# Obama Feints To the Left **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 20, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330 "2015-01-20T00:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/221 "2015-01-22T05:20:58Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The Department of Education was created under Carter, when K-12 was already free in all 50 states. It was created, along with the Department of Energy, solely as a political gimmick to demonstrate that the federal government was “doing something” about two areas that were considered to be in crisis at the time. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > How do you know that? > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Dp you have a cite for the part I helpfully bolded? > [@adaher](#): > > Do you have a cite that there were legitimate policy reasons to upgrade the Dept. of education from office status to cabinet status? > > Everything is political in DC. You know that. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I made no such claim. Do you have a cite to back up your assertion? > > Telling someone “you know that” is rude, IMO. It’s an attempt to force agreement from someone with whom you are currently not in agreement, and as a debate tactic is nothing but deceitful passive-aggressive bullying, IMO. It seems clear to me by now that you are not going to provide a cite for your assertion, so I can safely label yet another thing you said as “wrong”. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/222 "2015-01-22T17:13:06Z")
edit: Too many tabs open! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/223 "2015-01-22T18:16:44Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > edit: Too many tabs open! Four windows open Three for Straight Dope, one for porn Multitasking rules! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/224 "2015-01-22T19:59:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Obama Feints To the Left … He jinks to the Right, and goes up strong in the Center. At the buzzer, he shoots…HE SCORES!! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/225 "2015-01-22T20:09:46Z")
[From Salon:](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/22/fox_news_is_self_destructing_islamophobia_obamas_reagan_moment_and_roger_ailes_new_humiliation_partner/) > [@](#): > > Fox News has been relentlessly pounding Obama every day and every hour since the midterm defeats, and has been piling on all this year. Yet Obama’s approval rating just soared nine points in one month? > > And talk about insult to injury for Fox. “Obama’s approval ratings at this point in his presidency are similar to those of Ronald Reagan’s as he began his final two years in office,” according to the Post. > > Obama and the Gipper in the same sentence! > > Like the Grinch cupping his hand to his ear to listen in on Whoville on Christmas morning, only to be flummoxed that the Whos are still celebrating without any gifts, Fox News talkers must be looking at these surging polling numbers and thinking, how did Obama do that? > > Simple answer: It’s the economy, stupid. “More Americans are satisfied with the economy than at any point in the past 10 years,” according to NBC. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/226 "2015-01-25T03:14:23Z")
The Obama bounce continues: up to 46% now in the RCP average. Dopers, where do you think he will peak? I’m calling 48, and he’ll stay there until the next government screwup, which will put him back at 42. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/227 "2015-01-25T04:02:43Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The Obama bounce continues: up to 46% now in the RCP average. > > Dopers, where do you think he will peak? I’m calling 48, and he’ll stay there until the next government screwup, which will put him back at 42. 51% as soon as he fires up his veto pen, and he won’t drop below 50% for the rest of his term. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330/228 "2015-01-25T15:33:23Z")
He leaves office in triumph, at 60%. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-feints-to-the-left/710330.md?page=11)