Facebook Jerks

[abelenkpe]

On fb someone gloating over the presidents low approval rating posted this:

Barack Obama's Most Recent Weekly Approval Rating Average 42%
(Jul 25-31, 2011)
Average for U.S. Presidents Since Franklin D. Roosevelt: 54%

Average for Elected Presidents' 11th Quarter: 54%

Other Elected Presidents in August of Third Year:

George W. Bush 60%
(August 2003)

Bill Clinton 46%
(August 1995)

George H.W. Bush 71%
(August 1991)

Ronald Reagan 43%
(August 1983)

Jimmy Carter 32%
(August 1979)

Richard Nixon 49%
(August 1971)

John Kennedy 62%
(August 1963)

Dwight Eisenhower 74%
(August 1955)

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So I'm thinking really?

Dwight Eisenhower 74% approval rating. The president with the top marginal tax rate of 92 percent.

Dwight Eisenhower 74% approval rating. When Union membership was at it highest.

"Dwight Eisenhower was the principal force behind the greatest single expansion of Social Security beneficiaries in the history of the program." http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/social-security.htm

Dwight D. Eisenhower who said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
–Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.

Dwight D. Eisenhower who said: "We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

That guy had the highest approval rating in August of his third year? G, I wonder why? One things for sure. Dwight D. Eisenhower wouldn't be a member of the tea party if he were our president today. Sincerely doubt he'd even be allowed to call himself a republican.

It's our presidents birthday and it sickens me that there are people gloating over his approval ratings, bent on destroying his presidency.

Anyway....sorry for the rant.
Have a good evening everyone!

[proud patriot]

1. I love playing with Conservatives on Facebook

it's like a cat and mouse .. I just toy with the little dears and then get called names my favorite is when I was
called a "bimbo" ROFLMAO I know to the observers I've won as soon as the name calling starts.

[virgogal]

2. I grew up in a working class Irish Catholic Boston neighborhood.

Everyone was a Democrat.

Most voted for Ike.

He is the first president I ever voted for,and the only Republican.

[rurallib]

3. Also about the time Ike started building the interstate system

the biggest single government project ever.

[Proud Public Servant]

4. You might also want to point out to this yokel

That that puts Obama closest to Clinton and Reagan, who were not only re-elected quite handily but finished their second terms as the first and second most popular presidents on the post-war period. Just sayin'.

[Control-Z]

5. I hope you posted this information

for them to see.