Is this the week the Obama administration’s remarkable incompetence begins to be the narrative? If so, he’s toast.
The president’s astonishing, not to mention indefensible, lecture to the Supreme Court this week, in which he turned 200 years of American constitutional history on its head, has been the talk of the blogosphere. But it’s not just the fact that he pretends to have not heard of Marbury v. Madison, it’s the anger behind his remarks that he is having trouble concealing. Even his old professor at Harvard felt he had to weigh in.
It is not hard to see why he might be angry. His single major domestic accomplishment, Obamacare, is in mortal peril in the Supreme Court. InTrade has the chances of its being overturned at 63.8 percent this morning. And it remains deeply unpopular with the public at large. His other domestic efforts have been largely a bust. The stimulus did not produce the promised economic boost and recovery from the recession remains stubbornly slow and unemployment stubbornly high. Green energy is failing and failing and failing. The price of gas has nearly doubled since he became president, despite the recession, while domestic production of oil and natural gas has been rising despite his policies, not because of them.
And, of course, the country continues hell-bent towards the fiscal cliff at the rate of $1 trillion plus per year. Obama, and the Senate Democrats, have not even tried to do anything about something the people in poll after poll have called their number one concern.
As for his foreign policy successes, I’d list them except there haven’t been any. His failures are numerous. Our antagonists, such as Iran, Korea, Russia, and China have little or no respect for him, and thus no inclination to play ball. He has managed to alienate such important allies as Britain and Israel. Indeed, his very first foreign policy act was to insult Britain by summarily returning a bust of its great national hero, Winston Churchill–the man who saved the world in 1940–to the British Embassy. It’s only gotten worse. Last week, his open-mic gaffe with the Russian president was greatly embarrassing. This week’s summit with Mexico and Canada revealed deep problems within the North American alliance, problems that were hardly noted in the American mainstream press–a wholly owned subsidiary of the Obama re-election campaign–but were widely on view in the Mexican and Canadian media.
In sum, it’s a remarkable record, especially for a man who thinks of himself as a transformational figure in American history. The president looks in the mirror and sees FDR. Increasingly, the rest of the country look at him and see Jimmy Carter, perhaps even James Buchanan. They were both one-term presidents.
Is there a single country in the world with which our relations are better than they were four years ago? I think not. And no, Pew Research surveys of how the man in the street "feels" about America don't count.
Most of them actually, some are far better.This article is complete bunk. Opposite world
President Obama is not alone in his divide and conquer strategy, it appears that the GOP has also had a hand in game.r nr nThere are two sides to every story and then there is the truth. We do not have the courage to face our truths.
To be sure though, his divide and conquer strategy is helping him. He has Americans so polarized with each other that even reasoned arguments about where his policies have backfired are immediately met with skepticism, distrust, and anger at the person daring to point it out. He has his supporters so emotionally invested, if you debate them properly, you can get them defending the principals of communism and statism.
Yet RealClearPolitics' poll average every day has him hovering just below 50% approval. Either our countrymen are insane or there is a major polling methodology problem.
I would say you are right, but pay attention to Rasmussen which to my knowledge is the only pollster who polls likely voters as opposed to just registered voters. He seems to be doing not nearly so well with likely voters.
Absolutely right, either there is something wrong with the polls (unlikely, they all show the same thing) or the public's ability to access and process information. I suspect the latter.
Or the wingers are completely misinformed by upside down articles like this one.
"The president looks in the mirror and sees FDR." n nObama, I'm afraid, looks in the mirror and sees himself, not some other 'great' leader. He is alone among the men who have or who will shape human destiny. I fear he sees himself as the 'chosen' one, selected by the grace, not of a god, but of nature, the true son of the Darwinian theory of the survival of the fittest and the cream of the crop who has risen to the top by virtue of his superior intellect and grasp of the human condition.
Obama's entire campaign was based on being smarter and wiser than Bush. What a joke. If Bush had made half of Obama's gaffes and missteps, it would have just reaffirmed in the minds of liberals that he was a raving idiot. n nEven little things of no real consequence, like pronouncing "corpsman" as "corpse man" three times in a Teleprompter speech would have led the news if Bush had done it. It would have be trumpeted as evidence that Bush was a fool. Instead, hardly any lib knows Commander in Chief Obama said it in front of troops. If the lib press doesn't report it, it never happened. n nHow could such a smart man make so many lamebrain mistakes? Well, I guess it does take a special kind of genius to get Canada pissed at us. n nQuick, somebody ask presidential historian Michael Beschloss if he still thinks Obama is, “probably the smartest guy ever to become president.”
Buchanan was a terrible President, but he at least had the foresight to see that he had no hope of winning re-election. For that reason, he didn't waste everyone's time by trying. n nIn other words, Obama is what it took for me to look at the bright side of Buchanan.
About the polls the comrade J.Stalin said that the most importaint problem is who and how to count the result- the “people`s choice”. Americans must be very cautiouse in this question dealing with the comrade Obama.
Did you study to be idiotic or does it come naturally? He increased the debt more in three years vs Bush in 8 years. More Americans have died in Afghanistan under Obama in 3 years than under 8 years of Bush.
Would the current National situation be any different if The Good Reverend Sharpton were president, "I don't think so Tim!!" Obuckethead is a skilled jive-slinger, with his saving grace being his ability to speak, unlike Sharpton, in an understandable, soothing form of English. Omugabe is quite the performance artist, with skills!!! n nUntil then: Demand the Occu-commie Omugabe and Holder resign immediately!!!
Writers like you make me sick! Also more determined to keep this government out of the hands of Tea Baggers.
Ignorant is what you are and probably on the dole. Ed
Ah the liberal / progressive trolls have arrived.r nr nNice of you to bring your command of of the issues to the civil discourse.
If on election eve 2008 i told you that by spring 2012, The Dow would be over 13,000, GM thanks to a federal bailout would be the top auto company in the world, DADT would be repealed, Private sector job growth would be at 24 consecutive months, Bin Laden would be dead, and we would have no troops in Iraq, you would say that the president we elected 3 and a half years earlier had done a BAD job. Obama is far from perfect, everyone makes mistakes, but he has had successes, and has at least been competent.
He's has proved himself to be an ass.
And you have proved yourself to be an ass! We shall see in November who comes out on top.
Rasmussen is consistently far to the right of all other polling organizations. Rasmussen quits polling well before elections in order to hide his bias, but during the last presidential election cycle, he was off by almost 4% to the right. n nOf course, Fox almost exclusively cites his polls and ignores the others. Go figure. Why would they do that?
Obama is creating his own Capitol of the "Hunger Games" where the almighty government takes all the resources from the people and then allocates them to the enlightened class – the democrat leadership and union bosses. In the meantime the rest of us common folk starve and eek by on the scraps from his glorious table.
Gas up 100.6%. nFood Stamps up 35.1%. nJobless up 146.2%. nPeople in poverty up 9.5% nJobless blacks up 25.4% nNational debt up 34.4% n ndebt grows, 16% U6 jobless n nObama is toast… nonly because socialism is always so painful it cannot be long hidden… n(Nov 2010's crushing defeat of 730 demos at once should have been a clue to them but nooo) nthe pain is personal…gas/food/housing/jobless…demons and excuses do not fill a tank or feed a child or get Daddy a job or save the family home…losers have excuses. n nIMHO he cannot steal enough votes nor tell enough bold lies to cover reality…no matter how many days he smiles and tries… neven a billion dollars cannot change the data…a trillion has been tried and failed.
The record is there…the data is in…J. Carter Obama is toast.
Abysmal record? Two consecutive years of solid economic growth. Dow Jones Industrial Average increased from around 7000 when he took office to over 11,000 today. Osama Bin Laden brought to justice and is no longer a threat to anyone. Moammar Qadaffi also brought to justice, and is no longer brutalizing his people. Comprehensive health care reform, falling unemployment, $4 trillion dollars in spending cuts. Cut taxes for most Americans, and the war in Iraq is finally over. For just over three years in office, this is a huge list of accomplishments, surpassing any president in recent memory. Time to get your facts straight, Mr. Gordon!
Obama feels like the last Star wars episode. He was supposed to some great uniter and brilliant man. This article is similar to the comments Obi Wan had for the crippled Anikin Skywalker. You were supposed to be the chosen one! Instead he turned out to be a divider with failure rippling across all of America. n
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before". – Rham Emanuel. n nRahm Emanuel is at least as psychopathic as Obama, and their goal is becoming increasingly obvious. It is one thing to exploit an opportunity, and quite another to create chaos in order to exploit it. Before his election, Obama proposed creating a national civilian police force (he did not say if they would wear brown shirts) budgeted similar to the military. Ending Second Amendment Rights in a long term goal of your friendly neighborhood Marxists. Obama is actively creating racial strife, as in the Trayvon case. If he thinks he can get away with it, Obama will declare an emergency and assume emergency powers, but no one knows whether Obama is capable of thought at all. Following the Marxist agenda does not require thought. n
And, obviously, Libya didn't happen (Without a single loss of US life). Osama Bin Laden, obviously, is still alive. And, equally obviously, Prime Minister Cameron didn't have a love-in with Obama just last month As a UK citizen, I find it bizarre that conservative US commentators seem to think it's ok to just…ignore…facts.
The Emperor Has No Clothes. He Will Be Removed Come November `12
You are wrong about Bush's last budget. It was short 1.9T. So far Obama has only managed to cut it in half from the first quarter of 09, when thanks 100% to Bush's plicies, we lost 2 million jobs. Somehow the wingers seem to think Obama, who was sworn in in late Jan, signed his first bill in late Feb, and then somehow the economy was much better in April and the recession was over in June, and yet Obama somehow trashed the economy? The record is very clear. The numbers dont lie.
Fool, go back to jacking off to a picture of OVOMIT.
I duly witness that bpuharic has here today issued his bleating, supportive post of Obamalove and is authorized to collect on any fees that Schultzy-Wasserman and the DNC have contracted with bpuharic for services rendered on conservative, common-sense blogs. n nSigned this day, April 7, 2012.
Yes, and when Bush took over he had a surplus left by Bill Clinton. President Obama started in the hole.
Obama has had plenty of time to set forth in motion a climb out of “the hole” but he has not done so. Congress, under his watch, has failed to put forth a budget. His budget this year got zero votes. Zero. Time for you to wake up to the facts, shenyang; your esteemed POTUS is a complete & utter failure.
Obama missed the opportunity to help get the US out of "the hole." Congress under his watch has yet to produce a budget & issued not one vote in support of his budget this year. He has been a complete & utter failure.
Yes, the obamination started in the whole, and has dug it to China.