Young people have to vote for them once, see how horribly incompetent they really are in order to learn what they are like. Senor Obama's ratings are on a par with the worst of the worst Republicans at this point. That is with the MSM howling his praises to the moon 24/7. The Republicans had the MSM tearing them down 24/7. That reveals the incompetency gap == enough to make up for the MSM's insane useful idiot factor. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/20/the-incredible-shrinking-presidency-of-barack-obama/ The Incredible, Shrinking Presidency of Barack Obama by MIKE WHITNEY According to a new Washington Post-ABC poll, Barack Obama now ranks among the least popular presidents in the last century. In fact, his approval rating is lower than Bushâs was in his fifth year in office. Obamaâs overall approval rating stands at a dismal 43 percent, with a full 55 percent of the public âdisapproving of the way he is handling the economyâ. The same percentage of people âdisapprove of the way he is handling his job as presidentâ. Thus, on the two main issues, leadership and the economy, Obama gets failing grades. An even higher percentage of people are upset at the way the president is implementing his signature health care system dubbed âObamacareâ. When asked âDo you approve or disapprove of the way Obama is handling âimplementation of the new health care law?â A full 62% said they disapprove, although I suspect that the anger has less to do with the planâs âimplementationâ than it does with the fact that Obamacare is widely seen as a profit-delivery system for the voracious insurance industry. Notwithstanding the administrationâs impressive public relations campaign, a clear majority of people have seen through Obamaâs health care ruse and given the program a big thumbâs down. Of course, Obamacare is just the straw that broke the camelâs back. The list of policy disasters that preceded this latest fiasco is nearly endless, including everything from blanket pardons for the Wall Street big-wigs who took down the global financial system, to re-upping the Bush tax cuts, to appointing a commission of deficit hawks to slash Social Security and Medicare (Bowles-Simpson), to breaking his word on Gitmo, to reneging on his promise to pass Card Check, to expanding to wars in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, to droning 4-times as many civilians as the homicidal maniac he replaced as president in 2008. Obamaâs treatment of undocumented immigrants has been particularly shocking although the details have been kept out of the media, presumably because the news giants donât want to expose the Dear Leader as a heartless scoundrel who has no problem separating mothers from their children, locking them up in privately-owned concentration camps and booting them out of the country with nothing more than the shirt on their back. Check out this blurb which sums up Obamaâs âprogressiveâ immigration policy in one paragraph: âObama is on track to deport 3 million immigrants without papers by the end of his second term, more than any other president. George W. Bush deported about 2 million over two terms. Obama will likely hit that mark this monthâ¦.. The average daily count of immigrants in detention now is about 33,000. In 2001, it was 19,000. In 1994, it was 5,000, according to the Detention Watch Network. Almost all of the detainees and deportees are Latino. True, the population of illegal immigrants has also doubled in that time to more than 11 million. But the detainee and deportee counts have escalated more than twice as fast. âHe could go down as the worst president in history toward immigrants,â said Arturo Carmona, executive director of the liberal activist group Presente.org. Hooray for the Deporter in Chief! Youâre Numero Uno, buddy. You even beat Bush! Is it any wonder why the manâs ratings are in freefall? All told, Obama has been bad for the economy, bad for civil liberties, bad for minorities, bad for foreign wars, and bad for health care. He has, however, been a very effective lackey-sock puppet for Wall Street, Big Pharma, the oil magnates, and the other 1% -vermin Kleptocrats who run the country and who will undoubtedly attend his $100,000-per-plate speaking engagements when he finally retires in comfort to some gated community where heâll work on his memoirs and cash in on his 8 years of faithful service to the racketeer class. But, letâs face it; no one really gives a rip about âdrone attacks in Waziristanâ or âhunger strikes in Gitmoâ. What they care about is keeping their jobs, paying off their student loans, putting the food on the table or avoiding the fate of next-door-neighbor, Andy, who got his pink slip two months ago and now finds himself living in a cardboard box by the river. Thatâs what the average working stiff worries about; just scraping by enough to stay out of the homeless shelter. But itâs getting harder all the time, mainly because everythingâs gotten worse under Obama. Itâs crazy. Itâs like the whole middle class is being dismantled in a 10-year period. Wages are flat, jobs are scarce, incomes are dropping like a stone, and everyoneâs broke. (Everyone I know, at least.) Did you know that 76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Check it out: âRoughly three-quarters of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck, with little to no emergency savings, according to a survey released by Bankrate.com Monday. Fewer than one in four Americans have enough money in their savings account to cover at least six months of expenses, enough to help cushion the blow of a job loss, medical emergency or some other unexpected event, according to the survey of 1,000 adults. Meanwhile, 50% of those surveyed have less than a three-month cushion and 27% had no savings at allâ¦. Last week, online lender CashNetUSA said 22% of the 1,000 people it recently surveyed had less than $100 in savings to cover an emergency, while 46% had less than $800. After paying debts and taking care of housing, car and child care-related expenses, the respondents said there just isnât enough money left over for saving more.â [The article is longer, see the rest by following the link above...]