Posted on 10/29/2011 11:02:44 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama: Mr. Likable.
At least that's what the president's advisers hope Americans who are frustrated by the economy and looking for someone to blame will remember when they vote next November.
His team is emphasizing the president's "regular guy" appeal, putting him in small-town diners, at roadside pit stops and on Jay Leno's couch. Those settings are designed to highlight his likeability, a political strength, even as the economy, a political weakness, sputters along a year before the 2012 election.
During his recent bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, the president surprised lunchtime crowds at small-town restaurants and barbecue joints. He took fielded questions from students at a rural high school. One girl asked him if he knew pop singer Justin Bieber.
While out West last week, Obama talked with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" about his trip to a popular chicken and waffle house in Los Angeles, where he ordered the No. 9 "Country Boy" on the menu. The president also joked about first lady Michelle Obama's penchant for handing out healthy Halloween treats.
"She's been giving, for the last few years, kids fruit and raisins in a bag. And I said, `The White House is going to get egged. ... You need to throw some candy in there ... a couple Reese's Pieces or something,'" Obama said to laughter.
All kidding aside, Obama's strong personal favorability ratings in polls are the counterpoint to his sagging job approval numbers. Advisers privately acknowledge that's what is helping his overall standing hold fairly steady in the mid-40s.
A recent Associated Press-GfK poll showed that 54 percent of adults had a favorable impression of the president, while 44 percent had an unfavorable one. It's a picture virtually unchanged since the end of his first year...
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regular not.
guy not.
Herman Cain has the "regular guy appeal" locked up. He's the real deal.
This is not going to work. Obama makes Mitt Romney look like a stevedore.
Regular guy, That’s the funniest thing I have heard this year.
“A recent Associated Press-GfK poll showed that 54 percent of adults had a favorable impression of the president, while 44 percent had an unfavorable one.”
Those polled were the 36,000 a night ringside butt-sniffers and he only has 54% of them who can stand his arrogance. Why? because they are just like him.
Yeah ... because between his meals of arugula and Kobe beef, he has a Bud Light every now and then ... when the cameras are on him. What a regular guy!
He;s in a world of his own - all bad.
He’s just a Ben & Jerry’s lickin’ kinda guy.
Too many people thought they were sending the Huxtables to the White House...imagine their surprise.
Yep, I'm convinced!! /s
Lies, lies and more fricken lies. I’m sick of it.
I have never held so much contempt for any man.
That would be the fake obama who appears on Leno to deceive the brain dead masses.
Oh, yeah....all of the “regular guys” I know golf when there’s a crisis in the family, spend their summers at Martha’s Vineyard, Christmases in Hawaii, dine regularly on fresh lobster and Wagyu steaks and think nothing of using separate taxpayer-funded planes for his wife and him to get to their exotic locations at their own convenience.
He's into RVing just like a regular guy...
Wow. That just shows how removed from reality Obama and the people around him really are.
Post of the thread!
A regular guy in the leadership in communist China or the old U.S.S.R.
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