Editor's notes: lets put Obama's polling numbers into context beginning with Truman. We use the charting services found at the Wall Street Journal here.
Truman began his tenure as president with the decision to use the Atomic bomb. On the WSJ chart, this decision was an extremely unpopular idea. Public opinion for this president was the most erratic for any president since and including Truman. Eisenhower followed Truman and scored the most consistently high marks for this group of politicians. Kennedy, in spite of the fact that he was our first Catholic President, also proved to be a very popular Executive. LBJ took the Helm after the murder of JFK and was elected to a full term as president. The Viet Nam War was raging and the Marxist Libs were able to orchestrate a national rebellion to that war that eventually made victory impossible. LBJ wound up with a popular polling number in the 40 percentile bracket, but not until after his 3rd year as president. Nixon followed JBJ, who decided not to run for a second full term, opening the door for the Nixon ascension. He ended the Viet Nam war but was destroyed by the Watergate Scandal. While the scandal itself, was a rather minor offense, the lying and cover up consumed Nixon and revealed a very immoral Chief of Administration. Midknight Review sees Nixon as our most immoral president, but his numbers did not go into the tank until Watergate and the events leading up to his forced resignation (under threat of a successful impeachment). Gerald Ford was the Speaker of House during the Nixon Administration. He was moved to the Vice President's position after Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP, proved to be a crook and was forced out of office. After Nixon's resignation near the beginning of his second term, Ford took over as President, the first to be VP and President without having been elected to either position. One of his first actions as President was to pardon Richard Nixon. That sealed his doom and he was defeated in his effort at being elected . . . . defeated by Jimmy Carter. Carter proved to be in over his head on at least two levels - foreign policy and homeland economics. Iran took American hostages and held them for 444 days, Carter having no clue on what to do to get these Americans back home. And then there was the matter of the national economy. Unemployment benefit rates rose to 13% and interest rates rose to above 21%, bringing to a complete halt construction and housing sales. Carter was a much a Marxist as Obama, but not nearly as well schooled in the Marxist tradition. His presidency was beyond pathetic. Carter was this editor's reason for leaving the Democrat Party. Reagan ran and won against Carter. After 444 days, the hostages were released the afternoon Reagan was sworn in as president. His tax policies were quickly enacted but did not go into effect for two years. Ultimately, his tax cuts counted for a doubling of income from taxation but a Democrat controlled Congress managed to do what they always do and spend more than the Government took in from the wildly successful Reagan tax cuts. The eight years of Reagan were followed by four years of Bush 41 and his infamous "read my lips, no more taxes." This turned out to be a lie and he lost to Clinton in an election Clinton would not have won had it not been for the 19% vote count given to Ross Perot. Clinton won two elections, never with more than 48% of the vote, but wound up being more popular in the end than in the beginning. Bush 43 won the nation's closest election ever against Fat Al Gore, all of us voters waiting from election night, November 7, 2000, until December the 13th and the Democrat filled Florida Supreme Court to decide in Bush's favor. While the whiners on the Left have never moved away from this election result, they never mention the fact that had Gore won his home state of Tennessee, Florida would not have mattered at all. In fact, if he had won Clinton's state of Arkansas, that too would have given the election to Gore. What we are saying is this: Gore did not lose the 2000 election because of Florida. Rather he lost because he could not convince the peoples of either Arkansas or Tennessee that he deserved to be President. But the press and the Marxists will continue to whine about Florida without regard to the facts of the election. Something we should have mentioned but left out is the fact that while we waited for Court's decision, there were 8 "recounts," Bush winning each and every one.
Under Clinton, there was a separation of powers within the intelligence community (FBI, SS, CIA among others) orchestrated by Jamie Gorelick, Clinton's Deputy Attorney General. Experts believe that this separation of powers made it possible for al Qaeda to plan its assault on the Twin Towers (During Clinton's Administration) and successfully attack the Towers just seven and a half months after Bush took office and before he had his Cabinet in place. What one agency knew about alQaeda was not permitted to be shared with the other agencies -- a decision that proved to be disastrous. Further and what is completely ignored by the Marxist revisionists, George Bush was told by Bill Clinton that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. THAT IS WHERE BUSH GOT THE IDEA. That "fact" was confirmed by Clinton's CIA and every national intelligence agency in the world, not to mention the fact that Saddam, himself, boldly stated their existence and his willingness to use them should his country be invaded. At any rate, as unpopular as Bush became, he did not dip into the 40% bracket until his second term. Obama managed to fall from 65% to 49% on July 24, just 6 months and 2 days into his presidency (using Rasmussen). Only Truman managed to do this more quickly and that was after he ordered the deaths (in effect) of 160,000 people via the Atom bomb (keep in mind that most experts agree that the bombings saved upwards of a million American lives as well as hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives in a battle royale for the Japan Island Complex).
It is beginning to look as if Obama will govern in the minority for all but 6 months of his last term in office. And it couldn't happen to nicer guy. He has told the voting public, "go to hell" and they are returning the favor.
(C) J Smithson
Midknight Review
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