Obama begins the new year where he left off, in 2013 -- seeking to control what is not his to control. Now, he wants the Media to ignore all stories relating to his declining approval numbers.
We begin the New Year, as we did 12 months ago, with an increasingly unpopular president, and man whose “trustworthiness” is, now, a negative number. His lies with regard to ObamaCare have cost him dearly and in the critical arena of personal popularity, the one thing that has given Obama his political "cash," throughout the years. That is, now, a thing of the past, at least for the near future .
And just how bad is this negative polling circumstance for Obama, really? The words of the following story give us the rather surprising answer:
After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution.
Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, said.
And that should tell us all we want to know.
Understand this: National polling is one thing, often taken by partisan concerns to push an agenda that may or may not be supported by those survyed. In contrast, “internal polls” are taken by partisan political parties (for example) to measure what is really happening. And that is what makes this story most interesting. It is a well known fact of life, that Obama has sought to control political news effecting his Administration. He is occasionally compared to Nixon, in this regard, but, in my opinion, Obama’s opposition to the national media includes his disdain for a free press, altogether. Nixon’s hatred for the media was based on passion; Obama’s disdain for a free press is structural, and, for that reason, a far worse threat to our liberties as a people, than anything “Nixonian.” Our featured story is an account of Obama's decision to try to enlist the major media on his behalf, and is evidence of internal polling that is proving to foretell the worst of outcomes for an Administration that is lost, within itself.
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Let's talk numbers... Unemployment dropping and the stock market just wrapped up its best year since 1997, giving investors an almost 30% gain in a record-breaking run ... coming back from the Bush recession.
ReplyDeleteAfter five stinking years, it is safe to say that this is the Obama Recession. Let's not forget that members of his Administration told the world, in 2010, "This is our economy, now." You do know that the Stock Market is all about Quantitative Easing, right? Its record setting pace has almost nothing to do with a "recovering" economy. Besides, you people hate Wall Street and those greedy capitalist gluttons, no?
ReplyDeleteThe "drop" in unemployment numbers has nothing to do with job creation. Your Leftist buds at The Daily Beast wrote an article, today (Jan 2) documenting the loss of 7 million jobs. And it is a fact that the labor force has lost 10.4 million Americans since Obama took office - 2.5 million of that number being folks needing work but have given up finding a job.
Your "best year since 1997" is simply untrue. The participation rate in our workforce is at its lowest levels in 35 years. Tell me what is good about that number. If the same numbers of Americans were being counted as in 2009, the unemployment rate would be 14.2%. Bush had an average unemployment rate of 4.6 % including 2008 and the second strongest economy in American history with 52 consecutive months of increase to our GDP - an American record. Statistically speaking, the Obama "recovery" is the slowest recovery "coming out of a recession" in our history with no end in sight. No recovery has taken this much time, and we are still far from where we need to be. Understand that Obama, himself, promised 5% unemployment using his policies, by this time in the so-called "recovery." Coming from a man who has no financial management training whatsoever, his "predictions" have proven to be a not-so-funny joke of a financial forecast.
So, yeah, let's talk numbers.