No good news for Obama

Maxine Waters: The Real Story


Queen of the poverty pimps Maxine Waters must so wish that Obama were a whole white man. Democrat or not, if Obama were white, Waters would be heaping all the blame on those frail little shoulders of his. But because Obama has been presented as "authentically black," WATERS WAS RECENTLY FORCED TO STOP SHORT OF CONDEMNING HIM. INSTEAD, SHE UNLEASHED ON THE CLOSEST WHITE ITEM SHE COULD FIND: THE TEA PARTY.

Anything to keep her ignorant followers from actually thinking about where to place the blame.

Maxine Waters has held dominion over the black people of Watts, CA for over twenty years, and Watts is worse now than it was when she began representing them. This is despite Waters' and others in the Congressional Black Caucus' $17T War on Poverty dating back to the Great Society -- the time when black pimps voted for the RACIST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT LBJ, WHO SAID TO "GIVE THEM [UPPITY NEGROES] JUST ENOUGH TO GET BY, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE."

TELLING THE TEA PARTY TO "GO TO HELL" WAS THE EASY APPLAUSE LINE FOR WATERS. It gave her relief, approval. She returned to her mansion, and her constituents remain high from their hit of the political crack of hatred.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/maxine_waters_needs_a_mirror.html

Having Maxine say on a number of occasions, she’s not afraid and then she makes some outlandish statement about someone or some group that she disagrees with.  In case she doesn’t understand this is not “speaking truth to power” rather it is “pandering to her constituents. 

Bad News in the Sunshine State for BHO

… IN THE MAGELLAN SAMPLE, DEMOCRATS HAVE A THREE-POINT EDGE AT 42/39/19, WITH INDEPENDENTS OBVIOUSLY UNDERSAMPLED. That model assumes Democrats turn out in stronger numbers in 2012 than they did in 2008, which seems highly unlikely for an incumbent with 37/57 re-elect and 40/55 favorability numbers.

If he's hoping for help with independents, he can forget it. The underrepresentation of independents in this survey probably helped Obama with these numbers rather than hurt him. His FAVORABILITY AMONG INDIES IS 35/53, WORSE THAN THE OVERALL NUMBER. Obama's job approval among indies is 37/56, just about the same as the overall number.

Even with the somewhat-friendly sampling, OBAMA LOSES ALL THREE HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHUPS POSED BY MAGELLAN. MITT ROMNEY BEATS OBAMA BY TEN POINTS, 49/39, AND RICK PERRY BEATS HIM BY 7 AT 46/39. OBAMA ONLY GETS INTO THE 40S AGAINST MICHELE BACHMANN, who still edges him by a single point, 43/42. Romney wins an eleven-point margin among the undersampled independents (44/33) and Perry wins that category by 7 (38/31). Only Bachmann loses the independent vote 33/37 to Obama. Romney is the only Republican to win both men and women (Perry gets edged by a single point, Bachmann down 7), but ALL THREE WIN THE SENIOR VOTE - AND ALL THREE WIN HISPANIC VOTERS BY LANDSLIDE MARGINS.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/obamas_horrible_florida_numbers.html

With numbers like these, it will take a miracle for Obama to take Florida.

Most Voters in New Jersey say No To Obama’s Reelection

THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS IN NEW JERSEY SAY PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES NOT DESERVE A SECOND TERM, ACCORDING TO A NEW RUTGERS POLL.

Only 43 percent of New Jersey voters in the poll said Obama deserves to be reelected, while 47 PERCENT SAID HE DESERVES TO BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE.

Those findings are a troubling sign for Obama, since New Jersey has traditionally been a stronghold for Democrats. IN AN EARLIER RUTGERS POLL TAKEN IN FEBRUARY, ONLY 39 PERCENT OF NEW JERSEY VOTERS SAID HE DID NOT DESERVE REELECTION.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/178167-poll-majority-of-nj-voters-say-obama-doesnt-deserve-reelection?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed

Things are really looking bad when the Democrats have to worry about taking New Jersey. 

Who can beat Obama?

On tonight's edition of Hardball, fill-in-host Ron Reagan posed a question about the unelectabilty of the current crop of Republican candidates to Charlie Cook, a non recognized and non partisian political analyst for MSNBC. Cook notes that a "placebo" Republican nominee would stand an "excellent" chance at beating President Obama in the general election.

HOST:

Charlie, let me start with you. It seems to me, WHEN I LOOK AT THE REPUBLICAN FIELD, THAT NONE OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY ELECTABLE.

COOK:

The thing is, I THINK A PLACEBO WOULD HAVE AN EXCELLENT CHANCE OF WINNING. I think this is the Republicans race to lose. You can't nominate a placebo, you have to nominate a real person and whether who they nominate can do as well as a placebo.

http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/24/charlie-cook-placebo-would-beat-obama-right-now

That response was not what the host was looking for, but his premise is one the left is comforting themselves with.  Right now Donald Duck could be BHO. 

One and Done—Obama’s Fate?

According to the latest Gallup survey, the his job approval has dropped to an all time low, with just 38 percent of the 1,500 U.S. adults surveyed saying they approve of the job he is doing as president. And this does not bode well for his prospects to win re-election in 2012.

As Gallup put it, "TEN INCUMBENT PRESIDENTS HAVE SOUGHT RE-ELECTION SINCE WORLD WAR II, AND NONE HAS WON A SECOND TERM WITH FINAL PRE-ELECTION JOB APPROVAL RATINGS BELOW 48 PERCENT. The last two presidents who lost their re-election bids—George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter—had job approval ratings in the 30 percent range in the fall of the election year. Thus, Obama's challenge is not only to move his rating back above 40 percent, but also to push it close to or above 50 percent."…

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2011/08/24/obamas-approval-rating-points-to-his-being-a-one-termer

He’s toast. 

Obama and the 'Competency Crisis'

The rising impatience with the leadership of President Obama was epitomized on Aug. 8 in the middle of one of the now-habitual Wall Street roller coasters. HIS SPEECH ON THE ECONOMY WAS 53 MINUTES LATE. WHAT SHOWED ON TV SCREENS WAS AN EMPTY WHITE HOUSE PODIUM, AN IMAGE SUGGESTIVE OF THE ABSENCE OF LEADERSHIP. When the president did speak, the best he could come up with was "We've always been and always will be a triple-A country." The market's response was a Bronx cheer, a drop of another 300 points.

MR. OBAMA SEEMS UNABLE TO GET A FIRM GRIP ON THE TOUGHEST ISSUE FACING HIS PRESIDENCY AND THE COUNTRY—THE ECONOMY. He now asserts he is going to "pivot" to jobs. Now we pivot to jobs? When there are already 25 million Americans who are either unemployed or cannot find full-time work? Does this president not appreciate what is going on?

Fewer Americans are working full-time today than when Mr. Obama took office. WE HAVE LOST OVER 900,000 FULL-TIME JOBS IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS ALONE, AND LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT A POST-WORLD WAR II HIGH. The public's faith in his ability to deal with the economy has plunged. As Doyle McManus of the L.A. Times put it, "Can this president persuade voters to let him keep his job when so many have lost theirs?" Even Jimmy Carter didn't plumb the depths of national dissatisfaction revealed in the stunning Gallup poll taken Aug. 11-13. The president's approval rating was only 39% with a mere 26% approving of his handling of the economy...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576526611297517664.html

I think this is the main reason Obama will not win.  People don’t have any faith that this man has the leadership ability needed to solve the problems we face.  In fact, the problems which he campaigned against in 2008 have gotten worse on his watch. 

 Labor going their own way

THE GROWING RIFT BETWEEN LABOR AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC ALLIES WAS ON FULL DISPLAY THURSDAY, as AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters that labor groups are planning to scale back their involvement with the Democratic Party in advance of the 2012 elections.

GOING FORWARD, TRUMKA SAID, THE LABOR MOVEMENT WILL BUILD UP ITS OWN POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND ORGANIZATIONS RATHER THAN CONTRIBUTE TO AND DEPEND ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S POLITICAL OPERATION.

“We’re going to use a lot of our money to build structures that work for working people” Trumka said. “You’re going to see us give less money to build structures for others, and more of our money will be used to build our own structure.”

Trumka’s remarks follow the news that the AFL-CIO will set up a so-called super PAC, allowing the nation’s largest labor federation to spend unlimited amounts of money on political activity for next year’s elections and beyond. Trumka confirmed Thursday that the union is moving forward with plans to create the PAC.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62057.html#ixzz1W3fLmniL

This is disastrous news for the Democrats.

The End of Obama

Barack and Jimmy

In a polarized nation, on the eve of another divisive contest for the White House, those seeking a unified America are not without hope. For amid the partisan bickering, there remains one principle on which all Americans are agreed: ANY COMPARISON TO JIMMY CARTER IS ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE A PUT-DOWN.

Given Mr. Carter's Democratic affiliation, IT'S MOSTLY REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES WHO TRAFFIC IN JIMMY CARTER ALLUSIONS. That makes for something of a yawn, as Mitt Romney is finding out with his claim that the community organizer from Chicago is worse than the peanut farmer from Georgia. MORE IN THE MAN-BITES-DOG CATEGORY IS WHEN ONE OF MR. OBAMA'S OWN STICKS THE CARTER TAG ON HIM.

So it must have stung when the New York Times's MAUREEN DOWD RECENTLY QUOTED AN UNNAMED DEMOCRATIC SENATOR MOANING THAT "WE ARE WATCHING HIM TURN INTO JIMMY CARTER RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES."

She was not alone. Eric Alterman earlier this year weighed in with a column in U.S. News whose headline declares, "OBAMA'S AWFUL '70S SHOW ECHOES JIMMY CARTER." The unkindest cut of all comes from ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI—Jimmy Carter's national security adviser and one of the first to hop aboard the Obama bandwagon—who on MSNBC last month brought up the word most associated with Mr. Carter, though he never actually said it: "malaise."…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576496461072142314.html

When the left turns on him, it's over. 

How Bright is Obama?

WE'VE LONG BEEN AWARE THAT THE ONE IS NOT QUITE THE SUPERIOR INTELLECT HE WAS SOLD AS. Obama, we were told, was the rare possessor of a mind with the profundity of a Socrates, the breadth of a Goethe, and the penetration of a Newton. An intellect unrivaled on the current American political scene, and possibly without equal in this country's politics since the beginning.

Events have certainly demolished that little trope. Within weeks of the inauguration, sometime between "I won" and the Air Force One trip to New York for a single night's outing with Michelle, IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THE AMERICAN SOLOMON WAS NO BETTER THAN AVERAGE. And in the immortal words of Harvey Pekar, "Average is dumb."…

… WHAT KIND OF MENTALITY DELIBERATELY ARRANGES A BRAWL OVER GOVERNMENT FINANCES IN THE MIDST OF A SENSITIVE AND FRAGILE RECOVERY? Obama was obviously out to steal an issue from the GOP and wreck their 2012 campaign plans. But at what cost? Wrecking the national economy? This isn't thinking of any description -- it's the mentality of a street punk who spots somebody in another gang and decides to take him down at no matter what happens to passersby or himself.

THE S&P DOWNGRADE WAS SOMETHING HE WAS WARNED ABOUT, WHICH HE KNEW WAS COMING, AND WHICH WAS NOT ALL THAT DIFFICULT TO AVOID. BUT HE DID NOTHING TO AVOID IT. His response was that of a dull-normal -- it never happened before, so it can't happen now. Quite apart from the economic cost, it's embarrassing and humiliating. From here on in, Obama is and always will be the president who wrecked America's credit rating. He can put that right next to his Nobel citation.

Then to top it off, we have the strange incident -- the latest of many strange incidents -- on Friday, August 5th, when OBAMA, ABOUT TO GIVE A SPEECH, STOOD STARING FOR A FULL MINUTE WHILE EVIDENTLY WAITING FOR THE TELEPROMPTER TO SWITCH ON. Under such circumstances, the normal politician will joke, will tell a yarn or two, tease the audience, do anything but what OBAMA DID: STARE OFF INTO SPACE AFTER ANNOUNCING, "WE'RE WAITING."…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/how_stupid_is_obama.html

I think that may be an epitaph for his presidency, “We’re waiting.” Actually we are waiting for the end of his presidency.



Is Obama Smart?

….When it comes to piloting, Barack Obama seems to think he's the political equivalent of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager and—in a "Fly Me to the Moon" sort of way—Nat King Cole rolled into one. "I THINK I'M A BETTER SPEECH WRITER THAN MY SPEECH WRITERS," HE REPORTEDLY TOLD AN AIDE IN 2008. "I KNOW MORE ABOUT POLICIES ON ANY PARTICULAR ISSUE THAN MY POLICY DIRECTORS. AND I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW THAT I'M . . . A BETTER POLITICAL DIRECTOR THAN MY POLITICAL DIRECTOR."

On another occasion—at the 2004 Democratic convention—Mr. Obama explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter that "I'm LeBron, baby. I can play at this level. I got game."

Of course, it's tempting to be immodest when your admirers are so immodest about you. How many times have we heard it said that Mr. Obama is the smartest president ever? Even when he's criticized, his failures are usually chalked up to his supposed brilliance. Liberals say he's too cerebral for the Beltway rough-and-tumble; conservatives often seem to think his blunders, foreign and domestic, are all part of a cunning scheme to turn the U.S. into a combination of Finland, Cuba and Saudi Arabia.

I don't buy it. I JUST THINK THE PRESIDENT ISN'T VERY BRIGHT.

SOCRATES TAUGHT THAT WISDOM BEGINS IN THE RECOGNITION OF HOW LITTLE WE KNOW. Mr. Obama is perpetually intent on telling us how much he knows. Aristotle wrote that the type of intelligence most needed in politics is prudence, which in turn requires experience. MR. OBAMA CAME TO OFFICE WITH NO EXPERIENCE. Plutarch warned that FLATTERY "MAKES ITSELF AN OBSTACLE AND PESTILENCE TO GREAT HOUSES AND GREAT AFFAIRS." Today's White House, more so than any in memory, is stuffed with flatterers….

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576495932704234052.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Even with sycophants all around Obama, you can see he is losing it. As more criticism grows he becomes more petulant and angry.

Obama’s horrifyingly bad speech

HE WAS A HALF HOUR LATE. HIS HEAD TURNED FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS IF HE WERE ATTENDING A TENNIS MATCH. HE PRACTICALLY NEVER LOOKED IN THE CAMERA, as if he were averting our gaze. AND THOSE WERE THE STRONG PARTS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S DISASTROUS SPEECH.

It was a bit like a slow-motion car crash. After a while, one stopped listening to the blather and simply watched the stock ticker go down and down. And down some more.

OBAMA HAD ALL WEEKEND AND THE BEST HE COULD COME UP WITH was a reiteration of his plea for a “balanced” approach to deficit control….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obamas-horrifyingly-bad-speech/2011/03/29/gIQAvN7p2I_blog.html?wprss=right-turn

Obama is going back to do the things that got him to the big dance. The problem is he only knows one dance and people are tired of it.

Krauthammer on Obama’s Speech

On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized Obama for doing just that — not portraying the right image or speaking the right words to allay market jitters. ACCORDING TO KRAUTHAMMER, HE PLAYED THE BLAME GAME INSTEAD.

“LOOK, HE IS ACCUSING THE TEA PARTY BECAUSE IT THREATENED DEFAULT, for causing this,” Krauthammer said. “HE HIMSELF SAID OPENLY HE WOULD VETO ANY DEBT CEILING EXTENSION THAT WASN’T LONG ENOUGH TO GET HIM INTO 2013. He was going to veto it over the length, which incidentally turns out to be, as you point out, irrelevant. He got what he wanted on length and we still got the downgrade.”

http://nation.foxnews.com/us-credit-rating-downgrade/2011/08/09/krauthammer-completely-stunned-obama-speech

Obama is toast.

It’s Pretty Well Over for Obama and the Progressives’ Agenda

At first, President Obama had no public events on his schedule Monday. Then, after markets opened down sharply, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED OBAMA WOULD SPEAK AT 1 PM. THEN 1:30. THEN HE FINALLY EMERGED AT 1:52. By that time, the market had dropped 410 points. OBAMA THEN SAID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW. He attacked S&P’s downgrade decision, something his aides had already done. He blamed Republicans for the downgrade, something his surrogates had already done. And he called for extending unemployment benefits, extending the payroll tax cut, more infrastructure spending, and higher taxes; all policies he has been pushing for months.

Later, the White House press corps pressed spokesman Jay Carney on whether Obama would be unveiling a deficit reduction plan “in a form of being scoreble by the Congressional Budget Office.” When Carney demurred, POLITICO’S GLENN THRUSH ASKED: “YOU SAID HE WILL BE CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROCESS, TALKING ABOUT THE SUPER COMMITTEE, BUT HE WON’T BE LEADING IT. HE IS THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. WHY ISN’T HE LEADING THIS PROCESS?” Carney responded: “Glenn. Look, this President, his leadership on these issues is quite established.”

Quite established to whom? AFTER OBAMA’S STATEMENT, THE MARKETS FELL ANOTHER 210 POINTS.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/morning-examiner-obama-headlights

Actually I think Carney’s statement is absolutely true. “This President, his leadership on these issues is quite established.” It’s established as nonexistent.

Wait a Minute? What about his focus on JOBS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwn4dJcl08

Does anyone think Obama still has any credibility?

Cohen turns Cold to Mr. Cool

…THIS QUALITY OF OBAMA’S, THIS INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WHAT MANY OF US THINK HE MUST BE FEELING, HAS LATELY COST MANY TREES THEIR DEAR LIVES — reams of essays and op-ed pieces. One of the more interesting ones, by Drew Westen, a psychology professor at Emory University, ran in Sunday’s New York Times. It cited Obama’s frequent inability or unwillingness to explain himself or to appear empathetic. All this is true. But Westen’s most salient point was contained in the title: “WHAT HAPPENED TO OBAMA?” THE ANSWER: NOTHING.

Obama has always been the man he is today. HE IS THE VERY PERSONIFICATION OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE — THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT WE (ESPECIALLY LIBERALS) EXPECTED OF THE FIRST SERIOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND THE MAN HE IN FACT IS. He has next to none of the rhetorical qualities of the old-time black politicians. He would eschew the cliche, but he feels little of their pain. In this sense, he has been patronized by liberals who looked at a man and saw black and has been reviled by those who looked at a black man and saw “other.” …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-cool-turns-cold/2011/08/08/gIQAoZlI3I_story.html

The liberal press is starting to turn. It’s going to be a long 15 months for the Democrats.


The liberal press would never vote for Bachmann, but…

…It turned out that Hoover, who had not decided whom to support in the GOP race, had not come to query Bachmann on the ISSUES BUT TO COMPLAIN THAT HE HAD RECEIVED FIVE AUTOMATED CALLS FROM HER CAMPAIGN IN THE PAST WEEK. He was on a no-call list, ...

….Then Bachmann seemed to catch herself. She walked over to Hoover, leaned down, locked her eyes onto his, shook his hand and didn't let go for the longest time. "I thank you, and I would ask you to come to Ames on August 13, this Saturday, and I'll tell you why," she began.

"I WANT YOU TO COME, AND I WANT YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR VOTE BECAUSE WE HAVE GOT TO TURN THE COUNTRY AROUND," Bachmann said. "You get to choose. There are people all across the United States who wish they were in your shoes. People wish they were an Iowan because you get to make that down payment on Saturday for taking the country back."

BACHMANN WAS STILL HOLDING HOOVER'S HAND AND LOOKING STRAIGHT INTO HIS EYES; at that moment, every ounce of her considerable energy was devoted to making this one particular sale. "I'M 100 PERCENT PRO-LIFE, I'M 100 PERCENT PRO-MARRIAGE, PRO-FAMILY, I'M 100 PERCENT ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT," she told Hoover. "Let's get 'er done right now, let's make a decision right now. What do I need to do to convince you?
Hoover still wouldn't commit…

…"The things that she told me, personally standing there with her, that she was pro-life, and Second Amendment, and cutting spending -- ALL OF THIS I BELIEVE," HOOVER SAID. "SHE LOOKED ME IN THE EYE, HELD MY HAND AND TOLD ME, 'THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE.' "

If the rally did nothing else, it proved that one man, all by his lonesome, didn't stand a chance when faced with the Full Bachmann.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/08/bachmanns-high-beams-turn-doubter-fan#ixzz1UXddkX5M

Obama's “I didn’t say change in a week or a month” line won’t play well in the America he has helped to create. We are looking for someone we can trust and Obama has proven we can’t trust him.