CBS’s Andy Rooney: Obama Is ‘Doing the Best Job He Knows How and It’s Good Enough for Me’
As he devoted his regular 60 Minutes segment on Sunday to complaining about surveys, CBS’s Andy Rooney declared his belief that President Obama is "doing the best job he knows how, and it’s good enough for me." Rooney, who has a history of openly admitting that his political views are liberal, also gave viewers some insight into his social circle as having like-minded views on politics as he relayed to viewers that eight out of nine friends he asked also like Obama. Rooney complained:
Gallup said that they surveyed over 90,000 Americans for this one poll. I mean, where was I when they were calling people about President Obama? The survey said that only 44 percent of us approve of President Obama’s performance. Well, I surveyed nine of my friends, and eight of them said they liked Obama but didn’t trust Gallup polls. As far as I’m concerned, Obama’s doing the best job he knows how, and it’s good enough for me.
Below is a transcript of the beginning of Rooney’s segment from the Sunday, November 14, 60 Minutes on CBS:
ANDY ROONEY: Some days it seems as though I spend about half my time reading surveys. It isn’t enough to know what you think, you have to read about what other people think, too. They take surveys for everything now. You read about surveys asking what people think about the economy, about cars, about what people are buying, what they’re eating, and what they think of the job that President Obama is doing.
A Gallup poll says that President Obama’s approval rating was at an all-time low. Gallup said that they surveyed over 90,000 Americans for this one poll. I mean, where was I when they were calling people about President Obama? The survey said that only 44 percent of us approve of President Obama’s performance. Well, I surveyed nine of my friends, and eight of them said they liked Obama but didn’t trust Gallup polls. As far as I’m concerned, Obama’s doing the best job he knows how, and it’s good enough for me.
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Pass the barf bags.....
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:41am.
well, gol-leee, Mr. Rooney,
It should be good enough for everybody else too!
After all, just because he promised us he could do all these things, there's no reason to be upset that he's not!
After all, at least he's trying!!! (the liberal excuse for every failure).
Bye Bye Andy
Submitted by djm159 on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:28pm.
Since this guy will obviously never leave the air and he is quite obviously senile, I would agree with Paul Krugman that death panels would be appropriate in Rooney's case. He quite clearly does not have the class and/or intelligence to understand that no one gives a tinker's dam what Andy Rooney says. Get the hook, it's time for Andy to depart.
Pauline Kael, call your office ...
Submitted by KC Mulville on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:41am.
This is why the safest and smartest opinion should always be what you believe, not what you suspect or assume others believe. Who knows what darkness lurks in the hearts of men?
Answer: The shadow
Submitted by Edhenry on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:55am.
Answer: The shadow knows...
"8 of your liberal friends" "trying" "best he can"
This is why some of the greatest generation were left on the ground to watch the big boys fly the B-17s.
Good enough isn't!
Submitted by Thalpy on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:42am.
Good enough isn't! It never has been, For the Left, effort counts as much as the result. Essentially, that's bs.
Thalpy, you're mistaken.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:47am.
For the Left, effort counts as much as the result.No, effort is ALL that counts; results don't.
Doesn't matter if the charges are BS....
Submitted by Diesel on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 11:42am.
........."It's the seriousness of the charge."
Bush was pure EEEEEEvil
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:51am.
Rooney and his "thoughts" harken me back to when Nixon won the presidency and some liberal nitwit couldn't understand it as "nobody I know voted for him".....
Check back in the archives NB, I am sure he said the same puffery for George W Bush as well.
Wait, this just in, NO HE DIDN'T......
A interesting story about Andy Rooney.
Submitted by RichieBABY on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 9:57am.
Andy Rooney by some quirk was a customer of mine when I owned a high end mobile electronics retail store in the Great State of NJ. One day he comes in with a K-40 radar detector that was KAPUT. He requests it be sent back to K-40 for repair. I instruct one of my employees to include a note in the box of Rooney's K-40, that the unit returned is owned by him.
K-40 overnights by FED EX a brand spanking new K-40, and a updated model to boot, of course at NO CHARGE.
REFUSED by Andy Rooney. I want my old one fixed.
side bar: His intital visit to tell me about his K-40 which was KAPUT, he was in Paramus, NJ. going from one gas station to another to buy ONE GALLON of gas, so that he could pay them at the time 73.9 cents.
In the mood to hear another story about another famous person? Francis Ford Copolla, of The Godfather fame and fortune, spends in my store $17,500 dollars for a audio/video system for his one of a kind Citroen/Massratti LIMO. Installation featured in Stereo Review Mag. Payment was made in full via a letter from Zoetrope Studios which he owns, informing me of their bankcruptcy. GO POUND SAND!
I asked all the people in my
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:03am.
I asked all the people in my Liberal bubble and they all thought like I did? So what's the problem?
This is a great example of the snob-elite out of touch Liberals who can't see beyond their inner circle and have no idea that the country is in shambles because of 22 months of Obama's horrific policies. They also refuse to accept that the wars they railed about before Obama took office have now expanded into Pakistan and Yemen.
Van, the shambles isn't
Submitted by MikeB on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:10pm.
Van, the shambles isn't because of 22 months of Obama's policies. That was the extra tonne of steel that broke the camel's back. The shambles is the result of decades of liberal Democrat (redundant) tax and spend policies, of CRAp, which mandated that banks lend money for mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay that money back, of not only refusing, but preventing oversight and regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, etc., etc., etc.
This is quite the different
Submitted by wiwf on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:05am.
This is quite the different attitude, Andy. Only a few years ago, if Bush did ANYTHING you berated him for not doing enough or doing the wrong thing.If I randomly selected 9 of
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:07am.
If I randomly selected 9 of my friends I doubt you could find much of anything that 8 out of 9 would support, but then I don't live in a lefty echo chamber and none of my leftwing friends are that ideologically rigid that they would discriminate against those with different views (as Rooney appears to do).
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He's just a jerk...
Submitted by owr084 on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:42am.
I remember years ago when Rooney went on a rant about how "Rain-X" did not work. The makers of Rain-X fought back and it was soon discovered that Rooney had clearly not followed the instructions on how to apply it.
I view Rooney's rants as an indication that he did not "RTFM" (or any other version of "RTF...").
8 out of 9 of my friends
Submitted by the struggler on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:45am.
8 out of 9 of my friends want their Happy Meal toys.
I see how it works. Obama is
Submitted by Smartypants on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:55am.
I see how it works. Obama is doing the best he knows how to do, and so that's all that matters. When GW Bush did the best he knew how to do, the left, including Rooney, had a collective hissy fit. The fact that this doofus thinks what he and his selected friends think is all that matters is truly astonishing. Just how brain dead does one have to be to get on television nowadays?
Duplicate
Submitted by Smartypants on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 10:56am.
Duplicate.
I think Andy
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 11:02am.
passed away about 12 years ago and they have been keeping him propped up in his chair since. The non stop useless crap emitted from his mouth confirms this rumor.
Disney.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 8:11pm.
Andy is really a Disney animatronic.
This from a guy that needs
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 11:31am.
This from a guy that needs all his food pureed and spends most days in the attic painting with his own poop.Well good for you Barack, you'd better take whatever you can get these dayz.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Who Let Andy out of the Crazy House?
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 12:08pm.
Andy is as delusional as his 8 friends! Sorry, no ofense to anyone over 100 years old.
Shave the eyebrows genius
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 12:14pm.
"Did you ever notice" this guy is a liberal moron?
I have.......
"Good Enough"
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 12:43pm.
Oh yeah, "good enough" for government work.....when your "personal best" is all that's needed.
Yup, early warning and existing defenses were "good enough" for Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.
The "system worked" perfectly for the Titanic in the wintry North Atlantic; surely it was "good enough" for all those who quickly assumed ice-cube (versus "room") temperature in the frigid waters.
Hindenberg construction/composition was "good enough" for its last mooring attempt (as no doubt attested to by "the humanity" that managed to survive).
Then there's ol' POTUS Jimmy's "Desert One" mission, which was "good enough" in execution.
Our history of Government Sponsored excellence is repleat with endless examples of "good enough"....
One supposes that a parachute rigger's "off day" of mispacking both main and reserve chutes, so that neither one open as expected, would also be deemed "good enough" and the rigger's"best" would be comforting should ol' Andy find himself plummeting Earthward at 120 mph with nothing flapping overhead butt tangled strips of nylon. Having personally skydived multiple times, I would not be peacefully basking in that self-deluded glow all the way to impact with the ground. A main chute tangle had me vigorously maniplating the risers until the tangled lines separated. I didn't adopt the "victim" mentality of "well, I guess that was the best the rigger could do" and calmly await my fate. Then again, perhaps I'm not as progressively "enlightened" as our curmudgenly host.
What a bunch of desperate Obamaniacal bootlicking.
Sheesh.....
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Rooney is the reason we need
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:04pm.
Rooney is the reason we need death panels...
Andy, if you are truly that
Submitted by MikeB on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:15pm.
Andy, if you are truly that senile, it's time for you to retire.
Good enough? Are you nuts? Geeze, guy, if it helps you to be more honest in your assessment of how well ol' jug ears has done, pretend he is a white Republican... or better yet, a black conservative Republican. I'm sure if that were the case, and we had these results, you would be calling for his impeachment and removal from office.
A shocking revelation!
Submitted by lgeubank on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:17pm.
Andy Rooney says Obama's performance is "Good Enough for Me." That's the same as saying, "Obama's job performance is good enough for a senile dimwit." Shocking!You know what I hate, Andy
Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:18pm.
People who look around, ask their like-minded friends things, and then say, "Well, now I know the right answer." I never stay for your segment, but last nite was in the other room--and heard this twaddle.
Rooney is 100% correct: Obama IS doing the best job he knows how
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:26pm.
Unfortunately a community organizer/ACORN lawyer is not what the country needs right now.
Sick, what do you mean "right
Submitted by bassndude on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:31pm.
Sick, what do you mean "right now."? Its the last thing this country needs EVER!
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
You're right, Bass
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:46pm.
But at now least we can say "hey, we tried it."
/s
If you were 'doing the best
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 1:36pm.
If you were 'doing the best job you could do' in the private sector - the 'real world' - and it wasn't good enough, you'd be gone................nobody would be tellling you 'that's good enough for me'.
Well said
Submitted by Flashman on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 2:50pm.
"Obama’s doing the best job he knows how."
That in a nutshell is the whole bloody problem with Obama and everyone knows it.