At 39 percent, President Obama’s approval rating now equals his all time low from two years ago, with 63 percent of those polled defining him as a “weak leader.”
Let me be clear: This president is failing.
The biggest hit was among Democrats, who dropped from 82 percent to 73 percent as a result of negotiations with Republicans over the tax deal. That’s right; the Democrat base is furious that compromise was reached. After two years of Republicans being cast as the ‘party of no‘ and having all the nation’s ills attributed to their supposed obstructionism by the MSM and the left, suddenly, a ‘party of no’ is exactly what the left expects from Democrats.
But their hypocrisy goes much further than their sudden belief that compromise is heresy. From opposition to Obamacare to uttering the phrase “take the country back,” Republicans have been accused of racism at every turn for doing no more than disagreeing with the President on matters of policy. In recent weeks, it’s become clear that Democrats are allowed to be as disappointed and upset with the President as they want without the racism accusations hurled at them. Apparently, it’s cool to oppose the President now. For the record, I opposed him before it was cool.
Since Obama has let them down on so many levels, from DADT to the wars to “Tax Cuts,” they have been unleashing Hell on him.
Here’s a screen shot from the Huffington Post summing up the feelings on the left:
It included scores of comments from angry readers who had become detached from their rainbow filled dreams of the Obama unicorn:
All of the money in the world wouldn’t get Obama elected to a second term, he already knows that. – Roach Coach
Obama has been Bush 2.0, complete failure. I worked my fingers to the bone working for him. I am no longer an Obama supporter after Obama did a presser today to disrupt Bernie Sanders. Think about it, he drug Clinton out to get attention, after he sold US out. – Melton244
Obama reminds me of one of those attorneys who will ‘close a deal’ with the least amount of work on his part. It’s a great way to bring in fees. – MSBeal
I REALLY hope someone strong runs against the fraud Obama. – Hawkai
From BoldProgressives.org, an attack on Obama’s conscience:
Mike Stark at the Huffington Post is calling for people to unsubscribe from Obama’s political arm Organizing for America:
Unsubscribing is easy; it will take you less than 30 seconds. You click the link at the bottom of the email, and they present you with a form asking for your email address and a comment explaining your reason for leaving. I suggest you leave the comment “I’m a fed up progressive” followed by any custom comments of your own. They need to know that this is a movement, and those words in common will give them something to measure by.
Look, the president, for whatever reason, seems completely unaware that he is losing his base, drip by steady drip.
The L.A. Times took the pulse of some Obama donors that are soured on his performance:
“I do not plan to support Obama and his reelection effort,” said Utah-based hedge fund manager Art Lipson, who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party and its allies in recent elections. He views the tax-cut compromise as a giveaway to Republicans that will increase the deficit.
“He’s got many great qualities, but he is not a fighter,” Lipson said of the president. “I’ve met with many donors and the level of disappointment is extreme.”
The Daily Show joined in on mocking the President and noted that his “Confidence borders on delusional” for entrusting Bill Clinton with his message:
Ignoring for the moment the insanity of people being this upset that the government isn’t going to take more money from citizens, it’s clear that the left’s love affair with the President is not only over, but has reversed course and is heading straight for Bush-league waters. Their disillusionment with Obama could perhaps be even worse than their hatred of Bush since this would add betrayal to the list of grievances.
I suppose most of them will excuse the double standard on presidential criticism by using terms like “stockholm syndrome” and “self loathing” to exclude themselves as being racist for opposing the first black president.
Of course, the reality is they are disappointed because President Obama has failed to push through their progressive agenda. He’s failed to provide the necessary leadership to be ‘the one they’ve been waiting for.’ He’s failed to do more than merely articulate what the left wishes for while being incapable of accomplishing virtually any of it. Indeed, despite his lofty promises, he has maintained and, in some cases, even pursued agenda items from the Bush administration. His failure to enact the left’s utopian vision, his impotence in policy and weakness in both word and deed have finally revealed to the left just how badly they got taken in 2008.
Also they’re racist.
Cross Posted at Pundit League
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"Major Dem Donor Vow To Withhold Funds"
mousestalker (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 10:55AM EST (link)Of course with the cuts restored, they have more funds to withhold. I trust that particular irony does not escape them.
Leave them alone, and they'll go home
frankieb (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 11:11AM EST (link)Dragging their dirty tails and nasty nails with them.
Books … the most exotic, least expensive vacation: www.DelphiBooks.us
www.DaughterOfTheGreatDepression.blogspot.com
Claire McCaskill goes in so many directions, it’s amazing she hasn’t drawn and quartered herself. www.TruthAboutClaire.com
So the fact that Obama is weak is a news flash to lefties
Jack_Savage (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 11:21AM EST (link)Perfect.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they started a movement, and nobody came.
President Pantywaist
Beaglescout (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 11:43AM EST (link)How long has Gerald Warner been calling him that?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Maybe we have part-time racists?
earlgrey (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 11:29AM EST (link)How else could you have some people who voted for him now disapproving of him?
It all depends on which poll you look at. Some people are saying that the tax deal, marks his comeback and it is all roses for him in 2012.
Right now, I feel like all this polling is meant to somehow influence us. Half the time I feel like they are trying to manipulate the general public somehow, and I am sick of it. Paranoid much? Yeah.
They always eat their own. . .
msctex (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 11:43AM EST (link). . .because the contradictions in their thinking (“People don’t have enough money? Raise taxes!”) inevitably lead to failure, and someone has to take the blame. They are currently disappointed in and turning on a man who has tried to be every bit as destructive a Class Warfare General as he could possibly be, but who is realizing short of actually bringing down the Government around him, he can never do enough. (Which might lead to the prospect of a vindictive and defiant Obama actually doing something right, out of sheer spite.)
It’s like watching arsonists who wash their clothes in gasoline. It is always only a matter of time.
When you discover your messiah can't walk on water,
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 11:51AM EST (link)you soon find that he’s in over his head.
Personally, I don’t think their anger is really in his job performance. I think that it is their reluctant realization that their agenda is not reality and that even The One They Have Been Waiting For doesn’t have the power to change that reality. So, if not Obama, who? That they don’t have an answer for.
This is what scares them.
Their suffering gives me solace.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Very insightful
johnCV (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 12:12PM EST (link)As 0bama was the empty vessel that the Left poured their dreams of a Utopian society into (a nightmare world for conservatives), they now project onto him the failure of those same ideals. As you point out, reality is harsh and will eventually overcome political ideologies founded in fantasy.
My worry is that their suffering will drive them mad. Irrational creatures are very, well, irrational and pose a danger to us all.
Obama's such a small man
itrytobenice (Diary) Friday, December 17th at 4:36PM EST (link)he’d be in over his head on a wet parking lot.
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Obama's failure is a surprise to people like that hedge fund Lipson?
Common_Cents (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 12:10PM EST (link)Anyone with half a brain and who hasn’t been brainwashed could see this miles away during the campaign.
People like Lipson quoted in your diary totally baffles me. Golly gee, we were duped! I hope his fund get liquidated from redemptions for being so stupid.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
RAAAAACIST!
streetwise (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 4:24PM EST (link)Admit it. You would feel incomplete if someone didn’t say it!
Indeed
Ben Howe (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 7:56PM EST (link)Thanks for filling the need street.
You can always find people to give you the answers that you think reinforce the facts you’ve already decided are true.
Follow @Ben_Howe
Yes, now I can relax
Warrior (Diary) Friday, December 17th at 3:25PM EST (link)and go back to whatever racist thing I was doing earlier. Now let me see, …
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Actually, all joking aside,
bjwilson83 (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 6:32PM EST (link)Dems are indeed truly racist. They selected Obama based not on competence or substance but on the color of his skin. Now as his presidency unravels, they deserve to be hammered on it hard. And it just feels SO good to finally be able to say it.
RAAAAAAAAAAACISTS!
And this hedge fund guy is afraid tax cuts will raise the deficit?
renny (Diary) Thursday, December 16th at 8:17PM EST (link)What about the $3-4 trillion the DEMS. SPENT?
Oh, but you don't understand. Spending money is okay if
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Friday, December 17th at 7:18AM EST (link)the government does it, because they care about us. Everyone knows that the government loves us and wants us to be skinny and to drive cars that are safe and to use lightbulbs that don’t destroy the planet.
It is only the evil people who cannot be trusted with their own earnings. Evil people like doctors and car makers and farmers and oil workers and coal miners and all those others who are heating the earth up so much we are all going to fryyyyy!!!
Why, some of them even go to church!!!! And some of them own GUNS!!!! How evil they are!! We cannot let them have enough money to buy more of them!!!! Or, Happy Meals!!! Or, cars big enough for all the children they should have aborted!!!!!
We just cannot let them get away with all this evil, they must be punished for their own good!!! We’ll take all their money so that they have to do what is best for them.
Political dissent is not racism.
papat Friday, December 17th at 7:06AM EST (link)I’m not racist – he is just stupid.
R.A.C.I.S.T.
Real
Americans
Challenging
Idiotic
Socialist
Tyranny
(3 Signs I saw at 9/12/10)
What Progressives (socialists) really want is
nhbuckeye Friday, December 17th at 7:40AM EST (link)a dictator. They hate democracy because it gives we stupid, greedy, racists power over our own lives. We consistently fail to allow our betters to lead us, so obviously the Progressives are looking for someone to shove what they want down our throats. Bill Maher, Progressive-extraordinaire, thinks we need to be led by our noses to do what is “right” in his eyes. That is what we deserve, according to the elites on the left, to be forced by legal and extra-legal means. Freedom is luxury and cannot be allowed when there are problems the god of the State can solve. Obama is an idealogue, one of them. They thought with his power of persuasion, they could avoid revolution and sweet-talk us into submission. Anyone who disagreed was vehemently discredited as racist, redneck, and violent to protect the one who would destroy capitalism once and for all.
Honestly I think Progressives verge on the mentally ill. Anyone who disagrees with them is dehumanized and regarded as evil. Progressives feel no compunction to respect the rights of those who disagree because those people are obviously not worthy of their freedom. The values and intellects of Progressives, in their own minds, are so much greater they feel it is not only acceptable but a moral imperative to control others. While they exaggerate the failings of others they also diminish the good in others, and do the opposite in their views of themselves. Their talents are over-esteemed and their personal failings ignored. The tyrannical nature of the power of State escapes them. They only see the good. They can only see themselves as benevolent dictators, somehow each is akin to a kinder, gentler Mao. They view social justice as a higher goal than freedom, and their justice is the only justice. Further, they are absolutely godless, replacing God with the State and themselves at the head of that state. The thorough corruption of this idea escapes them entirely because they are so blinded by their narcissism.
Liberal-Leftist-Socialist-Democrat
eddie74 Friday, December 17th at 10:20AM EST (link)Anyone who has a minor Degree in Psycology will notice that the Mentality of the Leftist Democrat is very similar to the immature mentality of taunting, teasing, name-calling, – bullying, -group think-group act of little Grade School Children.. Psycologists also notice that some parts of the Adult Brain never mature out of this childhood type thinking.. Try to understand the Mind of an adult Democrat, and you will better understand the mind & behaviour your own little Children..
I am new
geah Friday, December 17th at 8:19AM EST (link)but very old, can not be a racist because I have 3 cultures in my blood line,
So please tell me how far will Obama go before the real people {a Cherokee] thought raise up and stay up until we restore our country?
and I don’t care if our Prez is a blue smurf, do something for all the people.
ThreeBloods in one Body
eddie74 Friday, December 17th at 9:54AM EST (link)Yes, Geah, I know what it’s like having three contending blood-lines flowing in the same Veins of one’s body.. I have French-Germain-Spanish blood.. These Three Countries have been at War with each other for Several Centuries.. Since I have the Blood of all Three Mutual Enemies flowing within my veins, I always hope that I can get through my Day without Internal Bloodshed..!!
3 cultures
geah Friday, December 17th at 10:10AM EST (link)yes I have Native American, Cherokee/Shawnee, Jewish and a few drops of English. racism is pure evil on anyone’s part. we are all created equal. how ever we don’t seem to believe it at times of money exchange.
I think the US Economy might be racist.
jeffreywturner (Diary) Friday, December 17th at 9:00AM EST (link)It is not cooperating with President Obama, so it is probably racist.
“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”
An Important Man to American
Wayne (Diary) Friday, December 17th at 9:05AM EST (link)For those of us that learn from history can take comfort that in these times, our youth and those unfamiliar with American’s unique history are getting a crash course in the values that made our country great.
It is not what we say, but what we do that matters.
Wayne
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” – Thomas Jefferson -
Democrats Racist??????
dmccracken Friday, December 17th at 9:35AM EST (link)Come now, we have here….
The party that opposed freeing the slaves
The party that opposed the Civil War
The party that denied the newly freed slaves basic civil rights
The party that opposed de-segregation
….
How can you think them racist?
Drip by Drip by steady Drip
eddie74 Friday, December 17th at 9:40AM EST (link)Mike Stark of Huff.Post said it himself, – “Look, the President, for whatever reason, seems completely unaware that he is losing his base, drip by steady drip.”
Well, I couldn’t have said it better than that, – the Dems are Drips to the last Drop, – that are falling away Drip by steady Drip.. Well Praise the Lord, – you give just one independantly funtioning Brain Cell to a Lemming Dem. and they start to become Independants, hopefully on their way to a Full Independant Thought Recovery.. The Moment a Democrat starts to “Think” for himself, he can no longer stay a Democrat who must submit to “GroupThink-GroupAct.”
Is it possible for a Democrat to come to His Own Senses.?? – Because if He can think for himself, – the RepublicanParty would certainly welcome Him..
There’s an Old Saying that goes: “If you are in your “twenties” and not a Democrat, it’s because you have no “Heart” – But if you are in your “Fourties” and still a Democrat, – it’s because you have no “Brains.”
David Sirota & Tom Hartmann = Racists
mankypro Friday, December 17th at 9:48AM EST (link)How DARE they oppose Obama on the tax bill?
snit
2warabnvet Friday, December 17th at 10:20AM EST (link)Pay no attention to the current Democrat snit over Obama’s actions. He is still their man, after all, they have nowhere else to go.
Same tax rates as before, libs go nuts !
johnt Friday, December 17th at 11:42AM EST (link)Whole lotta hate going on. These rates have been in place for years, but the nuts need something to satisfy their bile quotient.
Can’t they be happy with the pending destruction of America’s health care system, or possible devaluing of the dollar ?
How about National Suicide? The left is hard to please.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
I did too....
hidlins Sunday, December 19th at 1:18PM EST (link)As previously stated, ” Apparently, it’s cool to oppose the President now. For the record, I opposed him before it was cool”. I’ll help to make him a one term President…how about you?