Posted on 06/15/2010 6:18:39 PM PDT by Abakumov
Five weeks into the Hurricane Katrina crisis, President George W. Bush's Gallup weekly public approval rating stood at 45 percent. Five weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank, the same survey pegged President Obama's approval rating at 46 percent. That is bad news for the White House. The worse news is that Mr. Bush's approval rating had increased five points since the Katrina crisis had started; Mr. Obama's has dropped four points.
Katrina is sometimes seen as the breaking point for Mr. Bush's public approval ratings. Mr. Bush's general job approval did not plunge into the permanent 30 percent range until six months later, but his handling of the Katrina response was seen as a leading indicator of his eventual decline. More bad news for the Obama White House is that so far there has been a remarkable similarity in the way the public has rated Mr. Bush's and Mr. Obama's crisis leadership.
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GOP won’t go for the jugular.
Yeah and no one in the media is screaming ‘Obama hates black people’ eh?
Obummer is creating 20 Billion slush fund for Acorn to spend on political items in the Gulf region. Anything to win for Obummer and the rat party.
Bush was done in by horrible PR and miscommunication, not by Katrina itself.
The Gelding Old Party likes Socialism. The (R) behind the name is a decoration. Just throw them all out.
We didn’t hire Obamao to be a leader. We hired him because because it was cool. Pop culture has to have its priorities.
Mac daddy and leadership do not, never did and never will go together.
It was Dr. Strangelove’s speech: Some small part of humanity will survive behind energy efficient windows and homes powered by feeble windmill power while the oceans turn black and the world is destroyed by the doomsday oil leak.
MEIN FUEHRER! I CAN VALK!!
All together now...
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Very bad news, indeed, for Obama.
He is 46% despite the support from the state-run media. President Bush was 45% because of the 24/7 barrage of criticism from the liberal media.
I’m sorry but first...
he would need to “Step Up”
Now that’s a pretty decent come-back. ;^)
Bush did not ask for it.
This remains the point I disagree with our Obama detractors about.
There is a systemic bias within our journalistic, academic, and punditry classes. This bias is so putrid that it is destroying America.
The Bush response to Katrina was actually rather effective:
1. Largest military operation responding to a disaster domestically— utilizing blackhawk helicopters to literally pick victims and their pets off roof tops. Navy vessels were brought in behind the hurricane— tailing the storm.
2. Limiting deaths to 1,000 when almost all predictions of such a storm hitting New Orleans projected at least 10,000 deaths.
3. Urged evacuation emergencies prior to the disaster which local officials in Louisiana chose to ignore— frankly it ought to be said that Blanco and Nagin wanted to kill black people— in order profit politically.
4. Appointed effective local military governance in the form of Stuck on Stupid General.
Reality is that we live in dangerous propaganda culture which is only being presently contained by a relatively radicalized public that is borderline enraged. There are simply too many targets for our Anti American propagandists to destroy at the speed of light. This propaganda culture is the true enemy— not Bush and not even Obama.
Obama is a distinct manifestation of this propaganda culture— but they can manufacture more folks like him once they are done with him.
Ramming Bush down their throats is key to overcoming this bogus intellectual elite.
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