A recent CNN poll has finally delivered the coup de grace to Obama. When asked who they thought was the better president Obama topped Bush by 47%-45% - a statistical dead heat.
While it was clear to a majority of Democrats during the primary that Obama was the weakest and least qualified major presidential candidate in the history of the Democratic party, and has performed to those expectations, to be viewed on the same level as Bush has to be a new low. Bush, without question was the worst most inept incompetent unqualified president in American history. From his dismissal of terrorism as a real threat which led to the 911 attacks being successful, destroying the balanced budget, creating record deficits, and then policies that led to the current economic crisis, Bush's presidency did more damage to the United States in 8 years than any foreign enemy of the United States could do in 240. And yet Obama is now considered even with him in the eyes of the American voter.
Obama is certainly the worst president the Democrats ever had, blowing the public option on healthcare, the single most important piece of legislation since the Civil Rights Act, underestimating the depth of the economic crisis as Biden admitted ( though he keeps reminding people how bad he knew it was when he took office) went with a stimulus that was too small, then gutted financial reform. all to appease Republicans. Then he was as inept dealing with the oil spill as Bush was with Katrina ( though there was no loss of human life involved as it was with Katrina) . Obama has accomplished nothing of real value since he's been in office and even Democrats who voted for his legislation could only call it "better than nothing". And this, even though Obama's had the biggest congressional majority to work with in decades and its why there is such little enthusiasm among Democrats in the fall elections. And why congressional Democrats are in such trouble. No one whether Democrat or independent, wants to be seen as casting a vote in support of Obama's failures. Obama has been so inept, so unqualified and ill equipped to do this job, that on Sunday, David Axelrod said on Meet the Press that he is hoping that the gains Republicans will make in the congress will make the Republicans more cooperative. Meaning that Axelrod is conceding that even with the biggest congressional majority any president has had in at least 50 years, Obama could accomplish nothing of real value because he let the Republicans stymie him at every turn.
While it was clear to a majority of Democrats during the primary that Obama was the weakest and least qualified major presidential candidate in the history of the Democratic party, and has performed to those expectations, to be viewed on the same level as Bush has to be a new low. Bush, without question was the worst most inept incompetent unqualified president in American history. From his dismissal of terrorism as a real threat which led to the 911 attacks being successful, destroying the balanced budget, creating record deficits, and then policies that led to the current economic crisis, Bush's presidency did more damage to the United States in 8 years than any foreign enemy of the United States could do in 240. And yet Obama is now considered even with him in the eyes of the American voter.
Obama is certainly the worst president the Democrats ever had, blowing the public option on healthcare, the single most important piece of legislation since the Civil Rights Act, underestimating the depth of the economic crisis as Biden admitted ( though he keeps reminding people how bad he knew it was when he took office) went with a stimulus that was too small, then gutted financial reform. all to appease Republicans. Then he was as inept dealing with the oil spill as Bush was with Katrina ( though there was no loss of human life involved as it was with Katrina) . Obama has accomplished nothing of real value since he's been in office and even Democrats who voted for his legislation could only call it "better than nothing". And this, even though Obama's had the biggest congressional majority to work with in decades and its why there is such little enthusiasm among Democrats in the fall elections. And why congressional Democrats are in such trouble. No one whether Democrat or independent, wants to be seen as casting a vote in support of Obama's failures. Obama has been so inept, so unqualified and ill equipped to do this job, that on Sunday, David Axelrod said on Meet the Press that he is hoping that the gains Republicans will make in the congress will make the Republicans more cooperative. Meaning that Axelrod is conceding that even with the biggest congressional majority any president has had in at least 50 years, Obama could accomplish nothing of real value because he let the Republicans stymie him at every turn.
Bush was a president with unshakable convictions, which, unfortunately for the country convictions were always catastrophically wrong. Obama is a president with no convictions, along with no backbone, is not willing to fight for anything outside his own political well being, has no vision, and no political skill where it counts. And for those who say, if he has no political skill how did he get where he is, the answer is simple : when the race is rigged, when you have the press tanking for you and you have the powers at the DNC rigging a roll call vote to assure you win, it doesn't mean you're a winner any more than a fixed race means the winner is a great horse. The fact that Obama is considered even with Bush is a true embarrassment both for Obama and the Democrats that fought for his nomination. And it should be enough to make those who bet on Obama tear up their tickets.
Posts
