The Imperial Blunder Of The Century

My lifetime has spanned the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger and The Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure.

I didn’t need a poll to ostensibly direct me to a manifest conclusion that The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer is the worst president since World War II. 

It is said that hero worship is strongest where there is little regard for human freedom.  That axiom came to mind as I read the results of the latest Gallup Poll in which we discover only 79% of Americans are satisfied with their level of freedom.  That is down from 91% in 2006.  Once the highest ranked country in the world on such polls, we have dropped to 36th place.  Other studies show that the greatest nation on Earth is dropping to the same low levels on freedom of the press, Internet speech and a whole host of other freedoms.

We have a floundering president who is suffering defeats in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Russia and the Ukraine. This is a corrupt, dishonest president who is morphing into a president worse than Jimmy Carter through indecision, insecurity and ineptitude.

A plurality of Americans on the eve Independence Day no longer trust the current occupant of the Oval Office and believe he is utterly incapable of leading the country.

Michael Goodwin encapsulates what most Americans have thought since Inauguration Day 2009:

“Losing the consent of the governed is a profound event, and there is no easy path back to public grace. His taunting of Republicans and critics in campaign-style events reinforces doubts about his fitness. Absorbed with self-pity and fixated on finding blame, he gives the impression of someone who never considers the possibility he might be part of the problem.”

Chuck Todd: The Game Of Thronesniffers

Today, the results of a new poll from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News were released.  Ordinarily, this would be a non-event.

What made today’s polling so significant that it prompted a Drudge siren headline was the fact the NBC/Comcast thronesniffer, Chuck Todd, breathlessly declared the Obama presidency to be over.

The approval rating for The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer has dropped to 41 percent, a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of foreign policy issues, he has lost support from the Hispanic community and Americans actually think his administration is less competent than the Bush White House post-Hurricane Katrina.

Here’s a partial transcript from Wednesday’s Morning Joe show:

TODD: It is. It's cratering. I mean, if you think about it, let's go back to September, Syria. Then you have the crisis in Ukraine and then you had the situation with the Bergdahl trade, then we can talk about the Iranian negotiations, we can talk about the Middle East flaring up, and now the situation with Iraq. Everything is a negative, and these are now creating a situation, lowest ever, lowest job rating, lowest approval rating among foreign policy.

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GUTHRIE: Let's show the poll number you call the dagger. "Can the President lead and get the job done?" 54% say no.

TODD: And this is what's amazing here. This is as if the public is saying, "Hey, buddy, your presidency is over. You may not believe it is, but your ability to lead and convince us that you have the right policies anymore, we're not listening." That's what that poll question says. That's the most dangerous poll question in this—in this survey for the President.

‘Ol Remus from The Woodpile Report has some sage words for Chuckie that may help him grasp the concept behind the contempt:

“It comes down to this: we know what we are to them, enemies to be punished.  Their words.  They say they don't want to quell anger.  They say they're itching for a fight.  They say they'll hit back twice as hard. These are their terms. They believe, actually believe, their insults and libel and threats should go unanswered.  If treating the people as enemies is proper then punishing the people is proper.  And so they do.  They believe these things because resistance is what they fear, so resistance is what they see.  But something far tougher than resistance is emerging.  It's everywhere and nowhere, it's self-assembling, it's committed to restoring a legitimate Constitutional republic and therefore every bit the enemy they imagine it to be. They're looking for noise and drama. They're fools. They merely need to look around.  It's already upon them.”