Posted on 06/20/2014 1:20:24 PM PDT by kristinn
It has been a rough week for President Barack Obama.
The prospect of the United States being dragged back into Iraq, a war the president thought he had ended, has spurred criticism on both sides and presents yet another foreign-policy complication that threatens his presidency.
Foreign hotspots from Iraq to Syria to Ukraine have tested Mr. Obama and taken a toll on his standing. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.pdf) this week found him with the lowest foreign policy approval of his presidency just 37 percent. His approval is down from 52 percent in Dec. 2012 right after he was re-elected.
The president finds himself in a difficult spot. Hell get blamed for problems around the world, even ones with no tidy solutions. But theres little indication war-weary Americans want the U.S., and specifically American troops, to do much about them.
But even bigger than just foreign policy, the NBC/WSJ poll also found Obamas presidency on the edgeif not worse.
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Too bad for him, and the country, that events tend to zip along at lightening speed.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Obama will not resign. And he will only be impeached if the democrats realize he’s destroying their party. Period.
If the dems decide he’s toxic then and only then will he be impeached and convicted until then he knows he cAn violate the law with abandon
“apples and oranges in these polls.
Heavily populated areas tend to be Democratic. If a Democrat District has 70% approval for Obama so what? In Congressional races the only votes that count are the votes within the specific district.”
All true, but both the RATs and RINO’s have abysmal poll numbers, and for good reason. Just look at these circle jerks going on in the various House “Oversight” Committees. Lot’s of heat, but very little, if any light; and it’s been going on for literally years in most cases. If the House were a private enterprise, most, if not all of the members would have been fired long ago. Shame on all of us for not doing our job as their “board of directors.”
They are obviously truly demorats with an R next to their name.
Obama still has a lot of damage to do, and plenty of time to do it in.
And how, exactly, do they do that? The "airwaves and boob tube" still belong, by and large, to the Ministry of Truth -- which has no interest in broadcasting the truth about a Democrat administration.
That's like saying "Arrest all the SOBs in the IRS and cast them into jail"...when the DOJ is the instrumentality which must arrest the SOBs and put them in the clink.
We've got to be realistic about this: We don't have the media. We don't have the DOJ. We don't have a brave and impassioned Republican party which knows how to work their will (or necessarily wants to).
So...what's the solution?
There are a lot of smart people on this website. Between us, surely we can compound an effective plan that amounts to more than baying at the moon.
Absolutely correct. Foreign relations doesn't mean squat to Obama. He is obsessed with transforming America and knowing that no one will dare try to stop him for fear of having the media label them a racist means full speed ahead with domestic and environmental totalitarianism for the next 28 months ...then come the pardons.
Foreign policy...who did they survey, Israel? surely not Russia or Iran.
Did Bokassa just have a muffin with Imperial margarine?
“obama’s fault”
I am actually very please with the Republicans in the House. They are supposed to fight, and they finally are starting to fight.
Does 40,000 innocent children brought to the US/Mexico Border due to illegal promises and illegal Executive Dreamer Orders from Obama qualify Obama to be placed on the US State Departments Blacklist for Human Trafficking?
Public tires of radicals occuping Beltway University's giant campus
Remove the Campus Radicals, Now!
"MSM employees adore them, but they are just a bunch of mau-mauing, spoiled brats. Enough already! They made their point. Now get out!"
We need to start several petitions at the White House. One could be for a special prosecutor and another for the child illegal immigrant influx.
Use their own weapons against them
I would like to see millions of signatures on these petitions!
In my opinion, YES - that and more. But as shown by my votes and political preferences over the years, my opinion matters little.
has he gone yet ???
Has been a much, much rougher five and a half years for America!!!
If justice is served to Clown Prince nobama he will have many “rough” weeks in prison.
I really don’t think Obama likes being President. He likes the benefits, but he doesn’t like being the President. I also don’t think that he’s the leader of the Democrat Party. If we had a real press, they’d smoke out whoever it is that’s actually running the country. Obama is just a spokesmodel. He’s like Marie Osmond. She does a nice job of selling that nutrisystem, but she isn’t running the outfit. Same with Obama.
That’s why the real fight is with the Democrat Party. If Obama leaves, the puppet master just puts up a different puppet. It’s not Obamacare, it’s Democratcare. It’s not Obama’s foreign policy failures, it’s Democrat foreign policy failures.
We have to put the puppet master out of business. When the puppet master can no longer make money, he packs up the puppet show and leaves.
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