Daily Presidential Tracking: New low -23

Sunday, September 05, 2010 Email to a Friend ShareThis Advertisement The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-seven percent (47%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23 (see trends).

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Former President Bush in good spirits at Waco club to kick off Patriot Golf Day Weekend

Former President George W. Bush was at Ridgewood Country Club on Friday morning for a charitable event to raise money for the education of spouses and children of service members killed or catastrophically disabled in the line of duty. Bush was named honorary chairman of the inaugural Patriot Golf Day Weekend, started this year by the Folds of Honor Foundation to raise money for the organization’s scholarship fund. The foundation’s name refers to the U.S. flag-folding ritual during a military funeral. Former President George W. Bush jokes with onlookers after one of the members of his group at Ridgewood Country...

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Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade Plays Golf With President Bush

Former President Bush participated in a charity gold tournament to raise money for veterans. Fox’s Brian Kilmeade was invited to play. The best part is when a veteran tells Bush, “you’ll always be my commander-in-chief.”

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Here Comes EARL! live thread

A live thread to update the arrival of Hurricane Earl, a Category 4 storm headed for the Mid Atlantic.

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Ruling Class vs. the People

Unemployment is hovering around 9.6%, our national debt is over $13 trillion, one-in-six Americans are receiving some type of government help, and Barack Obama just wrapped his sixth vacation in less than two years as President. It was a waterfront vacation in Martha’s Vineyard that cost around $50,000 for the rental property alone. (This doesn’t count the cost of staff, of Secret Service protection, or the transport and fuel for the 20-vehicle caravan that traveled with the President all over the island.) If a sixth vacation of this magnitude seems a bit pretentious to you, you’re not alone. Even David...

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Golfer's swing sparks 25-acre California blaze

You can use a golf club for all kinds of non-golfy purposes -- walking stick, fishing rod, club, to name three. And now we can add to that list -- firestarter. Over the weekend, a golfer's routine swing in the rough at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine, Calif., struck a rock. Not so different from the way you play, right? Only this time, the impact caused a spark, and the spark set off a blaze that eventually covered 25 acres, according to the Steven Buck, General Manager of Shady Canyon Golf Course, and required the efforts of 150...

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This Day In History

Peter the Great: the Russian czar levied a tax on beards (1698)

Quote of the day

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

by Robert Green Ingersoll