Obama: GOP Plan "Doesn't Seem Like A Serious Plan To Me"

Obama: GOP Plan "Doesn't Seem Like A Serious Plan To Me"

New URL to the main blogBack in business?

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We'll see how long this lasts!

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Facebook Members don't care for Obama..

Of course this is not exactly a "scientific poll" but it does say alot about how the popularity of Barack Obama has tanked. If you add up the numbers, about 63% say they would not vote for Obama if given the chance...

Much like the phenomenon in 2000 when a few weeks after the election, most voters claimed that they voted for Gore, and not Bush... there may be some apprehension for Obama voters to participate, or more incentive for non-Obama voters to take the poll. Also, with no mention of any other names, one can assume that Obama is losing to the ever popular "unnamed challenger". Or maybe, just maybe, I could pretend that I am a 2000 conspiracy theorist and suggest that these results prove substantially that the 2008 election was littered with fraud (ahem).

Moving back?

I believe that starting Monday I will move things back to the main blog under a different url suffix... which will keep some of the bots, crawlers, and spammers off the site, at least for a while.

I have made a few "minor" changes in hopes that something I did will help keep the CPU usage under control. The main change I hope helps was setting used for PHP that puts a ceiling on CPU usage. I hope this works and the blogging host stays off my back!

Worse case scenario is that I will end up making the coldheartedtruth domain some sort of static site that would (among other things) use some "feeds" to show the latest posts, but would link back to the blogspot site (or multiple blogspot sites) for comments, etc. While this would not have the robust functionality of my B2Evolution blogging software (multiple blogs that roll into one, etc)... it would also reduce the cost to run the site down to a few dollars a month. (no more donation drives).

Mr Under 50%

Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Today marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.

Couple that with the 38% of Likely Voters who "strongly disapprove" of the President and you have a political problem.

The funny thing is that there is this sort of media generated false sense that Obama is still overwelmingly popular and has all of this built up political capital to simply throw around. But even those media commissioned "all Americans" polls are showing a considerable dip in the President's approval numbers. The latest FOX survey shows him with a 54% approval while Gallup and AP show him at 55%. In fact you need to go back nearly a month to a CNN poll that still showed Obama above the comfortable 60% threasold.

To put this in perspective... at the same time in his first term, President Bush held a 59% rating in a FOX poll through July 25th and a 56% rating in July 22nd Gallup poll. Meaning that even after the fractured 2000 Presidential elections, Bush was actually slightly "more" popular than Obama is at the same stage of his Presidency. That tells me that Obama has used up most (if not all) of his political capital that he had from his 6 point victory last November.

Obama was wrong!

So a man is apparently breaking into his own home. Someone notices and calls the cops. The cop comes, the guy acts as if it is his house, the cop asks for ID, the man refuses and calls the cop a racist. He get loud, makes a scene and gets arrested.

Now... which part of all of this appears to be outrageous?
- Was someone alerting the police outrageous?
- Was the policeman questioning the guy trying to break in outrageous?
- Was asking for identification of a guy trying to break into a house outrageous?

What appears to be the most outrageous act would be the refusal to produce an ID and the personal attack on a policeman who was simply doing his job. What also is over the top outrageous is that our President decides (without having the full story) to jump into the fray and suggest that this was somehow an act of racism.

The reality is that if I was attempting to break into my own house, I wouldn't be upset in the least by the idea of the police being called and showing up at the scene. Nor would I be upset that they don't simply give me the benefit of the doubt that I am who I say I am. If asked I would most certainly produce an ID and if I didn't have one, I would offer to have them wake up a neighbor to vouch for my identity. I fail to see why cooperation in this situation is somehow an issue.

Police have a hard enough job as it is with real criminals committing real crimes. They should not have to deal with unruly attitudes from law abiding citizens who simply want to raise a stink. A little bit of cooperation and understanding of what appears obvious to most people would have made all of this a moot point.

Obama in trouble for 2012?

2012 Match-ups: Obama, Romney Tied at 45%

If the 2012 presidential election were held today, President Obama and possible Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be all tied up at 45% each, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Hey... I recall how the "incumbent under 50%" rule was pounded on us by hopeful Liberals when Bush was running ahead but under 50% leading into 2004. But to be only at 45% against what one might have to assume to be the GOP front runner must be a little unnerving... especially this early on.

Yeah, yeah, I know I pass myself off as a Pawlenty guy and in most ways I am. But I am also a realist, and the GOP is often times a "next in line" sort of party when it comes to choosing Presidential candidates. Often times the guy who came in "second" or the guy who was the VP is the guy who gets the nod next time (ie - McCain, Bush 41, Nixon - heck even Reagan ran twice before getting the nod). So it wouldn't be unusual or even unexpected for a guy like Mitt Romney to end up as the next nominee.

That being said, I also saw some numbers showing Ms Palin behind Obama and I would be very curious to see what an Obama Pawlenty poll might look like (probably not so hot for Pawlenty as he is fairly unknown). Assuming that the Party is seriously looking at trying to win back the White House (rather than make a statement) they will likely look pretty hard at any candidate who is polling well against Obama.

Another interesting matchup poll I would like to see? An after the fact, Obama McCain poll?