Obama’s Open Mic
At Jason330’s request… Obama’s Bring It moment.
Perhaps not realizing his mic was on, Obama’s private remarks were caught by CBS correspondent Mark Knoller, who was able to listen to through a live audio feed.
“I said, ‘You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate,” Obama said, describing his negotiations with Speaker John Boehner. “You’re not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?'”
According to CBS, Obama quoted himself as telling Boehner to “Put it in a separate bill,” adding that “if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don’t try to sneak this through.”
Oh my.
Tags: John Boehner, President Obama
And he should be saying this publically, not privately.
Agreed. Why is Obama hiding his light under a bushel?
Audio is out:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110415/ts_yblog_theticket/obama-caught-on-audio-slamming-gop
Note the reporter’s spin: “Obama caught slamming GOP”
Why doesnt he have the courage to say what he means? Why does this guy not go to the american people on all these issues, right up front and take a stand. No cahones, fearing he will turn off someone….who the baggers who wont vote for him anyway. If the dems cant get their act together to fight for medicare, social security and medicaid, if they dont embrace the Peoples Budget…time to start a 3rd party or something…cuz this triangulation isnt working.
He’s campaigning. He only has the balls that corporate america lends him.
Balls = most vulnerable weakest part on the human body. (Thanks pandora!)
You’re very welcome, UI.
IMHO the weakest part is an addled tea bagger bain:) Balls serve a useful purpose in procreation
Obama signing statement: despite law, I can do what I want on czars
Daily Caller 4/15/11 Jonathan Strong
In marked contrast to vows as a candidate not to use presidential signing statements as “an end run around Congress,” President Obama released a statement on the just-signed spending bill saying despite the law’s restrictions on “czars,” he will “construe” the law not to interfere with “presidential prerogatives.” The move is an aggressive power play by Obama to gain an added advantage from the deal struck a week ago between the president, Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to narrowly avert government shutdown. The legislation prohibits government money being spent on four Obama “czars,”…
Gallup: Obama approval hits all-time low
The Hill .com
President Obama’s approval rating has hit it all-time low of 41 percent, according to the Gallup daily tracking poll.
A three-day average of the poll shows that 50 percent disapprove of the job he is doing as president, two points shy of his all-time low.
Obama’s approval was previously at its low point in August and October 2010, leading up to the 2010 midterm elections when the Democratic Party and he took a self-described shellacking.
The numbers come as Obama delivered his plan for deficit reduction and saw his spending compromise pass through Congress, although Gallup said that the budget deal did not have a tangible effect on his approval rating.
Obama’s low ratings could be due to the still-struggling economic recovery and rising gas prices, which Gallup says have traditionally driven down presidents’ approval.
If we nationalized the gas industry, no one could sit on mountains of profit while paying no taxes, cutting american jobs, and over charging us for poison
“You think we’re stupid?’”
YES, and evil and stupid.
and corrupt.
Funny thing about that Obama disapproval rating: A significant chunk of it comes from people like those at DL who think he’s too willing to work with Republicans. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that some of us who disapprove of his performance won’t vote for him again.
As for your opinion of Obama, I’m pretty sure he’s smarter than you.
A significant chunk of it comes from people like those at DL who think he’s too willing to work with Republicans.
Exactly. Polls never ask if you disapprove from the right or the left. The lefties disapprove of generic Republican even more.
A while back there was a poll out that found 9% of the people who disapproved of the HCR bill thought it wasn’t liberal enough. I suspect something similar is happening with the Pres approval polls.
Those 9% are almost certainly going to vote for Obama. I just wish Obama were a little less confident of that.
Amen to that.
Actually, if you look at Gallup’s site (Hey! An honest-to-god link, which apparently the avocado is allergic to.), much of the erosion is found among Independents. Liberals is *slightly* down and the Democrats number is fairly stable. More detail (from the right and from the left!) is at the Gallup site. Not due to the 9%. I’ll let you guess what group the WH is worried about.
BUT it is worth noting (which you can also see at Gallup’s website) that Obama is doing BETTER than Reagan was at this point and is about where Clinton was at this point. I didn’t look at any of the others.
Well Reagan didn’t have to contend with liberal media.
Rasmussen : Obama 49%, Trump 34%
President Obama leads Donald Trump by 15 percentage points in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, but the president is unable to top the 50% level of support even against an opponent some are deriding as a joke. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that the president earns support from 49% of Likely Voters nationwide, while Trump attracts the vote from 34%. Given that choice, 12% would vote for some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
Geezer, Obama smarter than me???
could be, you post his college transcripts and I’ll post mine.
let’s compare.
considering more than 34% of the country things Obama is a secret evil muslim form kenya… id say Ol’ Donald has quite a problem if people wont vote for him over that!
also guacamole, since when are college transcripts the standard measurement of intelligence?
Actually, if you look at Gallup’s site
The Gallup numbers show Obama is losing Independents at the same rate he is losing Democrats.
I would like to see some evidence that moving to the right will help Obama win over Independents, or that moving to the left will lose Independents. I think these are assumptions that need to be challenged.
If Obama follows up his speech with an actual budget staredown and a veto or a dramatic veto threat, I bet his I and D numbers shoot up.
But if it ends with a deal and a handshake, I think the numbers stay right where they are.
Bragging about how smart you are and saying that you’ll back it up by posting your college transcripts on a blog thread is a dead giveaway that you are not smart. Just sayin’
Why not post your resume? We all know Obama’s, so everyone can make the comparison. Or SAT scores. Or a hundred different things.
Or we can look at the pudding. Obama is in the White House, and you’re posting anonymous comments at Delaware Liberal.
Just sayin’.
Democratic Approval Numbers for the last 4 weeks:
3/13 79%
3/20 81%
3/27 79%
4/3 80%
4/10 80%
Independent Approval Numbers for the last 4 Weeks:
3/13 44%
3/20 43%
3/27 41%
4/3 43%
4/10 39%
The Gallup Numbers do NOT show Obama losing Democrats and Independents at the same *rate*.
Shit, he’ll be near 50 next week after this past week’s GOP slapdown. Purist liberals and windsock Indys being the difference.
Approval Numbers for the last 4 weeks…
Heh… 4-week sample size, that’s an RNC tactic if I ever saw one. Here’s the big picture:
Democratic Approval Numbers:
April 12-14 2011 77% (4% loss)
Avg 2011 to date 81% (3% loss)
Avg 2009-2011 84%
Total loss: 7%
Independent Approval Numbers
April 12-14 2011 35% (9% loss)
Avg 2011 to date 44% (4% loss)
Avg 2009-2011 48%
Total loss: 13%
Note that the loss for “2011 to date” is 3 vs. 4 percent – pretty close to same in my book.
Yhe Gallup Numbers DO show Obama losing Democrats and Independents at the same *rate*.
The April poll is not an average and is an apples to oranges comparison, although it is interesting if it persists.
(sorry, too lazy to make the tab stops line up)
And, apart from rates, each 1% of Dems is a lot more voters than 1% of Independents. Plus the poll is self-identified party affiliation.
The original question was about how many voters might be criticizing Obama from the left. Party affiliation might be a pretty good correlation, but is not necessarily definitive. The HCR poll question for the 9% asked if the plan was should be more liberal, or something like that.
I think both I and D would cheer any move by Obama to the traditional Democratic platform. Maybe the next set of polls will tell a different story. I think the April 12-14 polls showed Dems disheartened by reports Obama was cutting SS and losing the budget battle, pre-speech.
This question was about the latest poll that the advocado posted up — showing a recent drop and a new low for Obama’s approval rating. You want to be able to claim that Obama is losing liberals AND independents, which doesn’t even hold up with the numbers you are using. So let’s use the oldest data point on the easily seen series presented by Gallup, rather than your self-serving mashup:
June 13, 2010
Democrats 79%
Independents 44%
April 10, 2011
Democrats 80%
Independents 39%
You still aren’t getting much of a net *rate* change over that series for Democrats, but you do get serious net change for Independents. And averages aren’t going to get you much in terms of *rate* changes for this kind of data, since the averages are going to mask the trends (which is what we are talking about here) that this kind of 3 day rolling number that Gallup does in the first place.
Pollster.com Approval trend for Democrats Starting at about 88% approval in January 2009 and ending at about 78% approval.
Pollster.com approval for Independents Starting at about 62 or 63% approval in January 2009 and ending at about 40% approval.
These are the trends — not averages — and while the Pollster poll of polls is what is linked, the Gallup ones won’t be that far off. So let’s stop with the wingnut tactic of just throwing numbers around and pretending that no one will know what they are looking at.
And, apart from rates, each 1% of Dems is a lot more voters than 1% of Independents. Plus the poll is self-identified party affiliation.
This is wrong. Pew, the WSJ and someone else recently had polls showing that self-identifying Independents is a larger group than Democrats or Repoblicans. Pew has the numbers at 37% Independents, 33% Democrats and 24% Republicans. Not far off the Pollster.com numbers for this. And the number of Independents has been growing recently. MOST polls are self-identified party affiliation, so that was just a silly inclusion. Designed to make it look like you know what you are talking about. Which we can tell at this point, you most certainly do not.
But what I DO get though, is that you are working on the teajadi tactic of working overtime to make the world look like it is utterly on your side. But don’t let me get in the way of your delusions.
So let’s use the oldest data point on the easily seen series presented by Gallup, rather than your self-serving mashup:
My numbers are from your link verbatim. There aren’t enough hours in the day for me to chase down all the other numbers you are bringing in.
You are the one who averaged out trend data over disparate time periods. And other people have been tracking all of that data over time, which is how you can see the — you know — trend. And I think that if you’ve been looking at the Gallup data, you’ll know that this:
Polls never ask if you disapprove from the right or the left.
is wrong. At least for Gallup.
Geezer
Obama’s SAT scores are also secret. (acording to wiki)
Bush scored a 1206 (funny his grades, scores etc are not hidden from the voters)
I know, I know, Obama is super smart because his campaign team (echoed by the media) told us so.
circling back to the begining, he asked “You think we’re stupid?’”
and I aswered YES! (and evil and corrupt).
wow, someone has been following the Donald 24/7
The new wingnut obsession is now Obama’s grades for some reason. Another useless waste of time. I hope it keeps them well-distracted.
CONFIRMED: CBSNEWS Editors Refuse To Release Full Audio Of Obama Hot Mic Recording…
Breitbart 04/20/11 Andrew Marcus
Last weekend, His Presidency Barack Obama was captured making potentially offensive comments to a group of big money donors who had paid large sums of money for special access to His Presidency. We observed that CBS only released “selectively edited” moments from the raw tape. We know how much the mainstream media values complete and full disclosure of recordings of this nature, so we found it curious, to say the least, that there was not one drop of intellectual curiosity from these guardians of media purity regarding the content of the full recording. Maybe CBS’s motive has nothing to do…