BTW: YouGov poll of Americans:
“Which world leader was most effective during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis?”
Putin: 49%
Obama: 25%
“Which world leader was the least effective during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis?”
Obama: 44%
(all others score less than 17%)
“Do you approve or disapprove of the way President Obama is handling the situation in Syria?”
Approve: 30%
Disapprove: 54%
Yep. “Masterful” Obama.
Am I the only one here who never heard of them before?
YouGov? You are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/07/which-pollsters-to-trust-in-one-chart/
One thing we’ve learned this election is that averaging polling data gets you pretty close to an accurate prediction. But particular polls are often badly off. According to Fordham’s Costas Panagopoulos, some of the least accurate polls came from surprising sources. Gallup, Rasmussen and NPR were among the worst, whereas YouGov, PPP and Ipsos/Reuters all nailed it:
well you’re the one making jokes about what happened in Benghazi like that somehow makes it all OK.
No, I’m just quaking in fear about those bombshell revelations that Darryl Asssore is going to release real soon. Pretty soon. In a while.
The usual anti-war lefties climbed into bed with Obama hating Tea Bag Hatted morons to take their anger out on Obama. It takes about 90 days for Lefty Obama rage to pass.
When the reality that this has produced dismantling of Assad’s arsenal and CW are not used again, the lefty s will be to normal. The MuggWumps too will abandon the tea party hags and grumpy old white men and finally figure out what many of us know.
Obama has achieved a masterful use of power to get what he wanted.
Yes, whenever I want keen political analysis, I look for a poll of the dumbass American people, who are still struggling with the idea of someone born in Hawaii being a citizen, let alone finding Syria on a map.
I am so glad we have someone in the White House who is willing to take a win for the US without worrying about who gets the credit. Bush would have attacked Syria, because “it would have shown weakness” to not attack, the same rationale that “serious thinkers” gave for invading Iraq: once the troops are staged on the border, you just have to attack. Never mind that the UN inspectors are reporting zero WMDs and proactive cooperation.
Ironic, and sad, that we have huge breakthroughs with Syria and Iran, while the Republican leadership is being more stupid and stubborn than ever.
Putin didn’t have to raise a finger. Played Obama like a fiddle.
My god, you’re right. Quick, let’s invade somebody.
France. We still have the maps, and roads haven’t been improved since the last time we used them.
Exactly! If this is fiddle music, I’m all for more of it! Does it matter whether a Russian manages to get something right once in a while? (Putin’s domestic human rights violations are nothing to be proud of…) If it saves lives, preserves peace, and maybe even gets rid of Syria’s chemical weapons, I don’t give a damn if Michele Bachmann was responsible: it’s a triumph of diplomacy over missiles.
(And strengthens and further legitimizes the U.N., too. Yay!)
Oh? And will you still be saying that when the black helicopters come for your guns and your women? Or you, if you are one?
What did Putin gain? Global recognition that he controls a mass murderer and he waited two years to finally bring his subject to do something good only after Obama and pretty much Obama alone threatened and still threatened to strike Putin’s evil
doer with punitive air strikes.
But tell me what Obama lost or gave up or conceded on the world stage?
Was it Putin or Obama that admits the ties he has to Assad murderous regime?
“Which world leader was most effective during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis?”
Think people think.
Putin controls the mass murderer - not Obama?
“Which world leader was most effective during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis?”
Was Putin or Obama the most effective leader at projecting their nation on the side of moral goodness and the betterment of mankind and bringing the community of civilized nations together to begin a much needed resolution to the Syrian chemical weapons crisis?
Knowing that Putin was firmly against the resolution for years but reversed his position, how would you honestly respond to that?
And if your answer is Putin, take a shot at explaining that.
You know nothing. Gotcha. And Obama already started the investigation and warrants have been signed. The hunt is on. If the authorities can’t serve them in person perhaps a drone strike will?
So you had nothing to do with this investigation?
Gotcha!
Strongly worded letter to follow, I’m sure.
Delivered by Seal Team Six.
You don’t really think Obama had anything to do with wasting ObL, do you? Everybody knows it was Chuck Norris.
How does Putin play Obama like a fiddle when it was Obama that had the power and used it to get what he wanted?
If Putin was playing a fiddle, it was Obama playing about two hundred Tomahawks.
Despite what Magiver says, I’ll take the guy with the Tomahawk over the guy playing a fiddle.
Masterful achievement for Obama/Kerry/US Military might. For Innocent civilians the fear of being gassed to death by their government in Syria is now extremely greatly reduced.
Things are moving about 100 times faster than Terr’s terr-ibble predictions I see.