The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama

USnews ^ | 1/21/2010 | Mortimer B. Zuckerman

[ezfindit]

The air is seeping out of the Obama balloon. He has fallen to below 50 percent in the poll approval ratings, a decline punctuated by his party’s shocking loss in the Massachusetts special election. Why?

His promiscuity on TV has made him seem as if he is still a candidate instead of president and commander in chief. He—and his advisers—have failed to appreciate that national TV speeches are best reserved for those moments when the country faces a major crisis or a war. Now he faces the iron law of diminishing novelty.

Despite this apparent accessibility, Obama’s reliance on a teleprompter for flawless delivery made for boring and unemotional TV, compounding his cerebral and unemotional style. He has seemed not close but distant, not engaged but detached. Is it any wonder that the mystique of his presidency has eroded so that fewer people have listened to each successive foray?

[ezfindit]

The consequence is that there isn’t a single critical problem on which the president has a positive public rating. Only a minority of Americans now believe the president will make the right decisions for the country.

[Carley]

And there he is, campaigning in Ohio.

[bella1]

Morti voted for Obambi.

[Huskrrrr]

“Obama’s reliance on a teleprompter for flawless delivery made for boring and unemotional TV”

This is scathing considering the source: US Snooze. You rock groupies loved this for the past year.

[Tawiskaro]

[ezfindit]

“Obama’s reliance on a teleprompter for flawless delivery made for boring and unemotional TV”

This is scathing considering the source: US Snooze. You rock groupies loved this for the past year.

Exactly! If these guys are slamming BO, you know it's really, really bad out there. Finally the slumber is dissipating.

[gimme1ibertee]

As the old saying goes: “The bigger they are.....”

How true,how true!!!

[Bobalu]

[ClearCase_guy]

a decline punctuated by his party’s shocking loss in the Massachusetts special election.

Ahem.

Obama has been in decline for months.

Then Unemployment hit double digits.
Then NJ elected a Republican to replace Corzine.
Then MA elected a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy.
Then Health care imploded.
Then the Supreme Court struck down McCain-Feingold.
Then the stock market started tanking after Obama declared war on banks.

The commercial real estate crash is just around the corner.

The slide began a long time ago, and it will continue for about another 3 years. The MA election is a point of interest, but it is not central to the phenomenon.

[bvw]

Detached is right. He’s clinically insane.

[Vigilanteman]

Yeah, he did. He also pimped him to a sleeping sheeple.

Whether he has woke to smell the coffee (or more correctly, the sugar coated turd) or whether he is simply trying to reestablish his tainted "objective reporter" credentials, only Morti knows for sure.

In either case, the first ones to 'fess up to their mistake are going to emerge with the least damage in their waning credibility. Like the Nazis in Hitler's inner circle, most will hang on until the bitter end, but a few will have the sense to bail out early. I wonder who will be next.

[hosepipe]

Obamas balloon is in reality a prophylactic...
Filled with the helium of rhetoric.. it floats on a sea of air..
But was made for an entirely different PURPOSE.....

BEND over America, here it comes again(BOHICA)..

[Tribune7]

Mort, only a dumb-ass couldn't have seen this in the spring of '08.

What were you writing about 0 then, btw?

[hsalaw]

America’s image is better, no doubt, but uncertainty and procrastination prevail. One major international political leader recently put it well: “Not only does the leadership of this region not think that Obama is strong enough to confront his enemies; they aren’t sure he is strong enough to support his friends.” The administration seems “hopelessly naive,” according to one Arab foreign minister, and unable to face the full truth about Islamic terrorism.

So Zuckerman thinks that because the Obozo is regarded as weak and futile, "America's image is better"? Only a disillusioned leftist loon who's lost his few remaining grey cells could think that.

[ezfindit]

That’s hilarious!

[MortMan]

...compounding his cerebral and unemotional style.

If THAT is a "cerebral style", I'd hate to see a lobotomized style!

[Badabing Badablonde]

His declining approval and popularity are directly related to the elements that got him elected. The celeb-u-tician will seem invincible for a time, but eventually go the way of the pet rock and Rubik’s Cube.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Mort's not happy with his little buddy. This is a very damaging analysis.

At last, the media is turning on the One.

[DarthVader]

Obama is like Icarus of Greek mythology who flew to close to the sun whose heat melted his wings, then he plunged to his death in the Aegean Sea.

[etradervic]

It was noteworthy that Brown began to really pull away in the polls when Obama started campaigning in Massachusetts.