America’s muscles are getting softer, poll finds
I spend a lot of time letting you know about the latest ways that President Obama is messing up things here at home. It’s almost a fulltime job keeping up with all of that, and it seems like nearly every day there’s another example of how he is trashing the Constitution or mismanaging the economy.
But the United States has plenty of issues overseas as well, including the fact that we have lost a lot of respect among the leaders of nations that used to admire us. Between the mixed messages we regularly send to Israel and our inconsistent reactions to humanitarian problems and civil wars in a variety of countries, nobody knows quite what to expect from us anymore.
An equally serious international problem for us is the fact that we seem weaker than we used to be. A powerful U.S. military – and the willingness to use it when appropriate – have served as a warning against countries that might be thinking about invading a neighbor or using a chemical weapon. Even countries that don’t like us understand how important it is for a strong nation like us to play that role.
But when people within the U.S. think we’re getting weaker, certainly those outside the country are thinking the same thing. A recent Fox News poll revealed that 55 percent of U.S. voters believe that the Obama Administration has made America weaker. Voters also disapprove – by a 56 to 34 percentage – of Obama’s foreign policy.
More than two-thirds of those polled believe the Obama Administration is less competent than the Clinton Administration. Only 39 percent approve of his handling of healthcare, while the same percentage approves of his handling of the economy.
Do you believe that America is now stronger, weaker or the same as it was during the George W. Bush Administration? Please chime in on this important subject.
We need to change congress two terms then out.We are partley to blame,we keep voting them back in.Lets put GOD back in our nation.
I am an 80 year old Christian. What our sinking country needs is a Christian/Jewish Revolution. Back when most people believed in God, read the Bible, attended worship services (the 1950s and prior), most of the crazy things we see today did not exist. God told us, through the Bible, how to conduct ourselves–our personal lives, our political lives, our economic lives. I pray that God will raise up some person who could get this Revolution started.
Jack you are absolutely right. I don’t know exactly where in the bible this is but to paraphrase….if our people turn from our sin and pray for forgivenee, God will hear from heaven and heal our land
I 100 percent am with you on this even though I was born in the late 50’s. I also believe that Christians and Jews must stand up for what we believe in especially when it comes to state and local polls. The laws this nation has enacted by state and federal officials are ludicrous! Many people are so disgusted with the government that they have been ignoring what is going on instead of voting for what is right. They just don’t care enough anymore to do the right thing and vote with their heart at the polls. We must put our foot down and vote to get this country back in the proper ” state of grace” for God and country.
We are definitely worse off than we were under the Bush administration. At least he wasn’t a Muslim terrorist in a suit, who is bringing all his ISIS friends here to behead us all. What about all these able bodied young men he calls “refugees” he’s bringing here? I didn’t see a single woman or starving child in any of the photos; people you normally think of as refugees. There are 22 KNOWN ISIS training camps right here in the US! Google “concentration camps in America.” They are calling them “FEMA camps”. Those camps are supposedly to put people in who cannot take care of themselves and rely on the government to support them, or people who have not prepared for any kind of disaster, when looters steal your food and water, and the grocery stores have run out of food. Another thing, why would our country need even one guillotine, let alone the 30,000 Obama has amassed? Are we living in the days of the French Revolution? Wake up, America, and take our country back!
Ginny, there is absolutely no evidence that the government has purchased 30,000 guillotines at all! This misinformation has circulated on many websites and been found to have not one shred of evidence. The only such “guillotines” purchased have been used.to cut paper, what we would call paper cutters.
Defintely the USA is going downhill economically & politically, ever since Obama took office. We are hanging by the thread. What can we do to help our economy to come back??? Definitely we cannot get the Clintons to come back in…that definitely would be a nightmare for the USA as a whole.
We let this happen. It started with FDR and his hair brained schemes like the New Deal. Instead of letting the free market hash it out, government stepped in created fake jobs using our tax dollars . And it has had its nose in our business ever since, getting more intrusive every year. The only way to end this tap dance is to eliminate those who benefit from government programs. Half the country. Good luck with that.
It actually started with Teddy Roosevelt. I saw a show about Teddy FDR and Eleanor. It was made by PBS. It is available on Netflix. We’ve been sliding gor 100 years.
Our Country lost its foundation and direction the day it listened to a frustrated disturbed woman who demanded God had no business in our every day lives. She was an atheist who pushed the right buttons to have “prayers” removed from schools, sporting events, any large gatherings including High School and College graduation ceremonies. She was trying to get God’s name removed from our Govt buildings and money.
This sitting muslim president has managed to produce some coin without “In God We Trust” on it. Many people have returned these coins to the banks in exchange for our God printed coins!
When Americans listen to a bazerk “panties in a wad” anti-God female deny our God and let her run with this instead of stoppng her in her egotisical disturbed tracks, we opened the door to our Nation’s Foundations being attacked and destroyed. That is why we are where America is struggling to stay on her feet today..listening to the wrong destructive people.
Oballbuster, proven to be of muslim faith, HATES CHRISTIANS AND THE COUNTRY WE HAVE BUILT. He will continue to tear us down, brick by brick if necessary and that is what he is doing with the guiding hand of the billionnire George Soros, also antiChristian and a super powerful man determined to have a OWO, One World Order. America is the only country standing in soro’s way. With our Nation losing power and control of the World situation, how easy for soros to step in and change how our world is governed. Oballbuster is nothing more than a means to an end – the end of our Nation as we know it!
PLEASE KNOW THAT WHAT THIS SUBVERSIVE FED GOVT LETS YOU SEE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY DOING TO OUR LIVES!
It is totally up to the American citizens (sans llegals) to take back our Country from the greedy power hungry world controlling zealots that are destroying our lives and the nattion we built! DO NOT LET ANYONE INCLUDING THIS QUASI GOVT TALK DOWN TO YOU ABT THE WRONGS OF THIS NATION. AMERICA WAS A “GREAT” NATION UNTIL AMERICANS GOT LAZY AND STARTED LISTENING TO THE WRONG PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”. IGNORE this bandaid terminology that has only divided our country’s races more — start FIGHTING FOR AMERICA because She needs her real citizens to show they stll believe in her! You do don’t you? I certainly do and will do what ever is necessary to bring her back to power!
INACTION IS NO LONGER A CHOICE PEOPLE! BLOGGING IS ONLY THE BEGINNNG. IT’S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR COMPUTER THAT WILL CHANGE OR HURT OUR NATION. THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
And know “nothing is foever”. What legislation passed by the fraud monkey wll be repealed by the next Conservative President as well as ALL illegal Amnesty actions, obamacare will be removed, and our Christian faith will once again be restored and honored as it was at the formation of our Nation! Nothing is forever! Bho will be running to hide because of all the enemies he made and Life n America will be good again! Never give up on something worth fighting for! AMERICA IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR AT ANY AGE!
We are watching the book of Revelation being fullfilled right now. I read the end of the book…the Christians win!
Agreed. I am so happy,but still would like to live in a beautiful America that I can be proud of until the end. May His will be done.
Our country is in the final stage of collapse.
Do not look to government to help you and your family as it and the presstitute media is the cause of the collapse. You will need to prepare for very hard times ahead. Politicians are like dirty diapers – they to be changed out for the same reasons.
Do I think America is weaker or stronger? For all intents and purposes, the US doesn’t exist anymore. Obama has seen to that.
Well, your first mistake is not just watching “Fox News” but believing the anti-Obama campaign by the real pertertrators, the congress people who vowed in the beginning, to obstruct every move the President would make and the really dumb decisions our supreme justices have made regarding campaign donations. I do agree that the US doesn’t really exist anymore but for a hand full of people like the Koch brothers. But, the “middle class CAN take badk this country by serving it in ways other than militarily. I think we all agree this govt. no longer represnts us so, we’re back to “square one” like we were before pulling away from England. AND what did we do then? We fired our govt. not only because of “taxation without representation” but that fact made that govt. a “hostile” one. So, if you want to do something besides believing everything you see on Fox news, quit paying your taxes. We need a ‘grass roots’ movement to come together. Just doing that may keep us out of a bloody revolution. But, make no mistake, not paying taxes and ‘removing this hostile govt.’ is our Constitutional obligation. Oh, and stop following those 24 hour news shows and start getting your news from “The Daily Show with Joh Stewart”. (-: Another thing, use blogs for coming together against this hostile govt. and not just to complain and whine. Bogs are best used to make solutions. Do you believe we’ve come up with “think tanks” just to whine and complain?
And what exactly have you done Jeff, to fulfill your constitutional obligation?
Cynthia, I really like your comment on political correctness, you’re right on the money. The rest is good too.
How can you not pay your taxes when it is taken out of your paycheck before you even see it? Also I think Fox News is more truthful than any other network news.
@Angie, you needn’t respond to any goofball (like Jeff) who believes that Obama is great and that his failure is caused by so=called “obstructionists” (which he thinks are the Republicans).
He has it wrong about that as well as the tax thing. The evil powers-that-be could care less about the peoples income taxes (other than as a punitive control measure on us), since our income taxes don’t amount to a hill of refried beans in paying our national debt. They just print whatever money they need to spend for their socialist programs, and put it on our tab (or so they think, since we won’t be paying that tab anyway). But that is just another means of destruction for our once great country anyway, which is what Obama and his whole cadre of comrades are all about … and that includes his RINO comrades, too. So Jeff, like all good commie collectivists, included a few grains of truth … just enough to attempt to blur the issues for those who are not clear on them already.
I hope I’ve cleared it up for you, Angie … Jeff’s one of the enemy, and will he ever find out when the civil war he spoke of breaks loose.
“THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING”……Edmund Burke
Pretty much says it all as far as I am concerned!!!!
Anna Lorance
Celeste, TX
Jan 3, 2015 — On Dec 31, 2014 we heard from BG Clarke; he has reduced Clint’s sentence from 20 years to 19 years. We are asking our supporters to please sign a new petition for the White House. We need 100,000 signatures on the new petition by 1 Feb 15 in order to get a response from the White House. Please follow this link and sign and share the new petition. Anyone ages 13 and older with an email address may sign. Please help spread the word! Thank you for your support! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/grant-presidential-pardon-us-army-lieutenant-clint-lorance-leavenworth-prison/bc3MtBPM
grant a presidential pardon to U.S. Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance in Leavenworth prison
grant a presidential pardon to U.S. Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance in Leavenworth prison
we petition the obama administration to: Leading his second patrol through a minefield in Afghanistan in late July 2012, twenty eight year old Clint Lorance ordered fire upon three men speeding toward his soldiers on a motorcycle…
http://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV
Went the site. The petition is closed. This president would rather pardon terrorists and traitors than a patriot.
I think the domino that tipped them all was 9/11. There is too much evidence that points to a government conspiracy, to enrage the people and coerce us into handing over our freedoms to a government that has been bought and paid for by corporatist America. Since handing the ball to the Obama administration TWICE, they’ve ran with it to the point of no return. Unless we can get people in office who can turn this train wreck around, we are doomed to suffer the “divided we fall” part.
Our country’s decline began with the “rock-n-roll” generation. The young folks began to question their parent’s work ethic and religious and societal norms with their newfound “freedoms”. Parents became their children’s “buddies” and quit parenting. We can see the results with the welfare crowd, sleazy politicians and the drug users. The drug users (legal and illegal) will be the final nail in our downfall.
I think or decline began with Dubya. We have him to thank for the patriot act, homeland security and the tsa
But on that awful foundation, Obama has built what seems to be a constitutional nightmare and the potential for a police state. I am not young, but since the turn of the century, for the first time I am feeling afraid of my own government, more than any of the possible afflictions I may yet face, or crimes I could suffer. How sad is that?? I am appalled by the apathy of the general population, to turn our collective heads away and not see our rights and freedoms just slipping away on a daily basis. Political correctness is institutionalized dishonesty. We are becoming a nation of liars by subscribing to it. I don’t recall the exact quote, or who said it, that there would be t time when speaking the truth would be a revolutionary act. I think we’re there. God help us all
The decline began with Teddy Roosevelt. Watchvthe PBS show I believe it is called The Roosevelts.
This Country is absolutely weaker than when George W. Bush was President. It’s not just Obama; it’s also his entire administration and it doesn’t help when Harry Reid is the key player in the Senate. I feel like our Country is being run by a JV team. They keep blaming the DO NOTHING CONGRESS but after talking to my Congressman I find that there are at least a hundred pieces of legislation that have been tabled by Reid. That man seems senile to me. If you got rid of Pelosi, Reid, Schultz, Boxer to mention a few, things might not be so hostile.
You have that right. Congress, as a whole, is at a standstill because of a few criminals who should be incarcerated. Reid and Pelosi are the most obvious.
Pelosi being responsible for the Usurper, Barry Soetoro being on the ballot. Knowing that he was ineligible she still certified him. What she did is worse than treason, it is a crime against all Americans. Even the stupid ones that voted for this nobody.