Obama over-reaching, poll suggests

Mark, so far Obama's handling of Iraq and Afghanistan is no different than that of President Bush. Before your boss became president, the Bush administration began drawing down in Iraq because the Surge that Obama was against, was succeeding. The Bush administration also began sending more troops to Afghanistan as the situation there began to get worse.

I wonder what these numbers would look like if this President was being as scrutinized as the last? He has said the right thing everything (a refreshing change) but has acted as a partisan player since day one. What is going to happen when he runs out of people to blame?

I think people just aren't used to a President that actually makes things happen & moves quickly. This man has a lot of energy and intelligence and now that he has the tools and the venue to put his plans into action, and he is doing so.

We, as a country, have become so used to slow-moving government that this surprises us.

Some people seem to think that he had no knowledge of any of these issues before January 20, 2009.

President Barack Obama hit the ground running, as they say. The man is definitely earning his paycheck.

This pathetic excuse for a president is going to run this country into the ground.He's a liar and when all you uneducated system sucking losers follow him over the cliff I'll be hanging on for dear life.

If you support these core initiatives:

-Effective, empowered teachers and school leaders;
-Student assessments that stress 21st century skills;
-Universal access to high-quality early education;
-A safe, healthy learning environment; and
-Affordable college for all students,

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LOL, Obama better take a picture of those poll numbers- it's just that spending and his clueless foriegn policy stance that's going to do him in- that, and his narcissism
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Although most of the MSM has so much invested in his success that they can no-longer afford anything resembling a balanced perspective, SOME journalists and talk-show hosts come out publicly against his plans... so he launches attacks, including paid TV ads against them. (can you imagine the uproar if W had done this?)
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When the GOP members of Congress that Obama promised for over a year to work with in a new, post-partisan manner voice their concerns, he tells them "I'll trump you on that" and "I won". Obama then employed shameless and reckless fear-mongering to frighten legislators and the public into backing his porkulus spending binge... effective politically, but often inaccurate historically... and betraying very poor leadership qualities.

The "stimulus" bill is a political LEMON- and Obama owns it. Hard to see any political cover for him when all this pork and welfare fails to generate any real economic gains-
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Expect a stale economy, higher taxes, high inflation, a weak dollar, international embarrassments, endless ethics issues... followed by a Democratic bloodbath in the 2010 mid-terms. As for 2012, the GOP could win 40+ states running Gilbert Gottfreid.
- http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

With the horrific mess the Bush administration left for President Obama to clean up, he has no choice but to work hard on many fronts. The damage from the previous administration is widespread and near catastrophic. President Obama is doing exactly what he must.

I think all the Bush's, all the Clintons and now Obama have all been working together forever long before Clinton even became president to form a North American Union. If you think of it that way a lot of all this bullshit that is happening makes a lot more sense.

I think people are still to used to Bush being in power and knowing that he couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time.
President Obama is smart enough to multi-task.

First of all, this argument is ridiculous. When was the last time there was a President who had only a single item on his agenda for his entire first term? Is Obama really going to provide much added value by spending all his time worrying about the fluctuations of the Dow? What are his education secretary, his HHS secretary, supposed to be doing while this is going on?

More importantly, Obama isn't proposing implementing these policies in a week as these people seem to be suggesting. These are all things that will be tackled over the next few YEARS.

But there's a bigger irony here, and that is that all of these things will arguably help the economy in the long run. The Reagan economy of the past 30 years slashed taxes and regulations, giving businesses and corporations a "quick fix" with massive profits. But it also decimated the middle class, the foundations of the economy. And when the middle class couldn't afford to pay the mortgages that Wall Street was getting rich off of, suddenly it was Wall Street's problem too.

The overarching issue has been a tendency to take the easy way out. Looser regulations? Sure, why not? Repeal Glass Steagall? Hey, the stock market likes it.

Obama's initiatives are aimed at fixing big structural problems that will create a durable, sustainable economy. They are things we need to address. And yes, they will take spending, but there's a huge difference between shoveling money out the window in Iraq, or on corporate giveaways, and investing in our future.

The corporate-controlled media want to do all of the former, and none of the latter. Let's not let them get away with it.

Bubba, please define North American Union.

Let's all thank Ace for his constructive, intelligent and enlightening (of what righties are like) comment.

In 2012 it will still be a mess and all you kool-aid drinkers will still be waiting for Obama to pay your mortgage and put gas in your tank and fix your sorry lives - all you're going to get is more lip service and promises that it will take him 4 more years to finish the job, and you'll believe him. So sad.

This represents a recalibration by the people opposing Obama - i.e., the rich, big corporations, big oil. They have realized it's a waste of time to criticize Obama's actual policies, which polling shows are enormously popular with the public and defend conservatism, which isn't. Instead, their new tactic is to criticize his leadership and strategy, using the economy and falling stock market as evidence.

Also notice that, for the moment at least, the rich, big corporations and big oil interests seem to have largely given up on Republicans as carriers of their message. Instead of having Kenneth "the page" Jindal or Michael "off the hook" Steele out there in front pushing this message, the meme has been seeded through the media by supposedly "centrist" pundits, with the hope that it eventually becomes conventional wisdom.

The Republican loving corporate media message is remarkably consistent. Obama is trying to "bite off more than he can chew." He's "too ambitious." He should "put all of this off" until the financial crisis is fixed. Oh, and he's "trying to spend too much."

But let's be perfectly clear. They don't want him to "put off" his policies. They want him to abandon them.

They don't want a tax on the rich, even a minor hike to 36%. Or health care reform. Or cap and trade. These things are all anathema to them, because they will hurt short term profits.

And they know perfectly well that none of Obama's agenda will be possible if they can push this all off a year or two and Republicans are able to get more seats in Congress..

I'm sure that the constant ankle biting from the republicans have nothing to do with it. Wishing failure for America they pound away every day and night predicting doom from this administration. Sean Vannity relieves himself nightly with his misleading and down right lies. I love the one he started about Bush inheriting a recession. Please show me the 2 quarters of GDP decline? Harnessing anger of taxpayers having to pay out of their taxes to the very people the republicans coddled, they once again use emotions, similar to the manipulation of emotions to invade Iraq. Using names such as Socialism, and Marxism as a justification for their calls of failure for America. Such patriotic people these republicans...if you can wrap it in a flag, the country has to salute it...doesn't it?

The corporate media and their minions (Rush and the GOP) want President Obama to fail. By having him focus on "one thing" they can then assure it fails by spending all their (remaining) political capital on that one thing.

What does this tell us about the GOP/Business/Media Elite?

They're scared, and they have no real options to combat Obama's common-sense highly popular agenda that will further diminish their power and (personal) profits.

My advice to President Obama: Keep it up!

I'll be hanging on for dear life.

Posted by: ace | March 18, 2009 2:54 PM

Sounds like you already are.

Matt, I'm not so sure that Obama has said the right thing every time. I don't think that he fully understood the power of his office, in that the whole world would hang on and analyze his every word. Now that he's eased off the "catastrophe" rhetoric, and adopted a more Rooseveltian positive public attitude, some things, at least, appear to be looking up.

Expect a stale economy, higher taxes, high inflation, a weak dollar, international embarrassments, endless ethics issues... followed by a Democratic bloodbath in the 2010 mid-terms. As for 2012, the GOP could win 40+ states running Gilbert Gottfreid.
- http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Reaganite Republican | March 18, 2009 2:57 PM

Which would still be a massive improvement from the death spiral economy, pending deflation, weak dollar, spiking unemployment and international isolation which the Reaganite Policies of George W. Bush left as thier legacy.

Face it, RR, Your Republican party failed as badly as any Party in the modern era, going all the way back to Herbert Hoover. It was 20 years after Hoover before the American people put another Republican in the White House.

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED THAT THE VILLAGER DC MEDIA WOULD THINK THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TRYING TO DO TO MUCH AT ONE TIME, AFTERALL, THEY GOT USED TO EIGHT YEARS OF BUSH NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME.

Those that think he has not ventured into too many areas, they like his liberal agenda and want to see these things done. For Conservatives, he is taking this nation on a track that will wreck this nation and his inability to drive this train will only merit disdain from friendly nations and terrorism from jihadists.

I love when people say "big oil". Did you know that big oil employs hundreds of thousands of people. Also :the rich". I bet you work for a poor person. Taxing the corporations is a sure fire way to create more jobs, right. Then he wants to do away with the home mortgage interest deduction. So he is going to give you 500 tax cut while taking away the thousands you could have saved from interest deduction. Only the political educated are conservatives. All of the 20ish young people that elected the guy have no idea what he is doing or even the name of the vice president. I cant believe what the liberal stands for. Please help me understand.