Because Obama’s “Strongly Approve” numbers will never go much below 30% *regardless* of what happens (the ‘hard core’ will NEVER abandon him), I don’t think this Approval spread can ever go much over -15%.

Pretty much the only way for it to get much over -15% is if Obama’s overall approval ratings fall into the 30s%. We’re still some way away from that (though it’s possible we may get there by about January of 2010…).

At least, that’s my reading of it.

I tell you this guy is everything we said he was and American’s are waking up to that fact. The thing is will the Democrats and I am not talking about the leftist put their CAREERS on the line for a lameduck President, here is hoping they are more narcissistic then he is! I would love to know what President Bush’s numbers were at this point in his Presidency but I haven’t been able to hunt it down on the interwebs

That he was trendy steady, even upwards, before the Press Conference.

Thank you, CPD.

Between the people who think it is cool to say they support the Black man and the people who are afraid to criticize him for fear of being labelled a racist, he will always poll positively if the question is along the lines of “Do you approve of President Obama?”

If we do our jobs, we can make the policies he backs extremely unpopular. I agree with Swamp’s general assessment, but I think the 30% is probably too high for hardcore Obama policy supporters. The left knows this as you can see by the Demint cartoon; they’ll make any attack on his policies an attack on him. We have to be very careful about separating Comrade Obama from his policies. We already catch Hell from the squishy middle who can’t stand any form of controversy or criticism. I don’t know, really, how Democrat officeholders and officeseekers somehow separate themselves from the filth that their far left stormtroopers spew, but we get the rap for being “partisan and meanspirited” even for modulated criticism of anything Democrat. It’s a quandary, but it is a line we’ll have to work in attacking, even demonizing, policy, while separating it from personal attacks on Comrade Obama.

Last week I read that Obamas approval rating was 55%, which had dropped lower than Bush’s 56% at the same time in his presidency. I thought about how tremendously angry the Liberal Agendistas were when Bush became the president, and would be putting the brakes on the Liberal Agenda. The passions of those that believed Bush was handed the presidency by the Supreme Court was palpable, yet, he retained a 56% approval rating. Obama was elected by 53% of the population (and with help from ACORN for sure), and has had a very complicit approval and promotion by the MSM, yet, he fell lower in approval than Bush the hated, who had no MSM support. I am just waiting to see Obama’s rating drop below Bush’s when he left the presidency. That will be when we know we won against Socialism/Marxism. I just hope when the next Obama shows up on the scene, this time in history will be remembered only to well. Not many don’t remember the Carter years, and they were mild compared to this evil little man.

is now more unpopular than ever. After campaigning as a centrist moderate, he tricked 70 million gullible idiots into voting for him, and now that he’s in office we’re stuck with his gassy socialism for the next 4 years. Thank God at least some of the morons who voted for him are waking up to how his policies Hurt America. I have no doubt whatsoever that the repubs (Romney, I hope) will be back in the White House shortly after winning a Reagan-like landslide.

I thought I’d share this with you all: I spent yesterday entertaining half a dozen relatives from Taiwan and Japan. One of my cousins happens to be a journalist in Taiwan (I’ll refrain from giving his name to protect him from potential repercussions) and he asked me what I thought about our new President. I asked him if it was off the record or was this going to be used in a future article. He assured me that it was just to satisfy his own curiosity. Even then, I didn’t fully trust him and spoke with my guard up. I told him that even though I respected Obama’s intellectual agility, I didn’t vote for Obama and that I didn’t agree with the majority of his views. I also told him (though I was thinking otherwise) that it was too early in the game to see how he performs overall.

His reply was not what I expected. He said that most Asians that he’s spoken to overseas perceive Obama to be weak and naive. In many Asian cultures, apologizing is a sign of weakness. Excessive apologizing is a confirmation of incompetence as a leader. They’ve never seen a leader (Free-world or dictator) apologize for his own country so often during their tenure, let alone such a short one. I was shocked but I concurred.

I told him that most of our national press coverage reports that Obama is liked abroad so his remarks were surprising to me. His answer to that was even more profound. He said “Just because people like you doesn’t mean they respect or fear you. There are millions in South Korea and Japan who are very worried about his handling of Kim Jong Il’s antics. There are also millions of Taiwanese who are none too thrilled about the your President’s cowtowing and compromising with China to buy American debt. If China ever decides to annex Taiwan, America will be economically powerless and diplomatically powerless to stop them. These concerns are real in that region of the world and Obama is either too ignorant or stubborn to acknowledge them.”

I asked what he thought of Obama. He replied, “He’s an intelligent man with a sharp mind but I think he’ll prove to be an awful President. I think Americans voted with their hearts instead of their heads and they will pay a heavy price for that soon. Polls indicate that most Americans like Obama personally but don’t like his job performance. That’s not a very practical approach to policy. No offense but I think many Americans have confused charisma with true leadership skills. And if Asians are anything, they are pragmatic. To put it another way, I love my 17-yr.-old daughter with all my heart, but I know better than to give her the keys to a city bus (at least until I she proved capable). Believe me when I tell you that my opinion of Obama is not the rare exception.”

So there you have it RedState. You are not as alone overseas as you thought you were.

Yes! Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley.

…popularity is unsustainable when each and every policy you espouse and attempt to implement is opposed by a significant majority of the people. And that is where Obama finds himself.

His domestic agenda is poisonous; he brings to the table all the terrible left-wing ideas which have gotten previous Democrat nominees badly beaten in presidential elections of the past, and what’s worse he’s attempted to pass them down the throats of the American peopel without even allowing for public scrutiny of the legislation which brought them on.

His foreign policy is the worst of any American president in the modern age. He telegraphs weakness to our enemies, he insults our friends and he abandons well-established national interests like the promotion of the rule of law (see the mess in Honduras and our disgraceful role in it, for example, or our tepid endorsement of the pro-freedom rebellion in Iran – the best opportunity for regime change in 30 years in our most dangerous enemy in the world).

And now, with the colossal Cambridge PD gaffe, Obama has reopened the racial divide between himself and 60 percent of the population. That divide has aways been there, but it’s been papered over by the DNC Propaganda machine since the Rev. Wright stuff came out. Conventional wisdom 16 months ago was that the Wright business would likely sink Obama, and he survived it thanks to the incompetence of his challengers – but the more mistakes like this Obama makes the more average Americans will see a pattern. And patterns, once perceived, are extremely difficult to overcome.

If anybody can tell me where Obama has an opportunity to reverse his current slide, let me know what I’m missing. I see a failed presidency in the making which will make Jimmy Carter look like Andrew Jackson.

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