Posted on 10/13/2010 4:37:00 PM PDT by lbryce
The talk of the town for the next few days will be this big piece by Peter Baker in the NYT on President Obama. The piece paints a picture of a despondent administration:
Yet even if the White House saw it coming, this is an administration that feels shellshocked. Many officials worry, they say, that the best days of the Obama presidency are behind them. They talk about whether it is time to move on.
While not in the 30s, Obama’s approval rating in surveys conducted by The New York Times and CBS News had fallen to 45 percent last month from 62 percent when he took office — just a point above where Clinton was before losing Congress in 1994 and three points above where Reagan was before the Republicans lost a couple dozen House seats in 1982.
Joel Benenson, Obama’s pollster, pointed out that even at 45 percent, the president’s popularity eclipses that of Congress, the news media, the banks and other forces in American life. “We are in a time when the American public is highly suspect of any institution,” he said, “and President Obama still stands above that.” Obama’s team takes pride that he has fulfilled three of the five major promises he laid out as pillars of his “new foundation” in an April 2009 speech at Georgetown University — health care, education reform and financial reregulation. And they point to decisions to end the combat mission in Iraq while escalating the war in Afghanistan. “History will judge Obama that the first two years were very productive,” Rouse says.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
There is a phrase that everyone should have learned in grade school civics that would serve all politicians to remember: “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
If the people don’t get the “of” and the “by” and the “for” that they expect, they’re gonna be pissed.
Too early to sell-a-brate, mate, I say, they usually get re-erected in this country. It will remain a textbook case of a Communist infiltrating the seriously flawed political system and rising to the top. I doubt that a such a committed Commie would have been elected in Italy or France. First of all, he’d be representing a party with a specific name and a well defined program, and not a party like our one and a half party that claims to stand for everything good! He could just as well have infiltrated the Stupid party, only it was somewhat easier with the Rats.
“Many officials worry, they say, that the best days of the Obama presidency are behind them.”
Just read this again:
“Many officials worry, they say, that the best days of the Obama presidency are behind them.”
Best laugh I’ve had all day.
Not guilty!
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