Posted on 11/11/2013 6:09:50 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike
It’s been a rough fifth year in office for President Obama, with overwrought sequestration scare tactics, Scandalpalooza, and the Syrian debacle all chipping away at his leadership street cred, among other things — but this disaster of an ObamaCare rollout is really hammering the heightened disapproval home with what’s starting to look like a majority of Americans. During past job-performance dips, O’s job approval rating has been reliably bolstered by his personal favorability ratings and Americans’ sense of trust in him — but the health care law is helping to erode those usual go-to’s, and quickly. Via the WSJ:
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Several Presidents have had second terms much worse than their first--James Madison had to flee Washington ahead of a British army in his second term. Grover Cleveland was hit by a major depression at the beginning of his second term and became very unpopular. William McKinley was killed in his second term.
Hang on Georgie, barry is just getting started. He will need to scorche earth the U.S. before 2015.
Sad.
But there will be a video game of it.
Nixon was a patriot fighting a battle that was lost when he was hounded from office by the very same leftists he was battling.
Now the proof he sought sits in the White House and the chairs of the Senate Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of Congress.
I agree but I do think there will be a secession II. But there will be no Civil War to invade a "rebel" state(s). No ridiculous "Marching to the Sea", none of that. These aren't your GGGF Yannkees.
I always had a funny feeling about this guy Will.
This is the most asinine thing I've read all year.
Covering up a political break-in is in the same league with destroying a national economy, creating an atmosphere conducive to criminal scandals of all sorts, people dying and muslims enmboldened to increase their worldwide campaign of mayhem and mass murder...?
WTF?
If he wasn’t as great as a Caesar he wouldn’t have a Temple dedicated to him.
Killing off a large percentage of the population in order to save the country.. something Obama likely envies.
Already Obama’s second term sucks far worse than Nixon’s. This is just an attempt to limit the damage to Obama’s and the Democrat’s reputation for next year. “Well, it’s not as bad as Nixon the Republican!” BS. It is FAR WORSE.
Keep in mind that after the insurrection ended, only one person was killed: and that after a trial. the very deserving commandant of the Andersonville pow camp.
We also keep in mind that RE Lee issued orders for his soldiers to shoot men who were not sufficiently forward.
Jackson also shot soldiers who straggled.
Pickett shot US soldiers from North Carolina, accusing them of being deserters from the pretended confederate army.
Who started the shooting? That would be the insurrection.
Borrowing the Toronto mayor’s pipe?
The “Plumbers” were an intelligence group. Embassies used to be routinely raided, and code books copied.
Germany had raided the US embassy to Egypt. Germany had US egyptian embassy codes, and based on their intercepts, advanced knowledge of british troop movements in north africa, until the US military attache which provided the source for the intercepts was recalled.
John Dean, Nixon’s lawyer, ordered the burglary of the Democrat office in the Watergate. In the pocket of one of the plumbers was a book that had his wife’s number. She had been an escort for the Democrat party, to entertain people from out of town. Dean had apparently coopted the plumbers to secure that book. The Democrats turned him, and he blamed it all on Nixon. Nixon took it to protect the intelligence effort.
The president has vast authority in the field of intelligence. “When the president does it, it is legal.”
What President presided over the death of the largest percentage of the American population? And will Obama use him as a role model?
Lincoln didn’t start the war. That would be Jeff Davis.
The slave power started the war, fought it by illegal methods calculated to cause mass casualties, and lost because their cause was so horrific that no foreign nation would recognize them, and few even in the south supported their goals. Over 40 regiments of southern men fought for the Union.
Lincoln could have permitted the slave power to murder more, to enslave more, to rape more. That would not have made him a better president.
That would be Jeff Davis....
He just wasn’t a president of a real country.
Lasted about 5 weeks or so?
Which means your hero was killing American citizens. Of course that was made easier by his prolific use of foreign born soldiers. The Revolutionaries of 1848 and the First International were ardent supporters and big fans of centralized power.
The US Army was killing an army of insurrection. The insurrection army was killing US military forces.
You know, this just shows that the Union was too lenient. Every one of the members of the insurrection could have been strung up and hung, from Jeff Davis to the dog of the lowest soldier in the forces of the insurrection. Then we would know that it was indeed an insurrection, and that ain’t beanbag. The southern soldier survived through the mercy of the victorious US government. They died because of the evil treason of the slave power that started the war.
The insurrection started the shooting, and now you complain that the poor forces of the insurrection suffered too many casualties from the legitmate government of the US.
Force begats force, violence begats violence. I want any traitor planing an insurrection to know that violent treason will begat more violence than you, he or they are willing to stand.
“Lincoln didn’t start the war. That would be Jeff Davis.”
donnie loves to ignore the role of John Brown and his ilk in the North who had been sowing the seeds of war for years. They wanted war and financed Brown to ignite it.
Thomas Fleming’s excellent book “A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War” describes the long campaign of hate that the North had been engaged in leading up to 1861.
“By the time John Brown hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper’s Ferry, Northern abolitionists had made him a “holy martyr” in their campaign against Southern slave owners. This Northern hatred for Southerners long predated their objections to slavery. They were convinced that New England, whose spokesmen had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern “slavocrats” like Thomas Jefferson. This malevolent envy exacerbated the South’s greatest fear: a race war. Jefferson’s cry, “We are truly to be pitied,” summed up their dread. For decades, extremists in both regions flung insults and threats, creating intractable enmities. By 1861, only a civil war that would kill a million men could save the Union.”
You truly are a legitimate heir to John Brown. Anyone wondering how the Civil War got rolling only needs to read your posts here at FR.
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