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Obama approval rating sinks: a self-inflicted wound?
Yahoo! News ^ | 11/1/13 | Linda Feldmann - CSM

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 Obama’s 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 website’s 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 doesn’t 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 Obama’s 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 don’t 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; approvalrating; bubbleboy; deathpanels; obama; obamacare; selfinflicted; sinks; zerocare
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1 posted on 11/01/2013 2:32:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Hussein is — and always has been — just a front man for the shadowy cabal of Leftists who snuck him into office.


2 posted on 11/01/2013 2:33:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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I wonder what Fidel promised his people in their newly ‘liberated’ aka changed nation?


3 posted on 11/01/2013 2:35:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge

Perception plays no part. Lying is the issue.


4 posted on 11/01/2013 2:36:56 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07

Anti-American socialism is the issue. He told us who he was: people didn’t believe him.


5 posted on 11/01/2013 2:38:43 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


6 posted on 11/01/2013 2:41:32 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: NormsRevenge

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%.


7 posted on 11/01/2013 2:43:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: skeeter

That’s the issue for us but the lying crosses all party and ideological lines.


8 posted on 11/01/2013 2:44:40 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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True - even low info types recognize and despise a lie.

As GHW Bush found out.

9 posted on 11/01/2013 2:46:26 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: NormsRevenge

“FORCE OBAMACARE TO TAKE THE BLUE PILL”


10 posted on 11/01/2013 2:48:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Nothing will sink Obama. Teflon president. Only when God gets ready.


11 posted on 11/01/2013 2:49:20 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama approval rating sinks:

So what? If his approval was 0% he would still stuck with his agenda.


12 posted on 11/01/2013 2:50:02 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: BenLurkin
<8i>Hussein is — and always has been — just a front man for the shadowy cabal of Leftists who snuck him into office.

I've been trying to tell people this for months. You wrote it so eloquently.

13 posted on 11/01/2013 2:50:21 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Chikins comin’ to hommie to roost! (and peck)


14 posted on 11/01/2013 2:51:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Opinion poll numbers no longer matter; the American people are too confused to figure out much of anything.


15 posted on 11/01/2013 2:56:08 PM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s Valerie Jarrett and whoever is behind her - that’s who is pulling the strings.


16 posted on 11/01/2013 2:56:11 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: NormsRevenge

I have no idea why anyone would be baffled by his incompetence. It was obvious from the beginning, when he was still a Senator.


17 posted on 11/01/2013 2:59:02 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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.


18 posted on 11/01/2013 2:59:45 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Tammy8

Senator ‘Present’.


19 posted on 11/01/2013 3:00:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: JudyinCanada

“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.


20 posted on 11/01/2013 3:10:24 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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