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Posted on 06/19/2010 2:48:54 AM PDT by Scanian
The BP spill won't destroy Barack Obama's presi dency. It won't even signifi cantly dent his standing in polls, if current trends hold. But it should mark the end of a period of unbridled liberal presumption that began with his rise in 2007.
In his new book, "The Icarus Syndrome," Peter Beinart writes of "hubris bubbles" that infect American foreign policy after successes. In the domestic arena, liberalism has been riding its most expansive hubris bubble since Lyndon Johnson modestly declared on the cusp of the Great Society, "These are the most hopeful times since Christ was born."
Those millennial expectations returned with the honeyed words of Obama. He promised to heal the planet and turn back the tide of rising oceans, and liberals believed him. So when a mere 35,000-60,000 barrels of oil a day gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico produced a crisis beyond his control, they lashed out in frustration.
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This may be the first hubris bubble to affect any country’s policies after a string of failures. Obama and his followers are grinning at the idea that no matter what he touches, the outcome is the same, and so many are oblivious to the fact that all those efforts are unmitigated disasters.
I'm often pretty pessimistic, but I don't see how he can say that. Where are the Obama numbers at now compared to the start of his term?
The fact that forty percent still approve of this feckless loser is scandalous.
When private initiative/tech plugs the hole and cleans up the spill, guess who will take all the credit.
Just prior to the 2012 election cycle, no doubt!
I think the BP incident if viewed upon in the near future will be portrayed as the mark in time when Obama was deemed too far gone for any possible recovery.
All the normal predictions have to be tossed out the window, Obama will not recover from this at all.
Not even if he mailed a solid gold brick to each and every American.
Jimmy Carter was stupid and incompetent. Obama is evil.
Go look at rasmussen today... this he is at his lowest and falling.
LLS
A lib I know is always whining "November is an eternity away in politics" and basically he's right. But other than some attack (which could result in his numbers tanking even more, seeing how he would no doubt respond), I have to think of an actual event which would change things. Knowing his nature, I can't think of one.
“It won’t even significantly dent his standing in polls, if current trends hold.”
“I’m often pretty pessimistic, but I don’t see how he can say that.”
Taken literally “if current trends hold” implies that Obama was on a downward slide in poll numbers before the oil spill and that will continue after the oil spill. The spill itself won’t appreciably alter the trajectory of this downward slope.
I haven’t examined the polls in great detail, but my general impression of the trends is that this claim is a plausible one. It’s not like there was some obvious sharp downward turn in his popularity following the spill. The decline has been much more steady and gradual than that.
It is interesting that some of those running against him in the 2008 primaries were prophetic in what they said about Obama. Biden’s the Oval Office is not the place for on the job training and Hillary’s who do you want to answer the crisis phone call in the White House at 2 am were never more true.
True, but don't count on him losing office. I have felt al along he is no different that Chavez, and he has a very willing press, that already is calling on him to declare himself a dictator. I don't see any RNC leadership denouncing him over his power grab, do you?
I keep worrying that he will just quiet down, do a couple of reasonable things and turn the tide somewhat for the Dems for the fall election. What do we get?
Lawsuits vs Arizona, trashing BP, non-waiver of the Jones Act (this is going to become a huge issue- MSM might even cover it soon), blaming repubs for no legislation (when even dopey dems know they have large majorities), and the big daddy- keep on asking for billions of more dollars -unfunded - to extend unemployment.
I sincerely feel for the unemployed, but for some, if you keep paying them to stay home, why look for a job? 2 years of unemployment benefits = welfare. Even welfare has to stop after 2 years (a rare Clinton achievement).
The One will keep it up assuring a landslide in November. They know this which is why they are trying to cram through everything in the last 6 weeks - cap and tax, doctor fix, etc.
I think the band Aerosmith said it best ... "Dream On!"
ping
LLS
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