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| Biden expects his administration to get low approval ratings(!) |
| 2008-10-20 |
| Jim Geraghty, "Campaign Spot" @ National Review I hadn't seen this part of Biden's remarks at a fundraiser in Seattle: Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us." Extremely interesting comments here. I have been predicting that the next president was going to inherit so many problems, with such unpopular and slow-progressing solutions, that the presidency would almost seem like a poisoned chalice. Tom Daschle told a Washington power breakfast that he thought the winner of the election would have a 50 per cent chance at best - at best - of winning a second term in 2012. Interesting to see that Biden is expecting a rough ride from January 2009 to fall 2010. And I wonder if he meant that his audience at that moment - liberal donors - were going to have to be prepared to stick with an Obama-Biden administration. Is it because the new administration will be unpopular, be perceived as failing, or that they will chart a course that will be more conservative than these liberal donors would want? My guess: they'll go whole hog for the liberal laundry list: card-check, federally funded abortions, bailing on Iraq, and raise taxes--all stuff that's not popular if you poll issue by issue. Then, when the economy slows down, and people get buyer's remorse, . . . His comment seems to suggest that within one year, these donors' faith in Obama and Biden will be shaken. Interesting, and probably too honest for his own good... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 It is very possible that many Democrats do not know how Socalist Obama is and Biden knows that when they learn they will be unhappy. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-20 20:19 |
| #3 A regular friggin Nostrodamus... Ain't he the guy that said "I have seen the future...and boy, is it dumb!"? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-10-20 18:22 |
| #2 The approval ratings will be low until the "Fairness Doctrine" kicks in and all dissent is stifled. Then you'll only hear "Happy News". |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2008-10-20 18:04 |
| #1 Geez, Joe's chockfull of wisdom today. A regular friggin Nostrodamus... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-20 15:35 |