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By Brian Hughes | January 8, 2015 | 1:58 pm

President Obama had a clear message Thursday for Republicans predicting his political demise in...
President Obama had a clear message Thursday for Republicans predicting his political demise in 2015: “I’m still around.”

In a housing speech in Phoenix, Obama needled conservatives who accuse him of ignoring the message voters sent during disastrous midterm elections for Democrats in November.

"I know there's some folks in Washington that wish I'd be in space for a year,” Obama said, drawing a parallel to NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, the brother-in-law of former Democratic Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, who the president met with before the speech, on the fourth anniversary of her shooting. “But I'm still around. I have some work to do.”

Obama’s housing speech was day two in a nationwide blitz to promote his State of the Union ideas, part of a broader attempt to champion recent economic gains.

The president focused primarily on his unilateral move to reduce mortgage costs for many first-time homebuyers. His administration is reducing annual mortgage premiums by 0.5 percentage points from 1.35 percent to 0.85 percent for Federal Housing Administration loans, which Obama says will save the average American family $900 a year.


"I’m going to take a new action to help even more responsible families buy their first new home,” Obama said. “We’ve got to stay at it.”

However, Republicans counter that the move is fiscally irresponsible and that the government’s role in the housing sector should be further reduced.

Obama lately has demanded more credit for a rebounding economy, with the unemployment rate below 6 percent and his administration predicting additional gains on the horizon. Democrats have criticized the White House for not effectively selling the president's economic prescriptions.

Aware of those concerns, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro took direct aim at critics while introducing the president Thursday.

“History has shown,” Castro insisted, “that he’s been right and they’ve been off base.”

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

We know he is still around,we can still smell the stink that follows him.👃 👃 👃 👃 👃 👃 👃

KHH1

*A really profound response there!!* :thumbup: :roll:

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Truth is always profound.

KHH1

*Fox News-Where we create our own damn truths*

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

FOX,The Most Trusted Name in News,Thirteen years in a row,voted number one.👌 👌. 👌👏 👏 👏 👏 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊

KHH1

okay Mr. half-Truth

Fox News once again most and least trusted name in news



PPP's 5th annual poll about trust in TV news continues to find what it does every year: Fox News is both the most trusted and least trusted name in news.

35% of Americans say they trust Fox News more than any other TV news outlet, followed by 14% for PBS, 11% for ABC, 10% for CNN, 9% for CBS, 6% each for Comedy Central and MSNBC, and 3% for NBC. It leads the way because of its continuing near total support among Republicans as the place to go for news- 69% of Republicans say it's their most trusted source with nothing else polling above 7%. Meanwhile Democrats are split between a lot of different outlets when it comes to who they have the most faith in- PBS at 21%, CNN and ABC at 18%, and CBS and MSNBC at 12% all poll in double digits. It's interesting that while Fox News and MSNBC are often thought of as equivalent, Fox News is by far and away the most trusted source of GOP voters while MSNBC is only tied for 4th among Democrats.

Fox News also leads the 'least trusted' list in our annual poll. 33% give it that designation to 19% for MSNBC, 14% for Comedy Central, 11% for CNN, 5% for ABC, 4% for CBS, and 2% each for NBC and PBS. That's largely because 57% of Democrats give it their least trusted designation, with only Comedy Central at 18% also hitting double digits with them. MSNBC leads the way among Republicans at 38%, but CNN at 17% and Comedy Central at 13% both hit double digits as well. It's interesting to note that Republicans seem to hate MSNBC more than Democrats like it.

When you look at the 8 outlets we tested individually, only one is clearly trusted by a majority of Americans. That's PBS, which 57% say they trust to 24% who don't. Most Democrats (80/6) and independents (49/31) trust it and it at least gets an even split with Republicans at 38%.

Voters are closely divided about most of the rest of the outlets- Fox News comes in at 44/42, CBS at 39/37, CNN at 40/40, NBC at 39/39, and ABC News at 37/38. In Fox's case 75% of Republicans trust it while only 20% of Democrats do. For all the rest of them around 60-70% of Democrats trust them, but only around 20% of Republicans do.

The two outlets that poll the lowest on trust are Comedy Central (29/38) and MSNBC (34/44). In both of their cases the share of Republicans trusting them drops down to about 10%, even as a majority of Democrats still express faith in them.
Finally for fun we did some more specific testing of voter attitudes about Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert. O'Reilly has a 41/37 favorability rating, which is actually better than we found for every potential Republican Presidential candidate in the results we released yesterday. Colbert is not as well known as O'Reilly, with 58% name recognition, but has a better net favorability with those who are familiar with him at +16. 37% see him positively to 21% negatively, with 43% not having an opinion either way.

A hypothetical Presidential contest between the pair would be a toss up, with O'Reilly getting 38% to Colbert's 35%. Colbert has a lot more room to grow though since 31% of Democrats would be undecided compared to just 20% of Republicans. Colbert does win one contest with O'Reilly though- by a 38/13 margin voters say he has better hair and there's a bipartisan consensus on that with even Republicans narrowly saying that Colbert wins the hair wars.

Full results here

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

PPP ? Piss Poor Progressives.All the real ratings say different.Nice try.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

He will be hanging soon enough...then all you homo muslims can weep for a new King Lover Boi........

Antisocialist Loc: Florida

You know one of the great things about a website like this is the ability to post facts that would debunk anything you think Fox is lying about. There is no better way to humiliate someone than to post facts that totally discredit their statements.

But rather than take advantage of the opportunities this forum provides for you to do just that, you only state your opinion, and don't back anything up with facts.

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

KHH1

BHO was not born in the US...how about that?

Antisocialist Loc: Florida

Although I question the location of his birth, he is an American citizen due to his mother being an American. That fact alone grants citizenship to children born outside the US; period

Obama described himself as a foreigner which only fueled the fire.

If you have proof he was born outside the US, do post the info.

KHH1

**I don't and no one else does either...sarcasm 101**