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2010-07-14 Home Front: Politix

Obama's collapsing approval rating -- it's all the voters' fault

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Posted by Mike 2010-07-14 08:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yes, we are impatient not to see traditional American continue on a cultural and economic inversion by Hussein Obama.

Posted by HammerHead 2010-07-14 08:32|| 2010-07-14 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Regardless of whether or not Lincoln or FDR could govern today, at least they believed in the America that was founded on an idea. Obama doesn't. That is what people are fed up with.

Posted by Spot 2010-07-14 08:43|| 2010-07-14 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Collapsing poll numbers? I read that as collapsing golf numbers, which would have been really tragic considering all the practice he's been getting.

Posted by Matt 2010-07-14 09:13|| 2010-07-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 In the run-up to the 1980 election there were any number of pundits moaning about the fact that the problems the country was facing were too big to be solved, regardless of who was president. So why not vote for Carter?

The nation voted for Reagan. The problems weren't too big. It had just been that the president was too small.

Posted by Fred 2010-07-14 09:54|| 2010-07-14 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Terrible idea that democracy and that consent of the governed thingy. Who needs representative government when the ruling class knows better about the size of government, health care, taxes, open borders and the evils of national identity. "We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live." /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-14 10:37|| 2010-07-14 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The press sold us a cipher. Now the cipher is unraveling. That's all. We didn't get to meet the real Bammo before we elected him. Now that we've finally learned something about him we don't like it.

Posted by Iblis 2010-07-14 11:11|| 2010-07-14 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 The media sold me nuthin. I knew what I was getting. An inexperienced, narcissist dilletante with no track record of accomplishing anything of substance. And he hasn't disappointed...

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-14 11:16|| 2010-07-14 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 We are quick to rush to judgment, we are too negative, we are too impatient. Especially impatient.

Was he also saying this during Katrina?

I gotta tell you, I don't think Abraham Lincoln -- who certainly didn't get everything right the first time -- could govern today

Yeah, it must have been so much simpler governing during a civil war.

Stupid Lincoln!

Posted by charger 2010-07-14 11:20|| 2010-07-14 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 I can't say I completely disagree with Bill Press's assertion that the American people are spoiled and impatient. We need not look any further than the 2008 election to confirm it. Obama promised hope and change without any concrete plan of what that really meant, what it would actually entail, and the American people in their impatience and sense of entitlement, were all to quick to embrace it.

He was supposed to be the post-partisan, post-racial pragmatic leader the world had been waiting for. Instead he has been a hyper-partisan, race-baiting, and aimless leader bordering on incompetence. Since he took office the economy has worsened and the world has gotten more dangerous, while the domestic fracture lines of race and class have widened as a result of his policies. In Obama's mind, America is not exceptional, free enterprise is part of the problem and not part of the solution, and our enemies should be treated more like our allies and our allies more like our enemies. Meanwhile, the Middle East marches ever closer to a nuclear arms race, bad actors around the world navigate their way through the corrridors of power with impunity, the unemployment rate shows no signs of improvement anytime soon, and he's spending the country into indentured servitude.

Contrary to his campaign promises he has delivered dismay instead of hope, and more of the bad same than any real, positive change.

Bottomline: The American people may be spoiled, impatient, and critical but we are only so because of the expectations set by Obama. He told us if we just did what he said, things would get better. But it's obvious to even the most obtuse observer that they haven't. So before you blame the American people, however much they deserve part of the blame, simple logic demands that you first hold Obama accountable for over-promising and under-delivering.

Posted by eltoroverde 2010-07-14 11:32|| 2010-07-14 11:32|| Front Page Top

#10 "Don't you ungrateful peons know who he is?"

Posted by mojo 2010-07-14 11:41|| 2010-07-14 11:41|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think Abraham Lincoln -- who certainly didn't get everything right the first time -- could govern today

He didn't get everything right, but he got this one right - "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time". Barry's problem is that he's no longer got us fooled.

Posted by DMFD 2010-07-14 19:02|| 2010-07-14 19:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Makes me wonder if I'm spoiled...no, maybe I just expect people to be like me.

Posted by Skidmark 2010-07-15 00:01|| 2010-07-15 00:01|| Front Page Top

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