An Encouraging Trend
By Anthony Gregory • Monday August 24, 2009 3:15 PM PDT • 3 Comments
And according to Rasmussen, the number who “strongly disapprove” of the president’s performance has more than doubled since the inauguration. This can’t be pure partisanship or, as some mantain, “racism” at play, since such factors haven’t changed since January. All that’s changed is Obama’s had time to be president. Obama is losing support left, right and center. Some of it has to do with his antiwar supporters souring on the war, but I believe most of this growing discontent is focused on something else: As the Clinton machine said in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Tags: Economics, Politics, Presidential Power, The State 
Speaking as a non-partisan (what Nevada calls an independent) the issues of the Obama administration go way beyond the economy. The entire culmination of events and the totality of results are what lead me to question not only the Obama administration but the Legislature and Judiciary altogether. I fear for my country!
Tony Laird | Aug 25, 2009 | Reply
When one considers his track record over the last seven months:
1. A first year deficit that will exceed W’s worst year by 350%.
2. An expansion of the endless, stupid, self-defeating Middle East wars, which have made us less safe, killed thousands, and displaced millions.
3. Further strengthened the ties between government and corporate America, with the people getting the shaft.
4. A continuation and extension of the surveillance state and militarization of our police departments.
5. Trillion dollar bailouts for his banking buddies at our expense, and nationalization of the auto, mortgage and insurance industries.
6. A cap-and-trade energy nightmare that will cripple what’s left of our economy – all of it based on bogus scientific claims about man-made global warming. This will surely go down as the largest, most elaborate hoax in world history.
7. Single payer health care. God help us all.
8. Cash for Clunkers. ‘Nuff said.
This joker and his team of Keystone Cops have another 3.5 years to ruin what is left of our country. Which begs the question: what exactly must he do to lose his remaining supporters?
Steve Hogan | Aug 25, 2009 | Reply
Anthony, there are 2 other factors you overlook: 1) his comments on the Henry Louis Gates episode, which lost him a chunk of the very people he has sought so assiduously to win over, from the West Virginia primary forward—i.e., white ethnic and/or working class Democrats; and 2) Obamacare, which is not to be confused with the economy. People are worried about the deficit, and Obamacare makes the president look like he doesn’t care how much red ink he racks up. Plus, it’s a transparent corporatist Washington power play, which the people have generally seen through.
Voltaire in '08 | Aug 29, 2009 | Reply