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Could Obama Be Invincible? (Barack the Unbreakable)
nytimes.com ^ | March 20, 2010 | CHARLES M. BLOW

Posted on 03/20/2010 5:20:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

As we stand at the verge of the historic vote on the health care bill — a signature piece of President Obama’s agenda — it feels appropriate to take a look at how he has fared during the long slog that got us here. My quick assessment: remarkably well.

First, let’s take his job approval rating. Yes, it slid during the summer, but it stabilized around 50 percent in November and has hovered there ever since.

The empty-headed chattering class began another round of speculation and inane analysis this week when his approval rating dropped to 46 percent, its lowest yet. Silly pundits.

It was a minor tick and overplayed. If I were a Republican strategist (God forbid!), I would actually be very worried that the lower 50s/upper 40s could be Obama’s bottom. He has weathered some of the worst months of his young presidency recently, and his numbers have barely budged.

The second thing to remember is that job approval is only one measure of how well a president connects with the electorate.

At the conclusion of his Wednesday appearance on Fox News, insolent interviewer Bret Baier interrupted the president for the umpteenth time to ask him if he thought that the health care bill would pass. Obama responded with a familiar line: “I do. I’m confident it will pass. And the reason I’m confident that it’s going to pass is because it’s the right thing to do.”

This idea that he wants reform “because it’s the right thing to do” resonates with people. Whether they agree with him or not, they seem to genuinely believe that he has good intentions and that he is, at his base, a good man. This view of him has so penetrated the public that it often goes unspoken.

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To: Free ThinkerNY

Where was the BARF ALERT?


21 posted on 03/20/2010 5:26:43 PM PDT by TailspinJim (PC is BS)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Was that Chuck Blow or Blow Chunks?

22 posted on 03/20/2010 5:27:52 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: frposty

According to my most recent issue of “Imprimis” that figure for government handouts is not 46% but about 60%.


23 posted on 03/20/2010 5:28:06 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: TailspinJim

Day late and a dollar short again!


24 posted on 03/20/2010 5:28:15 PM PDT by TailspinJim (PC is BS)
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To: NoobRep

He’s a street corner con man hand-picked because he was talented at parroting the right lines.


25 posted on 03/20/2010 5:28:53 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
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To: johniegrad

Hey, wait a minute. That’s the guy from the protest today that called me “Whitey”.


26 posted on 03/20/2010 5:29:19 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Jet Jaguar

What a love fest. I will never like this obama man and my hatred for him is ever more in stone.


27 posted on 03/20/2010 5:29:25 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: Blue Turtle

Has anyone hypothesized what will happen if it is passed short term as well as long term?


28 posted on 03/20/2010 5:29:32 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: 1951Boomer

Oh, but Hussein will be different...NOT!


29 posted on 03/20/2010 5:29:54 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Free ThinkerNY

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/3EFBFFFF018E0611001700A33D22/


30 posted on 03/20/2010 5:30:00 PM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Mr. Blow, a delusional Obama zombie (redundant I know), is already chanting “who is like unto the beast, who can make war with him?”


31 posted on 03/20/2010 5:30:51 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Somebody pencil this writer in for a suicide watch around election time.


32 posted on 03/20/2010 5:30:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Jet Jaguar

You beat me to it.


33 posted on 03/20/2010 5:30:57 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How do I know he didn’t plagiarize this article?


34 posted on 03/20/2010 5:31:54 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was also “historic” as was 9-11-01.

and the Wannsee Conference.

35 posted on 03/20/2010 5:32:37 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
despite Obama’s 46 percent approval rating, 61 percent of Americans still say that he is inspiring

Yeah. He inspires me to work against him.

Sheesh!

36 posted on 03/20/2010 5:32:52 PM PDT by earlJam
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To: Free ThinkerNY
", I would actually be very worried that the lower 50s/upper 40s could be Obama’s bottom."

While this Charles Blow definitely needs to put down the crack pipe, I do think he's not too far off here. I don't imagine that Obama will ever dip much below 40%.

PBS could show videotape of Barry molesting goats in the oval office, and to many on the left, it would only endear him more. Plus, the blacks are never going to abandon him. That's just the political reality. And, I don't think the Hispanics are much more apt to leave him.

Combined, that makes up about 20% of the entire electorate, or slightly more. Add that to the 20% hard-core leftist, commie-pinko, Chavez-Castro lovers, and you get 40%.

37 posted on 03/20/2010 5:33:18 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: All

Look out below...!

38 posted on 03/20/2010 5:33:45 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Don't think so...
39 posted on 03/20/2010 5:34:04 PM PDT by quantim
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The most shocking thing about the article is the comments made by the empty headed liberals that follow it.


40 posted on 03/20/2010 5:34:44 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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