What Do We Do With Barack Obama?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by JamesL, Oct 13, 2010.

  1. I agree.Most of what he has done was copied from Republicans or continued from the last Republican President.I cant figure out why Republicans hate him so much .
     
    #11     Oct 13, 2010
  2. Maybe Obama is so Republican because its in his blood LOL.He's related to Bush,Cheney,Palin and Rush



    Obama's related to Palin


    By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
    Wed Oct 13, 12:56 am ET

    NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes.

    And that's not all — Obama also is apparently related to conservative radio host and relentless critic Rush Limbaugh.
    A genealogist at the Utah-based Ancestry.com, Anastasia Tyler, said Obama and Palin are 10th cousins through a common ancestor named John Smith, a pastor and early settler in 17th-century Massachusetts. Obama is related to Smith through his mother, as is Palin, Tyler said.

    "Smith was against the persecution of the Quakers," Tyler said in an interview. "He was a very socially conscious man."
    As for Limbaugh, he's also a 10th cousin of the president — one time removed — through a common ancestor named Richmond Terrell, who Tyler said was a large landowner in Virginia, also in the 17th century. "His history is a little more nebulous," Tyler said.
    How do the genealogists come up with this stuff? Tyler said they start by picking the people they're interested in, then examine their family trees, going back further and further into history, looking for common surnames and locations.

    In the recent project, genealogists looked at the trees of Obama, Palin, and Limbaugh but also a few others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Fox News pundits Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. They didn't find anything much with the latter three.

    But former President George W. Bush? He's related to both Obama and Palin, the site found. Obama and Bush are 11th cousins through common ancestor Samuel Hinckley, and Bush and Palin are 10th cousins one time removed, also through Hinckley — who, and stay with us now, was John Smith's father-in-law.
    Ancestry.com has revealed in the past that Obama is related to investor Warren Buffett and actor Brad Pitt. It has also found that Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, is a distant cousin of both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Princess Diana.


    The site isn't the only source of this sort of celebrity genealogy information — in 2007, Cheney's wife, Lynne, discovered ancestral ties between former Vice President Dick Cheney and Obama while researching her book. She said the relationship was eighth cousin, though the Chicago Sun-Times traced it as ninth cousins once removed.
     
    #12     Oct 13, 2010
  3. Given that, perhaps you could enlighten us on why democrats love him so much?
     
    #13     Oct 13, 2010
  4. JamesL

    JamesL

    Let's make the comparison apples to apples here - at this time in his presidency, Bush's ratings were significantly higher than Obama's:

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    But if you want to talk about Bush (later years) lets not forget that recent polling has a "failed" president polling 45% vs the current appointed one:

    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=208222

    At this rate, he just might give Bush (and Carter) a run for their money on the lowest of the low Presidential ratings. And unlike Bush, I doubt he will be missed when he is gone.
     
    #14     Oct 13, 2010
  5. Ricter

    Ricter

    According to JamesL, democrats do not love him.
     
    #15     Oct 13, 2010
  6. JamesL

    JamesL

    No, according to Gallup and Wolfe.

    I don't take polls, Andy.
     
    #16     Oct 13, 2010

  7. An apples to apples comparison is not comparing Bush to Obama when Bush was still benefiting from Clinton's great economy or the country united after 9-11.

    A better comparison is comparing them during periods when they both lead during bad economies.During bad economies Obamas approval ratings are better the Bush and Reagans
     
    #17     Oct 13, 2010
  8. JamesL

    JamesL

    Clinton's great economy my ass - Bush inherited a recession from Clinton:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2000s_recession

    And if you want to go the country united route, being that Obama was swept into office by a considerable margin of victory vs Bush's squeak win, the country was far more united under Obama when he took office but has since squandered that good will and now the country is frantically looking for an alternative.

    Spin it any way you want, but Obama is so far proving to be a failure.
     
    #18     Oct 13, 2010
  9. Obama's personal likability in polls is a lot higher than approval of his policies. But what part of "socialist welfare state" don't you understand?
     
    #19     Oct 13, 2010
  10. But Range Rover loves the stimulus this head of state gives him:

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    #20     Oct 13, 2010