Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Real Problem - Why the president’s poll numbers have declined.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | July 28, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

[drangundsturm]

I like Hanson’s columns in general, but I don’t buy Obama’s poll losses are because he isn’t liberal enough. Most of his recent losses are from independents who tend to be more moderate than lib. Yes he is losing some dems as well but probably more of the moderate dems who are among the working class who are getting nailed by the recession, not the limo libs.

[whitedog57]

I have no doubt that O will be re-elected.

The average American doesn’t realize the damage he is doing to the country.

I just lectured to people at the CIA about the state of the economy (but was told not to mention politics). Instead, I said the bank industry is dead and on life support and the banking bill only made matters worse.

[whitedog57]

I have no doubt that O will be re-elected.

The average American doesn’t realize the damage he is doing to the country.

I just lectured to people at the CIA about the state of the economy (but was told not to mention politics). Instead, I said the bank industry is dead and on life support and the banking bill only made matters worse.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”According to a popular myth, President Obama’s declining poll numbers are a consequence of his failure to be liberal enough. On race, in the wake of the Shirley Sherrod mess, we are told he needs to appoint more African Americans and bring in more advisers from the black community. On the economy, liberal economists decry his unwillingness to borrow and stimulate more. .....
First, the voters in 2008 did not vote for liberal change, but for change from the costly and lengthy Bush wars, deficits, spending policies, and immigration proposals. Obama voters were also motivated by a desire to elect our first African-American president, fear over the September 2008 financial meltdown, a lackluster McCain campaign, and the strange perception that Obama was a centrist.
Since his election, Obama has outdone the average Bush deficits by a factor of four or five...”

A good analysis!

[Patton@Bastogne]

no ... zero will NOT be re-elected ... instead his own democratic party (secret leadership) has ALREADY decided that zero is finished ... zero will be DENIED even the opportunity to campaign in the democratic primaries ...

[skeeter]

His point is the ‘Obama’s policies aren’t liberal enough’ line is a myth.

[JustAmy]

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[The_Reader_David]

Did you read the column? The whole point is that Hanson doesn’t buy that O’s poll losses are because he isn’t “liberal” enough, but that his deluded supporters, whether among his “czars”, in the media or among the nutroots think that.

[HerrBlucher]

Hansen said just the opposite, i.e. that attributing his poll decline to not being liberal enough “is lunatic in political terms.”

[SMARTY]

During the campaign process and the actual Presidential election, “O’s” image (we ALL know how) was polished to a blinding veneer. All the flaws (and what candidate is without them) were glossed over, minimized, swept under the carpet... etc... and the man was made into some sort of ‘golden child’ no rational person could reject.

Well...

There is NO cocktail so unwholesome and ruinous as anything the MSM and its political ally are capable of producing when so motivated. And they WERE motivated. McCain was beatable and THAT was all the MSM needed to know. The “O” administration is the perfect political storm for the US.

Unfortunately for “O”, storms expose as much as they destroy.

“O” is flagging with Americans now, because much of his character which was whitewashed during the campaign, is now obvious. Some people REALLY need a house to fall on them.

[hejahale]

I believe you are correct about the average American, but I BELIEVE THEY ARE WAKING-UP. OBOZO IS dead meat but like a corpse the smell will continue for a while.

[rj45mis]

“I have no doubt that O will be re-elected.”

My money’s with you. If the gop had someone who could attract independents and keep the conservative base fired up, the slug presently in the WH likely wouldn’t win reelection, but no doubt the msm will make sure the gop chooses another Bob Dole to run in 2012. We’ll just have to wait and see how this plays out.

[rj45mis]

“some sort of ‘golden child’ no rational person could reject.”

What? Are you implying I’m not rational? :-)

[LibLieSlayer]

If the CIA does not understand what politics are at play here... why are they working for the CIA? It seems obvious to anyone that is not ideologically aligned with satan and his son.

LLS

[Hugin]

The only way Obama can get reelected is if the economy somehow miraculously recovers by 2012. IMHO we will be in a full blown depression by then, with official unemployment in the high teens, and true unemployment double that. People simply won’t put up with it.

[Joan Kerrey]

Little will change until MSM starts realizing their contribution toward the destruction of our society.

If media were doing it's job the Obama team would already be neutralized

[houeto]

I like Hanson’s columns in general, but I don’t buy Obama’s poll losses are because he isn’t liberal enough.

Where did he say that?

[Last Dakotan]

His problem is more fundamental: It is one of self-knowledge.

There, fixed the only thing wrong with the article.