Zogby: Voters Might be Tuning Obama Out

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Zogby wrote: "At least he is getting ahead of the curve, as elite and popular opinion now seem to realize that spending cuts and deficit reduction should not be our highest priorities with jobs scarce and demand stagnant."
In reality, Obama's $1.4 trillion annual deficits and trillion dollar stimuli led to 9% unemployment and a slow recovery. A definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Therefore, more trillion dollar deficits and stimuli will lead to (drum roll please) ... Jobs and a quick recovery! Or so say the elite and popular opiners.
Crazy is just a state of mind, and to hell with reality when it doesn't line up with elite and popular opinions. So yes, another four years of Obama is just what this country needs! What could go wrong?

Lavaux of WA 1:49AM August 30, 2011

Obama has proven himself to be a Far-Left ideologue with an agenda that is intended to and does demolish the private sector. Obama's Presidency has been a disaster for America and for economic liberty. The public now knows this, although the media suppressed this fact during the 2008 election. That is why the public has tuned him out. Now only the most rabid Democrats still support Obama.

rogervzv of CA 7:23AM August 26, 2011

Certainly his grade reflects the public's view that he's been ineffective at governing.
For him to go into campaign mode reflects where he is most comfortable.
Unfortunately, campaigning and governing are two different things.
Campaigning makes promises (and buys time to do what he wants to do in a 2nd term)
Governing produces something (good or bad, but could cost him re-election).
So let's look at the alternatives
He needs to deal with the following:
Uncertainty-business and citizens don't know what the rules are (Dodd/Frank, Healthcare, Fed Budget)
Housing- overhanging inventories of foreclosures and declining values have tamped down demand to minimal levels
Tax reform (to simplify it and add revenue through streamlining--everyone should pay something in income tax even if it $25)
Deficit Spending- squaring tax increases with the fact that Federal revenues have increased over 100% since the 90's,while population has grown ~25%--yet spending has gone up by over 200% is something most citizens do not want to see continued.
No wonder he has gone into campaign mode, where he's most comfortable. The issues on the table probably won't get him re-elected since they are real issues that will require real governance.
This guy is not capable of that. Really a sad thing. A triumph of politics.

a citizen of GA 9:53AM August 25, 2011

Could this extravagance really be true? With all of the hoopla from the President on ‘SHARED SACRIFICE’, how could this be?
In less than ten days, we are going to hear him call for MORE TAXES; MORE DEBT; MORE FOR HIM TO BUY VOTES! Sure would like to hear his explanation of this – at TAX PAYER’S EXPENSE!
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/08/obama_michelle_took_two_us_pla.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027541/Obama-golfs-Marthas-Vineyard-increasing-personal-debt-ceiling.html
http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/08/19/the-hypocrite-in-chief-more-michelle-obama-sacrifice-shows-up-to-marthas-vineyard-with-first-kids-on-separate-plane-at-tax-payers-expense/
http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/08/michelle-obama-took-separate-jet-to-marthas-vineyard-to-squeeze-in-a-few-extra-hours-of-vacation-time/
If this is true, it certainly shows their lack of sensitivity for the millions of Americans suffering today – and WILL BE FODDER FOR THE 2012 campaign. Obama will not be able to blame it on ‘BAD LUCK’!!

GrannyCares of CT 9:10PM August 20, 2011

Since when do you give a passing GRADE when the Person doesn't tell the TRUTH! Liars got "F" in my day. Everything the Liberty
How can you give anybody a passing grade when all they say is untruthful!
Liars got failing grades in my day...some even got thrown out of class!!!
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Mimi of NY 6:04PM August 20, 2011

Well said, Michael Ricke.. Thank you, you give me hope. I know that I am not alone and the voices on our side are getting louder.

Denise E. Rogers of PA 1:41PM August 20, 2011

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Tex of TX 7:48AM August 20, 2011

The only time obamageddon was ahead of the curve was when he scammed his way into the White House (with a complicit press). Even Waters has to pound on his thick skull to tell this vacation happy frat boy that real people are suffering! I was shocked by his STUPID comments a few weeks ago about how the stock market goes up and down, no need to panic! Does he have ANY CLUE that those who lose money in the collapse may not be the same people that make money on an eventual rebound??? Is he so witless that he does not realize that there is a time value attached to money and that a dollar today is not the same as a dollar tomorrow? We have Perry's transcripts (that was fast digging by the presstitutes) but how about Obama's? Did he even take an economics class that didn't have Marx in the title? Did he take ANY business courses at all? Curious voters want to know!
Months ago when Zogobamaby and his comrades tried carrying the Democratic water and compare Obamawannaspendalot to Reagan instead of the only JC he resembles, Jimmy Carter, I pointed out what a crock it is to think that Obama is a Teflon god. His numbers track Carter's, not Reagan's. Period. He is in over his head and is so passive that Hillarry's friends leaked about how indicisive he was. Obama coined the phrase leading from behind and no one in the press cracked a smile. What dolts. Zogby should stop publishing democratic talking points in this column and try some real news that involves facts not wishfull thinking from the left. How about interviewing all those suffering, homeless, jobless and broken people that are victims of the stimulass, as well as soldiers families and the victims of Obama's wars in the Middle East, so we can put faces to the pain the left is causing and the havoc that Obama is wreaking. If Obama were a Republican that is all we'd see day in and day out.
Zogby and Obama are so far behind the curve that they will still think Obama's getting passing grades long after he is relagated to the dustheap of history along with the other corporate-socialists they admire.

Michael Ricke 7:43AM August 20, 2011