The Emperor Has No Clothes

February 22, 2012 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race | Posted by

And the LSM is talking about it.

The first has been self evident for some time now, though seldom mentioned in the LSM.  Now that mention is being made in the LSM (no doubt having already gone around those self appointed gate keepers) we will likely see more such reports.

 

Americans’ Satisfaction Almost as Low as It Was Under Carter

By Lauren Fox | USNews

It’s February, nine months before a presidential election, and only 22 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going. Voters haven’t been this unhappy with the country since George H.W. Bush’s presidency, when only 21 percent of Americans reported being happy with the country’s direction. And before that, the lowest approval rating was 19 percent during Jimmy Carter’s first [and only] term.

What do the two presidencies have in common? Neither of them won re-election. And, if the trends holds true, Obama looks to be in an equally precarious situation.

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research released its 2012 campaign outlook, and it’s clear Obama’s sitting in the same position George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were in during the February before their election losses—voters don’t feel good about the country.

Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush—presidents who won re-election—all had at least 41 percent of voters optimistic with the state of the union.

 

And gasoline prices are just now spiking…

Unemployment is again spiking…

Labor participation remains at record lows…

Can you say one term wonder?  More importantly, can you help make it a reality?

The Republic needs less Obama.

 

Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers

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  • jim_m

    obama’s one great advantage is that racism will mean that he gets a minimum of 25% of the vote.  He will get nearly all the black vote and that is 12% of the population and I suspect that he will get at least as many white leftists who will still feel the need to vote for him to demonstrate that they aren’t racist while supporting policies that keep minorities in failing schools etc.

    That being the case he only needs to dupe 1 in 3 of the remainder in order to get himself reelected. I’m sure this is the sort of calculation that they are currently making in the WH, to see how they can divide off enough special interests so he can get the requisite votes in key states.

    • SoBeRight

      Signs point to… you’re wrong.

      • jim_m

        From the Center for American Progreess???

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

        • Evil Otto

           If you mock the leftist drone, he will request you be banned. First, last, and only warning. Fear him.

      • GarandFan

         The Kool Aid is strong in this one.

  • Hank_M

    I take it the 22% happy with the way things are, are those in Michelle’s entourage who accompany her on her never ending high priced vacations.

    More seriously, look for these figures to get worse. One small detail that’s been true of Barry Hussein, has been that his popularity increases the less people see and hear him.
    Once he really starts campaigning, spouting his lies, blaming everyone and everything for the mess he’s created, repeating ad nauseam about fairness and taxing the rich more, the american publics eyes are going to glaze over and they’ll happily vote him out just to be rid of him.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

       Hey, Michelle has only been on 13 vacations to high-priced resorts on the taxpayer dime – and that’s over the whole three years!

      When Obama said everybody “has to have some skin in the game,” he meant it.  It’s just the skin he and Michelle have in the game is OURS.

  • SoBeRight

    Try harder. Everything I see points to an Obama victory.

    6 weeks ago this race was the Republicans race to lose.

    And they did it.

    Self-destructed in a flurry of religious extremism and an open hatred towards women.

    Now we’ve got Republicans claiming that Obama does the work of Satan and — get this — claiming the Girl Scouts are pro-abortion.

    • jim_m

      yeah, yeah. That’s why Santorum has closed to within the margin of error and Romney remains there as well, despite his dropping in favorability among republicans.  Sounds like the GOP field is no weaker than the dem candidate.

      Let’s see how obama polls when gas hits $5.00 a gallon.  Because it will.  And no one is going to believe Jay Carney claiming that it’s the fault of the GOP, not when you can replay obama saying “Under my administration energy prices will necessarily rise”.  High cost of gas is his policy and it’s not one that will win him many votes.

      • jim_m

        Oh, and with Scott Brown leading Elizabeth Warren by 9 points, I wouldn’t say that the left wing message of obama and the OWS movement are selling that well.  If you can’t win in Massachusetts with that platform you aren’t going to find the rest of the nation any more favorable.

      • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

         There’s a perfectly sound explanation for the fish’s position: Like David Mamet before his conversion, he doesn’t know anyone who does NOT support 0bama.  Living in the heart of the deep blue beast (California’s Bay Area) as I do, I know a lot of 0bama supporters, more than a few of which show signs of either staying home or of exercising their right to a secret ballot come November. 

    • LiberalNightmare

      Hard to believe you can see anything with your head there.

      • Mr Kimber

        He only believes half of what he hears…MSNBC and nothing he actually sees….yes, it is a disease.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

       Keep on believing, Zippy.

    • iwogisdead

      Ha ha ha ha!!! Good one, ZGoFish!!! Ha ha ha ha!! No, really, what do think about all of this?

    • John_LC_Silvoney

       ”Stepehen”(sic) lives !!!!

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

      Stephen wasnt your first 3 bannings enough.   Shoo fly shoo.

      • Sky__Captain

         Stephen was banned?!?

        Why didn’t I get the memo?

        • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

          What memo?

          There’s supposed to be a memo when the trash gets taken out?

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            Like a bad penny though Stephen Bob Armstrong lee ward keeps coming back with a different name.

          • SoBeRight

             What the heck are you talking about?

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            Oh now he pretends that he doesnt know.  Stephen gets banned.  2 days laterr Zgo shows up.  Same memes (I spelled it right this time), as Stephen bob armstrong Lee Ward same crappy commments, same crap different pseudonym.
            He just came upon this site by magic (maybe it was the mystical unicorn farts which liberals want to power the country with) and says Bob who? Yeah right.

          • SoBeRight

            I see.

            And have you always been  paranoid kind of person, or is this something new?

          • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

             Says a PuffingtonHost reader…  Pull the other one, it has bells.

          • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

             Says a PuffingtonHost reader…  Pull the other one, it has bells.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            Funny Stephen said almost the same thing. 

          • SoBeRight

            Hint: If multiple people think you are mentally ill, maybe you should see a doctor.

          • SoBeRight

            Hint: If multiple people think you are mentally ill, maybe you should see a doctor.

          • Evil Otto

            Take your own advice, drone.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            Hint If you continually find yourself banned from the same site over and over stop going to that site under different names.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W6UJJOM4PP4XLSBG6N4LROVSQE Retired Military

            Funny Stephen said almost the same thing. 

  • Mr Kimber

    I was about to say the same about the 5/gal gas. There is no denying Barry said that price didn’t bother him. Couple that with ” under my policy energy prices will skyrocket” and Barry is chewing on his foot. Im sure that will play well in Nov. He better hope we don’t have a cold Nov. in the Northeast. Wait til people start paying $ 1000 or more for what used to cost $750 and lasts 8 weeks now only lasts 5 because people can’t afford to fill the tank. Meanwhile Barry is immune to heating costs ( ” you could grow orchids in the Oval Office” ) and Moochele is on another vacation 

  • UOG

    You know, I’ve been thinking that it’s really too bad the Presidential Yacht was sold off. We finally have a First Family who would no doubt greatly enjoyed it, although the Queen Mum, sorry, Michelle might find it a bit constricting at only 104′.

    I mean, I realize she could rent the thing, but why should she be compelled to spend her own money when she would only be using something that anyone else can rent too. Maybe Barack can nationalize the boat and take it back…

    Oh shit, I’m being snarky again. Sorry.

  • herddog505

    It all depends on MiniTru’s ability to convince enough people that (A) things aren’t really THAT bad and that (B) the GOP challenger will make them even worse.

    Unfortunately, the GOP seems determined to do all they can with regard to the latter…

    But how things have changed, eh?  We’ve gone from “Hope and Change” to “Things Aren’t THAT Bad” and “It’s Everybody Else’s Fault!”

    • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

       I think you overestimate the remaining moxy of the LSM and give insufficient weight to the public’s own eyes and ears (and wallet).

      • Walter_Cronanty

         From your keyboard to God’s server.  I’m not as optimistic.  Too many people want something for nothing.  Obama’s more than willing to give them something their kids or grandkids will have to pay for.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7YIUZMXOD5JGZZTCYMVA75KFU Shadow

    The emperor has no patriotism.  There FIFY.

    • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

       You’re not thinking like a true Emperor.  A true Emperor IS the State, and thus patriotism is merely self love.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7YIUZMXOD5JGZZTCYMVA75KFU Shadow

         Well, he certainly has enough of that!

        • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

           Don’t he just…

          • GarandFan

             As Barry might say, “It’s GOOD to be The King!”

  • Brian_R_Allen

    …. gasoline prices are just now spiking

     ….employment is again spiking ….

    Neither statement is true. 

    Gasoline prices are rising – as is the price of a barrel of oil – only relative to the increasingly worthless United States Dollar. As America’s gangster government every year effectively counterfeits the Trillions of Dollars with which it monetizes more and more of the feral gummint’s runaway debt, every fiat Dollar’s relative value is lowered.

    Have a look at the price of a barrel of oil and/or the price of a gallon of gas relative to a unit of money having intrinsic value — Gold, say — and both oil and gas are dirt cheap: 

    Barrel of oil, today? About 0.06 ounces of gold. 

    Check it out here: 

    http://kwaves.com/barrels_of_oil_one_ounce_of_gold.htm 

    Gallon of gas? About 0.0023 ounces. 

    As for (un)employment “spiking?”

    Put back the unemployed dropped last month by the gangster government’s apparatchiks for no reason than they had not applied for jobs within the previous couple-or-so weeks and America’s immediate (Actual) Unemployment Rate is 11.1%

    Stick back in those who are partly (but still effectively UN) employed and the rate jumps to 20%

  • 914

    Zygote = To stupid to vote!