Obama’s Approval Rating Drops
President Barack Obama’s approval rating is falling on concern unemployment is rising and the budget deficit will grow, a Quinnipiac University poll shows.
Exactly half of the registered voters surveyed from July 27 to Aug. 3 by Quinnipiac said they approve of the job Obama is doing, compared with 42 percent who disapprove. That’s down from 57 percent approval and 33 percent disapproval in a poll taken in late June, according to results released today.
Americans are upset about rising unemployment and worried that health-care plans making their way through Congress will add to the U.S. budget deficit, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based polling institute. The combination has helped drive down the president’s ratings.
President Obama is a good man. He’s got a great personality and he’s very likeable. He has high goals and makes plenty of promises, but can he deliver on his promises? Should he? He inherited a 2 trillion dollar request to bailout criminals that stole the American Trust. Democrats united to prevent Pres. Bush from “Enroning” Social Security, but Pres. Obama delivered the cash to Bush’s Base and he rush to do it. Should he have? Obama rushed to bailout Bank CEO and he gave them bonuses for failure. Should he have? Obama rushed to the defense of Professor Gate in saying the cops acted “Stupidly.” Again, should he have? Obama has changed the Constitution appointing CZARs? He took Tim Geithner as the top tax guy and Tim didn’t pay his taxes. He went to the All Star game wearing “Granny Jeans” possibly going “Commando.” Again, should he have? Finally, he promised America healthcare reform and he changed the debate to insurance reform. Insurance companies are corrupt and the system discriminates, but it has nothing to do with the guarantee that healthcare is available to all. Insurance makes money by denying healthcare to all. Should Obama keep his promise on healthcare or make this a fight that can’t be won without a real war? A VA exception could make the debate mute. Should he have offered this already to get us talking about real reform and accountability? He’s failing, but he didn’t have to. He talked of “Childish Things” and “Petty Grievances.” Race, Recreation, Responsibility and Reform are not petty things.