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11/26/2013

Poll: 53% of Americans Think Obama Is Not Honest

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:13 am



It’s a majority for the first time:

And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning also indicates that 53% of Americans now believe that Obama is not honest and trustworthy, the first time that a clear majority in CNN polling has felt that way.

But it makes you wonder: who are these people who think he is honest?

I’ll tell you who: the 47%: “There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims.”

I guess they also think Barack Obama is honest.

69 Responses to “Poll: 53% of Americans Think Obama Is Not Honest”

  1. Message to Amerikkka and all that is Good and Just:

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/11/obama-to-close-embassy-at-vatican-says-its-unsafe/

    Eff you, saps.

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  2. Of the 47%, well over half of them lied when they said they thought Obama was honest. Just tkaing a cue from leadership.

    Jim (c3fc83)

  3. Let’s don’t put all the blame on Obama. Wouldn’t it be good if there was a profession or trade of people that asked questions of people in power?

    AZ Bob (ade845)

  4. The good news buried in the thoroughly bad is that by 2016 many among the 47% will know in their bones..

    voting Dhim will not save their azz.

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  5. We are a nation of morons and moochers and it’s only going to get worse.

    CrustyB (5a646c)

  6. lying whore president let your freak flag fly

    don’t be ashamed of who you are

    just put your paws up!

    cause you were born this way baby

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  7. We are a nation of morons and moochers and it’s only going to get worse.

    And not just this nation, but so many nations throughout the world in general. That’s why I’m both cynical and skeptical when contemplating where the US is headed.

    Again, when I observe what’s going to our south, to our neighbor across the border, I shudder because I suspect that what’s true there will increasingly be true here (if it’s not already true in various ways).

    Mark (58ea35)

  8. To believe that Obama is honest, one must be very good at lying to oneself successfully.

    This explains the phenomenon, I believe.

    Beldar (8ff56a)

  9. ooh lookie National Soros Radio found an idiot caltard

    let’s point and laugh!

    Idiot caltard Barbara Neff is celebrating the fact that president food stamp jacked up her insurance premiums by $288 per year.

    Neff’s new policy has a $2,000 deductible and her premium will go up by $24 a month. Under the federal law, she’ll no longer have to pay for preventive care, and she figures that alone will more than make up for the additional premium costs.

    “I’ve been paying for my mammograms out of pocket, and that’s $400 to $450 per year,” Neff says. “That type of care is 100 percent covered under this new policy.”

    no, silly caltard, that is not how much you should be paying for a mammogram in Los Angeles

    http://clearhealthcosts.com/search/?query=77057+Mammogram+screening&state=&rzip-distance=50&rzip=90210&x=43&y=10

    Thanks National Soros Radio and idiot caltard Barbara Neff for broadcasting to all the other idiot caltards that $450 is a reasonable price to pay for a mammogram. This type of market-distorting misinformation will help ALL of us get the preventive care we need for our boobies.

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  10. She’s just lying, happyfeet. Or “SandraFluking” if you want to be more precise. She might not even have Obamacare yet, even. Or even mammos to gram. Going by other Obamacare booster-babes who turned out to be just as honest as the SCOAMF.

    nk (dbc370)

  11. socialists. They always try to hornswoggle you.

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  12. For Mr. Feet, the great nk, and the always funny elissa…and all. Play this at Thanksgiving Dinner for the “in crowd.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kodcKUkd2Rg

    Simon Jester (c8876d)

  13. Let’s get ready to rumble.
    Thank you, Simon.

    mg (31009b)

  14. Thanks, Simon. I linked it on my Facebook. Maybe my daughter will know who Remy is — I had to Google him. 😉

    nk (dbc370)

  15. Raaaaacists!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  16. crumbling so bad you’d think it’s made by nature valley

    i love that cause the sleazy fascist whores at heavily-food-stamp-dependent General Mills what makes the crappy granola bars went ALL IN with the SEIU on the effort to inflict obamacare on an unsuspecting america

    A month later, SEIU unveiled Better
    Healthcare Together (BHCT), yet another
    partnership of liberal activist groups and
    big business. The liberal groups included
    the Center for American Progress, a liberal
    think tank; the Communication Workers
    of America (CWA), a labor union; and the
    League of United Latin American Citizens
    (LULAC). The business members included
    AT&T, General Mills, Intel, Kelly Services,
    Manpower and the Internet service provid-
    ers Embarq and Qwest. Eyebrows shot up
    when Stern announced that Wal-Mart had
    joined BHCT.

    [PDF] https://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1280761786.pdf [PDF]

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  17. No. They know he’s a lying bastard but he’s THEIR lying bastard.

    Like with the ACA, when they find out that he’s not lying for THEIR benefit, they’ll change their tune.

    What’s happening now to the middle class (that voted for Obama) is that they’re getting what they voted for. They just didn’t think THAT’S what they voted for. Now they know.

    When the Blacks and others begin to understand that they too will be getting the shaft by Obama, for whatever reason, they too will start to show their anger. It will take longer with the blacks as they are notorious for not seeing and acting in their own best self interest and they are blind to just about anything except skin color.

    When/if Amnesty passes and Hispanics get jumped to the head of line and start taking what few jobs blacks now have, then, THEN we’ll hear the screams and wails.

    Me, being part of the white privileged patriarchy, say; “more fool you for putting your faith in a lying con man because his skin color was the same as yours”.

    jakee308 (e940d5)

  18. The media bathed in chin stroking, navel gazing self analysis after WMD stockpiles weren’t found in Iraq. Despite the fact that every Western intelligence agency thought the same thing as Bush. They did the same in the midst of the shutdown, questioning why they couldn’t just say it was all the Republicans fault, no matter that it was the other party that refused to negotiate.

    But on Obamacare NOBODY in the MSM is going back to their 2009 and 2010 writings and apologizing to the people they deceived at the time by taking Democratic talking points THAT MADE NO SENSE and repeating them as facts. I take great joy in knowing that they also screwed themselves, as they will pay far more for their own healthcare. Fools, they were too stupid to realize that they were the ultimate rubes as they didn’t realize they were part of the very group they targeted – the general public. While I’m sad for what’s happened, I am thankful that I can still laugh at the media’s clown show Can you just see the face that Brokaw made when he opened up his health insurance cancellation notice? Or Chrissie Matthews? Imagine how much denial you must bath in to do what they have had to do in the aftermath? They are brave soldiers. Brave idiot soldiers but soldiers none the less. Carry on, Gungha Din.

    East Bay Jay (a5dac7)

  19. 47%… hmmm… where have I heard that number before?

    Colonel Haiku (017a27)

  20. Could this be a matter of wordplay in the poll?

    I don’t “think” BHO is dishonest.

    I KNOW he is.

    Ed from SFV (091806)

  21. 47% with a proverbial bullet. Expanding the reach of/dependency on The State is Job One in ObamaWorld.

    Colonel Haiku (017a27)

  22. But he’s “not ideological”…

    Colonel Haiku (017a27)

  23. food stamps tells lies like a liar his pants are on fire cause he is a fascist and we’re gonna hear him whoar I think

    happyfeet (c60db2)

  24. Obama’s approval ratings in opinion polls never did fall below 44-45% even when the conservative sites claimed he was in “freefall.” They won’t go much lower even now.

    DN (80d1fe)

  25. He hasn’t reached the bottom yet… he had better pray that Teh Kardashians, American Idol and DWTS are going to be in re-run or he’ll have many more low/no info supporters awakening.

    Colonel Haiku (d63e9f)

  26. Thanksgiving themed song from Lou and Peter Berryman — Uncle Dave’s Grace — who had the misfortune to have a too-progressive dinner guest.

    htom (412a17)

  27. teh lying President Armslength “Sub” Optimal

    Colonel Haiku (d63e9f)

  28. for feets:

    “He didn’t know the right people.
    That’s all a police record means
    in this rotten crime-ridden country.”
    — Raymond Chandler
    (1888-1959) American writer of detective novels

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  29. DN wrote:

    Obama’s approval ratings in opinion polls never did fall below 44-45% even when the conservative sites claimed he was in “freefall.” They won’t go much lower even now.

    For the same reason that Mitt Romney said that he had 47% locked in; Mr Romney’s problem was that, since 47% weren’t available in the slightest, he had to win 96% or the available 53% of the voters . . . and he won only 88% of them.

    Edwin Edwards once said that the only way he could lose a particular election was if he was caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl; Barack Hussein Obama would still have the support of the 47%ers even if he was caught in bed with a live boy — and there’s a not-so-small segment who would praise him for that — or a dead girl, while smoking crack.

    The realistic Dana (3e4784)

  30. If Barack Hussein Obama had done exactly what Richard Nixon did, he’d still serve out his final term, with no worries at all.

    The sadly realistic Dana (3e4784)

  31. If Iran had seized 44 Americans and held them hostage for over a year, and our economy was as bad as it was in 1980, Barack Hussein Obama would still have won the election.

    The coldly realistic Dana (3e4784)

  32. Raaaaacists!

    Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/26/2013 @ 9:14 am

    Exactly. That’s a big part of it.

    Former Conservative (6e026c)

  33. “Exactly. That’s a big part of it.”

    Former Conservative – Imagine how low that 47% would drop if Obama had not received a five year tongue bath from 98% of the media!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  34. Who are the 47%?
    Ask Mitt Romney.

    AMartel (9f9b49)

  35. Who are the 47%?

    AMartel – No, they are the idiots who in the absence of overwhelming evidence to the contrary continue to believe President Pinocchio is not dishonest.

    I blame eating lead paint chips and smoking crack.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  36. you are a snarky snarker

    I got your number Mr. daley

    happyfeet (c60db2)

  37. 47%-teachers, professors, students, ambulance chasing lawyers, union dolts, global weather liars, Oracle of Omaha zombies and people who are dead or illegal.

    mg (31009b)

  38. Americans aren’t stupid. Some may be, that’s inevitable, but I think many Americans are busy leading their lives and don’t have the time to investigate beyond the headlines. If most Americans are stupid, the polls wouldn’t change because Americans wouldn’t be changing their opinions — but they are. So does that mean they were stupid but now they’re suddenly smart?

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  39. 47% of the American people are stupid.

    Elephant Stone (6a6f37)

  40. Intelligence varies, DRJ, both individually and on a population basis, and is part of the explanation for differing interests.

    Re: people, particularly less-intelligent people, changing their opinions.

    What actually happens is community thought-leaders change their minds and as a critical mass is reached, opinions can change quickly. Most people don’t reach their opinions on most issues through reason and evidence.

    Former Conservative (6e026c)

  41. As for Americans being stupid, that’s an ill-defined term and probably not a good way to look at it.

    50% of people are above average intelligence, and 50% are below average intelligence. There’s no way of getting away from that.

    Former Conservative (6e026c)

  42. I still say if a person believes Obama is honest, they’re probably stupid.
    Sorry.

    Elephant Stone (6a6f37)

  43. Rap makes my ears bleed, Simon, but that was pretty funny!

    elissa (4738eb)

  44. 39. I seem to recall our thumping this very same equine cadaver B4.

    Chalk it up to human self-interest. If not merely filthy lucre, the end of being unnoticed and unreviled if unloved by a peer group or group of influence.

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  45. “I think many Americans are busy leading their lives and don’t have the time to investigate beyond the headlines.”

    DRJ – Agreed. So when the Democrat Media Industrial Complex finally begins revealing that Dishonest Emperor Pinocchio has no clothes and begins to actually criticize him, public opinion starts moving.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  46. Smart folks, they knew “O” was lyin’
    His hard working claims, they weren’t buyin’
    With high hopes, good luck and
    They was in for a f*ckin’
    Mooks n’ media valued his tryin’

    Colonel Haiku (b53983)

  47. We think he’s not honest, the Israeli Government knows he’s not honest!

    askeptic (b8ab92)

  48. Halperin and Heilemann’s “Double Down” is expensive double-ply asswipe… they couldn’t ask questions of Obama in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012 because Mitt Romney won the nomination in May 2012? Just how stupid do they think their readership is?

    That was a rhetorical question…

    Colonel Haiku (b53983)

  49. even the Iranians are calling Ear Leader (or a subordinate to be thrown under the bus later) a lying ba5tard.

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/345265.php

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  50. 50- They’re not wrong, are they?

    askeptic (b8ab92)

  51. Halperin and Heilemann’s “Double Down” is expensive double-ply asswipe… they couldn’t ask questions of Obama in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012 because Mitt Romney won the nomination in May 2012? Just how stupid do they think their readership is?

    I heard an interview with Halperin. His tortured logic(if you can call it that), was amusing. He just couldn’t quite say his ideological leaning doesn’t lend itself to real journalism. What does he care? It’s not like he’ll be held to any journalistic standard, if such a thing exists anymore with regard to objectivity.

    They’ll make another conservative hit piece of a movie, and all will be well in the liberal universe.

    Huitzilincuatec (f7d5ba)

  52. In late 2006, Mark Halperin appeared on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, and literally went bonkers when Hewitt suggested that Halperin is “very liberal.”
    Halperin told Hewitt that there’s no evidence to back up an assertion that he’s “very liberal”, yet at the same time refused to answer any of Hugh’s questions about his positions.

    Anyhow, Halperin came back the next day for round two, and here’s the transcript;
    http://www.hughhewitt.com/mark-halperin-the-encore/

    Elephant Stone (6a6f37)

  53. Of course he’s not “liberal”, he’s a middle-of-the-road Progressive, which puts him about two steps to the Left of Norman Thomas.

    askeptic (b8ab92)

  54. 50. Reminds one of any Paleo leader(cff. Arafat, Abu Mazen, etc.)

    Say one thing to your adversaries, another, diametrically opposed, to the adoring masses.

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  55. Obama’s poll figures for honesty are even worse in Tehran. The Iranians have come out and said that Obama’s “fact sheet” on the Iranian deal is a lie. Funny how those Persians catch on quicker than most Americans.

    Comanche Voter (caea51)

  56. Obama’s poll figures for honesty are even worse in Tehran. The Iranians have come out and said that Obama’s “fact sheet” on the Iranian deal is a lie. Funny how those Persians catch on quicker than most Americans.

    Not really. There are a lot of very bright people in Iran, unfortunately repressed by Khomeini’s insane reinterpretation of Shia Islam. Prior to that, the Shia believed in being more or less secular in how they approached problems, viewing religion as more spiritual than governing every aspect of life.

    Former Conservative (6e026c)

  57. Also Abu Daoud, who revealed Abu Mazen financed Munich.

    narciso (3fec35)

  58. While this is off-topic, there was another possible SWATting today in Colorado:

    http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Reports-of-Shots-Fired-LIkely-a-Hoax-233552011.html

    some1 (834836)

  59. i don’t know the right people either Mr. red

    maybe some of them but not all of them

    ok like maybe two of them

    all I know is when the shtf in failmerica what’s gonna happen is the s is gonna splatter everywhere and somebody’s gonna have a hell of a mess to clean up so it wouldn’t hurt for whoever that person is to stock up on paper towels and fabuloso brand multi-use household cleaner

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  60. I will never forget the savaging of President George W. Bush by the left and the media.

    So when the left tries to pretend to make an excuse of respecting the Presidency, I just have to assume they do not remember what they started. And I no longer care.

    The left got what it wanted and now it has to live with it.

    Harry Reid is creepy, Nancy Pelosi is a harridan and the President is in over his head.

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  61. Intelligence varies, DRJ, both individually and on a population basis, and is part of the explanation for differing interests.

    I think it’s incorrect in general terms to say that people are smart or stupid based upon their ideological biases. The problem with many Americans is they deem a do-gooder — whether he (or she) truly does good for mankind — as deserving a lot of forgiveness and benefit of the doubt. So even if such a person is a big, lying, incompetent weasel, as long as he’s perceived as being compassionate and touchy-feely — again, whether that truly does or doesn’t apply to the person in question — he’ll get kisses and pats on the back from various Americans.

    However, I guess it can also be said that liberalism can make a person so willfully blind — so purposefully foolish — that he or she, in effect, becomes stupid.

    Mark (58ea35)

  62. The liar in chief needs a new prefrontal cortex.
    Pathological liars need to be set aside.
    stat.

    mg (31009b)

  63. Frankly I’m ashamed of the other 47%. Are these the same as Romney’s 47%, perhaps?

    {o.o}

    JDow (d8539e)

  64. I wonder when the apologies are coming, crickets;

    http://therightscoop.com/awesome-megyn-kelly-interviews-expert-on-ipab-aka-death-panels/

    narciso (3fec35)

  65. No Politician is honest.
    Each and everyone should be watched like a criminal.

    Jpmn (54e87e)

  66. 18. Comment by East Bay Jay (a5dac7) — 11/26/2013 @ 9:57 am

    Brokaw made when he opened up his health insurance cancellation notice?

    Tom Brokaw is on Medicare, and besides which works for NBC.

    It’s younger reporters snd columnists who had their insurance cancelled.

    Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be)

  67. 38. Comment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/26/2013 @ 1:13 pm

    If most Americans are stupid, the polls wouldn’t change because Americans wouldn’t be changing their opinions — but they are. So does that mean they were stupid but now they’re suddenly smart?

    The lesson is: Never confuse ignorance with stupidity.

    Sammy Finkelman (6ee5be)

  68. I noticed a bumper sticker on a BMW ahead of me this morning that said “I love (heart) Obamacare”. They are out there, they are.

    felipe (6100bc)

  69. Comment by narciso (3fec35) — 11/27/2013 @ 3:47 am

    Thank you for that link. Of course, some of us listened when we were first told (by Palin, in my case)about the IPAB when PPACA was first passed.

    felipe (6100bc)


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