Obama's job approval rating falls to new low

[Mistermj]

Obama's job approval rating falls to new low

The president slips to 50% in the Gallup Poll, reaching that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did.


latimes.com

Obama's job approval rating falls to new low

The president slips to 50% in the Gallup Poll, reaching that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did.

By Mark Silva
August 28, 2009
Reporting from Washington

President Obama, who won the White House with an electoral college landslide and enjoyed soaring public approval in the weeks after his inauguration, has fallen to a 50% job approval rating in the newest daily tracking of the Gallup Poll released Thursday.

The new low for Obama compares with his peak public job approval rating of 69% after his inauguration in January.

The president's sliding approval ratings in the Gallup and other national polls this summer have paralleled growing unrest about his healthcare plans.

Polls also show that Obama has lost support for his handling of the economy, although his approval ratings for handling foreign affairs remain higher.

The loss of support for the president on domestic issues has made it more difficult for the White House to rally support in Congress for his healthcare initiative, with lawmakers looking at midterm elections a little over a year away.

Should the slide continue, Obama would by no means be the first president to drop below 50% in the Gallup Poll, which has been tracking public approval of presidents since Harry S. Truman.

But Obama has reached his new low more quickly than most of his predecessors did, Gallup said. The percentage of people voicing disapproval for Obama's job performance stands at a near-high of 43%.

 

[Willie99]

bump

because he's probably at another new low today, then again tomorrow

 

[Mistermj]

bump

because he's probably at another new low today, then again tomorrow

It's sinking faster than Teddy's Oldsmobile...

 

[beammeupscotty]

does this really suprise you...what do you expect will happen when you hear someone make promises they can not keep...

its going to get a whole lot worse...and it aint never going to get better.

 

[Willie99]

bump

because I'm sure it went down in the last 3 hours and 58 minutes

 

[Mistermj]

Sing it with me now...play it really F'kin Loud.


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[festeringZit]

Obama sucks.

 

[festeringZit]

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[barman]

Soon no one will approve of Obama as President.

As each day passes more and more of us will rue the day we did not elect Sarah Palin to the office of VPOTUS.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

 

[Mistermj]

Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.

In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.

George Bush Jr didn't fail so much as he was perceived to have been too much of a patrician while being uncomfortable with his more conservative allies. Yet George Bush Sr is still perceived as a man of uncommon decency, loyal to the enduring American character of rugged self-determination, free markets, and generosity. George W will eventually be treated more kindly by historians as one whose potential was squashed by his own compromise of conservative principles, in some ways repeating the mistakes of his father, while ignoring many lessons in executive leadership he should have learned at Harvard Business School. Of course George W could never quite overcome being dogged from the outset by half of the nation convinced he was electorally illegitimate -- thus aiding the resurgence of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of unprecedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?

No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, Reagan.

But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, is historically illiterate, and woefully small minded for the size of the task-- all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.

In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012: "For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."

Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.

Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.

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[terps1313]

Still a ways to go to catch Georgie boy who finished at a whopping 22 percent.

 

[Willie99]

Soon no one will approve of Obama as President.

As each day passes more and more of us will rue the day we did not elect Sarah Palin to the office of VPOTUS.

she simply could not be worse than the guy who makes the peanut farmer look smart on economics and hard on terrorists like Arafat

damn, this President makes Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād look honest and rational

 

[OKSOONER]

You uys Kill me. Over the years on this site. If it is'nt one president or another. When things look bleek people love to kick a man when he's down.
Like That Lying George Bush was the greatest prez we had in some time.
If i am not mistakend he was the reason we are in this mess?
Give the new Prez a chance and stop playing politics or political gang warfare.
I am a crip no I am a blood.
Who gives a dam!! This counrty is in bad shape and alot of peolple a are out of work. And i know some personally who have been laid off.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

You uys Kill me. Over the years on this site. If it is'nt one president or another. When things look bleek people love to kick a man when he's down.
Like That Lying George Bush was the greatest prez we had in some time.
If i am not mistakend he was the reason we are in this mess?
Give the new Prez a chance and stop playing politics or political gang warfare.
I am a crip no I am a blood.
Who gives a dam!! This counrty is in bad shape and alot of peolple a are out of work. And i know some personally who have been laid off.

I get it, Bush bad. BO, not bad yet. Just when does the Bush bad card no longer trump the BO not bad yet card.

I’ll go out on a limb here and say, 2012, no?

 

[barman]

she (Sarah the Quitter) simply could not be worse

I think that upon serious and sober reflection that most all of us have to smile at any consideration the above sentence could be taken seriously.

Regardless of differences in political stances, I'm pretty sure we're Golly Darn Super Happy that mangled positions we must confront taxes reduce and other important foreign issues in policy.

 

[Willie99]

bimbo >>>>> retard

 

[Mistermj]

I think that upon serious and sober reflection that most all of us have to smile at any consideration the above sentence could be taken seriously.

Regardless of differences in political stances, I'm pretty sure we're Golly Darn Super Happy that mangled positions we must confront taxes reduce and other important foreign issues in policy.

If Obama is so smart...how come Palin was able to win the Obama care debate in just one week?

 

[OKSOONER]

I get it, Bush bad. BO, not bad yet. Just when does the Bush bad card no longer trump the BO not bad yet card.

I’ll go out on a limb here and say, 2012, no?

Hey since you are her in nevada like me. Then you know the Unemployment rate is @13%.
The hotels here are an reflextion of the rest of the country....NO WORK!
Man just chill give the guy a break. Yeah when 2012 comes if things are the same then i will be the first to say "Man Obama SUCKS" and I Voted for him!!:smoker2:

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Hey since you are her in nevada like me. Then you know the Unemployment rate is @13%.
The hotels here are an reflextion of the rest of the country....NO WORK!
Man just chill give the guy a break. Yeah when 2012 comes if things are the same then i will be the first to say "Man Obama SUCKS" and I Voted for him!!:smoker2:

When BO does something that improves the economy it will be his first. He’s already wasted money with the so called stimulus, which was nothing more then a pork laden bill that has accomplished zip.

Read the thread…. What really happened.

I wasn’t the one who told big business not to come here for meetings because it was to expensive, only to be proven wrong when compared to San Fran and NYC. He sure did us a big favor with that one, eh?

Another colossal waste was bailing out GM and Chrysler. To what end? Chrysler will eventually fold and GM will only stay afloat as long as BO keeps propping them up and I don’t think he cared about the auto companies as much as it was pay back to the UAW.

His first 100 days sucked. His second 100 days sucked. What will be said if his third 100 days suck, it’s Bush’s fault? When will he take responsibility?

He’s a accomplished snake oil salesman, the problem is his magic elixir is bogus. !~~~!