New Poll Shows American People Support President Obama In Netanyahu Speech Dispute

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Source: politicususa.com

A poll reveals that by a 47%-30% margin respondents overwhelmingly agree that it was inappropriate for John Boehner to invite Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting President Obama.

The Huffington Post/YouGov poll of adults interviewed February 4 – 8, 2015 revealed a consensus that Boehner’s Netanyahu invitation was inappropriate. By a margin of 47%-30%, those polled believed that Boehner’s actions were inappropriate. A majority of both men (45%-37%), women (49%-23%), people age 18-29 (39%-25%), people age 30-44 (51%-19), people age 45-64 (51%-34%), and those over age 65 (45%-44%) all thought that Boehner’s actions were inappropriate. Whites (42%-36%), Blacks (67%-12%), and Hispanics (55%-12%) all agreed that Boehner’s behavior was inappropriate. Democrats (72%-11%) and Independents (41%-31%) believed Boehner’s invitation without consulting Obama to be inappropriate. Only Republicans supported Boehner’s disrespect of the president (50%-29%).

By a margin of 39%-30%, Democrats do not want their member of Congress to go to the speech. Overall, respondents are split over whether or not their member of Congress should attend the speech. 46% want their member to attend, 24% do not, and 30% are not sure.

The data from this poll supports the White House position that they won’t tell members of Congress whether they should or shouldn’t attend the speech. The Republican hope that they could use Netanyahu’s speech to divide Democrats and the country has largely fallen flat. The people surveyed in the YouGov poll had a better understanding of events than Republicans gave them credit for.

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/15/poll-shows-american-people-support-president-obama-netanyahu-speech-dispute.html

[Chakab]

1. That's pretty much the best that anything related to Obama or anything that is identified

identified as being a left-leaning issue (whether it actually is or not) can do in a poll.

There's 30-35% of the population that's never going to be on our side of any issue.

[erlewyne]

9. Who are the "American People"?

[Hekate]

11. Your point is? Also, who do you think?

[MyOwnPeace]

2. For those Dems undecided............

lemme' tell you...........

DO NOT GO!!!!!!!

It's your chance to show some spine!

[bigdarryl]

16. They will go there pussies

[Mr.Bill]

3. Unfortunately the gerrymandering

in many congressional districts means the Republicans can ignore polls like this. Hell, probably 90% of the people who voted for them are not even aware of the details of this issue.

[PatrynXX]

4. Personally and this sounds dire

I think anyone Liberal or Conservative going to this thing as bordering on outright treason. John should be held accountable for the main act

[riversedge]

5. K and R

[richard729]

6. Boehner de facto president

The issue for John Boehner and Mitch McConnell is their hatred of Barack Obama and their relentless efforts to insult and disrespect him at any cost. That is an absolute given.

We all know that the moment Barack Obama took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009 both of the Republican "leaders" vowed that their number one priority was to make him a one-term president.

But, the larger issue is the persuasion and propaganda that Benjamin Netanyahu will bring with him in March when a grand bargain most likely will be made regarding his war plan timetable and the support he is trying to drum up to bomb Iran.

Clearly, Obama isn't jumping through Netanyahu's hoops like the Republican trained pooches who are like putty in his hands.

Rebuked by the political reality that his puppy dog of choice, Mitt Romney, didn't ascend to the White House, Netanyahu is laying the groundwork for war with Iran for the Republican president he hopes will be purchased by the Koch brothers billionaires and other powerful moguls who are frothing at the mouth to inject more money into the military industrial complex.

That should be fairly easy to accomplish judging by the tenterhooks the American public has been sitting on since the 2007-2008 recession. Though there has been a modest recovery most American workers aren't feeling it because most of their job security disappeared almost overnight.

Though the behemoth corporations got bailed out with the TARP money and gigantic corporate mergers who waxed fat (record high stock market) those same forces that created the big winners also created a new poverty class in America as we have come to accept a permanent low wage workforce.

So, it's time to bring back Condoleezza Rice and her mushroom cloud apocalyptic rhetoric that succeeded so well with her former boss's self-glorification when he believed he could burnish his legacy as a "great war president."

Bibi Netanyahu will be appearing before congress sometime in March, hat in hand, imploring the gullible and fawning Republican minions to fork out untold amounts of U.S. taxpayer largesse for his grand ambition to bomb Iran. He and his Republican toadies are oblivious to the hard fact that, unlike Iraq which had zero military capabilities when Bush Jr., bombed, invaded and occupied that country, Iran on the other hand has a formidable military with modern, technologically advanced conventional weapons. Enough weapons and firepower to set the entire Middle East aflame.

But the safety and security of America are not the priorities for either Israel's Prime Minister or the vindictive-minded Republicans who see a flaming path in their quest to bring down the president at all costs. Even at the peril of setting off a nuclear war and slaughtering tens of thousands of people. In case anyone forgot, both Pakistan and India are nuclear powers and it wouldn't take much of an excuse to force them into war with each other.

After all, on May 1, 2003 George W. Bush got his moment of glory when he landed on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln floating 30 miles off the coast of San Diego, California and declared that major hostilities had ended while a banner strung out over the flight deck pronounced, Mission Accomplished. Then the real war began. The war that put 4,500 U.S. military in bodybags and over 100,000 Iraqi men, women and children in their graves all based on a pack of lies over the non-existent W.M.D..

So, why wouldn't Boehner and his doppelganger in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, jump at the chance to capitulate to the loose cannon Benjamin Netanyahu when they believe the timing is right? That is, unless it all backfires on them.

[TRoN33]

7. Boehner's icon moment; he chose to protect Israel over America...

Nowhere practically lit the flame tower for signal that he is welcoming the terror attacks on America over government shutdown on DHS funding. He has already blamed it all on democrats.

It's going to backfire on Boehner as always.

[BillZBubb]

12. I wish it were so, but republicans never pay a political price for their idiocy.

[daleanime]

8. K&R....

[Cha]

10. Should hope so!

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. K&R!

[24601]

14. Most Americans see things through a US filter and probably think Netanyahu is the Israeli Head of

State. Of course he isn't and the Head of State isn't their Chief Executive like is is in the US.

But as Prime Minister, he is the head of Israel's Legislative Branch of Government and in that role his US Counterparts are Senate President Biden and House Speaker Boehner.

As Israel's Chief Executive, his Counterpart is President Obama. But the President's Israeli Head of State counterpart is President Reuven Rivlin.

With his dual role, the Prime Minister can be appropriately invited by either the Executive or Legislative Branches.

So what percent of Americans know about how the Israeli Government is structured?

[Vinca]

15. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would bet

a good 3/4 of American people cannot identify both Netanyahu and Boehner. There should be a qualifying question when polls are taken. Something like "who is the Vice President" since that's a stretch for half the population.