HAVE WE LOST CONFIDENCE IN OBAMA?
If you read the
current press or watch television news you may have heard that Americans have
lost confidence in President Obama. The real problem is that the media in their
stupidity has given credence to the latest scam of the obstructionists from the
right.
The real issue
is that the right wing, who believe that government has no role to play, has
spent so much time talking about how Obama's plans couldn't work that the
economically ignorant press has begun to believe them. If Obama's plans fail it
is because the right has been obstructing so much of anything he tries to do
that the people have lost confidence not in him but in the who political
process. When Rush Limbaugh says he wants Obama to fail and Rick Santorum, a light of the "Right" agrees, we find we are all in
trouble. The right has learned that expectations have an awful lot to do with
how an economy operates. If they can destroy positive expectations then the
failure of the recovery can move the right into power in 2012.
Rush and his ilk are traitors. They are more interested in their regaining power than they are in the health of the country. Their governors' refusal of stimulus funds borders on criminal behavior and implications that they can refuse to follow laws they believe to be unconstitutional is a step toward cession and a new civil war. They would rather see a failure of the republic than allow their opponents any semblance of success.
The referees are trying to fix the game. MSM pretends to be objective while protecting their rich financiers. You'll just haave to shout a little louder.
March 4, 2009 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, if you read the news or watch television, you would have been treated to the results of several polls, the most recent being the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll which gave the President a 60% job approval rating and 68% favorability rating. Additionally 84% of the respondents to the poll believe the economic mess was inherited by President Obama.
When your first sentence blows up, it kinda screws with your hypothesis. "The real problem" and "the real issue" with regard to confidence in Obama simply does not exist.
There is a "real problem" for the Republican party and the arch-conservatives who run it, because they are without a message and have no confidence in THEIR leaders, de facto or elected.
The media is not the problem, they are just along for the ride. With a 24 hour news cycle to fill, the noise on the right serves a limited purpose.
March 4, 2009 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you have been reading and/or watching, you would find that the statistics are read with a tone that makes you believe that the commentators can't understand why he has so much support.
March 5, 2009 7:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have.
I think his cabinet -- specifically Geithner -- has shown to be inadequate for the job. I think the problems his nominees have had shows a lack of preparedness. There are parts of his budget that make me ill, things that would have prevented me from voting for him had I been aware of. I think that supporting new energy is a great idea, but not at the expense of existing companies, who employ people and pay taxes, too.
I'm still hopeful, but the question is have I lost confidence. The answer is yes. I hope I'm proven wrong. And soon.
March 5, 2009 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
The problems that the repubs have gotten us into are huge. The economy is in a place where we have never been before, and it is hard to find 2 economists who agree about what to do. To blame Geithner for that is a tad bit unfair, and to have expected Obama to turn this around this quickly is also unfair.
I would suggest that you try real hard to regain your confindence by trying to figure out what whoever you are wishing you had voted for instead would have done better. I think you would find that person would not have been able to do anywhere near as much in this length of time.
March 5, 2009 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe I have too much patience but I figure I won't have enough information to decide whather to keep supporting Obama until 2012. I don't know if things are really as bad as some posters here think but we definitely are deep in the mud and it's going to be a long, hard slog to get out it. Anybody's solutions will take awhile to work (or not work).
March 5, 2009 8:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that there is no quick fix to the problems we face. However, the Republican approach appears to be designed to exacerbate the problems when amelioration is called for. If people believe that we can solve the problems, their expectations will cause them to act as if they are being solved. This means that those who can will start spending and a recovery can work. If, however, the obstructionists from the right convince people that the stimulus won't work then spending will remain overly restrained and a recovery will be delayed.
Why doesn't the media ask the Republican why they think that the Bush Tax Cut mentality which contributed to this mess will get us out of it. Isn't that the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over while expecting the outcomes to change?
March 5, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink