By Michael Francis at Examiner.com
The Obama presidency now has another unfortunate comparison to Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama's approval rating continues to stagnate in the low 40's, coming in at 43 percent in the latest Gallup polling.
The President's approval rating has not topped 50 percent since May, and now falls below Jimmy Carter's approval rating at the same point in their presidencies.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Does Obama Think It's Beneath Him to Be President?
By Michael Goodwin at Fox News
He’s so bad at the job that the frequent comparisons to Jimmy Carter are unfair to Carter. The former peanut farmer was a terrible president, but he was at least sincere in his starchy disdain for the country.
Obama professes to really, really like America. He just wants to change everything about it.
And when the country says no thanks, he goes off script and the smears come out. We’re “soft” and “lazy” and “bitter” and “cling” to God and guns.
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He’s so bad at the job that the frequent comparisons to Jimmy Carter are unfair to Carter. The former peanut farmer was a terrible president, but he was at least sincere in his starchy disdain for the country.
Obama professes to really, really like America. He just wants to change everything about it.
And when the country says no thanks, he goes off script and the smears come out. We’re “soft” and “lazy” and “bitter” and “cling” to God and guns.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Congratulations, Jimmy Carter! You’re Not the Most Unpopular President Any More!
Via John Hayward at Human Events
President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.
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President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.
Since March, Obama's job approval rating has hovered above Carter's, considered among the 20th century's worst presidents, but today Obama's punctured Carter's dismal job approval line. On their comparison chart, Gallup put Obama's job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter's 51 percent.
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Tim Pawlenty: 'Barack Obama is the Barney Fife of presidents,' like Jimmy Carter
By Marc Caputo at The Miami Herald
Romney's campaign co-chair and former rival, former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty, said President Obama and the Democrats are doing all they can to avoid talking about jobs.
"Barack Obama is the Barney Fife of presidents," Pawlenty said, calling Obama's performance "stumbling, bumbling, ineffective" and reminiscent of Jimmy Carter.
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Romney's campaign co-chair and former rival, former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty, said President Obama and the Democrats are doing all they can to avoid talking about jobs.
"Barack Obama is the Barney Fife of presidents," Pawlenty said, calling Obama's performance "stumbling, bumbling, ineffective" and reminiscent of Jimmy Carter.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Obama and Liberal Intelligentsia Shed Dignity Ahead of 2012 Election
By Russ Smith at Splice
Barack Obama has yet to add a “killer rabbit” incident in his growing list of parallels to Jimmy Carter’s failed presidency, and his quiver of good luck arrows isn’t so depleted that he’s attracted a principled Democrat to mount a challenge for the Party’s nomination, but as 2011 dwindles away into holiday distraction, the erstwhile political magician is running out of gas. That’s Obama’s car in America’s ditch right now, and the owner shows little interest in repairing the damage. At least the hapless Carter, when Teddy Kennedy announced his primary bid in late-1979, had the gumption and competitive spirit to tell anyone who’d listen that he’d “whip [Kennedy’s] ass. Obama, on the other hand, appears listless and bored, and is apparently counting on winning a second term as the lesser of two evils.
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Barack Obama has yet to add a “killer rabbit” incident in his growing list of parallels to Jimmy Carter’s failed presidency, and his quiver of good luck arrows isn’t so depleted that he’s attracted a principled Democrat to mount a challenge for the Party’s nomination, but as 2011 dwindles away into holiday distraction, the erstwhile political magician is running out of gas. That’s Obama’s car in America’s ditch right now, and the owner shows little interest in repairing the damage. At least the hapless Carter, when Teddy Kennedy announced his primary bid in late-1979, had the gumption and competitive spirit to tell anyone who’d listen that he’d “whip [Kennedy’s] ass. Obama, on the other hand, appears listless and bored, and is apparently counting on winning a second term as the lesser of two evils.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Dow, S&P Log Worst Thanksgiving Week Since 1932
By JeeYeon Park at CNBC.com
Stocks closed in negative territory in thin, shortened trading Friday as investors were reluctant to go long ahead of the weekend and amid ongoing worries over the euro zone.
The Dow and S&P posted their worst Thanksgiving week since the Great Depression on a percentage basis.
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Stocks closed in negative territory in thin, shortened trading Friday as investors were reluctant to go long ahead of the weekend and amid ongoing worries over the euro zone.
The Dow and S&P posted their worst Thanksgiving week since the Great Depression on a percentage basis.
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Letter: Obama should quit scolding Americans
Letter to the editor from Chico Enterprise-Record
I'm sick to death of this guy's penchant for purposely making disparaging remarks about our country and its people. Nearly every president (except Jimmy Carter) understood the dynamics of the social psyche enough to know not to cast aspersions on the citizenry —especially during tough economic times. If Reagan had followed Carter with this "woe is me, our country stinks and the people are a bunch of losers" nonsense, we'd still be in the Carter recession.
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I'm sick to death of this guy's penchant for purposely making disparaging remarks about our country and its people. Nearly every president (except Jimmy Carter) understood the dynamics of the social psyche enough to know not to cast aspersions on the citizenry —especially during tough economic times. If Reagan had followed Carter with this "woe is me, our country stinks and the people are a bunch of losers" nonsense, we'd still be in the Carter recession.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
If Only Obama Had Been This Guy
By Holman Jenkins at The Wall Street Journal
Let us suggest a counterintuitive historical parallel. Jimmy Carter also came to the presidency as a "progressive" Democrat, amid a failing economy. He also had considerable freedom to define his own agenda, riding a wave of Watergate revulsion rather than an ideological mandate.
But Mr. Carter had served aboard Navy submarines. He ran a peanut plantation. He served one term as Georgia governor—real jobs that produce real effects. Mr. Carter saw himself in some realistic relation to the world.
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Let us suggest a counterintuitive historical parallel. Jimmy Carter also came to the presidency as a "progressive" Democrat, amid a failing economy. He also had considerable freedom to define his own agenda, riding a wave of Watergate revulsion rather than an ideological mandate.
But Mr. Carter had served aboard Navy submarines. He ran a peanut plantation. He served one term as Georgia governor—real jobs that produce real effects. Mr. Carter saw himself in some realistic relation to the world.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Obama Peddles Myths About the Great Depression: No, Hoover Didn’t Cut Taxes or Spending
By Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org
Herbert Hoover increased marginal tax rates on the wealthy to 63 percent, and more than doubled government spending as a percentage of the economy. But in his political speeches, President Obama continues to falsely claim that Hoover gave “tax cuts” to the rich and slashed the government to promote “trickle-down economics.”
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Herbert Hoover increased marginal tax rates on the wealthy to 63 percent, and more than doubled government spending as a percentage of the economy. But in his political speeches, President Obama continues to falsely claim that Hoover gave “tax cuts” to the rich and slashed the government to promote “trickle-down economics.”
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Obama = Carter?
By Mark Binker at the Greensboro News-Record
The most recent High Point University poll tries to draws an interesting historical parallel between President Barack Obama and former President Jimmy Carter, both Democrats. Carter was a one-term president who was defeated by Ronald Reagan during sour economic times.
The HPU poll asked the same question that the UNC Carolina Poll in the fall of 1979: on the whole, do you think the president has been doing a good job.
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The most recent High Point University poll tries to draws an interesting historical parallel between President Barack Obama and former President Jimmy Carter, both Democrats. Carter was a one-term president who was defeated by Ronald Reagan during sour economic times.
The HPU poll asked the same question that the UNC Carolina Poll in the fall of 1979: on the whole, do you think the president has been doing a good job.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
CURL: Obama’s growing disdain for American worker
By Joseph Curl at The Washington Times
Fast-forward 32 years to the New Jimmy Carter. Mr. Obama has decided to travel the country on his taxpayer-funded 747 to tell the taxpayers that they’re doing a terrible job, that they just have to do more - and do it better. Sure, he blames Congress for the continuing gridlock over the economy (for him, there is no such thing as the bully pulpit), but he wants it to be known far and wide that it is the American worker who has so heinously let down his nation.
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Fast-forward 32 years to the New Jimmy Carter. Mr. Obama has decided to travel the country on his taxpayer-funded 747 to tell the taxpayers that they’re doing a terrible job, that they just have to do more - and do it better. Sure, he blames Congress for the continuing gridlock over the economy (for him, there is no such thing as the bully pulpit), but he wants it to be known far and wide that it is the American worker who has so heinously let down his nation.
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State lawmakers need to deal with grim budget realities
Editorial from the Lower Columbia Daily News
Herbert Hoover, the only U.S. President with any real credentials as an "economist," was looking for a theme for his 1932 re-election campaign and made the notably unwise choice of "Prosperity is just around the corner."
It was quite some time before that corner was turned and the country turned it without Hoover, who was crushed at the polls by Franklin Roosevelt in November. It would be 20 more years before voters put another Republican in the White House.
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Herbert Hoover, the only U.S. President with any real credentials as an "economist," was looking for a theme for his 1932 re-election campaign and made the notably unwise choice of "Prosperity is just around the corner."
It was quite some time before that corner was turned and the country turned it without Hoover, who was crushed at the polls by Franklin Roosevelt in November. It would be 20 more years before voters put another Republican in the White House.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Don't like the presidential candidates? Nominate your own online
By Luke Shuffield at CNN.com
With respect to the two political parties, the dissatisfaction has reached its boiling point. None of the individual Republican candidates have been able to generate any kind of significant positive intensity. The situation for the Democrats isn’t much better. President Obama’s approval rating hit its lowest point in his administration at 41% in his 11th quarter. The only commander-in-chief since Dwight Eisenhower to sink that low this late in the game was Jimmy Carter.
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With respect to the two political parties, the dissatisfaction has reached its boiling point. None of the individual Republican candidates have been able to generate any kind of significant positive intensity. The situation for the Democrats isn’t much better. President Obama’s approval rating hit its lowest point in his administration at 41% in his 11th quarter. The only commander-in-chief since Dwight Eisenhower to sink that low this late in the game was Jimmy Carter.
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Rage and remediation no way to run a country
By Chris Powell at The Journal-Inquirer
With President Obama rehabilitating Herbert Hoover, all the Republican Party has to do to win the next presidential election is nominate someone halfway sane. But most candidates for the Republican nomination seem to be wooing people mad with rage.
Distress about the country's decline is certainly the prerequisite for change. But while rage may win a party primary, an election is something else, and many distressed voters may be only more distressed the more they see of the Republican candidates.
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With President Obama rehabilitating Herbert Hoover, all the Republican Party has to do to win the next presidential election is nominate someone halfway sane. But most candidates for the Republican nomination seem to be wooing people mad with rage.
Distress about the country's decline is certainly the prerequisite for change. But while rage may win a party primary, an election is something else, and many distressed voters may be only more distressed the more they see of the Republican candidates.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
S.E. Cupp Likens Obama’s ‘Lazy’ Comment To Jimmy Carter Malaise Speech
Via James Crugnale at Mediaite
On MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner, conservative political analyst SE Cupp slammed Barack Obama‘s alleged comment that Americans were being “a little bit lazy.” Alleged, because that’s not what he acutally said. Nonetheless, Cupp said “I won’t go so far as to make the argument this means he’s un-American,” Cupp said. “But we know how badly Jimmy Carter‘s malaise speech went over — when you indict the American public for the societal ills and bad economy, they don’t take kindly.”
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On MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner, conservative political analyst SE Cupp slammed Barack Obama‘s alleged comment that Americans were being “a little bit lazy.” Alleged, because that’s not what he acutally said. Nonetheless, Cupp said “I won’t go so far as to make the argument this means he’s un-American,” Cupp said. “But we know how badly Jimmy Carter‘s malaise speech went over — when you indict the American public for the societal ills and bad economy, they don’t take kindly.”
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Protests That Worked
By Michael Lind at The New York Times
On July 28, 1932, at the command of President Herbert Hoover, police and soldiers led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur attacked and destroyed the camp of the Bonus Army, a group of thousands of World War I veterans and their families and allies who had spent the spring and summer protesting the unemployment created by the Great Depression. The violence, in which two veterans were killed and dozens of people were injured, shocked the American public and helped to ensure the victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt over Hoover in that fall’s presidential election.
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On July 28, 1932, at the command of President Herbert Hoover, police and soldiers led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur attacked and destroyed the camp of the Bonus Army, a group of thousands of World War I veterans and their families and allies who had spent the spring and summer protesting the unemployment created by the Great Depression. The violence, in which two veterans were killed and dozens of people were injured, shocked the American public and helped to ensure the victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt over Hoover in that fall’s presidential election.
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This Week in the Great Depression: Echoes
By Philip Scranton at Bloomberg
President Herbert Hoover, meanwhile, was trying to "step in at the eleventh hour to avert disaster," this time a renewed decline in stock values. As the attached graphic shows, the Dow charted a ragged slide -- peaks and valleys that slumped from 381 to 86 by late 1931, and to less than half that by mid-1932. Hoover called for an international agreement to defer payments on war debts and reparations, which he hoped would stop the downward momentum.
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President Herbert Hoover, meanwhile, was trying to "step in at the eleventh hour to avert disaster," this time a renewed decline in stock values. As the attached graphic shows, the Dow charted a ragged slide -- peaks and valleys that slumped from 381 to 86 by late 1931, and to less than half that by mid-1932. Hoover called for an international agreement to defer payments on war debts and reparations, which he hoped would stop the downward momentum.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Carterization of Barack Obama
By Charles Pierce at Esquire:
In a bright autumn thirty-one years ago, as Jimmy Carter was running for reelection, his presidency was dying in a thousand different places. It was dying in South Dakota, where voters were preparing to vote out George McGovern. It was dying in Idaho, where voters were preparing to roast Frank Church on the same spit. It was dying in Indiana, where Birch Bayh was about to become a former senator as well. And another one of those places was a union hall in Youngstown, Ohio, where nobody famous was working at all.
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In a bright autumn thirty-one years ago, as Jimmy Carter was running for reelection, his presidency was dying in a thousand different places. It was dying in South Dakota, where voters were preparing to vote out George McGovern. It was dying in Idaho, where voters were preparing to roast Frank Church on the same spit. It was dying in Indiana, where Birch Bayh was about to become a former senator as well. And another one of those places was a union hall in Youngstown, Ohio, where nobody famous was working at all.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Occupy WS = Hoovervilles?
Via Aaron Goldstein at the American Spectator
The Los Angeles Times makes the case that Occupy Wall Street and its sister movements around the country are modern day Hoovervilles:
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The Los Angeles Times makes the case that Occupy Wall Street and its sister movements around the country are modern day Hoovervilles:
The Occupy sites that sprouted up in recent months in response to the poor economy resemble the Great Depression's so-called Hoovervilles, shanty villages inhabited by a newly created class of poor people.
Named for Republican President Herbert Hoover, who was thrown out of office after one term because of his failed policies in dealing with the Depression, the Hoovervilles ultimately helped shape the New Deal and the vision of a liberal state that would provide an economic safety net.
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