On Obama’s presidency

Simon Heffer writes about Obama’s first fifty days here:

With the aid of the conservative media, the public is being alerted to the pork – or to what are now being called the “tea parties” being funded by the $787 billion, but which will do no real good to any but a small minority of Democratic client-groups. There is a rising consciousness here that money is being wasted, that Mr Obama is simply spraying it around, and that America is at risk of bankruptcy.

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Mr Obama has shown little evidence that he has connected with the tens of millions in his country for whom hardship is not theoretical. Six hundred thousand people a month in America are going on the dole. Much of the $275 billion – perhaps as much as $200 billion – earmarked for the mortgage industry will go to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rather than provide direct support to those whose homes are being repossessed. The pawn shops, the half-finished and overgrown housing developments on the edges of towns, the roads to nowhere and the new proliferation of beggars and down-and-outs on the streets of New York (I have not seen so many here since the 1980s) are a growing testament to the President’s challenge. He has yet to prove he is equal to it.

The column by Heffer is a good one and gives an excellent description of Obama’s challenges that lay before him. It can be seen in polls, like the one in my previous post, that the democrats keep losing confidence and after the inauguration there’s been a big increase in people not satisfied with the presidents work. The promises of bipartisanship and that Obama would bring change to the political scene seems to have gone out the window.

Obama, out of touch?

I’ll just let this quote speak for itself and you can add one and one together:

During the fall campaign, Obama mercilessly mocked his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, for declaring, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” Obama’s team painted the veteran senator as out of touch and failing to grasp the challenges facing the country.

On Sunday, economic adviser Christina Romer was asked during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if the fundamentals of the economy were sound. “Of course they are sound,” she replied.
(Source)

Uniquely Popular?

If you watch the news, listen to the commentators, to the democrats, to most liberals.. then you might still get the impression that Obama walks on water and that he’s more popular than any other president. Ever. Well it might be that King Barack the Spreader isn’t that popular.

Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date

The full article can be found here.

Obama vs Rush

If you follow american politics you’re probably aware of how the Obama administration went after Rush Limbaugh. If not this Karl Rove piece gives you a quick recap and a reasonable explanation as to why they did it.

Team Obama — aided by Clintonistas Paul Begala, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg — decided to attack Rush Limbaugh after poring over opinion research. White House senior adviser David Axelrod explicitly authorized the assault. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel assigned a White House official to coordinate the push. And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gleefully punched the launch button at his podium, suckering the White House press corps into dropping what they were doing to get Mr. Limbaugh.

This is low from the Obama administration. All the talks about moving beyond party politics, about having Democrats and Republicans work together and so forth, is all just a bunch of bull. When the trillion dollar spending bill passe through the House and Senate the Democrats ignored the republicans since they had waited 8 years for their wish list.

It’s tragic to see a President of the United States promise hope & change but do the complete opposite in practice.

The ‘Special Relationship’ (Part Three)

The Telegraph has had sources tell them that President Obama was tired.

Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.

The ‘Special Relationship’ (Part Two)

Mark steyn writes on the subject here

Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts. Still, the “classic American movies” set is a pretty good substitute, and it can set you back as much as $38.99 at Wal-Mart[...]

The ‘Special Relationship’

How do you treat an ally?

Well let’s ask Gordon Brown what he thinks. The gifts he had with him to the States to hand over to the new american President Barack Obama showed that he had put down a great deal of thought into it. What the gifts were?

 Brown’s carefully chosen official gifts included a pen holder made from a Royal Navy vessel that once fought to end the Atlantic slave trade and a first edition of the eight-volume biography of Winston Churchill begun by Winston’s son Randolph and completed by Sir Martin Gilbert.
(Source)

What he got in return from Obama?
25 American DVD’s.

Obama’s Approval Index

Rasmussen Reports tracks the Approval Index day by day.

The high was +32 on the 22nd of January. On the 9th of March it was down to +6. Telling numbers?