Posted on 04/28/2009 9:22:59 AM PDT by Schnucki
It's official: Barack Obama is the second most reviled newbie president of the last forty years. A gallup survey today published in the Washington Times shows Obama to have an approval rating of just 56 per cent. The only president to have performed worse than that at the end of his first 100 days in office was Bill Clinton - and only then because it happened to coincide with the spectacular mishandling of the Waco siege, which might reasonably be laid at the door of ATF and FBI incompetence rather than presidential negligence.
Obama's low approval ratings, however, are all of his own making. He campaigned as a healing moderate who would take the US beyond partisan politics and restore the economy; instead he has terrified all those Americans who rightly abhor the idea of adopting European socialist, with the most sweeping advance of the progressive agenda and growth in the power of the state since the days of FDR's New Deal.
His cheerleaders in the mainstream media deny this is so. "Public thinks highly of Obama" was USA Today's unbiased response to the polls, while the editor of Newsweek has argued he always campaigned as a progressive.
But the Post argues otherwise: 'In all three presidential debates, Mr. Obama promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He blamed the economic crisis on excessive deficits. At no time did candidate Barack Obama say that more deficit-spending was the solution.'
Is Obama really worse than Carter or Nixon, though? To help readers make up their own minds and in the spirit of unity and Obama-style non-partisanship, I hereby offer a helpful pro and con guide to Obama: the First 100 Days.
CON:
1. Pantywaist, surrender-monkey, I-feel-your-pain, kowtowing to countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia means that
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Somebody needs to tell CNN and MSNBC
My guess is his real numbers are closer to 42%. It is going to get worse because unemployment is going t o keep rising and this swine flu thing could get worse.
The internals on recent polls has the democrats being oversampled by over 30%. There is no way (other than media manipulation) that Obama has a 56% approval rating among American citizens.
No way to go but down. At this rate he’ll be about as popular as Bush by the end of the summer.
It’s going to be hard for Obammy Whammy Yo Mammy to be dumber and worse than Jimma Caatah, but I’m sure that Zero Hussein is up to the job.
I have friends that still adore Carter and refuse to even talk about him in any terms less than glowing. They just don’t want to hear.
“My guess is his real numbers are closer to 42%. It is going to get worse because unemployment is going t o keep rising and this swine flu thing could get worse.”
Not to mention the ammo and gun shortage!
Damn, just Damn!
I'll bet in two years, Bush would beat Obama in a straight up race.
I thought his positive number was 101%!
The lamestream media will NEVER report the truth of the hatred this country has for Obama. It’s a real shame that the first black president is so bad.
Ammo? What ammo? Better buy a slingshot at this point.
:-( I think you can get guns but forget about any ammo.
the spectacular mishandling of the Waco siege, which might reasonably be laid at the door of ATF and FBI incompetence rather than presidential negligence.
The Clinton machine’s fingerprints were all over it.
Wait till next year when we’re in the great depression. Chairman Maobama’s rating will be down to single digits.
“Somebody needs to tell CNN and MSNBC”
They know! However, they are brainwashed communists so why would they want him to fail?
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