Obama '08?

I am curious, Okie, about how you interpret the Obama approval ratings. Today it is at -21, which you are quick to point out. On Sept 1st it was at -12, which was one of Obama's better marks.
What, in your reading of events in the last few days, would account for his rise and then the fall?

KUHNER: President's socialist takeover must be stopped
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
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The Washington Times
5:58 p.m., Thursday, July 22, 2010

President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his
agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.
He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous
path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and
balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law;
presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very
pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman,
Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one
that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological
lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His
policies are Balkanizing the country. It's time for him to go.

He has abused his office and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution. His health care overhaul was rammed through Congress. It was - and
remains - opposed by a majority of the people. It could only be passed
through bribery and political intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the
Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen.
Bill Nelson - taxpayer money was used as a virtual slush fund to buy
swing votes. Moreover, the law is blatantly unconstitutional: The
federal government does not have the right to coerce every citizen to
purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it
represents an unprecedented expansion of power.

Yet Obamacare's most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance
plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than
state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience rights of
religious citizens. Traditionalists - evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists,
Muslims, Orthodox Jews - have been made complicit in an abomination
that goes against their deepest religious values. As the law is
implemented (as in Pennsylvania) the consequences of the abortion
provisions will become increasingly apparent. The result will be a
cultural civil war. Pro-lifers will become deeply alienated from
society; among many, a secession of the heart is taking place.

Mr. Obama is waging a frontal assault on property rights. The BP oil spill is a case in point. BP clearly is responsible for the spill and its
massive economic and environmental damage to the Gulf. There is a legal
process for claims to be adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more
like Mr. Chavez or Russia's Vladimir Putin: He has bullied BP into
setting up a $20 billion compensation fund administered by an Obama
appointee. In other words, the assets of a private company are to be
raided to serve a political agenda. Billions will be dispensed
arbitrarily in compensation to oil-spill victims - much of it to
Democratic constituents. This is cronyism and creeping authoritarianism.

Mr. Obama's multicultural socialism seeks to eradicate traditional America. He has created a command-and-control health care system. He has
essentially nationalized the big banks, the financial sector, the
automakers and the student loan industry. He next wants to pass
"cap-and-trade," which would bring industry and manufacturing under the
heel of big government. The state is intervening in every aspect of
American life - beyond its constitutionally delegated bounds. Under Mr.
Obama, the Constitution has become a meaningless scrap of paper.

To provide the shock troops for his socialist takeover, Mr. Obama calls for "comprehensive immigration reform" - granting amnesty to 12 million
to 20 million illegal aliens. This would forge a permanent Democratic
electoral majority. It would sound the death knell for our national
sovereignty. Amnesty rewards lawlessness and criminal behavior; it
signifies the surrender of our porous southern border to a massive
illegal invasion. It means the death of American nationhood. We will no
longer be a country, but the colony of a global socialist empire.

Rather than defending our homeland, Mr. Obama's Justice Department has sued Arizona for its immigration law. He is siding with criminals against his
fellow Americans. His actions desecrate his constitutional oath to
protect U.S. citizens from enemies foreign and domestic. He is thus
encouraging more illegal immigration as Washington refuses to protect
our borders. Mr. Obama's decision on this case is treasonous.

As president, he is supposed to respect the rule of law. Instead, his administration has dropped charges of voter intimidation against members
of the New Black Panther Party. This was done even though their
menacing behavior was caught on tape: men in military garb brandishing
clubs and threatening whites at a polling site. A Justice Department
lawyer intimately involved in the case, J. Christian Adams, resigned in
protest. Mr. Adams says that under Mr. Obama, there is a new policy:
Cases involving black defendants and white victims - no matter how much
they cry for justice - are not to be prosecuted. This is more than
institutionalized racism. It is an abrogation of civil rights laws. The
Justice Department's behavior is illegal. It poses a direct threat to
the integrity of our democracy and the sanctity of our electoral
process.

Corruption in the administration is rampant. Washington no longer has a government; rather, it has a gangster regime. The Chicago way has become the Washington way. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
is a political hit man. He is an amoral, ruthless operator. It was Mr.
Emanuel who reached out to Rep. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania Democrat,
offering a high-ranking job in the hopes of persuading Mr. Sestak to
pull out of the primary against Sen. Arlen Specter. It was Mr. Emanuel
who offered another government position to Andrew Romanoff to do the
same in the Colorado Democratic Senate primary. And it was Mr. Emanuel -
as the trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has revealed - who
acted as the go-between to try to have Valerie Jarrett parachuted into
Mr. Obama's former Senate seat. The only question was: What did Mr.
Blagojevich want in exchange?



This is not simply sleazy Chicago machine politics. It is the systematic breaking of the law - bribery, attempt to interfere (and manipulate) elections using taxpayer-funded jobs, influence peddling and
abuse of power.

The common misperception on the right is that Mr. Obama is another Jimmy Carter: an incompetent liberal whose presidency is being reduced to rubble under the onslaught of repeated failures. The
very opposite, however, is true. He is the most consequential president
in our lifetime, transforming America into something our Founding
Fathers would find not only unrecognizable, but repugnant. Like all
radical revolutionaries, he is consumed by the pursuit of power -
attaining it, wielding it and maximizing it. Mr. Obama's fledgling thug
state must be stopped.

If Republicans win back Congress in November, they should - and likely will - launch formal investigations into this criminal, scandal-ridden administration. Rep. Darrell Issa,
California Republican and ranking member of the Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, has promised as much. Mr. Obama has betrayed the
American people. Impeachment is the only answer. This usurper must fall.




Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute, a Washington think tank. He is the host of "The
Kuhner Show" on WTNT 570-AM (www.talk570.com) from 5 to 7 p.m.

Here's the graph that shows that the republicans pretty much had a unfavorable rating on Obama in January of 2008 at 37%.
http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama-reps.php
As of September of this year, the republicans approval rating at 9.9% and disapproval at 87.7%. This is what is reflected in all the polls. With an 88% disapproval rating by republicans, it's amazing that the spread between approval and disapproval is so "small."

It is because Democrats and so-called Independents that voted for Obama, plus the mainstream press, they all are heavily invested into Obama, not only politically, but in a very emotional way, ci, and this type of emotional investment and attachment to a political figure is not reduced and neutralized very easily or quickly.

Perhaps, you have made an emotional investment in keeping the presidency male and white.

Today, obama said that were he to say the sky is blue or fish swim in the sea, the republicans would say no.