Obama - An Anchor

A friend of ours noted the following: "...What is taking Obama down below 50% approval is mostly a public awareness that they elected a deeply cynical man, who either cannot or will not speak the truth or keep his promises."

If it were that easy.

Americas are generous with their leaders. They will forgive simple gaffs - 57 states, the "Austrian" language; they will even forgive outright lies - jobs "saved or created," Muslims inventing both the printing press and the Renaissance, "no more lobbyists in government," guaranteed transparency (yet no news conference since last summer), Iran in compliance by the UN summit, the lie of airing the healthcare debate on C-SPAN, the phony deadlines on Gitmo, BO’s bribing of senators with taxpayers funds, making a lie of his promises to the contrary. Still, many folks simply looked the other way.

And apparently Americans will even forgive, for a while anyway, being treated as Vic Hansen noted, "like children in need of Ivy-League guardians."

Americans will not forgive however Obama’s attempt to steam-roll their liberties, that drastic change in life style - the major insertion of government control of their lives, BO’s plans to remake the US using health, education and energy as vehicles - the unprecedented federal intrusion into American industry and commerce. That is something you just do not try on Americans. It will not work.

This my friends explains Obama's decline.

Most of us understand it was all there. All folks had to do was inquire. After all, some scholarship is required for the companion responsibility in the voting booth.

Because so many Americans are derelict in their homework, because so many know so little of historical events, because they don't know that there is nothing really new under the sun, because of this most of us have to suffer as they, once again, re-learn their lessons. Many of these individuals were simply deluded, gullible, voting for Obama on promises of a new kinder, gentler politics, falling for his irenic message. Come on. They got instead the most partisan, nasty Chicago politicking in memory.

You'd think that most past 30 would understand that slick delivery is nothing but a disguise for lack of substance. Yet as BO spoke in mellifluous tones and the media was instantly enraptured, lefties everywhere followed suit.

But then we all knew his radical leftist past didn’t we, his spectacular lack of demonstrated judgement in associations with convicted terrorists and hate mongers? And we all knew his voting record. Or did white guilt trump all of this?

Still, it would have been easy for Obama to make a success of things, at least for his party. If he were given to good judgement (we identified that fatal flaw early in the campaign) he would have known that his election was not a mandate to sacrifice private enterprise for statism.

Robert Craven