Are We Sick of Him Yet? (Repost of Article)

We were sitting in a sunroom, swapping stories, news and updates when the question was asked, "Why did they get divorced?"

We leaned forward in anticipation of a standard response; "he was having an affair," or "she was having an affair," a possible "they've grown apart," or a more nebulous "it just wasn't working anymore." Instead the answer was more visceral and direct.

"Sick of him?" a passing feeling maybe, a temporary state of mind, but a reason to sever a marriage union?

The word "sick" means afflicted with disease or bad health. He was making her health bad? Possibly. Fatigue and chronic stress are detrimental to health and well-being.

President Barack Obama, the man who campaigned on Hope and Change and who could once do no wrong, has fallen in approval rating and in stature in recent weeks. He has fallen furthest among 18- to 29-year-olds -- down 7 points within the last week to 42 percent.

More telling than his 40 percent overall approval rating (Gallup), is his disapproval rating, which has reached 53 percent. His approval rating had dipped to 39 percent in the summer of 2011, but the 53 percent disapproval rating marks a new high. Simply put: More people than ever before disapprove of the job that Obama is doing.

Magazine covers no longer glorify Obama, but instead call into question his effectiveness as president. Newsweek's "Hit the Road Barack: Why We Need a New President," and The Economist's "The Man Who Could Walk on Water," (with a picture of Obama in the ocean with water up to his shoulders as if he is going under), reflect a president who is rapidly losing stature. Time's "Obama's Iran Gamble" cover depicts Obama walking off, shoulders hunched, as if he had been beaten.

The rollout of his health plan has created strained perceptions of the government's ability to get things done and lowered Obama's approval ratings and believability scores. The White House has moved recently from mixed labeling between Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act to a single label of the Affordable Care Act. In response to this change, Gallup tested four different labels by reading the same basic question "to four randomly selected groups of the Gallup Daily tracking sample each night between Nov. 4-17 -- but with four different descriptions of the law. A total of 1,725 to 1,885 respondents received each version of the question." The descriptions included the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, both the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare, and the use of no specific name for the health care law. The results showed that, instead of creating a halo effect, the use of "Obama," i.e., the Obamacare label, resulted in lower support. "Only mentioning the Affordable Care Act yields the highest support (45 percent), while only mentioning Obamacare yields the lowest support (38 percent). Support for the law when using the other labels" (either both or neither) "falls in between, at 41 percent."

Can't feel good when the use of your name results in fewer people supporting your signature legislation.

This change did not come overnight. It occurred as promises were made (you can keep your health care, it will be as easy as buying a TV from Amazon), and those same promises were broken. It's taken a long time for the bright and shiny facade to rub away and for us to be left a bit darker and gloomier.

What can't be determined is if Obama can get back that loving feeling or if it's just that finally we're sick of him. Maybe we need a divorce.

I was sick to my stomach last night after a conversation with a neighbor (Dem) who has worked with us effectively on many aspects of local government. She’s well educated and normally pretty pretty clear headed. The topic of Obamacare came up and she started spouting off like one of the talking heads on TV. Spewed all of the Dem talking points in a rapid fire, non stop dissertation.

“Give us 5 years, and you will like it.” “Everybody said the same about Social Security and Medicare when they first started.” ETC.

I was so disappointed in her because she’s bought this crap hook, line, & sinker. Her response was so quick — without even taking a breath — that I swear the Dems must give lessons on how to answer these questions.

Well, yes—we here at FR are, and have been sick of him.

I think that now that he is more or less “falling from grace”, he will be more dangerous than ever. He will do something like instigate a bunch of executive orders to bring even more harm to this one proud nation.

Unfortunately, many Americans agree that there is no depth to whiich he won’t sink to destroy this country and what it has always stood for.

In today’s climate, I don’t see a “Man on a White Horse” coming to our rescue.

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Daniel Greenfield at his best!

Obama is the tomorrow that never came. He is the sinking of the oceans, the fouling of the air, the hatred between races, the theft of health and wealth and wisdom. Obama is the promises of con artists sold to the gullible with money stolen from those who knew he was a coward and a fool from the beginning.

Now Obama has run into the end of his own political lifecycle. The billionaires who invested in him, no longer need him. The Democratic Party needs to convince voters that Hillary will fix his messes. And he stupidly made the mistake of actually trying to implement one of his ideas in a way that will directly affect people. Obama is no longer Google. Now he’s been reduced to being a Yahoo.

If you’re pretending to be a genius, the one thing you can’t do is screw up. You can smash all the plates while screaming obscenities. You can deliver tedious lectures on 18th century writers that no one but you has ever heard of. You can loudly declare that Einstein was wrong. And you can waste billions buying incompatible companies in pursuit of some vague vision about the future. Until the whole thing fails and the investors realize you’re not a genius and start demanding you bring in a professional CEO to secure the value of the company, even as they start thinking about carving it up.

Obama’s real crime was to make it obvious that he isn’t a genius. Just a guy in flipflops and a hoodie. Not an eccentric genius who wears a hoodie and flipflops because he’s an original thinker, but a guy who wears them because kids half his age wear them and he’s too lazy and deluded to grow up.

Investors will give their CEO geniuses a lot of rope as long as they think there’s a trillion dollars on the other end. They will engage in complex rationalizations to explain why they’re throwing money at a guy whose ideas never seem to pan out and whose one big idea is approaching its sell-by date. And then the moment comes, a perspective shift hits and the genius is the guy who burned through billions of their dollars and is still promising them Pi in the sky while the future has moved on.

Obama is no longer the future. He can’t be. Not on his second term. The smart money is no longer on books explaining why he succeeds, but books explaining what went wrong. The old genius has to make way for the next genius who will make the same exact mistakes, but offer a little more variety.

The game could have gone on a little longer, if only Obama hadn’t made the mistake of actually assuming that he could deliver, if he hadn’t been so taken by the applause of the crowd and the outcome of the rigged matches, that he actually tried to wrestle one of the slabs of muscle for real.

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