Posted on 01/20/2011 2:26:28 PM PST by teg_76
We can deny it all we want, but even Rasmussen has him improving. I cannot stand this administration so I have no objectivity at all. Is this a Tuscon bounce? Is it a product of a Republican house?
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Because he didn’t let the Tucson crisis go to waste. He capitalized on it for political gain. He has no moral character.
It rises with the ebb and flow of things. I strongly believe as we have seen from his first two years his arrogance will be the undoing of him shortly and his numbers will fall again.
He’s not really doing anything. His numbers plummeted when he and Witch Pelosi rammed unwanted and unneeded legislation up our...er...down our throats. He has not done anything to piss people off lately.
Beck controls all of TV ??
The recent Wellstone 2011 helped.
In fact, it wouldn't surprise me to see a complete repudiation of the Democrats in the Senate, with heavy losses there, and a larger GOP majority, yet combined with his reelection.
Unfortunately, you heard it here first.
I predicted that summer last year or even earlier when it looked like Republicans started having a decent chance to do a 1994/1996-esque rerun.
Firstly, I dont' think he will be able to stand for election in 2012 given the gaffes that his commie buddy Abercrombie has been making and secondly, if gas hits 4 dollars a gallon, let alone 5 bucks as some are precicting....my dearly departed dog Stray could beat him....just sayin....
If extending the Bush tax cuts and taking political advantage of a senseless tragedy by reading a speech that he didn’t write from a teleprompter are enough to boost any American’s opinion of this president, we have even more reason for pessimism then I thought.
The American electorate is a strange, ill informed, selfish bunch, and seems bent on suicide by politician. The next few years could be very interesting, indeed.
i could win alot of money if sometime before 2012 obamao says ‘the era of big government is over!’
White House Insider: Obama “Celebrates Shortly After Delivering Tucson Memorial Speech”
Published by Ulsterman on January 17, 2011 in World Politics
“I cannot reconcile with that kind of behavior in a leader. There really is something missing in him. Some basic element of humanity.”
Regarding Obama’s attitude on this tragedy.
Here is something that you will never hear from the media but that some witnessed shortly after the memorial service had finished.
Behind the staging area, Obama gave Michelle a “high five” and shared a laugh with her.
So within minutes of seeing what is Obama’s finest moment as president it is followed by “one of his worst”.
It is this easy and always there contradiction in the president that concerns me very very much.
He was just thrilled at his performance. That was priority #1 for him. It always is.
The motivation for his speech was not to heal following the tragedy, but to further appeal to the public and get their approval of him.
It’s similar to that story I told you about Obama coming into the military meeting at the WH. He came in laughing and left early laughing.
Maybe a photo of the high five will be released?
I was told one was taken at any rate.
I cannot reconcile with that kind of behavior in a leader. There really is something missing in him. Some basic element of humanity. Or humility???
Even by DC political standards the human element in Obama seems to be utterly absent. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it. And that scares the hell out of me. So that’s my assessment of the Tucson speech.
Jarrett now remains. It’s “her” White House.
Will be very interesting to watch and see if Daley challenges that, especially if he has Chicago information that could compromise Jarrett/Obama
Oh, and also heard from reliable source Geithner soon to announce he is leaving.
He will be the next big name to drop in this administration. There was apparently quite a battle over that over last couple months but in the end Jarrett sided with recomendation he should step down. If Geithner has lost Jarrett’s support then he is in fact done
This WH insider has been correct on everything except Pelosi leaving & being damaging to Obama... He said she must have been offered a big deal & that’s why she was given the minority leader of House
It has to be because the Hawaii Govenor has put to rest the COB controversy, once and for all.
Poll numbers are irrelevant. The only poll that counts is the one in November.
I follow Ramussen’s number almost daily and every few months do a statistical correlation analysis.
Obama’s “strongly against” numbers started going down almost immediately after the election of a Republican congress. Now they are down to the level they were between the stimulus being passed but before health care was announced. My guess is that people didn’t approve of him letting congress do whatever it wanted. Perhaps now that he preforms his constitutionally correct role of checking the house, people will warm up to him. Intuitively, Americans understand the constitutional system of checks.
His “approves” in the Rasmussen polls have gone up slightly since the lame duck. Not by very much though. Rasmussen filters for likely voters. Other polls just poll adults with a weak correction for party affiliation. My guess is that the difference between the light rise in Rasmussen and the greater increase in other polls is that people who don’t vote are feeling better about him.
The new polls are not good news to him. They have had no effect on Republican / Democratic party affiliation. In fact, more people identify themselves as Republicans since the election. Everyone likes a winner.
They are bad news to Republican presidential hopefuls. I think people would be very leery of putting any one party in charge of the Senate, House and Executive branch again.
This is horrible news for anyone who thinks the Republicans should wait for a Republican president before balancing the budget. We may have to wait until 2016 for that. We’ll be in default by that point and Obama will be asked to assume extra-constitutional duties and no one will be able to stop him.
Democrats have returned to the fold after the election and start of the new Congress. The Market is up also. Obama really had no place to go but up.
You mean the generic IDIOT in the street dont you?
"Here is a country in which all political thought and activity are concentrated upon the scramble for jobs—in which the normal politician, whether he be a President or a village road supervisor, is willing to renounce any principal, however precious to him, and to adopt any lunacy, however offensive to him, in order to keep his place at the trough.Go into politics, then, without seeking or wanting office, and at once you are as conspicuous as a red-haired blackamoor—in fact, a great deal more conspicuous, for red-haired blackamoors have been seen, but who has ever seen or heard of an American politician, Democrat or Republican, Socialist or Liberal, Whig or Tory, who did not itch for a job?
...Once more, here is the Paradise of back-slappers, of democrats, of mixers, of go-getters. Maintain ordinary reserve, and you will arrest instant attention—and have your hand kissed by multitudes who, despite democracy, have all the inferior man’s unquenchable desire to grovel and admire.
Nowhere else is the world is superiority more easily attained or more eagerly admitted. The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus."
H.L. Mencken, from "On Being An American".
Well, people should be pissed at him. He has done things, but you didn’t hear about it.
Plan on that for the next two years. If you want to hear about Obama and his czars ruling by executive order, you and I better hope that talk radio and the GOP House make damn certain we know what he is up to. Otherwise he will be seen as moving to the center. Which he isn’t.
Here’s my hate speech for the year:
“My fellow Americans, I hate the Obama Administration. And God Bless America”
End of speech.
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