CNN released a new national poll this morning in which President Obama's
approval rating clocks in at 45%, which is the lowest he has been in their poll
in 18 months and demonstrates a drop of 8 percentage points over
the last month alone.
Scandalmania is definitely taking its toll on him...finally.
The president’s approval rating stands at 45%, down from 53% in
mid-May. And 54% say they disapprove of how Obama’s handling his job, up nine
points from last month.
It’s the first time in CNN polling since November 2011 that a majority of
Americans have had a negative view of the president.
The dramatic reversal and downgrade in
the approval of Obama's job performance, while quite devastating, is NOT the real stunner...
“The drop in Obama’s support is fueled by a dramatic 17-point
decline over the past month among people under 30, who, along with black Americans, had
been the most loyal part of the Obama coalition,” says CNN Polling Director
Keating Holland. …
“It
is clear that revelations about NSA surveillance programs have damaged Obama’s
standing with the public, although older controversies like the IRS matter may
have begun to take their toll as well,” adds Holland.
Six in 10 disapprove of how Obama is handling government
surveillance of U.S. citizens, which is higher than the 52% who disapproved of
George W. Bush on the same issue in 2006, when government surveillance was also in
the headlines. …
The
number of Americans who think he is honest
has dropped nine points over the past month, to 49%.
The best thing about this poll is the dramatic shift in the youth vote.
He sold them Hopenchange.
Obama had told them that government with the right people at the helm
– ‘people’ meaning him, natch – is always a force for good.
He told them that his administration would be ‘the most transparent…evah.’
He told them government is the ‘only thing that we all belong to.’
He told them that his government would ‘work for all Americans, but primarily the middle class.’
He told them that his economic policies would lead to good jobs and future prosperity.
He told them he would give them ‘free healthcare.’
He
told them that the size of government was irrelevant...of course, he
didn't tell them he would expand it so much that even his greatest
advocates like David Axelrod say that it is so large that Obama couldn't
possibly know what is going on in his own administration.
He told them he would ‘change the way Washington worked’ and there would be ‘no lobbyists in his administration.’
He told them that his administration would mark the end of 'Crony Capitalism'...well, except in the areas of healthcare, energy, finance, etc.
He told them that his administration wouldn’t be populated with the
well-connected like ‘millionaires and billionaires’…except for people
like Penny Pritzker.
He told them that his administration wouldn’t be populated with
people from Wall Street…except for people like Geithner, Lew, etc.
He told them that his administration wouldn’t be populated with tax
cheats and people who refuse to ‘pay their fair share…well, except for
Geithner, Solis, coulda-been Daschle so instead we got his wife, Linda
Douglass, Sebelius, etc.
He told them that his administration would fill positions with the
best for the jobs rather than donors and campaigners…save for suspected
paedophile, Howard Gutman, Tom Wheeler, Pritzker again, Rufus Gifford,
John Emerson, James Costos, Liliana Ayalde, Ken Hackett,Patricia Marie
Haslach and the like…even Jon Corzine if he hadn’t encountered that
‘little problem.’
He promised a ‘reset,’ ‘smart power’ and ‘competent government;’
instead, they got people like Hillary Clinton, whose State Department
seemed best at planning ‘low-cal’ travel: lots of miles, not much
substance,’ refused to adequately protect the most dangerous posts, put
climate change over human rights in China, covered up prostitution and,
possibly, paedophilia.
He told them he wouldn’t be like that ‘evil Bush.’
He told them that there would be no more ‘stupid, foreign interventions’…except for those like Libya, Egypt, Syria.
He told them that he was a constitutional law professor (he wasn’t),
who would not present civil liberties and security as a ‘false choice.’
He told them that the days of ‘surveillance of citizens who are not suspected of a crime’ were over.
He told them he would uphold the Constitution…well, not the First
Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Ninth Amendment, and
Tenth Amendment...but whatever is left.
He told them that all Americans would be treated equally…well, not
white people threatened by the NBPP, Christians, Jews, Tea Party and
Patriot groups, right-to-life groups, etc.
He told them to reject ‘voices that incessantly warn of government as
nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all
our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that
tyranny always lurks just around the corner’…only to be discredited less
than a week later.
And, on all of these, he has either lied or failed.
In many ways, Barack Obama has done more for the libertarian movement
than Ron Paul ever did. He alone has been a god-send in the effort to
discredit the Washington Establishment and Crony Capitalism.
He has
taught the young a lesson: All politicians promise. All politicians
fail to deliver. All politicians – almost, anyway – are flat-out liars.
He has taught them that a healthy skepticism of government is a good
thing.
The reason that it is so fantastic that Barack Obama has done this is
because the youth fell in love with him. The scars are deepest and the
memories longest when created by one’s ‘first love.’
They fell in love
with him and he betrayed them.
I doubt that they will be so willing to
swoon the next time…at least, I hope they will have learned their
lesson.
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