ABC: Americans Losing Confidence In Obama

It's very early in Obama's term, a great deal can still happen in four years. But that's also a part of Obama's problem. The American people don't tend to lose confidence in the White House all that easily. I thought his aggressive approach to re-making America in his image might by itself be something of an irritant to the population. Now, combined with what looks to be flailing on some of his major initiatives, including health care reform, it's causing Americans to begin slipping away from him in droves.

He might be able to ignore average Americans on health care if he wants, but Congress doesn't have that luxury. And I suspect if the Democrats try to ram it though alone, they'll be looking at a blood bath in 2010. And if that happens, say good bye State Department for Hillary soon after, hello primary battle in 2012. Kennedy did it to Carter, Hillary would have every right.

Fantasy scenario - Hillary vs. Sarah for the Gold! Laugh if you want, but if the media ever senses the possibility, don't think they wouldn't try to bring it about. They'd suspect Palin wouldn't have a chance and they'd also see a headline bonanza straight ahead. Alas, it's too far away to remain anything but a fantasy for now.

WASHINGTON — A new poll says that Americans, concerned over the future of health care reform and anxious about the growing federal budget deficit, are losing faith in President Barack Obama.

The Washington Post-ABC News survey found that less that half of Americans — 49 percent — say they believe the president will make the right decisions for the country. That's down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark of the Obama presidency.

The poll published Friday says Obama's overall approval is 57 percent, 12 points lower than it was at its peak in April. Fifty-three percent disapprove of the way he's handling the budget deficit and his approval on health care continues to deteriorate.

Comments

[Peg C.]

The conundrum of Obama: it's very early in his term yet it feels like 50 years since Inauguration.

[smitty]

@Peg,
Do you mean 32 years since Jimmy Carter, 46 years since LBJ, or 76 years since FDR?
Cheers,
Chris

[WBestPresidentEver]

Wish I could wake up tomorrow and find that this was all just a bad dream.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Wish I could wake up tomorrow and find that this was just a bad dream.

[Peg C.]

smitty, ha. Well, Carter's 4 years felt like an eternity as well, that's for sure. Happily I wasn't born when FDR was in office and was too young to understand anything about LBJ. Speaking of FDR, though, wasn't he actually in office for 50 years? ;-) It must have seemed like it.

Seriously, doesn't January 20th seem like eons ago? The ONLY good thing about the last 7 months is the continual slide of President Stupidly's ratings. He thinks (being stuck in campaign mode as he is) that he will recover from this. He won't.

[syn]

When Obama's popularity drops 10 points lower watch Rahm Emmanuel manufacture a crisis so that they can use the opportunity to lift Obama's ratings.

There is a reason why State-controlled media is producing an overwhelming narrative about 'gun-toting, right-wing white people who can't tolerate a black man in the White House'; they are seeing up the narrative leading to a crisis of opportunity.

Excerpted from a personal note I received which I believe may be relevant to Rahm Emmaunel's tendency to create crisis' when thnkgs are going the Statist's way:

"The Dems laughed at Newt's "Contract With America" as an amateurish and typically "stupid Republican" campaign ploy for the 1994 mid-term elections. They couldn't care less over the tidal wave of public anger building up over their arrogance - and that of the new Dem president, who was trying to ram a government seizure of health care down the throats of Americans.

They were gobsmacked when they lost 50 seats and their majority to the Pubs, and were in a state of catatonic shock when Newt became Speaker Gingrich on January 4, 1995.

The Republicans were on a roll, Big Government was to be rolled back to its Constitutional limits, our Republic was to be rescued from the miasma of liberal cultural destruction, the Democrat Party was to be dismantled like the Soviet Union.

It was all over 105 days later. On April 19, 1995, the Oklahoma City Federal Building was blown up by a man portrayed as a right-wing anti-government terrorist.

Bill Clinton, the Democrats in Congress, and the entire gang of their enablers in the media were able to smear the Gingrich Republicans and anyone advocating less government control over their lives with the brush of "right-wing terrorist" Timothy McVeigh.

(What enabled them to do this was a picture, one heart-breaking photograph, as described in Limbic Pictures from April 2005.)

Today, this summer of 2009, we have eerie echoes of the months that preceded the OKC bombing. As public anger rose against the Dems and the Clintons, hardly a week passed without some media exposé of the threat of "right-wing militias." Remember?"

[syn]

Who was the TV talking-head anchor person who promised to do everything he could to help Obama's presidency be successful?

I recall it was a male who spoke however cannot remember the name; was it Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Matt Lauer?

[PA]

Its about time to wag the dog for Obama. If I were those Somali pirates, I'd be pretty worried about now, cuz they're an easy target that won't get much world sympathy.

[JustOneMan]

Crisis.....

White Racists Terrorists.....you will see dozens of stories and arrests of socalled white hate groups plotting to overthrow the government...

The media is already laying the ground work for it!

Barry will be have a pres conference and re-read his Philadelphia speach on race....

[geoffb]

Obama, Bill Clinton compressed, faster, harder, turned up to 13. We are seeing the lessons the left learned from the eight years 1993-2001 and the practice, training, organizing done 2001-2008.

[Lala]

Drudge's photo of Iwon - he looks stoned. Now Surber has a column referencing it along with the stupid wee wee comment.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/08/20/is-the-president-high/

[rrpjr]

"Its about time to wag the dog for Obama."

Correct. Zero chance of this not happening.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Even blacks are turning on him now and just wait until all the veterans learn that the "do your family a favor and kill yourself" book is once again available for "end (your) life" counseling at the local VA hospital.

[xax]

"And if that happens, say good bye State Department for Hillary soon after, hello primary battle in 2012. Kennedy did it to Carter, Hillary would have every right."

HAHAHAHAHA. That would be freakin' hilarious. He would soooo regret putting her on these BS junkets. Hahahahaha. I can only hope.

[Ran]

"A new poll says that Americans [...] are losing faith in President Barack Obama."

Faith? As in faith that someone else... can solve the world's problems.

Libertarians and conservatives, by definition, don't put faith in any leader. They believe in themselves, and they'd prefer to be simply left alone. Only statists put "faith" in Dear Leader...

It illustrates quite clearly how a conservative such as Dan reads the situation: He read "confidence in [President Obama.]" Confidence... a very different commodity that embodies competence, skills and the like.

It's poetic asymmetry: Statists tend to disbelieve in G-d, and put faith in a leader. Individualists may put faith in G-d, but place confidence in themselves.

Dan, your thoughts?

[FeFe]

If Obamacare fails, I expect Kathleen Sebielus HHS from Kansas (so happy to get rid of her tax and spend ways as Gov) will be pushed forward astroturfing for ObamacareII to push back against Palin. Epic fail and popcorn as Kathleen has a few more skeletons in her closet to come out.

[Peg C.]

syn, 2009 is not 1994/5. In case you haven't noticed, the internet (blogs, YouTube, Twitter, FB, etc.) and the rest of the alternative media deconstructs lefty lies virtually immediately now. This was not the case after Oklahoma. No one with a brain believes McVeigh was right wing anymore than he/she believes Rush inspired the bombing. However, President Stupidly has any number of friends and associates who would be likely candidates for a diversionary "crisis."

[chidrensDOlearn]

gee syn,

couldn't you cram any more wing nut buzz words into your blah blah blah?

[mark l.]

forget the 57 approval from abc...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

nbc-51
gallup-53
pew-51
rassmussen-49.

the stunner for me is that with the exception of rassmussen, which is using likely voters, the 3 obama-friendly polls have managed to find 7%, 11%, and 14% of the population that has no opinion on this turd.

the quinnipiac poll which has obama at 47% approval-49 disapproval is just one many blinking lights on this festivus tree.

surveyusa has a 44-49 for virginia, from 7/25.

I would suggest that Acorn now start registering phone numbers to a hidden bunker, so they can staunch this implosion.

I bet the obama's have to tie their dog up to keep it from running away from them.

[joyMc]

Obama's problem as I see it is the baby boomers. Once we all die off with our extreme far out racist ideas about America being different from other God forsaken countries; the constitution and individualism maybe he can get something done. And I am sure he will do all he can to facilitate that process.