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To: Land Shark who wrote (995963)	1/23/2017 10:51:46 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 1573889

Aww...poor fishy....embarrassed at being proved a grubered moron yet again...you should be used to that by now....lol!!

To: Land Shark who wrote (995963)	1/24/2017 5:22:27 AM
From: SeachRE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573889

>>STFU ignorant troll<< LOL -- I've seen johnallen go crying to SI Administration for much less. He's such a LOSER...

To: Land Shark who wrote (995963)	1/24/2017 6:45:51 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB GROUND ZERO™ majaman1978 Respond to of 1573889

SORRY LIBERALS: OBAMA WAS ONE OF THE LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENTS EVERJANUARY 23, 2017\| BY BRIAN ANDERSON Obama’s presidency was one of ineptitude and failure. He accomplished nothing good and completely decimated the Democratic Party, which from my perspective is actually pretty awesome. Liberals have been trying to console themselves by saying he left office with a half-way decent approval rating, but the fact is he ranks as one of the least popular presidents in the modern era. This is no shock to the millions of Americans who have voted against him and his whacko agenda, but sore-loser lefties just got another reason to be bitter. Gallup compiled a list of the approval ratings of all the presidents since WWII. This rating is an average of a president’s popularity throughout the course of his term and not a reflection of a temporary high or low. Kennedy – Jan. 20, 1961-Nov. 22, 1963 – 70.1 Eisenhower – Jan. 20, 1953-Jan. 19, 1961 – 65.0 G.H.W. Bush – Jan. 20, 1989-Jan. 19, 1993 – 60.9 Clinton – Jan. 20, 1993-Jan. 19, 2001 – 55.1 Johnson – Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 19, 1969 – 55.1 Reagan – Jan. 20, 1981-Jan. 19, 1989 – 52.8 G.W. Bush – Jan. 20, 2001-Jan. 19, 2009 – 49.4 Nixon – Jan. 20, 1969-Aug. 9, 1974 – 49.0 Obama – Jan. 20, 2009-Jan. 19, 2017 – 47.9 Ford – Aug. 9, 1974-Jan. 19, 1977 – 47.2 Carter – Jan. 20, 1977-Jan. 19, 1981 – 45.5 Truman – April 12, 1945-Jan 19, 1953 – 45.4 As you can see, Obama served with more than half of the country thinking, quite rightly, that he sucked. He finishes lower than Richard Nixon who resigned in disgrace and Bill Clinton who was impeached for lying about his sexual exploits. Most telling is the fact that he fares worse than George W. Bush, who Obama spent his entire presidency blaming for all of our problems. Lucky for Obama he can continue to blame his predecessor for his historically low approval rating. Gallup notes: And while he never achieved extremely high ratings, neither did he achieve extreme lows. At various points in his presidency his approval ratings dipped to 38%. This included in August and October 2011 after contentious negotiations over the debt ceiling limit and subsequent downgrading of the U.S. credit rating. Obama also failed to generate sufficient support for legislation designed to address the still-weak employment situation. Obama’s approval ratings also fell to 38% in September 2014, shortly after the Islamic State terrorist group released videos showing the beheadings of U.S. journalists captured overseas. Those incidents came on the heels of a summer of increased international tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and between Israel and the Palestinians. Domestically, the deaths of young black men Eric Garner and Michael Brown in confrontations with white police officers led to increased racial tensions. The short version of that is Obama sucked at both foreign and domestic policy and the American people recognized that. Another way to say this is that Obama was a weak leader and a terrible president. Hey, it’s not all bad. Obama beat Jimmy Carter in the approval ratings race. Sure, that’s like a NFL team bragging about beating the Detroit Lions, but a win is a win. In his final days Obama tried desperately to salvage some kind of a non-embarrassing legacy from a shitty 8 years. He commuted the sentences of traitors and drug dealers, he gave billions of dollars to our enemies, and he tried to delegitimize the presidency of his successor Donald Trump. It was all in vein however, because Obama’s legacy was already set in stone: he was just terrible.