Voters Still Miffed at Obama's Wars

November 19, 2010 RSS Feed Print
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't play a major role in the midterm elections that devastated Democrats, but Americans think that the best way for President Obama to come back would be to make good on his promise to withdraw troops.

The new Washington Whispers poll found that 40 percent believe that bringing the troops home would help Obama recover from his political "shellacking." Another 35 percent said that he should include Republican ideas in his upcoming State of the Union Address which the White House is just beginning to work on.

Our poll had good news for Vice President Joe Biden, who has been in the middle of rumors that the president might swap him for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Just 1 percent said that the key to an Obama comeback is replacing Biden.

Now that he's taken an admitted "shellacking" from voters, what would be the best thing for President Obama to do to recover?

Withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan 40%

Put Republican ideas in his State of the Union address 35%

Fight the GOP 14%

Take a long vacation 10%

Pick a new vice president 1%

Source: The Synovate eNation Internet poll was conducted November 5-9 among 1,000 nationally representative households by global market research firm Synovate.

Tags:
Democratic Party,
2010 Congressional elections,
War in Afghanistan (2001-),
Republican Party,
Joe Biden,
Iraq war (2003-2011),
national security terrorism and the military,
Barack Obama

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Give him credit for what? Exacerbating the situtation and complicating it even further with his pet projects? But speaking of Clinton, we can thank him for the housing bubble, which caused our current mess. But you wouldn't know anything about that, how economics even works, and how Clinton's drive to increase home-ownership by forcing banks to loan out to those with a high-risk of defaulting (a blatantly liberal bill) really caused this mess. But whatever floats your boat, just keep blaming it all on Bush like some parrot who doesn't think for himself. You lap it up anyway because it serves your blind anti-Bush agenda.

Also, the author termed the current wars "Obama's Wars" in reference to how Obama is handling them, which is dirt poor by the way. Whereas Bush's surge in Iraq worked, but will you "give the guy some credit"? Of course not, it goes against your ideology just like Obama's decisions go against the majority of the American people's principles. So unless you're a liberal nutcase, giving him credit would be the ultimate contradiction.

The Iraqi people agree that the Iraq War was better in the hands of Bush than Obama. As for Afghanistan, that's a no brainer. Obama and Biden don't know how to fight a war. Obama should have stuck to what he does best, giving teleprompted speeches and apology tours, shut up this time and let General McChrystal do his job. But no, Obama's ego just had to get in the way, and he chose to remove possibly the best man for the job while the idiotic mass media feigned outrage in support of the teleprompter in chief's decision. But that was then mind you. With the current approval rating, midterm results, and even Chris Matthews recent comments, people are slowly but surely waking up to the empty suit that is Obama.

What happened to Obama changing our image in the world for the better? Germany and China think Obama's economics are stupid, Britain is rightfully sour at the way Obama has been treating her. In fact most of our allies including Israel have been given the shaft, even Frange of all countries said that Obama is naive (weak). Our enemies are more emboldened than ever. Iran has nukes, the potential rogues have their own fifth generation fighters to answer our F-22 (production cancelled by Obama), and the Obama appointed morons at Homeland Security want to focus the 'War on Terror' on war veterans, Christians, conservatives, instead of the reality of Islamic extremism, which allowed the crotch bomber to somehow elude airport security and only botched his operation due to dumb luck. Just one of several examples in 2009.

Surely, America is being taken much less seriously now. I mean think about it, who can respect a man who kneels at your feet and apologizes over and over? At least when Bush was president most of the world knew the man would cower before no one. Countries were either afraid or jealous, but at least they respected our strength. Now we're just broke and becoming weaker by the day.

Michael of NE 5:30AM November 21, 2010

You say that Obama created more jobs than Bush. Then why was unemployment never above 7% before Obama was elected (the average was under 6%) and nearly 10% since. If Obama thinks he is doing a great job on employment, he needs to do a better job of selling it.

Ed M. of AL 5:26AM November 20, 2010

Firstly, these are Bush's Wars.. Obama has inheirited this mess. Give the guy some credit: He's created more jobs in the last 11 months than were created during the entire Bush administration. And that is without giving him any aknowledgement for all the thousands of jobs that were destined to be lost if the bailout of the auto industry hadn't been so successful. WHO, ever said that the complete destruction of our financial system by the last administration could be fixed in two short years? And, it's obvious that if the Republicans really wanted to get serious about the deficit they would start by allowing the top 1% of the richest few to start paying taxes at the rate they were charged under Clinton. After all, they enjoyed raping the American economy (and nothing "trickled down") -- now let them help pay down the deficit. Add Republican ideas into the State of the Union? -- Yes, please do this Mr. President; and while you do, explain how disastrous all of their hypocrisy has been for the rest of the 99% of American voters.

P. Brown of AZ 3:51PM November 19, 2010

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