Wonkette
The First Hundred Days! Oh how we’ve talked about them, and even lived through them, although that’s never as good as talking about them. And now? We must assess. According to cable news and The Politico, which owns cable news, this has been a very tough, very disappointing, very humiliating 100 days for Mr. Socialist Kenyan Barack Obama. It’s amazing he has (barely) escaped impeachment, thus far. Also, teabaggng! America, at the teabag-roots level, has REVOLTED against this false president. And that’s why 72% of Americans heartily approve of this new administration. Wait, HUH?
Beyond specific policy areas, Obama continues to get high personal favorability ratings across a range of attributes. Overall, 72 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the new president, down slightly from the eve of his inaugural but far higher than it was during the 2008 campaign. It is also about double Bush’s favorability rating when he left office in January (37 percent) and above where Bill Clinton’s was at this stage in 1993 (59 percent).
Nearly two-thirds said Obama has accomplished “a great deal” or “a good amount” in his first three months in office. In a Post-ABC poll at the 100-day mark in Clinton’s first term, 37 percent said he had done that much. A majority, 54 percent, also said Obama had exceeded their expectations, significantly more than had said so of Clinton or Bush at the outset of their first terms.
Why the whole “first hundred days” bullshit, anyway? Because, like so much in 20th/21st Century American Politics, FDR had a “first hundred days.” Roosevelt promised a bunch of stuff — and mostly delivered — during his first hundred days in office. From saving the banks to making beer legal again, the Roosevelt Administration’s New Deal had a pretty dramatic take-off.
Of course, the far right spent those 100 days calling FDR a communist. In fact, they did that for Franlkin Roosevelt’s entire momentous presidency of America-changing history, and they sure didn’t stop when he died, during his third fourth term. [SORRY YOUR EDITOR WROTE THIS AT 3 A.M. BECAUSE SARA IS "TRAVELING" THIS MORNING.]
Obama Off to Solid Start, Poll Finds [Washington Post]
1933: President Roosevelt’s First 100 Days Give People Hope [VOA]
I’m a little uncomfortable with the relative proximity of Super Dude’s speedo.
Psst, Ken: Frankie D. died during his fourth term.
Actually he died during his fourth term upon leaning that the Republicans would bravely thwart evil his plot for a fifth Democratic term with the greatest U.S. President ever Thomas Dewey. In the same way, the Republicans with stop Obama.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR MICHAEL STEELE!!!11!
Bo is soooooo cute! I bet he has a 100% approval rating.
Jewdishoowary Square: I think Ken is being maybe “sarcastic” here. Plus, he doesn’t “do research.” Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, did die during his first term.
Cicada: Steele has Him right where he wants him.
If FDR were here, he’d save the bankers then make marijuana legal, use the taxes for stem cell research, try the serum, then get up and walk.
THAT was a leader!
Well, Hitler was popular, too.
All part, no doubt, of B. Hussein’s plan to lull us into a false sense of security before socializing US Merika.
FDR died during his FOURTH term.
The first 100 days is an arbitrary measure. We won’t know how safe Obambi has left the country done until 9/12/2010
Just imagine what America will be like at the end of Obama’s 4th term!
FDR died during his eighth term when LBJ shot him in the back of the head. I looked it up.
Obama EPIC FAIL
Reagan was popular too. But that was only ’cause he used to be a Democrat before he turned whore.
President Obama thwarted the Great Teabagger Uprising of 2009 during his first hundred days. Washington DC’s harbor came this close to turning dark brown with tea. Our president cleverly made sure that Washington DC continued to not have a harbor, thus averting a teabagging protest that would surely have brought down the government and sent all of North America into a gun-driven chaos.
Now we have squelched Oklahoma, arrested the miscreants and begun the process of melting down guns into ameros at the Secret Mint at 1 Dag Hammerskjold Plaza. Novus ordo seclorum!
I’m gonna go out on a limb here & say Ken knows FDR died during his 4th term & is fucking with us. Also, why is Ken up at what must be midnight or something west coast time? First 100 days got you that excited, Sir Overlord? Or perhaps the conundrum known as True/Slant is weighing heavily on your bearded soul?
If teabaggers had any influence in mainstream America Ron Paul would be President and I would have bought my morning coffee for 100 Ameros.
In almost all superhero movies I’ve seen, the hero is very popular at first. Then something happens that turns the mob against him. And it’s not ’till the end that he saves the planet and the people come to love him again. So I fully expect that Americans will come to hate Obama when Dick Cheney makes it look like he was playing basketball with teen-aged gang members and willfully ignored the cries of a little girl who drowned at Miller’s Pond while her wheelchair-bound grandmother looked on helplessly (cries he couldn’t possibly have missed with his super-hearing… if not for Cheney’s dastardly use of an oppostve wave form generating machine to cancel out her cries before they reached the ears of our superhero-president).
It seems the only ones who really got Teabagged by the Tea Parties were the Teabaggers themselves.
Considering the size of the GOP closet, I’m guessing more than few of them enjoyed it anyway.
I love these polls but I’m constantly baffled, I know every single one of the 29%ers….
Bush Jr. had an 11 million % ratings on 9/12/01.
USA USA
rocktonsammy: Obviously, Obama needs a bullhorn to seal the deal. Also.
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Ken, are you saying the Politico is wrong? Politico?! They own the fucking news. They own the morning, noon, tea fucking time, early old folks dinner and late urban hip folks dinner times. They own it!
Serolf Divad: So Cheney is Ozymandias?
rocktonsammy: I thought that was Rudy?
The Cold Sea: Isn’t it like owning a dead, maggot eaten rat?
Zadig: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Yeah, that’s Cheney alright.
loquaciousmusic: Hitler could easily have had four terms.
MarieDeGournay: That would be correct.
Not especially suprising considering that the Republic Teabagger Party of No Party is about as popular as a rat poison omlete these days.
I approve of approving of the President. Although I’m still disappointed that he can’t actually fly.
it probably helps that a good portion of the country would like to get in his pants; the small percentage of republicans that like him, are probably hoping he’s got a wide stance.
Texan Bulldoggette: Doh! Tried to comment on my iPhone & had difficulties (obviously). Sorry about that.
I was just going to say that if they would quit polling Okies, Barry’s poll #s would be in the low 90s.
This is terrible news for President Obama — he’ll have much farther to fall than if he’d just had a Bush-like approval rating.
loquaciousmusic: your ideas are intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
freakishlystrong: you need to live closer to a coast.
ForTheTurnstiles: The difference is, in Cheney’s case, the “colossal wreck” is his work.
Jewdishoowary Square: OH YEAH THAT’S WHAT I MEANTS
America is revolting. I’m revolting too.
hobospacejunkie: His non-physical soul is bearded? Holy shit, you have destroyed my perception of metaphyiscs. (Shoots self.)
One could say “NO THANKS TO ACORN!”
But seriously, Obama can thank the GOP. They are the gift that keeps on giving (except if we DIE!):
The GOP is the party of fail
Mild Midwesterner: Bullshit. He’s PORTUGUESE! He’s not even American. Where is the birth certificate !!!1!!!!11
Larry McAwful: John Brown’s body lies a-steepin’ in the tea.
loquaciousmusic: WIN
yes we can yes we can yes we can yes we can yes we can bush is bad yes we can republicans bad yes we can america is mean yes we can yes we can obama is smart yes we can american history is bad yes we can wall street is bad yes we can yes we can white people bad yes we can yes we can carbon dioxide bad yes we can global warming is real yes we can healthcare for everyone yes we can trust your government yes we can trust your government yes we can private industry is greedy yes we can yes we can destroy the opposition yes we can destroy the opposition yes we can obama is smart yes we can trust obama yes we can drive a smart car yes we can trust obama yes we can trust nbc yes we can we’re all the same yes we can we’re all the same yes we can everyone should be equal yes we can trust obama yes we can he is smart yes we can yes we can yes we can yes we can.
Inadequate Blackmail: Nonsense. FDR died of anal poisoning which he got because he was a raging Commie homo. I read it Conservapedia, so it must be true.
rocktonsammy: W’s greatest accomplishment was to go from a 95%+ approval rating and the sympathy of the whole world to a popularity level somewhere between genital warts and the brown recluse spider in about two years. That takes real talent.
This is great news for John McCain!
Jewdishoowary Square: Your UID is hilarious. I’m on an extended stay in DC for work-related reasons, and just noticed the variant pronunciation on the Metro the other day. All the holdovers from slavery are so quaint!!
y’all gonna wish you were teabagging in a few years when you finally realize your now getting the rusty trombone.
TimesUp: Reagan wasn’t all that goddamn popular. That’s mostly a Grover Norquist-spread myth, abetted by the Washington press corps (with whom he WAS idiotically popular). Reagan’s approval ratings averaged about 57 percent. The peak of his popularity was 1 percent higher than Obama’s is now, right after he got shot.
go away: LOL Wat
Okay, wonkette.
Here comes your teabag.
Say Ahhhhhhh.