The people taking these polls aren't brainwashed by Fox News.  There's a reason Regan won 49/50 in 84.  I don't hold him as some deity, but the man was popular.  Kennedy is only highly regarded because he was assasinated.  You're right, history is kind to Presidents, but that doesn't mean that people can't read between the haze and evaluate them fairly.

All I'm saying is that Obama was a victim of his own hype, and his most staunch supporters quickly forget that he has two years of a stamp congress that failed to get anything significant done.  His biggest accomplishment, Obamacare, was passed in a sleazy Chicago fashion and nearly every state in the union is rebeling against it.  Nevermind the fact that it will probably be overturned by the Supreme Court. 

So to defend his poor performance, people use fuzzy math to claim progress or outright assume things would be worse without him stagnating growth, or they attribute accomplishments to him that he virtually had nothing to do with.  People who claim he increased troop strength in Afghanistan have no idea how the military's deployment cycle and rampup time work.  There's a reason it took months to get an ill-prepared Army into Iraq.  Deployment plans are made 3 years in advance.  It's not done on the drop of the hat.

I applaud Obama for giving the order to finally get us out of Iraq, the final call was his and he should get credit for that.  but what you probably don't know is that most of those troops yanked out of Iraq are now just going to sit in Kuwait to keep Iran from going crazy.  Kuwait isn't much cheaper than Iraq.  you just save on the transportation from Kuwait City into the multiple locations throughout Iraq.  Supplies and money will still be spent.

What a punk mother fucker.  I mean, christ.  The main act took the stage when the show wasn't supposed to start till 8:30 according to tickets.  There was no real wait that wasn't necessary.  You could see the crew setting up the stage for guns and maybe 15 mins after the last piece was set and the last guitar check done, the lights dimmed and it started.  What more can you ask for?

I agree that Axl's vocals were low, but that is a mixing board issue.  The guy's vocals were top notch.  He wasn't off key and hit everything perfectly.  Axl has always gone off stage during solos, so what is the big deal.

You can dislike that the original band isn't together.  You can dislike that Axl isn't sucking the dick of every so called reporter in the city he's playing in.  But fuck, call good music good music.  Rio was a clusterfuck, but last night was fucking amazing.

I think I understand why anyone with any kind of fame ignores media reviewers, because if they didn't bitch, the hordes of miserable people wouldn't have anything to talk about.  It's like it's their job to create controversy and negativity.

I'm tailgaiting now with a friend. Not sure where the seats are. Gonna cut out after paradise to try and get some in n out burger as they don't have it in el paso.

Treaties really don't benefit the US.  Think about it, we're really holding every nation we enter into a treaty with up.  NAFTA, garbage.  The US gets the shaft on that.  NATO, stupid in today's world.  Europe has no military to do anything, so it's the US on the hook to bail them out in the rare chance anything happened. 

Karzai saying he'd back up Pakistan?  Fuck him.  If Obama had any balls, he'd order us out of Afghanistan within 90 days.  Refuse anyone a visa coming from that area of the world unless given intense scrutiny.  The smalles violation or affiliation with anti-US groups, get's them sent home on the next thing smoking. 

The US should enter into temporary agreements that are beneficial to our nation.  That's it.  Saving starving people in the third world or bringing democracy to those who will install some oligarchy is a waste of tax dollars and American energy. 

In other words, fuck em.