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| President Obama at G8 Summit. Courtesy of The Only Adult in the Room. |
President Obama’s current job approval rating for May 22-24 is 53%. That’s his highest since Feb. 12-14, 2010 -- more than 16 months ago. His previous high this year was 52%, reached at several points earlier this month after the May 1 announcement of the successful raid in Pakistan that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.
Some 600,000 young adults have taken advantage of a healthcare reform provision allowing them to stay on their parents’ insurance policies, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.
The liberal think tank said young adults are increasingly delaying care because they can’t afford it and praised the healthcare law’s coverage expansion.
Close to half of all currently uninsured people between 19 and 29 will gain coverage under Medicaid once it expands in 2014, the report says. About one-third will be eligible for subsidies to buy private insurance through a newly created health exchange.
But hey it's not ALL bad news for the Republicans. I mean Tim Pawlenty has those totally-not-a-joke Jerry Bruckheimer inspired political ads, Mitt Romney is currently taking credit for Obama's auto industry bailout, and I understand that, just like Jesus, Sarah Palin is having a mythological movie made about her.
Okay, well maybe it IS all bad news for the Republicans.
Seriously? That is what the GOP has to offer in 2012? A two legged remedy for insomnia. a department store mannequin, and habitual lying grifter from Wasilla?
And you wonder why the President is always smiling.
O'Donnell just explained why $arah wont run.
ReplyDeleteSlow and steady, Mr. President, slow and steady.
ReplyDeleteI just got back from the U.K. & the President & First Lady are widely admired there. It was non-stop coverage of them--pages & pages worth plus hours of glowing TV coverage. Our First Lady is a major international style icon!
ReplyDeleteHerman Cain.
ReplyDeleteI think he smiles to set an example. We should all smile. We should work at being happy. We don't know when we will croak. Do you want the last moments of life be in a sour frame of mind? Be grateful. There is a lot of crises out there, have grace and keep calm. Let's be adults too, also.
ReplyDeleteLOD did a masterful job of cutting Palin down to her proper size. She's not running!!
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2011/05/26/fox-news-no-change-in-palin-status/
Asked by CNN if there was any change in Palin's role or if there was discussion of a deadline for a decision by Palin, Fox News Executive Vice President of Programming Bill Shine said in a statement, "We are not changing Sarah Palin's status."
MUST SEE TV ===> LOD
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Romney is such a lying piece of shit. I know democrats who say they would vote for him but I assume it's like when people said in 2000 that they liked McCain.
ReplyDeleteThe Koch brothers are going to be besides themselves with joy at the thought of the grifter as chief salesperson for the Ryan 'empower granny with coupons' plan.
ReplyDeleteSo, Fox will continue to pay Palin $1 million a year to insult the president and talk incessantly about how badly he is running the country. Time to pull the plug on THAT propoganda channel. The responsibility of running a state with fewer than 700,000 residents was too much for her, how would she handle 300 million population? Palin is full of moose crap, and anyone with 1/2 a brain can see it. Ailes KNOWS it, yet continues to support her. Someone with a straight jacket needs to rescue her from herself. What a disgusting excuse for a "woman and mother"
ReplyDeleteYep, it's those first time voters the GOP has to worry about. Some conservatives among them, but by and large they will vote Dem if they vote.
ReplyDeleteThe Dems are more in touch with general attitudes and concerns, it's that simple.
Sarah Palin will run for POTUS.
ReplyDeleteIt is a win - win - win situation for everybody involved.
WIN #1: The real GOP contenders do not want to go against Obama and will wait until 2016. The GOP needs to find somebody expendable and that is Palin and the other 3rd rate GOP contenders.
WIN #2: Palin just wants the title Sarah Palin 2012 GOP Presidential Candidate and does not want the POTUS job.
WIN #3: The Dems want Palin to run.
YES. WE. WILL=again
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Herman Cain does not come close to comparing to Obama. He is backed by the Koch bros. which makes him dangerous.
ReplyDeleteWe call him Uncle Tom. His goal is to alter or abolish the US Constitution. He said so on May 23rd along with stating the Constitution has a blurb about "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness".
He doesn't know the difference between the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
That makes him the perfect GOP candidate. They quote things from the constitution that aren't there, they quote stuff from the bible that aren't there, they make up things on the house floor that are totally false (Planned Parenthood abortion assistance percentage), tell lies about what is in a bill (Death Panels). They love ignorance.
President Obama is wonderful and doing such an outstanding job in leading our nation!
ReplyDeleteI encourage folks to read "The Lies of Sarah Palin" by Geoffrey Dunn. He researched thoroughly and displays an absolutely horrid picture of Sarah Palin to include many proof sources). Everyone needs to read it!!! She is the most manipulative and evil doer in politics.
Thank God we elected President Obama!!
Poor McCain, (yes, I actually felt sorry for him after reading the book!) couldn't even handle her during the campaign.
Just out - Fox is letting Sara keep doing what she's doing. The world needs to know that the gloves are off. Sara is Fox's new candidate and she will run and she will get the nomination because Fox will exclude all the other candidates from any time on Fox. Sara is laughing all the way, no wonder Roger did nothing when her movie was announced. For all we know he's the money behind it. Wonder if anyone in the MSM is going to call this one out?
ReplyDeleteSarahs not running...mark my words. Palin pulls a Trump on the media:
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Best line evan....Sarah bought a house in Scottsdale about a mile away from Dan Quayle. Scottsdale is where rich white people go to retire, not run presidential campaigns.
Fox knows it, that's why they didn't cut her loose in March with Santorum and Gingrich. So, bots, pony up and support
Sarahs summer vacation, see her movie, buy Brisdull's book....give, give, give till it hurts.
Btw, Baileys book is phenomenal. Sarah is even more psychotic than I thought, it's almost tragic. She will wind up in the Rubber Room Hotel soon, that woman is not only thin skinned, but pranoid, delusional to the point of suspecting her offices were bugged. She's fucking insane and I mean that in the clinical sense. I hope Bailey got himself some therapy after he escaped that loony bin of the Palins.
She won't run, but she'll do a lot of damage to the political discourse in this country.
ReplyDeleteMy final thought of the day - delay of emails gives Sarah two weeks to bilk money out of her bots before she's over.
ReplyDeleteActually, my final thought is how proud I am to have Barack Obama as my President. He's a good soul.
Journalists seemed to think that the first decade of this century was an awful decade, and the first half of this year has been one catastrophe or upheaval/uncertainty after another. Thank God that McCain & Palin aren't in the White House. We'd all be terrified.
ReplyDeleteObama is also a good judge of character:
Here's a picture of the Obamas meeting Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a G20 Meeting in 2009:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/from_the_time_capsule_dominiqu.html
Yay President Obama!
ReplyDeleteThat cool but compassionate smile I see on my President's face is so authentic and is the antithesis of all things Palin and Republican.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you anon at 4:37. You are right,this visual of calm should serve as a reminder to all of us to savor the sweet and transcend the toxic.
I'm the parent of one of those young people. It cost us a fortune to subsidize his sister's health insurance after college graduation, but he can stay on my insurance for a while until he finds a job. My state was a little ahead of the country, and it makes a BIG difference to families.
ReplyDeleteI agree about this tour being an under-the-wire move to bring in money before all this negative stuff reaches a critical mass.
ReplyDeleteNBC made sure to feature Frank Bailey's book when reporting on her bus tour today. They are loaded for bear, I am positive. I am sure others are as well.
She's just very clever about stringing people along; her fans of course.
That said, if she runs it isn't all bad. I just don't think I can take it. But Obama would beat her, no trouble at all. I honestly don't think she could make it through even months of a campaign, though. She'd fall apart before she ever got remotely close to a nomination.
And just remember, the GOP probably has the goods on her. If they think she is going to split the vote and ruin it for others, they will take her down. I can't imagine they think she's electable. She's no kingmaker, either.
Osarah Bin Laden.
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As the grandmother of a 10yo who lives with me, I'd say the Republicans are going to be mighty disappointed with the upcoming WE generation. These kids are progressives. My granddaughter was gleefully reporting the verbal drubbing she and her friends gave some "pro-life" demonstrators who invaded their community college. While my granddaughter grew up in a progressive home, many of her friends come from the most conservative areas of the county. A couple of weeks ago I went to an event mostly for HS/College youth in another part of my state, again more conservative. I was delighted with the themes of diversity, service, peace, justice... There is really grounds for hope out there.
ReplyDeleteSorry, the URL I pasted in my previous comment was truncated.
ReplyDeleteHere's the correct link to a picture of POTUS & First Lady greeting Dominique Strauss-Kahn (alleged hotel maid-abuser, IMF head) at a G20 meeting in 2009. Shows Barack's good judge of character.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/from_the_time_capsule_dominiqu.html?mid=twitter_DailyIntel
Arapaho415 at 6:47 posted this link. Hilarious photo!
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Anon @6:55, I have a 22-year-old newly graduated daughter, and we too are so grateful to be able to cover her with this new law.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it, no GOPer stands a chance, and not because Obama is awesome...he's been okay, he's faced a lot of problems but he made the right choice most of the time (though I still wish he had pushed a little harder for a single payer system). The issue is Paul Ryan and his budget, which apparently you have to fawn over in order to be accepted at the GOPer big boy table.
ReplyDeleteI know everyone's all hysterical about what it means for the current crop of seniors, but...have you thought about what it means for society as a whole? Really, if you're an average American, middle-class family, where both parents work and you fight just to pay the bills, how would you ever be able to afford to retire, if you're going to have to save an additional half million dollars to pay for medical care?
$500,000 seems like a sky-is-falling number, but with rising healthcare costs, that will be, in a decade's time, the cost of a bypass surgery and recovery...
Your nurses, your teachers, your university professors and police officers and firefighters and sanitation workers, they won't be able to retire at 65. They'll have to keep working. Which means there'll be fewer jobs for our young people. Unemployed youth leads to other social problems, like drugs and crime, etc. Which means either the government will have to raise government spending ANYWAY or our country will spiral, spiral, spiral downwards.
It's a misnomer to call it "the Paul Ryan budget"...we should call it, the "American Dystopia budget"... or the "Rocketship to Third World America budget"....because that's what it is.
I realize that who plays the role of President is important, but the reality of it is way less than we all make it out to be.
ReplyDeleteThe Constitution gives certain powers to the Executive Branch, but most of them are to basically be a "cheerleader" to Congress.
Calling the watered down healthcare reform "Obamacare" is so inaccurate, as is all the blame for everything from bailouts to tornadoes, being heaped on the President.
Those of us who paid even a little attention in Civics class, know this.
Everyone else acts as if we elected a dictator, who calls all the shots personally. This ignorance really shows up when you come across some Fox channel educated dufuss who HATES Obama, and lists all manner of things he has supposedly done, to ruin America.
This "fire in the belly" that Palin keeps squawking about reminds me of a bladder infection.
ReplyDeleteThe old bag lady from wasilla isnt running.
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Oh yeah another thing. Because of President Obama color and this being the USA I would add another 10 percent to his approval rating and subtract 10 percent from his disapproval rating.
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Dang, he's one handsome dude! I even like the big ears. Something to grab on to (in my dreams)!
ReplyDeleteNot to be shallow, but having a hot couple in love in the White House is a definite plus. It's not a good reason to vote for someone, but I'm sure it reduces the tension and distractions that come with a troubled family life.
@Elizabeth- Thank you for sharing that. I agree that the future is hopeful. Myself and daughter, learned about Barack Obama through her son (my grandson) when he was fourteen years old. In 2012 he will be voting age! And his friends will be too!! He lives in the small town of Homer (AK) and learned about BO through skype and his internet friends throughout the country.
ReplyDeleteInteresting.
ReplyDeleteIn Frank Bailey's book he says that a whole new team worked with sarah to get her elected Gov.
Now for a possible POTUS run another whole team AND a whole new state. This,after costing the tax payers millions of dollars in tax credits for her reality show in Alaska.
She loved the state so much she quit as it's Gov.
After a reality show saying how much she loves the state, she quits it to run for POTUS.
Anybody see a pattern here?
Like maybe she's lying?
She and her team supposedly rigged the polls pertaining to her role and GOV and her popularity poll.
Was she really as popular as was previously thought?
I still can't believe how stupid that retarded dumb ass Sarah Palin really is. If Palin was POTUS, she would of released Bin Laden's death pictures which would of unnecessarily put American soldiers and citizens at risk of anger retaliation. She is so fucling dumb it is not even funny. How can anybody think of her as POTUS?
ReplyDeleteWow, I was urged by Oz Mudflats to read this link, especially the opening line and I want to persuade you to do the same
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We laugh and think only they are fools; yes but dangerous fools; especially when it comes to Sarah Palin.
As you'll find,Germans first thought the Nazis were fools and laughed at them... little did they know eh... Look I'll cut and paste
'In reality they number no more than about two or three hundred, and when they are parading about in their uniforms they are more comical than anything else. It is impossible to imagine that they would have any appeal to anyone other than fools.'
-from a German newspaper in the 1920s commenting on the Nazis.
Grphy have you seen http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/05/25/so-much-awesome-in-one-place/. Hilarious
ReplyDeletehttp://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/05/25/so-much-awesome-in-one-place/ Omg. Hilarious
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