It was odd to hear a liberal pundit say, albeit with some hesitation, almost I think embarrassment, the obvious the other day, ie that the Obama presidency really hasn't done much well - the economy sucks, his big initiatives are unpopular, the country's balance sheet is blown completely all to hell, foreign policy looks confused if one is inclined towards being generous, incoherent verging on disastrous if one isn't - sure, he killed Osama and got a bit of a bump in the polls for that but the bump faded fast probably because most Americans realized that it was a bit unseemly for a president who was, in his political infancy, championed by the anti-war left and whose core constituency will never be mistaken for proud defenders of American military might - it was unseemly for this man to be so assiduously attempting to drape himself in the raiments of martial glory - and he does have the auto bailout, which is not the wild success he's claiming for it - even the left leaning Washington Post has called him on his 'lies' in that regard - but neither is it a complete screwup - at best one can say the jury's still out on that one - but that's it, the Obama presidency so far: some nice [I find them grating, disingenuous and stylistically overdone - but whatever] speeches, and... what? Squat, or worse - usually worse.
But like I said, striking how few outside the realm of conservative commentary are willing to acknowledge this reality - or, having acknowledged it, are willing to say it out loud - and even then, how shamed they seem in doing so, like Peters denying their Christ.
In fact today if you browse Reuters [awful lefties] wha'd'ya see? Headline reading: Obama leads potential republican opponents by double digits! I mean, who the fuck cares? The only reason you'd care about a stupid, meaningless poll like this is if you were highly invested in Obama the ideology, so invested that actual job performance is beside the point - so, who cares if he's a horrible president, right? Just so long as he can turn the country leftwards, that's all that matters - it's insane - if this guy was CEO of a company shareholders would be rioting in the streets demanding removal given his performance, but a supposedly legitimate news organization thinks it makes sense to trumpet utterly meaningless poll numbers about an election that's 16 months away?! Who gives a shit if he's a horrible president and we're all doomed - look, he's ahead in an absolutely irrelevant poll against a hapless gang of nobodies that nine tenths of the electorate don't even know exist and quite possibly doesn't even include the eventual nominee! Hurrah for our side! My god. Ya really start to wonder if this is the end of democracy.
