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February 23, 2010
Obama's Personal Favorability Nosedives
Posted by Dave Blount at February 23, 2010 12:29 PM
Even if we don't like his radical left policies, we still find Comrade Obama appealing as a person, right? Wrong:
Consider the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Though 46 percent of Americans still approved of the job he was doing, only 39 percent had a favorable personal opinion of Obama. That's an 11-point drop since July and a 20-point drop since inauguration. For a politician whose success was predicated on a personal brand, that's a catastrophic fall.
Considering that most blacks and virtually all liberal elite types will find a swarthy leftist appealing no matter how big a narcissistic jerk he is, we're left with a tiny percentage of everyone else that can stand the guy — after only one year in office and an establishment media slavishly devoted to making him look good.
Ed Lasky has a few ideas why the hype is not holding up:
How about serial lying and breaking of promises? How about threats and hectoring? How about stupid comments (using Special Olympics contestants for a joke, depicting policemen doing their job as "acting stupidly")? Add: insulting a wide variety of groups; spending his days giving speeches; traveling to high profile events; playing golf so much; listening to musical soirees he has started having in the White House; engaging in strong-arming and transparent photo-ops; pressuring allies and emboldening adversaries; indulging in whining (look at the mess I willingly inherited); finger-pointing, name-calling, and using straw men continuously; displaying his dependency on the teleprompter; and engaging in vainglorious behavior that is juvenile and ego-centric (the tape of his speeches given to Queen Elizabeth); the endless face-time and speeches (we are just tuning him out-his speeches have become the voices of parents in Peanuts cartoons).
But that's okay. Obama loves himself enough for all of us.
Public sentiment will never come between Barack and true love.
On a tip from J.
