President Obama: Copenhagen Bound

The president pushes for cap and trade, and tells us to turn our heat down and drive less... "The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril."... Along with the multi-millon dollar cost of the one day jaunt, let's not forget the greenhouse gases emitted by his trip, as well as the same trip his wife took a day or two before on her private jet. Has he not heard of 'go to meeting'?

Who does this clown think he is? He has a job to do. He wasn't elected to promote that crime ridden city. When is he going to stop campaigning?

Numeros does not understand the difference between "adults," "registered voters" and "likely voters." Rasmussen does (as he explains), which is why he has nailed the last two presidential elections spot-on.
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It looks like someone doesn’t understand RCP’s abbreviations in the “sample” column. Let me help you out:
LV = Likely Voters
RV = Registered Voters
A = Adults

So where Democracy Corps’ generic ballot shows Democrats leading 46% to 42%, that cute little “LV” in the sample column means they surveyed likely voters, just like Rasmussen!

And in the last presidential election, Rasmussen (choice pollster of conservatives) didn't quite get it “spot-on.” Obama won with 52.93% of the popular vote to McCain’s 45.65%.

Rasmussen (and Pew Research) had it 52% to 46%
BUT
McClatchy/Ipsos and CNN/Opinion Research both had it 53% to 46%.

53% was only 0.07 more than the actual outcome, while Rasmussen’s 52% was nearly a full point off with a 0.93 difference.

It is my understanding that Oprah is going also. He owes her big time! If it was any other city he would not be going! I find him to be very good at getting out of doing what he is supposed to. Maybe he should take a job promoting Chicago and Oprah and leave the rest of the country alone! And who is paying for all of this? Is this his idea of cutting wasteful spending???

The president needs time to review
General McChrystals request for more
troops in Afganistan but has the time
to campaign in Copenhagen to bring
the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago?
Are your priorities a little mixed up,
Mr President?
Anyhow you'll have plenty of time to
campaign for the 2016 Olympics after
we the people boot you out of office
in 2012! Count on it!

The contempt with which the president of France regards the president of the United States was displayed in public last week. Nicolas Sarkozy was furious with Barack Obama for his adolescent warbling about a world without nuclear weapons at a meeting Mr. Obama chaired of the United Nations Security Council last Thursday. ‘President Obama dreams of a world without weapons...but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite," Mr. Sarkozy said.

Numeros does not understand the difference between "adults," "registered voters" and "likely voters." Rasmussen does (as he explains), which is why he has nailed the last two presidential elections spot-on.

Meantime, left-wing columnist Richard Cohen has figured out Obama: "The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" -- and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health-care plan -- and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees -- and then again maybe he would."

Obama shows all Americans and the world where he puts his priorities, not with the unemployed, economy sinking, soldiers fighting the war on terror! Obama thinks it is more important to fly off to Copenhagan! Another example of the unexperienced one in the white house. The Olympics does not mean anything to the people of Chicago and they have expressed it 1000 times that we don't want the olympics in 2016 in Chicago. But, Oprah and Obama think this is so important. Your Priorities are backwards Obama.Grow up and do your job! Run this country.

9/28/09
"Rasmussen’s poll shows Republicans leading Democrats on the pollster’s “generic ballot” which asks respondents simply whether they would prefer a Republican or a Democratic congressman. Forty-two percent of American voters said they would want a Republican while 38 percent said they would want a Democrat."
Posted by: tjp612 | Sep 28, 2009 2:07:41 PM
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The date above is incorrect. That Rasmussen (choice pollster of conservatives) poll was released on 9/22/09.

There are also recent generic ballot polls from Democracy Corps and Bloomberg showing Democrats leading 46% - 42%, and 40% - 32%, respectively. The RCP generic ballot average is 41.3% Democrat and 38.7% Republican.

President Obama has taken great pains to avoid unnecessary casualties amongst Afghan and Pakistani civilians. He was absolutely right to call President Bush out on his military policy of exclusively and solely air raiding villages and killing civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Last week, he wasn't going because he had too many important things to worry about such as healthcare, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, the economy, un-employment, just to name a few. This week he is going, so I guess all of those pressing matters have been handled, right? Just wondering.

Temagami...

Why even bother typing all that nonsense in all caps.

All you have to write is one phrase:
"I hate Obama because he does not have an R next to his name." Copy and paste it.

It's a more honest summary of your position. And it saves time reading.

THE WORLD IS BURNING, MEN AND WOMEN ARE DYING IN AFGHANISTAN - OBAMA SPEAKS VIA PHONE "ONCE" IN SEVENTY DAYS WITH OUR COMMANDER IN THE FIELD. AND OBAMA JETS OFF TO EUROPE TO BAT FOR CHICAGO?? TALK ABOUT PRIORITIES, LACK OF. WE DON'T DESERVE THIS. ON THE OTHER HAND, MAYBE WE DO.

WHEN MEDICAL PROGRAMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DISCUSSED AND COMPARED WITH OURS, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO POINT OUT THAT NINETY-FIVE PERCENT OF ALL NEW MEDS ARE CREATED IN THE UNITED STATES, BY OUR "TERRIBLE" CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM. THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED IS CREDITED WITH FIVE PERCENT. ANYONE CARE TO BET ON WHAT THOSE STATS WILL BE UNDER A NATIONAL HEALTH CARE PLAN??

RECENT SURVEYS HAVE SHOWN THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY FACING A SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS!! ALSO, ABOUT FORTY-FIVE PERCENT OF CURRENT PHYSICIANS HAVE STATED THAT IF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS PASSED, THEY WILL EITHER RETIRE OR SCALE BACK THEIR PRACTICES!! PLANS NOT WORKING OUT AS PLANNED, OBAMA??

Let us all Pray he stays there.
In God We Trust.
Obama noway he does nothing but add lie after lie..

"Time Obama spends preparing for and talking to International Olympic Committee bureaucrats and meeting with the Danish royals is time he is not spending cajoling conservative Democrats to make concessions on health care or bending Russia and China’s ears on Iran. If nothing else, throwing his hat into the Olympics ring shows a lack of focus on the part of a president who needs to demonstrate that he is zeroing in like a laser on critical issues in the agenda he ran on, that he is getting behind them, pushing hard. I fail to see how this offers any political opportunities for our president."

"And does the president get a pass from the environmental crowd when he does these sorts of energy-wasting gestures?"

Because they are a bunch of hypocrites. More proof AGW is a scam. Always was and always will be...

So we already have the Olympics sewn up? I doubt the president would risk the bad PR of dashing off for a day in Copenhagen, in a separate plane from Michelle and the rest of the gang, and dashing back home if he really thought that we were not going to get the nod in the end. This way he can look like a hero who seals the deal.
If the Games go to Rio (as they should, in my opinion, since the southern hemisphere has been largely ignored when Olympic hosting is handed out, with the exception of Australia), the president opens himself to criticism and tongue-clucking about losing his international clout. I don't think he risks all that bad press at this critical juncture in his administration if he doesn't have a pretty good idea that the trip will be a success.

And does the president get a pass from the environmental crowd when he does these sorts of energy-wasting gestures? I wish he'd either travel over a little earlier along with Michelle and Valerie et al or not travel there at all. Hey, he's big on technology, how about a video pitch live from the Oval Office instead? Seems to be it should be equally effective.

Did Ronald Reagan make a personal appeal to win the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics? Those Olympics were privately operated and ended with a surplus.

Candidate Obama in 2008 claimed that Bush under-resourced the Afghan War to the point where it caused our troops to commit war crimes:

"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

President Obama, however, just isn't feeling that sense of urgency about Afghanistan:

---The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says he has only spoken to President Obama once since taking command of Afghanistan.

“I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video teleconferece],” General Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a television interview that aired Sunday.

“YOU’VE TALKED TO HIM ONCE IN 70 DAYS?” Mr. Martin followed up.

“That is correct,” the general replied.

This revelation comes amid the explosive publication of an classified report written by the general that said the war in Afghanistan “will likely result in failure” of more troops are not added next year.---