Posted on 11/01/2013 2:32:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
President Obama often blames Republicans for taking America from crisis to crisis. Fiscal cliff! Government shutdown! Near default!
But self-inflicted wounds can be the most painful of all. And in the spirit of President Harry Buck Stops Here Truman, Mr. Obama may have no one but himself to blame for the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website whose proper functioning is key to the success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the signature initiative of Obamas presidency.
Presidential scholars are baffled that someone whose legacy rests on the success of the ACA reinforced by a nickname, "Obamacare," that includes his name was by all accounts caught off-guard by the websites problems.
The simultaneous diplomatic brouhaha over US eavesdropping on close allies, which also apparently blind-sided the president, reinforces the impression that Obama operates in a bubble.
He looks like a detached manager who has delegated inefficiently and doesnt know when information needs to reach him, says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
This week, public outrage over Americans receiving health-insurance cancellation notices has added to Obamas woes, as his longstanding promise that people who like their plan can keep their plan has proved to be false. His biggest sin may have been oversimplification.
At times, he has explained that plans in effect in March 2010 would be grandfathered in. But because people in the individual market tend to change coverage frequently, many plans dont qualify. Americans have felt misled. Now they are being reassured that they can get new coverage, often better and cheaper than what they had, but the damage to public perception is done.
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Hussein is — and always has been — just a front man for the shadowy cabal of Leftists who snuck him into office.
I wonder what Fidel promised his people in their newly ‘liberated’ aka changed nation?
Perception plays no part. Lying is the issue.
Anti-American socialism is the issue. He told us who he was: people didn’t believe him.
What a load of crap! Elmer Fudd couldn’t find his way out of a phone booth, much less run this country. Making excuses for his failures and his lies won’t cut it anymore.
I heard his ratings had dropped by 5 points and then in the same report I heard he was now at 42% approval. Amazing how when he dips into the 30s and there is no good news, he still manages to drift back up near 50%.
That’s the issue for us but the lying crosses all party and ideological lines.
As GHW Bush found out.
“FORCE OBAMACARE TO TAKE THE BLUE PILL”
Nothing will sink Obama. Teflon president. Only when God gets ready.
Obama approval rating sinks:
So what? If his approval was 0% he would still stuck with his agenda.
I've been trying to tell people this for months. You wrote it so eloquently.
Chikins comin’ to hommie to roost! (and peck)
Opinion poll numbers no longer matter; the American people are too confused to figure out much of anything.
It’s Valerie Jarrett and whoever is behind her - that’s who is pulling the strings.
I have no idea why anyone would be baffled by his incompetence. It was obvious from the beginning, when he was still a Senator.
Agree. I no longer get hopeful that the sheeple will clue in - not when I hear of low approval ratings, not when I hear him being made fun of on late-night tv, no matter what I read or hear, he won’t fall. He has too many accomplices propping him up.
To me, he is so obviously evil and so obviously destroying America, it’s beyond comprehension that everyone doesn’t see it. That’s why I think it has to be part of a larger plan.
Senator ‘Present’.
“He has too many accomplices propping him up.”
It’s amazing how few people understand that a guy like Obama doesn’t fall, rather, he takes a nation down.
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