth his approval rating would be 12%.


21 posted on 07/18/2015 6:48:17 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they are abject idiots ?


22 posted on 07/18/2015 6:49:10 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Ted Cruz for President ... all others are cheap imitations)
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To: SeekAndFind

IOW, NOTHING to do with Obama as a person or with his accomplishments.

1. The historical job
2. White half? Black half? Affirmative Action!
3. Democrats are for the “little people”. (’Gimmedats”?)
4. “vee haf vays of making you tink!”
5. MTV, Facebook, Mr/Ms/It Jenner, Twitter, new Mac Watch, Game of Thrones, etc, etc, etc.


23 posted on 07/18/2015 6:50:10 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The reason is two fold, one, he gave the kitchen sink to millions, and two, America idiots haven’t the slightest idea about politics.


24 posted on 07/18/2015 6:52:34 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: rbg81

Did we really win the Cold War?
I’ve had to rethink that in light of what has occurred.
Russia is ruled by the KGB (under a different set of letters)
The U.S. has a communist in the Rainbow House fundamentally transforming us.
Find the Communist Goals read into the Congressional record in 1963 and tell me if we won the Cold War.
Most of those goals have been met or are on their way to being met.


25 posted on 07/18/2015 6:52:36 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind
Do these editorialist's cartoon explain it, all?


26 posted on 07/18/2015 7:01:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Give him credit. The man has a golden tongue.

He says things that often sound plausible and reasonable in isolation, but his intent is deceptive. He’s also a serial liar and says whatever is convenient to his aims.

And, he (or ValJar, or whoever comes up with his programs and talking points) is/are a master at divide and conquer.


27 posted on 07/18/2015 7:01:32 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: canuck_conservative

I don’t think many do anymore. The media lies and phony surveys make it look that way.


28 posted on 07/18/2015 7:04:48 AM PDT by angcat
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps but psychologically they feel they’re racist if they don’t give 0bama a good rating.


29 posted on 07/18/2015 7:10:31 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Lurkinanloomin; Mechanicos

Good points.

We certainly THOUGHT we had won the Cold War by 1992. The seminal event that heralded victory was when the Soviet Union officially dissolved.

The counter-intuitive part is that, instead of defeat, this presented a golden OPPORTUNITY for the Marxists because we got lazy and stupid as a result of our apparent victory. It gave us the comfort level we needed to elect people like Bill Clinton.

Within 10 years of the collapse of Communism, you had people openly hawking the benefits of Marxism. This found a particularly receptive audience in young people who had no memory of the Evil Empire.

The irony is that today, even Russia seems friendlier to religion than the US does.


30 posted on 07/18/2015 7:10:37 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: SeekAndFind

-—Aren’t polls supposed to be anonymous?

Wasn’t the NSA supposed to focus on external threats?


31 posted on 07/18/2015 7:11:53 AM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they’ve never heard the truth(s) about him, using ABCNNBCBS as their news source.


32 posted on 07/18/2015 7:21:34 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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“Because they don’t want to be called “racists.”
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Yes, I believe many people lie to pollsters for a number of reasons. My wife does it for fun, just to screw up the poll. But, I think many white folk bought into this guy’s Hope & Change BS in 2008 & 2012 and they are still holding out hope that their votes were not wasted. Many were motivated by media-induced whitey guilt, which lingers to this day. If Odumbo were 100% white, he would be at < 30% now, retired in Hawaii after his first term, or thrown out of office after his impeachment trial. Let’s call a spade a spade! This guy is terrible...with apologies to Donald Trump! Oops, not supposed to say spade anymore! OK, let’s call a tool a tool! Haha!


33 posted on 07/18/2015 7:21:43 AM PDT by HoosierWordsmith
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Why he even has an approval rating is beyond my comprehension.

Do the words "free stuff" ring a bell?

34 posted on 07/18/2015 7:22:26 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Race is likely another factor keeping views of Obama more positive than they might otherwise be."

This is it. It's why he was elected. Americans desperately want this long racial nightmare to be over.

Unfortunately, the masses failed to see that voting for someone because of his race is as racist as refusing to vote for someone because of his race. It's the same thing.

Millions of Americans allowed themselves to be blinded by their desire to end racism.

They failed to recognize this willful blindness for what it is--denial--the denial that leads inexorably to tragedy.

Only truth can save them. Truth allows honest appraisal and makes possible the solution of problems.

Instead, millions of Americans--and notably the intelligentsia--augmented the denial by silencing anything that threatened it. An honest appraisal of Obama was prohibited and silenced. Those in denial perceived it as racism, unwilling to recognize this perception as a projection of their own racism, the racism that allowed them to vote for a candidate because of race but not against a candidate because of race, a distinction that existed only in their delusions, delusions that had become the consensus of millions of people.

These delusions and this denial still cloud the minds of millions of Americans. They cannot appraise Obama objectively.

35 posted on 07/18/2015 7:27:35 AM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: SeekAndFind
I agree with your 2-4.

I think people hate to feel they made stupid choices and hate even more knowing they made stupid choices to be told they made a bad choice.

There is now such a massive connection to government employment, government unions and pensions, EBT, WIC, welfare, medicare and such that you can literally run Hitler as a Democrat and could still get a large percentage of vote.

We have had destruction of the middle class and an ax taken to the savings accounts of savers due to the non existent interest rates because they are kept low due to the national debt.

So much dependency has been created that Democrats have it easier by far reaching a majority in voting.

36 posted on 07/18/2015 7:36:34 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ya’ just came back from DU dint ya’?


37 posted on 07/18/2015 7:37:05 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: SeekAndFind
There is a sixth factor left off of a pretty good list, and that is the fact that many (way too many) people get their information from People Magazine (or worse).

Every time I go to the food store, in the checkout line, there are magazines with cover stories about people I've never heard of, usually referred to by their first name.

On those covers, you frequently find "Barack" or "Barack and Michelle". You never (never) found "George and Laura", and you will never find "Ted and Heidi".

Those mags circulate in the millions, and their readers vote.

38 posted on 07/18/2015 7:43:53 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If they support a Black President they’ll go to Heaven ?


39 posted on 07/18/2015 7:45:54 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind
A vast majority of people are believing what Obama says and the Press backs him up.

People don't seem to be comparing what he actually does with what he says.

He talks socialism and cloaks it in words like fairness and income equity.
People don't get he means uniformity and that would be a lower standard of life for all.

People don't also get that a $15 minimum wage means what savings you have will be worth far less. Your life long saved $100,000 would with a $15 minimum wage will convert thzt money to $35,000 in spending power.

In Europe I saw they wanted 4 times as much for food and articles under their socialism. They value add tax 300% to everything and have 100 year mortgages because of socialism.

People have zero education here about socialism and that behavior is gently pushed through the teacher's union and various Professors in College.

I look at it all and wonder when the public will either hit the streets like Greece or in protest of socialism in America because we have a choice and will get one or the other.

40 posted on 07/18/2015 7:49:52 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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