By Bruce Walker,American Thinker
Obama and Biden are in trouble these days
As I noted four weeks ago,Scott Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll has shown a very steady increase in the number of Americans who have a "very unfavorable"view of Obama’s presidency and a corresponding,though less dramatic,decline in the number of Americans who have a "very favorable"view of his presidency. As of July 27,the negative gap between these two groups of highly motivated voters was ten percentage points. Polls which focus only on softer "favorable"and unfavorable"opinion still appear to keep the Obama Presidency in safe political water,but that is misleading for several reasons.
First,while Republicans were playing dead and the Leftist media were presenting Barack and Michelle on every magazine cover,buying a pet,and all the other oh-so-loveable things that a young family with cute children moving into a new home,no one had given Americans a reason to doubt that the president was a pleasant,well spoken,sensible man. He followed the script well. His conscious attempt to enact an FDR style "One Hundred Days"of change simply overwhelmed all political opposition by a combination of political muscle,timid voices of opposition,and the perception of dramatic popular support.
Now following his umpteenth address to the nation and his frequent press conferences,his pretense of bipartisanship is gone. In short,Obama has descended rapidly from the Magnificent to the Monotonous. He says the same sorts of things over and over again,but there is really nothing new in Obama at all.