Waning Anti-Bush Sentiment Frays President Obama's Popularity
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Tomorrow, two states, including my own, will elect governors. President Obama has campaigned for both Democratic candidates, and the question is whether his efforts will pay off for them. At least in Virginia, there's not much hope for Creigh Deeds. According to the Associated Press, even GOP experts agree that Tuesday's elections are hardly an Obama bellwether:
"It's a great overstatement to say this is a referendum on President Obama, but his policies have had a lot of effect on people's thinking," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governor's Association, told CNN on Sunday. "People are worried about jobs. ... Most Americans can't understand why the government keeps spending so much money. They don't see much effect from it."
I would like to add, however, that one reason President Obama slid into office was due to his incredibly lucky timing: Anyone but Bush was going to win the '08 presidential elections.
If President Bush had not mangled his job for eight years, and if the country had not finally awoken to that fact, President Obama would not have been able to win office. As a result, any coattail effect President Obama produces is dependent on anti-Bush sentiment. American voters have very short memories. President Bush has been out of office for almost one year (and if you recall, President-elect Obama started acting like the president even before he took the oath of office, again due to anti-Bush sentiment).
That said, with anti-Bush sentiment waning, President Obama's coattails are frayed and weak.
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Reptiles...
Yeah there is definitly a straining expression on her face...
However, in returning to the politics. The U.S. is THE most tolerent and accepting nation in the the WORLD. And we are a world of nations.Anti American sentiment is fueled by ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.
As a realist I cannot help but pick out the hypocracy of all those that feel they know what a just society is or what it is to be just. Many forces seek to defame dismantle and irradicate perhaps the most just man that ever lived ...and as a fact Jesus did walk this earth... Yet they champion uneveness and the awkward for their social construction. Yes... It is a construction constructed by the hands of good intentions.
This utopia that selfloathers use as a measuring device to quantify and qualify American existance are the hypocrites. You perhaps express more human love toward a television demigod like Harpo or Barak Obamanation than your own children. You most likely exact an harsher penalty upon your gardener or housekeeper for fowling up their job than anyone who would kill you neighbors child. You would perhaps seek revenge on another for cutting you off in traffic. And for those who would put their FAITH into a politician... Well, you can all send me a dollar bill please and I have a bridge to sell you too. Fool
The surf is anything but up
One part Rod Serling with a little Kameahamea thrown in -interesting enough on paper but still waiting to see him champion American values & ideals for a change.
Things arn't as they seem
kimmy of AZ
I think I understand.
His ideas sounded profound. Problem is his changing it and/or implementing of it.
Personal, I call him a Flem Flam Man.
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