The American Spectator

Ken (OLD Texican)| 10.12.09 @ 3:33PM

Polls you guys keep throwing out are meaningless.

The real question becomes seeminglycloser and closer to... "How many bullets do you own?"

Would you guys try to catch up with reality there at amspec? C'mon people! Do you think these scumbags care about polls... "WE don't need any STEENKING POLLS!"

Philip| 10.12.09 @ 3:35PM

Rasmussen shows the opposite result.

http://www.rasmussenreports.co....._last_year

Jon | 10.12.09 @ 4:32PM

Gallup tracker is of adults, not registered or likely voters. Rassmusen tracker surveys likelies and has Obama at 49. Rasmussen was also a lot more accurate than Gallup in the last election.

Liberal Reader| 10.12.09 @ 6:20PM

I'm shocked to see this "bounce" reported here at American Spectator: it seems like you guys usually concentrate on negative news.

But then again I suppose you VIEW it as negative that some people appreciate -- even if they're somewhat puzzled by -- the award.

Count me among this group.

I'm definitely NOT with Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the Taliban on this one.

Liberal Chowderhead| 10.12.09 @ 6:37PM

The Gallup poll of "adults" includes the most most ignorant segments of the population, so naturally they would be impressed by Obama winning a "prize," even if it's effectively a prize for undermining the United States, awarded by a bunch of feckless Euro-socialists. Fortunately, prizes can't stand in the way of facts for too long.

Interested Conservative| 10.12.09 @ 6:53PM

Just imagine what his approval ratings will be when he's appointed to the Supreme Court!

bluecollarbytes| 10.12.09 @ 7:56PM

Obama won the Prize. That's all that's gotten through the noggins of some. It's those noggins that could result in Obama's second term.

Liberal Reader| 10.12.09 @ 8:48PM

Rush Limbaugh, the Taliban, and Al Quaeda are WRONG when they argue that Obama shouldn't have received this prize.

Obama has returned the U.S.A. -- the most powerful nation on earth -- to multilateral institutions in both the economic and geo-political spheres.

Thus, our prestige -- that is, the generosity with which people are willing to interpret our actions -- has greatly improved, increasing our bargaining power and our "soft" power generally.

In the end, ALL power is soft power: you really have power when all you have to do is ask.

If you have to bomb someone to get them to do what you want to do, you are constrained by them.

johan berger| 10.13.09 @ 8:34AM

American prestige has dwindled since Obama began his Tour of Apologetia when he retained the impression that his was not to represent the US, but merely to whip it and kick it!
All Obama has gotten back for his Kick Me/Us attitude is more clenched fists - from Cuba, Russia(no quid pro quo re missile launchers), The West Bank, N-Korea AND Iran.. Obama does not know how to mix military might with aid or developing the Third World because he does not GOVERN!

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Campy| 10.13.09 @ 7:53AM

This one's for you, LR.

http://www.americanthinker.com.....peace.html

Becky| 10.13.09 @ 10:09AM

All power is soft? How does that work, and if so, why are liberals afraid of law abiding peaceful citizens owning guns, and why do lefty protests suggest much more of a physical threat than the recent tea party protests? There wasn't any brick throwing, tear gas etc. for a larger group of tea party goers than for the recent G-20 event.

That is why health care and cap and trade will pass, tea party goers are really not suggesting anything other than bending over and taking it up the tailpipe until next year, and then maybe, just maybe they will still be mad enough to vote the bums out. Pelosi tried the scary right wing thing, and it didn't even go over very big in the MSM.

No, tea party people are peaceful, trying to use soft power. While I admire them and support them, they are outsiders without the threat of force.

If only handing out a prize were the simple way to induce world peace. If everybody cannot get a prize, like all good outcome based ideas, how will this peace thing work? Miss America has always found the world peace thing difficult, we'll have to see if Mr. America can get it done.