- Gallup shows the president's job approval at 46%, while 47% disapprove.
- The oil spill will hurt Obama politically even though he had nothing do with it. The same way Bush had nothing to do with Katrina.
- Rand Paul is my favorite politician right now. Marco Rubio is my second favorite. Unlike Arlen Specter or Charlie Crist, both have clear convictions, know how to articulate them, and are generally not afraid to do so. And people are listening.
- Let's be honest: the economy is improving. This will likely help the president's numbers heading into the fall a little, but lots of folks are still going to be fed up with the debt, the overspending, the bailouts, and the unprecedented expansion of government's power and size. We are going the way of Greece and there are consequences when you continue to try to spend your way into prosperity with money you don't even have.
- McCain would have been just as bad a president as Obama. I am happy he lost because his victory would have further blurred the distinction between liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican. Whether it's justified yet or not, people are increasingly starting to favor the GOP again because of the consistency of their message. McCain would have immediately killed any chance of this happening and would have been an utter disaster as president.
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A lot of people base how well the economy is doing on how well the stock market is doing because it's the easiest indicator to identify. That said, the Dow is down for the year and we are halfway through the year.
Meanwhile, 401K sales are through the roof.
And if politicians can protect us from too much carbon emmissions or not enough healthcare without any negative repercussions why can't they protect us from natural disasters/freak accidents?
Hank agrees that McCain would have been a disaster, however, he would rather sleep in a bad bed with a white president, than sleep in a good bed with a black president.
Nice one, Snuffy. Just like the miserable Irish, your memory reaches deep into the past.
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