April 18, 2010
Obama just isn’t feeling the love:
| Date | Presidential Approval Index | Strongly Approve | Strongly Disapprove | Total Approve | Total Disapprove | |
| 4/17/2010 | -17 | 27% | 44% | 45% | 54% | |
| 4/16/2010 | -12 | 30% | 42% | 47% | 52% | |
| 4/15/2010 | -9 | 31% | 40% | 48% | 51% | |
| 4/14/2010 | -8 | 32% | 40% | 50% | 49% | |
| 4-day Movement | -9 | -5 | +4 | -5 | +5 | |
Perhaps it has something to do with his inability to reach out with an open hand to Republicans and private industry. That’s a behavior he reserves for murderers and thug regimes.
It’s humorous to me, actually, that Bubba Clinton and Barry refer to Tea Partiers and the like as angry and dangerous. They speak in either dismissive or condemning tones. Open hostility from the White House. Lies about racist language from congressional and union leaders. This Administration and dem party are now settling into the simplistic fabric of negativity. They claim everyone else is negative. Smile. FU, Barry.
Here’s the drill, and what I suggest is behind the polls: Americans are not an angry lot. We fully recognize that dems and pubs won’t get together. We expect a mix of cheap shots and cogent argument. But Barry’s lack of maturity is tanking that.
Barry is doing something President Bush the Younger never did outside party functions. Clinton rarely did it. George the Elder – never – and President Reagan mostly couched in humor.
Barry openly dismisses and ridicules his political opponents every chance he gets. He wants everyone to believe that they are inconsequential.
And therein lies the seeds of his demise, which we see sprouting in Rasmussen above and other polls. His preaching is all to the choir. For all of our partisanship as registered voters, we want a president to act with grace. We want him or her to absorb punches and still stand strong. We want clever rhetoric to cut down the foes. We want fair play. And we want competency in managing a legislative agenda.
Obama singularly exudes none of these qualities. In this sense, he is perhaps the most “unwise” chief executive we have ever seen.
His victories have plainly been achieved through the malignant “Chicago Way” of secrecy, deception, bald-faced lies, and silencing both their critics and those that should have a voice in the legislative process. Barry is finally being vetted.
But it is going to be a wild ride: A wounded and cornered animal is dangerous.
