Posted on 10/13/2010 7:54:17 AM PDT by blam
White House Insiders Feel Shellshocked, And Already Think It's Over For Obama
Joe Weisenthal
Oct. 13, 2010, 10:32 AM
The talk of the town for the next few days will be this big piece by Peter Baker in the NYT on President Obama. The piece paints a picture of a despondent administration:
Yet even if the White House saw it coming, this is an administration that feels shellshocked. Many officials worry, they say, that the best days of the Obama presidency are behind them. They talk about whether it is time to move on. While not in the 30s, Obama’s approval rating in surveys conducted by The New York Times and CBS News had fallen to 45 percent last month from 62 percent when he took office — just a point above where Clinton was before losing Congress in 1994 and three points above where Reagan was before the Republicans lost a couple dozen House seats in 1982.
Joel Benenson, Obama’s pollster, pointed out that even at 45 percent, the president’s popularity eclipses that of Congress, the news media, the banks and other forces in American life. “We are in a time when the American public is highly suspect of any institution,” he said, “and President Obama still stands above that.” Obama’s team takes pride that he has fulfilled three of the five major promises he laid out as pillars of his “new foundation” in an April 2009 speech at Georgetown University — health care, education reform and financial reregulation. And they point to decisions to end the combat mission in Iraq while escalating the war in Afghanistan. “History will judge Obama that the first two years were very productive,” Rouse says.
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The minute I read the title to this thread my thought was Thank You God!
Yeah, but his more popular than Congress. You go girl.
Proof that prayers work! Alleulia, Alleulia!
The man and his entourage of failed perverts and incompetent street thugs have become very tiresome.
Make that "destructive."
“Many officials worry, they say, that the best days of the Obama presidency are behind them.”
Days? Suspect they only had moments...
“But I like taupe.”
How many (straight) men say that?
Oh, I so love articles like this! Heart warming ...
Life in the bunker won’t be too bad. He can still give out orders like the narcissist he is, do drugs, play hoops, fondle his Peace price and on his final day in office, marry Larry Sinclair.
We The People have had enough proof that the Ruling Class DC politicians, the Imam, this Regime, this Congress, and politicians throughout this country, are arrogant, corrupt, power-hungry, amoral un-American disgraces. Too harsh, I don’t think so. What are your thoughts?
Everywhere I go, Americans are echoing my sentiments.
When firing someone, it's always good to make it clear that it's not because you personally dislike that person; it's because that person, even if likeable, isn't doing the job.
Zero is more popular than flesh-eating bacteria, too! The list of favorable comparisons could be be endless!
Let’s Roll; clean the sewer that is this Regime and this Congress. Dedicate your efforts to our patriots past and present. Rid the country of the un-American Ruling Class politicians beginning November 2nd and finish the job in 2012 and thereafter.
This seems to be a puff piece masquerading as a hit piece.
“Obama’s team takes pride that he has fulfilled three of the five major promises he laid out as pillars of his “new foundation” in an April 2009 speech at Georgetown University — health care, education reform and financial reregulation.”
“History will judge Obama that the first two years were very productive.”
0bama’s “new foundation” is nothing more than the shifting sand of communism and central planning. His “educational reform” was just cutting out private lending for loans and taking it over as a government enterprise. Health care is set up to drive everyone into government health care.
His first two years were productive, as in productive in destroying the country. Most people would not accept this as successful.
Maybe that’s why 0bama’s not as popular as once thought he was.
bump!
I read most of the article by Peter Baker. It’s an Obama love piece. Obama tried to bridge gaps... the GOP closed ranks and fought him... the modern presidency is difficult... Washington is more broken than Obama thought... It is written in that NY Times Review mode which is supposed to make you think that the author realizes how much deeper and complex the subject is than you, the reader, could have possibly imagined.
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