Posted on 12/28/2009 5:52:06 AM PST by Zakeet
She's on vacation now in Hawaii, so what does she care?
But as the first calendar year of the new White House regime draws to a close, First Lady Michelle Obama is experiencing the same drop in poll numbers as her husband. She's not elected, of course, and not charged at least officially with making the tough executive decisions that come out of the Oval Office.
As a result, first ladies have typically fared better in different public opinion polls than their more controversial husbands. And now even as the female Harvard lawyer in the family and the one with the famously buff arms, Mrs. O still remains somewhat more popular than her spouse.
(Sarah Palin's favorable poll ratings, btw, have risen steadily in recent months to the mid-40s. But although neither woman holds an elected office, that's something entirely different.)
A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 55% of Americans have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of Mrs. Obama. That's down 7 points, or 11%, since November's survey and it's her lowest approval level since holding the Bible for her Democratic husband, Barack, to take the oath of office on that cold D.C day back on Jan. 20.
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Neither Obama is running for any office in next fall's crucial midterm elections, of course. But declining approval rates for both could indicate not only a general falling out of love with the couple but further electoral trouble for Democratic campaigns during double-digit unemployment and an increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.
Mrs. Obama's highest approval since Rasmussen began monitoring the first lady's public standing last winter was 67% and her previous low was 57%. Fewer than 1 in 3 Americans (31%) now regard her very favorably.
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If you’re gonna be a beard, ya might as well be a good one.
in my opinion that utterly self-serving and arrogant speech before the Olympic Committee in Copenhagen did a whole lot of damage
Personally I don't think either one of them has a clue on how a president and the president's family should present themselves when they're out in public. They've picked friends and paid 'debts' to those that supported him in his run for the Presidency. There's a major difference in how a community organizer and wife present themselves versus how a president and first lady comport themselves.
It's not just how they dress, it's also how they act in public, how they 'gift' other country's leader's and proper Presidential protocol.
Michelle, you wanted to be the First Lady so you also have to assume the 'mantle' and responsibilities that go along with the job. You don't get a pass because of your husband's hopey-changey bs.
The media gushing over her ghastly wardrobe doesn't help her either.
The 'Boob Belt' fad couldn't last forever ;-)
LOL, Manchelle.
Is that all she did? I’m surprised she wasn’t taking food off over people’s plates. She’s got QUITE a set of hips to keep up!
“She’s got a pair of hips just like two battleships,
I buy her everything to keep her in style...while...while...while she wears silk underwear, I wear my last year’s pair,
Say, boys, that’s where my money goes..goes...goes...goes....goes!”
Odd. My opinion of Michelle Obama hasn’t changed at all over the last year and a half. My opinion of her is exactly where it was when she gave her ‘for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of America’ hate speech.
She appears to be packing on the pounds in the last few months
She appears to be packing on the pounds in the last few months
Don’t hold back. Tell us what you really think. ;-)
I wonder how drunk she got while on vacation?
:)
(Can we get a REAL First Lady back, please???)
“...the seemingly-permanent “ANGRY BITCH” look...”
LOL, I had to come back to this tread a reply to this post. I went to the whitehouse.gov site today (so I could call up and tell them Napolitano needs to go, etc.) and the first thing I see there is a photo of Obama and Michele, and what do you know she’s got the worst look on her face. Much worse than in the pictures here. This is the OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE, and she looks like an evil queen out of Disney or like Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate (she was so great in that movie). I couldn’t believe it. Photo credit to Chuck Kennedy, who should either be fired or given an award.
These folks are just beyond the pale. They can’t even make themselves look good.
Laura Bush’s numbers were in the 80’s.
(Can we get a REAL First Lady back, please???)
Will you settle for one hunk of a FIRST DUDE?
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