Posted by
AJH on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:18:04 AM
Despite his adoring fans in the media, Obama's day is coming.
While The New York Times and its global subsidiary the International Herald Tribune spin a nice tale of Obama's popularity, other news reports are emerging showing that the Obama juggernaut is beginning to slip.
A new Gallup poll has “Obama sinking” with worse numbers than Jimmy Carter at the same point in his first-and-only term.
“It's been a steady decline, from 69 percent approval in late January to 66 percent, 63 percent, 62 percent and, now, 59 percent in recent weeks.”
Given his speech Tuesday night, the folks at Gallup note: “. . . He has a tremendous opportunity to convert Americans who are now on the fence — in addition to those who now disapprove of him — into supporters.”
Editors at the Kansas City Star have a sober, realistic take. “The bottom line: Obama has lost some of the luster he got with the exciting Inauguration Week. One speech won't get it back.”
Here are some choice quotes by delusional Democrats from interviews with Voice of America on the speech.
Democratic Congressman Jim Moran: “He is a president deserving of these times.” Is this a double entendre? “We are lucky to have him, but there is some real question in my mind as to whether the Congress is going to be deserving of his leadership. We're going to have to get our act together - particularly the Republican party. They need to do something more than just say 'no' to everything he proposes.” Basically this means: “Be bipartisan or things is gonna get nasty.”
Representative Neal Abercrombie of Hawaii: “He reaches the world, really. His sense of confidence and his ability to take that sense of confidence and extend it to his listening audience is second r probably commensurate to that of President Roosevelt [FDR].” I thought he was Lincoln.
Another Dem, Representative Gary Ackerman said: “Pitch, posture, politics, perfect. I've been to 26. It doesn't get much better than this.” We definitely need term limits. Can someone say “Been in Washington way too long”?
He specifically mentioned the creation of White House offices on health reform, urban affairs policy, and climate change. Such positions “can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances . . . White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate-confirmed officials.”
Sadly since Byrd no longer chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee, his opining does not carry as much weight as before.
Recently Catholic Archbishop of Denver Charles Chaput, while giving a lecture at St. Basil’s Church on the campus of the University of Toronto, warned that in the U.S., Catholics need to act on their faith and be on guard against “a spirit of adulation bordering on servility” towards Obama and his administration.
The crash is on its way and I don't mean an economic one. What happens when everyone realizes our president is another Jimmy Carter? Great at building houses, but lousy in the White House. Obama's “dire day of reckoning” will be here before long.
AJH