Hello blog, today I want to talk about President Obama, the big guy in the office. He's been our chief for eighteen months now and what an interesting eighteen months it has been. Healthcare reform, stimulus etc, and with the possibility of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell being repealed it could become even more eventful.
One event has also taken place, his approval ratings are spiraling downhill of. He's already on his way to below 50%. Remember just eighteen months ago he came in with over 70% approval. It took Bush into his 2nd term to hit where Obama is heading. And I think I know why this is.
Listen to his speeches again unless you can vividly remember them from before. Realize in 2008 we were contemplating what we were going to do as soon as we hit the 2nd great depression. This guy came in and he promised sooo much that for the ones that weren’t blinded by promise and actually paid more attention to what he was saying we knew that things he wanted to do weren't going to happen.
The promises he made in a very, very tough time sounded like music to our ears. The fact is though "Promises" from a politician is the oldest trick in the book to get your vote. Don’t get me wrong many of them do what they say, but it's different with our desperation.
We’re in a recession still even after the stimulus. While improvements have indeed been showed even Obama himself admits this isn't going as fast as planned. And what are we in America? Impatient people we complain when it takes more than a minute to load our e-mail on our iPhones. Therefore we get unhappy about Obama so as a result his approval ratings go down. He's his own biggest enemy by promising ALL of this change and it hasn't come as quickly as we expected or that he portrayed.
Now there are other reasons why his approval is down. If you weren't naive enough to buy into the old political promise tactics, you'd also be upset that he dropped the ball on torture. He already gave up on a public option for healthcare and he has spent trillions adding to the deficit. (However that is debatable that he had to spend that money to clean Bush's mess… I mean his two terms)
There’s also this group of people who are attacking this vulnerable point as well. The GOP. Now I'm not saying it's not fair, but they are doing a pretty good job at hurting Obama's approval and the massive section of this country that just switches party to party like shirts. These people always complain about "This country isn't changing, I vote GOP one term and then Liberal the next term." Well, sir, maybe instead of voting which one you hate less than the other you could, I don’t know, vote third party for a candidate you actually agree with?
I'm getting off topic, the GOP is promising their own change. However, if you look deeper it is EXTREMELY FAR FROM CHANGE! They want to use the same formula and tax breaks that Bush used TO GET US INTO THIS MESS! Face it, Obama screwed himself out of 2012 with his own speaking abilities and promise. No matter what else he does the next two years I don’t foresee his approval going up or the market suddenly getting extremely better like most of us expect.
He's also extremely weak; I mean he's being pushed around by Fox news and a non-majority GOP. (For now you better shape things up Democrats or you’re out in November.) He needs to get on the attack that alone is also draining his support. Who wants to see the most powerful person in the world, our representative, get pushed around by Bill O'Reilly? I'll keep it simple, when I say Obama screwed Obama out of 2012. Do you think if we stay near the same we are going to listen to him promise change again in 2012?
I don’t think so.
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