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Give Obama a Grade. Go ahead, you’ll feel better.

45% give him an F. How will Tweety and Ogreman explain this?

Oh, lookie…36% of the fools that are so in love with him think he deserves an A. Based on his “elegance” I’m sure.

I love how the tea parties, which were inspired by Santelli’s rant, are really picking up steam. There’s one on 4/15 called the tax day tea party. Check your area for time and location.

It blows my mind that 56% give him a failing or near failing mark on MSNBC’s website, of all places. I bet it doesn’t get mentioned!

Does anyone know how to find out if there is one in my area? I am in Minneapolis, MN. Anybody live close by and want to start one????

I understand Jon Stewart is a comedian. But his remark about homeowners taking money offered to them by banks is silly.

If you know you can’t afford to pay back money, no matter who offers it, maybe you shouldn’t take it?

Just a thought.

I wonder if that 56% number constitutes mainly the “bots” that are gainfully employed. Then, I wonder if the 36% number constitutes those “bots” which never have or had been employed… and don’t care to be.

Why not contact Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker at powerline.

The site to find your local tea party is taxdayteaparty.com

There’s also going to be an Independence Day tea party.

The Independence Day tea party is on reteaparty.com

It’s now up to 46%.

I does make you wonder how anyone with any retirement, investments, or monetary concerns whatsoever could still approve of Obama’s job performance.

That number has now dropped to 32%.

IMO, bailouts prolong the inevitable. I’m against bailouts for anyone.

I agree. The bailouts are like trying put air in a blown out tire.

Update
From Seattle Moss’s world.

Talked to my CFO and we have figured out how to make money even with a 50% reduction in sales. This gives me a sigh of relief to know that we will still be in business(knock on wood) throughout this crisis.

We have also found a spot on our team for a laid off financial gal. Now I’m almost completely surrounded by women here at the office.

Life’s good when you have the best working with you!

From Ace of Spades in case you may have missed this – The Ultimate Diplomacy.

The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.

The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: “There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”

Can I get an Oy Veh?!

I contacted them. Thanks!

Obama could care less about the Anglo-American alliance that has kept the world safe all these years.
obama wants new alliances that reflect his Marxist views.
Forget English common law and the institutions that we have all taken for granted.
Obama’s new alliances will be with the 57 states of Islam and will include sharia law.
Right now laws are being enacted by the UN to make it an international crime to talk negatively about Islam or their attempts at taking over western societies.

Oy Veh!!

What I find discouraging is that too many people lazily rely on comedians like Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert as major sources for news and opinion. Yes, they may have guests who are more informed than they are but the bottom line is that their personal cynicism and all-too-often simplistic and biased POVs are influential. Infotainment has not only taken root but is in full flower now.

I guess some people need a lot more than just a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.

It’s so nice to hear about people banding together and finding a way to get thru all of this. You must work with a talented bunch of people who can still turn a profit after a huge reduction in sales.

All too often in my area, I hear about union-after-union not willing to make any concessions in order to save their so-called “brothers” from getting laid off.

Hey Annie,
Once upon a time the equipment in this plant was owned by a company run by a union.
Back in the 90′s the union got greedy and forced the company into bankruptcy.
My partners who are much older than me bought the equipment for pennies on the dollar.
Fifteen years later we have a tight ship where everyone works together and everybody is empowered to be their own boss within the structure of checks and balances. No union here!
Our workers are the highest payed and most loyal in the business.

I love a success story! You guys should be proud!

I don’t think he cares much for America at all. He doesn’t care about history, culture, or the constitution. I think I know now why he became a “constitutional” lawyer. It is like those inmates in prison who have life sentences but still get law degrees while they are inside. They do it out of contempt for the system and not out of a love for it or the laws which protect it. No, they do it in order to loophole and game the system, to cause it to buckle under it’s own checks and balances. They do it out of spite and hate.

YOu know as cute as John Steward thinks he is, I have no real tolerence for rich people who act like they are down with the struggle and insult other rich people. Also what this fool seems not to realize is that between the 700 billion dollars we spent last year to bail out the banks due to the housing crisis, if i’m not wrong and banks lend money for mortages, so, excuse me if i’m wrong but if we give the home owners more relief we are infact paying these people screwing up not once but twice.

You know people away complain that no one speaks out when they see something wrong, and this is exactly why. Why stick you necko out if you are going to get it chopped off. Normal I love John Stewart but obama supporters piss me off Royally when they get snarky about the damage the are doing to the economy, and then try and pretend as if Bush being a bad president or that humans are gready to justfy up the jacking the american tax payer. epecially when you know very few people in Obama’s administration (and the it seems the democratic party) even pays taxes.

Maybe that’s why The Queen wants to talk to Obama in private.

This is a mistake, love them or dislike them, even the Bushes wouldn’t have made.

It seems Obama intends to abandon old allies for his new buddies in the ME and the Asiatic area.

That official is an idiot. If the Brits shouldn’t expect special treatment then neither should any other country. Cut them all off and see what happens.
But it’s the Republicans that have been labeled isolationists.

With all the Republicans jumping on the Obama train it seems we now have one party. The Republicrat Party.

I just found this on Hot Air. All this hoopla about about Rush saying he didn’t want Obama to succeed? Just a tad bit of hypocrisy I’d say.

Guess who else wanted a president to fail?
Regardless of how you voted, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?

1) Yes. Want him to succeed.
2) No. Do not want him to succeed.

Democrats: 40% Yes. 51% No.
Republicans: 97% Yes. 7% No.
Independents: 63% Yes. 34% No.

Update: Sister Toldjah — who has a cool new design for her site — finds the same result in a 2007 poll, but this time on Iraq.

34% of Democrats wanted the new US plan (the “surge”) to fail, explicitly rooting for our military to fail.

Read the question carefully:
Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week to succeed?

Overall: 63% Yes 22% No 15% Don’t Know
Democrats: 51% Yes 34% No 15% Don’t Know
Republicans: 79% Yes 11% No 10% Don’t Know
Independents: 63% Yes 19% No 17% Don’t Know
That isn’t asking for a prediction. It’s asking what people want — and they wanted us to fail in Iraq.

For full article:
http://tinyurl.com/cv9gug

I love this new found freedom of searching blogs on both sides. I’m all over the place.

they wanted us to fail in Iraq

Yep, and we are now practically telling old friends to “stick it” even as we put the Taliban on our “buddy list”. That One is everything we expected and more.

noyt all Taliban..just the moderate ones.
kinda like the moderate serial killers..lol.

Now the A’s are down to 29 and the F’s are up to 49. And what is Obummer doing while the country is finding him a failure?? Dancing, that’s what. This from CNN..check it out..
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/03/09/von.obama.kennedy.dance.cnn

True, true…but one little part of me wouldn’t mind seeing Meechelle in a burka. snicker…

thank you doc99…i hate msnbc, but giving obama an F did feel good!! over 50 percent out of 26,000 responses.

The Fs are now at 50%. I’m sure the bubble-brains at MSNBC will find a way to ignore the results, though.

It might be more attractive than the early-American Couch look she sports.

If everyone is being paid well and is part of the company, then no union is needed.

My favorite sayings are that unions exists because stupid management asks for them.

I found this on that thread..it’s worth a diary on it’s own.

Meanwhile, there was anger directed at Barack Obama today after it emerged the US President will stage a lavish reception for ex-IRA chief Martin McGuinness on St Patrick’s Day.

Mr Obama also plans to hold two hours of talks with Mr McGuinness – just days after he was accused of snubbing Gordon Brown during the PM’s visit to Washington.

The President’s move has reportedly infuriated Downing Street and diplomats are understood to be fuming.

Mr Obama refused to hold a joint press conference with Mr Brown during his recent trip to the US, granting him just half an hour of one-on-one discussions at the White House.

Mr McGuinness flies to America tomorrow.

Here is the link to the story..the above is at the bottom.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160317/Real-IRA-claim-responsibility-drive-executions-British-soldiers-promise-wave-new-attacks.html

This one floored me. We have a absolute lunatic in charge. He’s not only incompetent, unqualified, and dangerous–he’s insane.

I said as much in a diary on another blog, and was told that McGuinness isn’t really connected to the Real IRA, he’s part of the nice ones who decided to stop blowing up people. Oh, really? Then if he is so nice, why was he in the loop about the attack on the soldiers? They asked me to take the diary down, I refused. Told them if they want it down, they can take it down, but I won’t. Obummer seems bent on allying this country with all the terrorists in the world and leaving the decent people to rot, or defend themselves against his friends. And as for Obummer’s grandfather being imprisoned by the British, he should look up the Mau Mau rebellion. The British weren’t totally in the right in Kenya, but the Mau Mau’s were butchers and killed their own countrymen without a second thought. The British were protecting Kenyans as well as British when they went after the Mau Maus. And someone should also point out to that half-wit that when one is President of the United States, one does not have the luxury of paying back personal scores on behalf of unknown ancestors at the expense of this country’s diplomacy. When you walk into that office, you must leave your personal animus outside the door. He seems incapable of doing anything impersonally, it’s always all about him. He should be impeached as soon as possible.

F is now up to 55%. Should we pre-type a resignation letter and send it to him? Just as a hint, of course. Heh.

IF you would like to apologize to England for the idiot our President is go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-DC/British-Embassy-Washington-DC/23022680247?v=wall&viewas=649370950

Apologize to the Brits for Obama’s stupidity.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-DC/British-Embassy-Washington-DC/23022680247?v=wall&viewas=649370950

All very much like GWB’s poll numbers.

All very much like GWB’s poll numbers.
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi

This is appalling. He’s using his position to settle personal grudges? So much for leadership.

If you use American policy to settle scores you risk isolating us from many countries. If we ask for help and they say “no” what can we then say?

This isn’t about Obama. He represents us all. People can live or die depending on what he does. Doesn’t he get that yet?

Speaking of outrage, why isn’t Obama outraged about his cousin Odinga inciting his followers to commit murder?

He’s outraged about his grandfather but seems to care less about dead Kenyans who died because of his relative did.

It might be an improvement.

Well, that would be a bit of a problem for him, since he campaigned for Odinga on one of his trips to Kenya when he was Senator. The Kenyan government filed an official protest with the State Department about it. Funny how that never came up when he was yakking about his foreign policy experience. And it’s illegal for a US Senator to in any way influence or interfere with the elections of another country. Why didn’t he know that, and if he did, why did he do it anyway?? That was a rhetorical question, by the way. Obummer’s ego is the answer to that question, as it is about most questions regarding his reasoning.