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April 29, 2009
Obama In The Basement Less Popular Than Nixon and Carter
EDITORIAL: Barack's in the basement
President Obama's media cheerleaders are hailing how loved he is. But at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.
According to Gallup's April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama's current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.
As the attached chart shows, five presidents rated higher than Mr. Obama after 100 days in office. Ronald Reagan topped the charts in April 1981 with 67 percent approval. Following the Gipper, in order of popularity, were: Jimmy Carter with 63 percent in 1977; George W. Bush with 62 percent in 2001; Richard Nixon with 61 percent in 1969; and George H.W. Bush with 58 percent in 1989.
It's no surprise the liberal media aren't anxious to point out that their darling is less popular than George W. Bush. But given the Gallup numbers, their hurrahs could be more subdued. USA Today's front page touted the April poll results as positive, with the headline: "Public thinks highly of Obama." The current cover of Newsweek magazine ponders "The Secret of His [Mr. Obama's] Success." The comparison with previous presidents is useful because they are usually popular during their first few months in office - and most presidents have been more popular than Mr. Obama.
The explanation for Mr. Obama's low approval is that he ran as a moderate but has governed from the far left. The fawning and self-deceiving press won't go there. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," host David Gregory asked a panel about critics who "would say one of the things that he's done in 100 days already is expand the role of government, the size of government." Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin claimed, "That's what he ran for the presidency in the first place for."
Perplexed about complaints over Mr. Obama's expansion of government, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham asked: "does no one listen during campaigns?"
It was these pundits who weren't paying attention during last year's campaign. In all three presidential debates, Mr. Obama promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He blamed the economic crisis on excessive deficits. At no time did candidate Barack Obama say that more deficit-spending was the solution.
Mr. Obama's popularity after 100 days is the second-lowest for a simple reason: He is more partisan and divisive than his predecessors - including Richard Nixon.
Wild Thing's comment......
Note to the Anointed One : It’s all downhill from here. He is not good in an emergency and neither are those in his administration. that will enter in mroe and more as time goes by.
He makes major mistakes all on his own and not small ones. His people some not all, are getting tired of his need to be on TV all the time. I don't remember any other president doing this constant TV performances like Muslim Hussein Obama has to do.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at April 29, 2009 05:48 AM
Comments
He is a loser with a capitol L. Many are still clinging to the hope that he will still pay off their mortgages and fill their tanks. I actually had two facebook friends drop me because I don't care for Obama. Oh well, tough luck to them. They don't know what they're missing with me. I'm fun. You can't go changing things dramatically like this. It's only going to mess things up. You take baby steps-one at a time. It's like losing weight--the slower the better. (of which I've lost 30 pounds this year and 2% body fat so far-yay!)
I don't think he's a bad person, but extremely misguided. He's the monkey and George Soros is the organ grinder!
Posted by: Lynn at April 29, 2009 08:17 AM
[Bravo Lynn!!!:)]
The higher that monkey climbs up the tree the more of his ass you'll see!!!
Posted by: Jack at April 29, 2009 02:13 PM
Yeah and eventually he will run out of tree. Then the big fall will begin.
Posted by: Mark at April 29, 2009 03:55 PM
Lynn,I wondered about that. Thanks for
pointing it out. That woman at the
DNC convention she is still waiting, I
wonder if she is realizing he has no
intention of paying her mortgage or
buying her gas.
Lynn, that is awesome what you have done. Congratulations!!
And I love your example of Obama and
Soros. LMAO good one!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 29, 2009 07:34 PM
Jack, heh heh good one.
hahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 29, 2009 07:38 PM
Mark, I can't wait for that to happen.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 29, 2009 07:40 PM
