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Shine coming off of Obama’s apple

That’s just a fancy Southern way of saying “The emporer has no clothes.”  Work with me, people!

A new Zogby poll shows that the Obamessiah’s approval ratings have plummeted to their lowest levels thus far.  Independents are also tilting back to the right.  Insulting handicapped kids, bungling the AIG bonus situation, and laughing about the state of the economy on national TV (prompting Steve Kroft to ask if he was “punch drunk”) probably haven’t helped him much.  Maybe I’m full of it here (and if history is any indicator, I probably am), but I would think that those people of this country who think he can handle the job would probably like to see less of him on Leno and more of him doing his actual job.

Well, at least he’s taking responsibility for the AIG bonus fiasco, right?  Yeah, right.

Chris Buckley, offspring of conservative hero William F., voted for Obama because he didn’t like McCain.  He actually thought Obamarx wasn’t going to govern from the left (was his dad ever that naive?).  Imagine his surprise to find that we were right: O is a flaming liberal wolf in sheep’s clothing.  Well, Buck’s still giving him some slack, but not a lot.  Excerpt from his latest column:

In the midst of this bonfire of inanities, President Obama is pressing ahead with a $3.6 trillion budget, predicated on utterly unrealistic economic growth, even as the Congressional Budget Office is now projecting that this year’s deficit will soar past $1.8 trillion, 13 percent of the US economy. This would amount, as the Washington Post reports, to “the deepest well of red ink since the end of World War II.” According to the Post, the CBO is warning, ominously, that the result of this kind of borrowing and spending could lead to an exponentially expanding national debt that would “exceed 82 percent of the overall economy by 2019.”

President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing. But now we are in very dire straits, and that being the case, he will be held to account. It’s your legacy, sir, and let’s not hear any more about “inheriting the crisis.” You asked for the job. Meanwhile, let us hope that his talent for mastering a sérieux financial crisis are not on a level with the Special Olympians of Wall Street, and Congress. …

The excitable drama queen Andrew Sullivan has been all over Obama’s jock (figuratively, although he’d love for that to be literal) since 2004.  As with C-Buck, Miss Andy wonders if Barry may possibly be incompetent, and that’s not good news for Uhhh-bama and his cultist followers.

Elections have consequences, people.  If this country is smart enough (and the jury is still out on that), it will realize that you do not vote for politicians because they look good, speak well when staring at a teleprompter (as long as the word “Orion” is missing), shoot the three-ball in a pickup game of hoops, or hobnob with Hollyweirdos.  You don’t vote for someone whose plans are laced with generalities and short on specifics while he/she is campaigning.  You vote for a politician because he/she has great ideas and a proven track record of accomplishment…otherwise, you get stuck with Barack Obama and a bankrupting country.

March 24, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | economic ignorance, Obama, polls