Obama's post-speech 'bounce:' Up again

President Obama, You be da Man, you be da Man!

This is like keeping the addict high on drugs, but when he finally comes off those drugs - there is going to be a huge crash. The kool-aid drinkers will wake-up when the bill comes due. It will be funny when all these starry-eyed college kids that voted for Obama become taxpayers and they have to start paying this bill.

These polls show one thing: Republicans hate Obama and Americans hate Republicans.

I think it's hilarious how the Repugs make a big deal out of it everytime Pres Obama's poll numbers go back and forth between showing him to be super duper, fireworks exploding popular down to just plain unbelievably popular and back again.

The more I see Obama as President, the more he reaffirms my belief that we have a president that is really, truly a president that is a man of care and integrity.

He's more presidential in one breath than Bush was in 8 years. Repugs are in trouble because the contrast is soo stark and they know it.

President Obama is doing an outstanding job. I havn't been this happy with a president since Reagan took office.

I'm sure any Obama speech will "bounce" his poll numbers.

Not because of what he says. But because media outlets such as The Swamp, and fawning journalists such as Mark "49 to 1" Silva, will run Obama's speech and exclude any opposing points of view. As they did with his weekly radio address.

You gotta wonder--if Obama is so persuasive, why then do his media minions censor opposing points of view?

The polls are correct - our President is DOING something - and what is refreshing is that he is doing it not for big business, lobbyists, poll ratings, the rich, the Democrat party, but for all Americans. How refreshing it is to also listen to our President talk to and with us; not at us. Keep it up POTUS, you are doing good!

I think the economy is going to come back fine. It's refreshing to have an intelligent, compassionate and caring President -- Obama is really proving he is the man for the job.

I have total faith in President Barack Obama -- he's is going to be one of the greatest of all times.

The nation realizes he has chosen a direction to go for solving our problems. His detractors simply have nothing to offer, including credibility.

Ha ha ha !!!

Suck on it, Repuglicans!

Less people like you now more than ever!

To the extent Obama's conservative critics still have some nominal contact with political reality, these numbers really ought to scare the bejeezus out of them.

He just passed the biggest fiscal package in US history in his his first three weeks in office, and he was able to recoup all that it cost him in public support simply by giving a speech.

Not only that, but Gallup's post-speech numbers show him with 42% support among REPUBLICAN voters.

Then he announces a date certain for withdrawing most US combat troops from Iraq -- an enormously popular move which should boost his poll numbers even more.

Sure, if the economy doesn't turn around later this year, he's going to start losing support -- and there will come a point where pretty speeches won't get it back.

But for now Obama is a Reagan-style juggernaut. And by the time he is slowed down, he probably will have remade the political landscape in ways that Republicans won't easily be able to change back for a generation or more.

Would be nice if people gave Obama a month or two to fix a problem thirty years in the making.

Frankly, like President Obama, I too do not only do what's popular...you do what is necessary. About "drinking the kool-aid", that remark is laughable! When so many Americans voted for Obama and/or against McCain (whichever, way that make you naysayers feel better), the kool-aid remarks almost sound childish. If people are so vocal on what "will not work" but never offering another idea...then why should we (the ones that want things to be better) use any energy to convince YOU to try Hope instead?

Republicans proved they were unable to lead the country anywhere but into a Depression. You'd think they'd have the sense to stop with the spewing of tired talking points.

Talking directly to the people is valuable because we can judge President Obama's proposals for ourselves rather than having them "translated" by mainstream media. His ability to speak to the nation is refreshing and ordinary citizens know his proposals are the right thing to do. These are trying times and if reform can take place now when it is needed so much there is much hope in our future.

Hello? Anybody home? We have already HAD the crash and ARE paying the bill for Republican policies that have had their run of the country pretty well since Reagan. And let's please remember that the deficit people like Terry are screaming about was run up by Republicans and that every Republican president since Reagan has left a budget deficit behind him. Let's also remember that the BIGGEST expansion of government in decades happened under Republican rule and that the only Democratic president in the last three decades left his Republican successor a budget SURPLUS and this last Republican President blew through that surplus and left a huge deficit and the only ones better off for it were the top 1% of American earners. In fact, Republican policies have left the overwhelming majority of Americans worse off. So please. Enough self-delusion. Enough hypocrisy. A little humility is in order from all of you who voted for Bush. The present crisis is a complete and utter indictment of Republican economic policy, social policy, health care policy, foreign policy - you name it. So please be quiet while the rest of us try to clean up your mess.

Hello? Anybody home? We have already HAD the crash and ARE paying the bill for Republican policies that have had their run of the country pretty well since Reagan. And let's please remember that the deficit people like Terry are screaming about was run up by Republicans and that every Republican president since Reagan has left a budget deficit behind him. Let's also remember that the BIGGEST expansion of government in decades happened under Republican rule and that the only Democratic president in the last three decades left his Republican successor a budget SURPLUS and this last Republican President blew through that surplus and left a huge deficit and the only ones better off for it were the top 1% of American earners. In fact, Republican policies have left the overwhelming majority of Americans worse off. So please. Enough self-delusion. Enough hypocrisy. A little humility is in order from all of you who voted for Bush. The present crisis is a complete and utter indictment of Republican economic policy, social policy, health care policy, foreign policy - you name it. So please be quiet while the rest of us try to clean up your mess.

The more you see, the more you like.

Plus, apparently the policies are liked as well.

The war on the rich is about to begin.

i have to say i am 18 and i have never thought once in my life that this would happen!!

i love this that we have a mixed raicl family in the white house that means my kids can look up with a diffrent look in life!!!!

Repugs shut your pie holes. Obama, you are doing fantastic and we are behind you all the way. Real positive change always meets strong resistance!

Change we can believe in! Yes, we can!

Change we can believe in! Yes, we can!

Terry, great analogy...

In my humble opinion, all Democrats and Progressives should be falling down on their knees and kissing George W Bush's ring...HE made all this Obamamania possible. If it weren't for the failings of the Bush years we wouldn't have this. I don't believe that everything that W did was wrong, but all of what he did was done with such a brusk and arrogant attitude, that if you didn't love him you hated him. I expect that history will be less harsh on George Bush than many of my contemporaries can fathom. However, that said, Bush pushed the pendulum so far to the right, so hard, with such hubris...that this backlash was inevitable...BUT, don't worry, my conservative friends...it will all swing your way one day again...

The test, Newport says, will be how the economy responds.

The economy is getting far worse under Obama than under Bush. Obama is failing the test!!!!

"This is like keeping the addict high on drugs, but when he finally comes off those drugs - there is going to be a huge crash. The kool-aid drinkers will wake-up when the bill comes due. It will be funny when all these starry-eyed college kids that voted for Obama become taxpayers and they have to start paying this bill.

Posted by: Terry | February 28, 2009 12:43 PM"

Terry--I'm in my 20s. I voted for Obama. Why? If I'm going to be paying off the policies of this government in the prime of my life (guess what? we already had a debt, most of it racked up by the "great" fiscal policies of Reagan and the Bushes--we did have a surplus at the end of the Clinton years, after all), I'd rather do it because we helped Americans. Not because we went on some wild-goose chase to avenge GHW Bush or McCain's desire to refight Vietnam while the rich got richer and the poor and middle-class got poorer.

His speech delivered. The repugs are left floundering. What else is new?

Note to Terry, who wrote:
"It will be funny when all these starry-eyed college kids that voted for Obama become taxpayers"

FYI, Most of today's college students are working.... Students with jobs typically work 25 hours a week... In 2000, one in 10 college students attended classes full-time and worked full-time.

http://www.bankrate.com/yho/news/pf/20011022a.asp

Isn't this a great country, where you can be considered patriotic & intelligent to want the new President to fail, the banks to collapse, for 10's of millions of people to be unemployed, to not want to tax the rich so much nor marijuana, but to to give free reign to all the CEO's that steal millions of dolars, to foster & promote Presidential, Senator & Congressional Representative assasination, & essentially to keep in power the very corrupt coyotes & fraudulent foxes who that got us into this greedy mess that has collapsed the whole world so that we, the greatest (capitalistic) country on earth, has to beg the Chinese Communist government for mega-money. Isn't it funny how just one little false belief can have a massive domino effect to overrun one rational thinking process & entice one to self-centered greedy thinking that fears all good & noble men. Go ask Alice, Jesus, so many others.

For 30 years Republicans have been saying "DEFICITS DON'T MATTER".

So never in my life have I seen bigger lying hypocritical sore losers than the current Republicans. Americans have woken up to what the Republican party stands for. And that is liars and hypocrites.

GREAT PRESIDENT SO MUCH ENERGY IN JUST ONE MONTH HE IS ON THE SUPER SUPER EXPRESS AND BEAUTIFUL AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS TRAIN PLS PLS PLS

Holly and Sean,
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I worked my way thru college also - it is nothing new. That has more to say about the price of education, not the economy. The price of higher education has increased alomost twice the rate of inflation over the past generation - partially due to the fact of the gov't subsidizing it thru loans. As long as the colleges know that gov't money is there, prices will be raised.

Once the two of you start your careers and become financially successful members of this society, your tax rates will be much higher than the rate BO is proposing. This country cannot live on $500 Billion deficits per year as he proposed (even with a rosy scenario of no recessions ina ten year period). This does not even count the impending finanical disaster of the baby boomers and their medicare and soc security pymts.
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The facts that Republicans over the past eight years were fiscally responsible is only relavent on where to turn to for fiscally responsible political leadership.
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President Reagan's years were marked by almost doubling of tax revenues. It was the spending side of the equation that got us in trouble. That was the democratic Congress.
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Best of luck in yout futures. Time will make you wiser. It has for all of us.
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Larry,
Deficist that were a few % points of GDP were manageable, but now we are entering the double digit % - these are problematic.

Terry,

As usual, you're full of it. The big spending from the Reagan era was for the Military Industrial Complex, a Reagan priority. In the "guns vs. butter" debate, cons will always chose the former.

Obama is doing wonderfully, but a basic question (as was noted yesterday in the NY Times by Bob Herbert) is job creation.

I sure hope that we think about raising tariffs to ensure jobs in important industries and to stem the loss of our manufacturing base.

Until the 30's, tariffs were the largest singe source of income for this country and it was Reagan who did away with the bulk of them A major mistake, but Reagan made so many of them.

I'm sure for increasing tariffs on imports from other countries so at least we can treat others as they treat us. Right now we are simply competing in a race to the bottom.

Yours,

Akamai

dts,
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And Eastern Europe thanks us for it. This country could have kept up the Carter policy, under which Afghanistan fell to the Soviets, Niguragua fell to the Communist, and Iran fell to Islamic nutcakes.
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That spending of the military complex, which was signed-off on by democratic Congresses, was some of the best spending this country has ever done.

Terry--Nice revisionist history. Tell the Russians they can have back Afghanistan, too.

Akamai,
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Does smoot-hartley ring any bellls?

dt,
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Soviets conquer Afghanistan - 1979.
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Iran falls to Islamic nuts - 1978.
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Ortega and Sandinistas comes to power - 1979.
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Where's the revisionism?
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With Obama in office they might take in back, since they know a weak American president would do nothing.