August 5, 2011 - 2:20 pm
Blaming Bush was getting President Obama nowhere in the polls, so now he is blaming Mother Nature and the Arab Spring for economic conditions that his own policies have helped create and make worse. Everyone and everything gets a piece of the blame from Obama, but himself and his own policies. Roll the video tape.
Update: One more talking point to blame on the tsunami: S&P has downgraded the US credit rating.
A poor leader takes credit and assigns blame. A good leader takes responsibility, while sharing credit.
Quite true.
Also, in my experience, a candidate for a very responsible job shouldn’t be too eager for the job; eager, that is, that they would do anything to obtain it. I always found that to be a bit…pathological and power-hungry.
Maybe the Arab Spring wouldn’t be causing shortages in the oil supply if we were doing things like, I dunno – drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, or in ANWAR or even allowing people to build pipelines to bring in Canadian oil?
Another idea that was poll tested and failed….
The dog ate my Economy.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has unemployment data beginning in 1948. Since then there have been 45 months in which the unemployment rate has been 9% or higher. One occurred in the first Nixon administration, 19 occurred during the first Reagan administration, and 25 (or 55% of the total) occurred during the 31 months of the Obama administration. Employment peaked in March of 2007 and declined by 7.42% over the next 32 months. Nineteen months later we still have not reached the previous employment peak–we have regained only 22% of the jobs lost.
Obama did not cause the downturn (government housing policy can claim credit for a major role in that), but his record of stopping the downturn and enabling a recovery is dismal.
Sick, sick, sick…
Hey, Billy Fish! Well said! prezboy is the ultimate result of White Liberal Guilt! When he loses in 12, we, the lucky American Taxpayers who may still have “jobs”, get to fund his cushy retirement for evah and evah and evah …. Well played, prezboy, well played ….
“While President Obama for the first time has fallen under 40 percent approval for handling the economy, the Republicans in Congress do even worse, 28 percent approval. On handling the deficit, it’s a weak 38 percent approval for Obama, but a weaker 27 percent for the GOP. And on handling taxes, Obama has 45 percent approval, the GOP, 31 percent.”
—ABC News-Washington Post poll July 20
If there’s a new ‘legitimate’ poll, can somebody please post it?
Presidential figures on the economy are at the top, GOP figures much further down this long, comprehensive poll report, as of last week. A new poll on the same subject should be reported later today:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/weekly_updates/july_2011/what_they_told_us_reviewing_last_week_s_key_polls_week_ending_july_29_2011
Thanks! At best, most polls measure the fickleness of the people at given points of media and punditry sensationalization of an issue(s). In the end, voters will vote the economy and jobs and who has or hasn’t provided the best viable comprehensive blueprint to fix them……if there is no progress leaning to a positive trend. The TeaParty first said taxes and excessive government regulations along “Obama care” was what had the economy and jobs stuck in the shredder. Now, they’ve abandoned that theory and decided its government spending and debt that has the economy and jobs in the shredder. Sounds like nutrient rich fodder for the democrats closer to the election….does it not? So far, the TeaParty folks who claim taxes are the first cause of the economy in the tank, haven’t once offered up what precisely the ‘right’ taxes would be to reconstitute the economy. So far, the TeaParty folks weren’t, when it was a part of their public dialogue, very comprehensive in what precisely would be the regulations they want to repeal. Likewise, in ‘their debate” on spending cuts that would presumably reconstitute the economy and jobs, they can’t seem to be very comprehensive in precisely what cuts they’re talking about, until after the 2012 elections…it seems.
I don’t know, but its’s rather unsettling to see and hear a ‘movement’ be all over the board and so vague and self conflicting on the issues ‘they’ raise.
Again, it looks and sounds like rich fodder for the democrats at some strategic time.
By the way! I just reviewed the RealClearPolitics average for Presidential approval polling.
RCP Average — Approve 44.6……Disapprove 49.4
7/17 – 8/6
The disapproval rating is certainly within historical norms for an incumbent president at this point of their presidency according to the leading pollsters including Rasmussen. Somewhere they have a historical chart but its way past my bed time. Maybe tomorrow if I can remember.
He says this, while oil prices are DOWN due to the slack world economy and GM BENEFITED from the damage the Tsunami did to it’s Japanese competitors! Not only is it lame to merely blame other things, in this case it is a total LIE!
It’s always someone else’s fault with the Obama team. A good CEO walks in, views a problem, and instead of bitching about inheriting it, which is why the CEO was brought in in the first place, assigns a plan to combat the problem and turn the company around. Every single thing the Obama administration has done has put either the economy or the wars into negative territory. He HAS to resign. NOW. And Geithner and Boehner should go with him.