Via Drudge, the Telegraph is reporting that Obama’s Poll numbers have dropped farther and faster than any President on record over the last 50 years. Apparently, people think he’s doing a lousy job.
The failed and failing Presidency of Barack Obama appears to know no bounds when it comes to showing a lack of leadership, a fundamental inability to understand the plight of the people it routinely insists it speaks for, and the problems it naively believes it has the skills, knowledge, and expertise to solve:
Jeffrey Jones of Gallup explained: “The dominant political focus for Obama in the third quarter was the push for health care reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September.
“Obama hoped that Congress would vote on health care legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss health care reform. Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near 10 per cent.”
Despite the Telegraph’s poor usage of ‘spellcheck’, a passage in this piece is instructive (emphasis mine):
Campaigning for Mr Corzine in Hackensack on Wednesday night, Mr Obama delivered a plea that almost seemed as much for himself as the local candidate: “I’m here today to urge you to cast aside the cynics and the sceptics, and prove to all Americans that leaders who do what’s right and who do what’s hard will be rewarded and not rejected.”
Mr Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs executive and multi-millionaire, is currently running even in New Jersey, which is normally comfortably Democratic, while Mr Deeds is trailing badly in Virginia, a swing state that was key to Mr Obama’s 2008 victory.
Of course we’re skeptical. Corzine, a multi-millionaire (which most of us are NOT) who comes from the evil empire of Wall Street (which we are all supposed to hate), is in trouble and Obama appears willing to waste what little political capital he has left trying to save a man who represents all that he (Obama) has been telling us for two years is at the base of all that troubles America: greed and a shameless lust for power. Why shouldn’t we be skeptical of a mouthpiece hell bent on propping up the very same person we’re being told is at the root of all our collective evil?
To watch this President fail, one big event after another-from losing the Olympics, to dithering on war, to fighting for pitifully poor legislation, to pimping for Politicians only concerned with their poll numbers and getting re-elected at any cost, is to watch a desperate man who finds himself in over his head – at the expense of 300 plus million Americans.
Of COURSE his poll numbers are falling…he sucks at this game, and people are finally coming to terms with it – even his little stick buddies on the left.
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This president has failed at everything he's ever tried.
gonzo55 (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 12:45PM EST (link)He’s failed to pass health care. He’s losing the war in Afghanastan through inaction. He’s failed to protect the homeland by neutering the CIA. He’s failed to protect our allies by removing the missile shields in Eastern Europe. He’s failed to improve education. He’s failed to protect the free market, and as a consequence, countless major firms are now wards of the state. He’s failed to stimulate the economy, and now they took our jobs. He’s failed to improve our standing in the world, despite his worldwide apology tour.
So it’s no wonder that his approval ratings are at historic lows (GWB’s approval rating at this point in his presidency was +54, Obama’s is -13. I miss GWB!). As unplesant as it is to live in a National Socialist dictatorship for 4 years, I have no doubt whatsoever that Grand Ayatollah Obama will not win more than the very most liberal states in 2012 and we will have a real president, and this Constitutional crisis will end.
“Facts are stubborn things” — Ronald Wilson Reagan
"...leaders who do what's right and who do what's hard.."
janis (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 1:15PM EST (link)So who’s he referring to? I’d love to know that Obama knows someone who has done that very thing, but I can’t think of anyone he’s cozied up to or praised in the last 10 months who would fit that bill.
Of course, he might consider that Iran’s leader did the hard and right thing by murdering those who didn’t agree with him, or perhaps he thinks that Chavez has done the hard and right things by running drugs through Honduras with the permission of their former president and by taking control of the media in Venezuela. Yeah, that’s it…..
Point of clarification
BlueFalcon Friday, October 23rd at 1:16PM EST (link)“sceptic”, despite the red underline Firefox puts on it in this text-edit box, is an alternative correct spelling, chiefly British. Add this to the fact that Telegraph is a British newspaper, and “Bob’s your uncle.”
As a rule of thumb, you should be careful when criticising (see what I did there?) spelling in a British newspaper, because they spell differently than we do.
Now, to stay on-topic: what percentage of this disapproval comes from liberals who are disappointed that he has thus far failed to create the utopian soviet America he has promised? There’s little chance they will vote Republican in 2010, which means we have a way to go to prevent a 2012 reelection. Also, we need strong, vocal leadership, a position that so far looks vacant.
My Bad, BlueFalcon
Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 2:06PM EST (link)My limited knowledge of British English forced me into an “assume” mode…I never WAS very good at hard and soft C’s exsept in my high school GPA.
(s strategically located there, intentionally) :=)
“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
~Sam Adams
Potato, potatoe
wennejunk (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 2:08PM EST (link)…because they spell differently than we do
They would argue they spell correctly (owning the name ‘English’, the history to support it and fountain from whence it came Westward), while we butcher the spelling.
I agree, the leadership positions are largely vacant and there are very few who wish to hold those positions for the purposes of actually leading.
I believe most GOP politicians who profess a conservative bent do so for the sake of reelection in conservative districts, not because of core beliefs.
They would rather talk tough behind the shield of minority party status and perpetuate their positions.
I’ve argued many times before that the GOP leadership was not interested in holding power when they were handed the reins in 2004. Leadership implies making tough decisions and taking the knocks for doing so. Leaders are rarely popular at the time.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis
exactly, Quail was right
red_dawn (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 4:56PM EST (link)stupid libs don’t know how to spell!
Stupid is, as Democrat does (nt)
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Saturday, October 24th at 3:24AM EST (link)Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Blue Falcon, Obama has lost the ones who put him over the
janis (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 2:13PM EST (link)top, namely independents and R moderates. (Retch.) After all, when you’ve lost Peggy Noonan, well….. If you look at the ones who seem to be his hard core supporters, that would be the 28% who still dream that he’s doing a bang-up job. I refuse to use the word “think” with regard to those idiots.
Fight for the right results in 2010 and then let’s worry about 2012.
yes, but....
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 2:55PM EST (link)first… and we get this alot along the Canadian border States (those of us who have spent significant time over there) falling into the British and/or French-English hypbrid (FrenGlish) spellings (Defense, Defence… etc…) …. so yes…
but….
lol
I still think it was a typo…. he meant septic…. for those the administration is going to FLUSH THEIR WEALTH away.
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
If you have a Dem Rep or Senator
DerKrieger (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 1:19PM EST (link)…, the next time you call their office ask if they’re willing to go down with Obama’s sinking ship. I asked that rhetorically of Lincoln (D-AR) and Pryor (D-AR). They need to remember that their fates are only tied to Obama’s by choice and not necessarily because they’re D’s.
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
It's not news that Obama sucks at his Job...LOL great post nt
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 3:18PM EST (link)I had to chuckle when I read this one on the Politico link:
The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 4:24PM EST (link)Liberal Democrats have little heartburn over the administration’s attacks on Fox and Limbaugh.
They don’t yet. But when they realize at least part of the reason for their increasing share of the Neilson numbers? Not sure they’ll be able buy enough Rolaids.
I agree with the title of your post 100%
Joe Cor (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 6:36PM EST (link)But he’s still at 53%. That seems pretty high to be talking about plummeting poll numbers. GWB would have killed for 53%.
Historical fall
patrickmcminn Monday, October 26th at 2:25PM EST (link)His poll number are lower the GB’s even pre 9/11. His poll numbers have plummeted faster than any president since Truman. Learn before you speak.
Hey Stack
ATGinCT (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 11:35PM EST (link)Long time no see!
I believe that the best thing for the Bush presidency and historical perspective is the current occupant of the oval office. Each day that goes by makes GWB seem like a rocket scientist and more to the point a man dedicated to the countries good instead of a political whore (am I allowed to say that, the word not the intent?).
It’s pretty pathetic that this clown has spent more time in private meeting’s with liberal bloggers and media scum than he has with his pick to run the war in the AF/PAK theatre.
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patrickmcminn Monday, October 26th at 2:19PM EST (link)What do you expect from a community organizer. BO is clinging on to the little experience he has in campaigning for a cause: health care change. He doesn’t know anything about leadership. He doesn’t know anything about running a system as complicated and awkward as the U.S machinery. And he certainly has no idea of what mainstream America wants. The sad part is that he thinks he has a mandate from the people for change, when all it was was a mandate to remove Republican leadership. He was in the right place at the right time; the right color; the right economy; and the right rebellion. Now we’re all paying for it.
Well Crap!
idealjoe (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 6:32PM EST (link)No body ever told me that a President can’t vote PRESENT…..this was not in my job description, can I poll the audience or call a friend? Wait! I’ll say PRESENT, yes that is my final answer. Do I win?
Crap! wait till I see Ayers. Wait! where is Biden? He knows the answer, uh stand up and take a bow………..
Why would ye die?
he only sucks at his job?
doctort Tuesday, October 27th at 12:39PM EST (link)God help us! He sucks at more than that. He sucks big-time as an American…..if he is one! And, in my opinion, he sucks as a human being, as do all who surround him. Socialists/Marxists don’t care about America; the are in it for power and money and total control.
If he really is an American, he would have produced all the documentation required of him. He is under subpoena to produce those docs, as we speak.
Personally, I believe he is the worst president this great country has ever elected. Speaking of which, check out impeachobama.com. Join the rest of us advocating for his immediate removal for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’. He is guilty of no fewer than a dozen of ‘em.
Please check it out!