John McCain: Don't Count Obama Out

[DonViejo]

CATHERINE THOMPSON – DECEMBER 30, 2013, 11:38 AM EST

Forget the poll numbers -- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who lost the 2008 presidential race to Barack Obama, knows that you can't write off an incumbent based on his approval ratings.

"We all wear thin with the American people after a while," McCain told the Associated Press of the President.

"To count a man of that talent out at this point in time in his administration would be a huge mistake," he added.

Obama's job approval ratings aren't exactly stellar as he enters his sixth year in office, but as McCain noted, he still has three years left to govern. Speaking at a year-end press conference, Obama foreshadowed a renewed push for comprehensive immigration reform, an extension of unemployment insurance and a minimum wage increase in a vow to make 2014 a "year of action."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mccain_dont_count_obama_out

[TBF]

1. There has to be a nice

Retirement community somewhere calling his name ...

[oldandhappy]

2. Best action of the year

will be taking back the House!! Get busy NOW with registration drives, then work on get out the vote. We can and will do it!!

[savalez]

3. +1

[marble falls]

4. We have to do it and we owe it to the President to do it.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. I understand what you are saying; but, no ...

we don't owe it to the President, we owe it to ourselves to support what this President is attempting to accomplish. Despite all the noise, we HAVE accomplish some amazing things through this President, and can accomplish a lot more with a Democratic House.

[marble falls]

7. My point is we've forced him to make some compromises to get things done and we've bashed ....

him over it. He can't do anything for us if we don't give him the tools.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Okay ...

we're on the same page.

But be warned:

we've forced him to make some compromises to get things done and we've bashed him over it. He can't do anything for us if we don't give him the tools.

That statement, in all its truth, will not be met well here. Few will acknowledge how our lack of support, er ... "holding his feet to the fire", has put him in a position where he was forced to make compromises.

Imagine if Democrats had shown the same solidarity, in 2010/2011, that they did in the 2013 debt-ceiling fight?

[Cha]

5. No worries, mccain.. So many of us don't pay attention

to gopropaganda machines telling how badly President Obama is doing.