Posted on 07/02/2014 6:24:20 PM PDT by markomalley
Fox News panelists A.B. Stoddard and Steve Hayes argued Wednesday that Obama brought on his plummeting approval ratings by giving Americans the impression that he has given up on his job.
In a new Quinnipiac poll, Obama came in first as the worst president since World War II.
“The president is giving Americans the sense that, as he gives up on Congress, he’s kind of giving up on his job,” The Hill’s Stoddard said. “They know he’s bolting from the building to go to Starbucks and Chipotle. He’s getting bored in the cocoon, he’s planning his post-presidency.”
Free Beacon editor Matthew Continetti made this argument several weeks ago, writing, “I find nothing paradoxical about Obama’s recent pattern of behavior, nothing mysterious about the golfing, partying, traveling. It is quite obvious: Obama has given up.”
And, like Continetti, Stoddard notes Obama’s new habit of “having lots of dinner parties where he doesn’t talk about policy or politics, but the NBA playoffs–anything but his job.”
“That’s really troublesome for the American people,” Stoddard concluded, “not only because of all the problems we have, but because we’re with him for another more than two years.”
The Weekly Standard’s Steve Hayes concurred, adding, “It is largely because of the president’s flippant attitude towards the presidency. ‘So sue me’–what kind of a president would make that argument? And where he had been buoyed, I think, by the fact that people liked him or people wanted him to succeed, despite the fact that they might have had some questions about his policies, that no longer exists, because the president is behaving the way that he’s behaving.”
Charles Krauthammer said that Americans are just now realizing that campaigning is what Obama does best, and “That could be his only great competence–to campaign, to make speeches.” As a result, “He gave people hope, but he doesn’t know how to govern.”
He knows who they are? My guess - the Kenyan finds out all about them by watching tonight's local news.
Depends. I maintain that with a sufficiently conservative congress even a President Boner would fall into line.
this is kabuki redirect bullcrap.
he hasn’t’given up. he just wants to do whatever he wants whenever he wants.
this is a total lie/misdirect piece.
Dirty little secret here: we don’t want him to know how to govern. That would be even worse than what we have!
What bothers me about that poll, was the fact that Jimmy Carter was not even listed. I think the Obungler is the worst, and Carter is the second worst.
BO is just used to getting his way. I guess he lied his way thru his youth and no one ever crossed him so it’s hard for him to actually believe that anyone would not want to do what he wants. He’s a spoiled child that stomps his foot when he’s angry goes to his room, slams the door and plots revenge. Not good for our country.
I guess if he has billions stashed, then he truly has been stealing from us or has collected many bribes. Sick. I hope he goes to jail so he can’t enjoy his billions.
granted but this is printed to give us false’hope/make us believe he won’t do stuff so we don’t have to stay on top of it.
it’s’like the tea party is dead articles. wishful thinking /propaganda pieces.
“He’s a spoiled child that stomps his foot when he’s angry goes to his room, slams the door and plots revenge. Not good for our country.”
I sincerely believe that the damage he’s done to America, and WILL do in the next two years out of SPITE, will be irreversible.
Pray for America!
Val Jar is a he? Yeah I can see that.
Bammy’s job is flying around on AF1 and golf.
I still cant believe this country elected this punk twice..thank god my parents are dead so they didn’t have to see this.
He hasn’t given up on his job. He has given up as being president of the U.S.,if that was ever his intention in the first place.
Obama can stay on vacation until 2016 for all I care, so long as he leaves his pen and phone at home.
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He needs to start drinking heavily and get back into the bath house scene.
I'm actually beginning to believe he was never really even in charge. One thing I know for sure is that no one would ever make themselves look like such an ahole unless they really were one.
He gave people hope? No, he gave idiots hope. But even they didn’t know what it meant.
Remember all those people who worshipped him but when you asked what it was about him they liked, the answer was “He makes good speeches.” Then ask them what he said and you got a blank stare.
And talking heads are in the same boat. Megan Kelley recently discovered Obama and Bill Ayers’ relationship. Wow!
The anti-American degenerate continues his many crimes. The bum should be arrested and imprisoned...and exiled upon release.
| # | Office | Current officer |
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| 1 | Vice President of the United States | Joe Biden (D) |
| 2 | Speaker of the House | John Boehner (R) |
| 3 | President pro tempore of the Senate | Patrick Leahy (D) |
| 4 | Secretary of State | John Kerry (D) |
| 5 | Secretary of the Treasury | Jacob Lew (D) |
| 6 | Secretary of Defense | Chuck Hagel (R) |
| 7 | Attorney General | Eric Holder (D) |
| — | Secretary of the Interior | Sally Jewell (D)[a] |
| 8 | Secretary of Agriculture | Tom Vilsack (D) |
| 9 | Secretary of Commerce | Penny Pritzker (D) |
| 10 | Secretary of Labor | Thomas Perez (D) |
| 11 | Secretary of Health and Human Services | Sylvia Mathews Burwell (D) |
| 12 | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | Shaun Donovan (D) |
| 13 | Secretary of Transportation | Anthony Foxx (D) |
| 14 | Secretary of Energy | Ernest Moniz (D) |
| 15 | Secretary of Education | Arne Duncan (D) |
| 16 | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Sloan Gibson (D) (Acting) |
| 17 | Secretary of Homeland Security | Jeh Johnson (D) |
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