Obama approval below 50% in Iowa, too

Our local Democratic propaganda organ, the Des Moines Register, reports that President Obama's popularity has fallen below 50% in Iowa. This follows the Gallup Poll reported in the previous post, which shows the President's approval rating below 50% nationally.

Given the degree to which Democrats have dominated this state in recent years, and the tendency for bad news here to translate into bad news for the Democrats nationally, this is bad news for the Democrats indeed.

Obama falls below 50% in Gallup for the first time

One shouldn't read into it more than is there- it happened to Ronald Reagan a week earlier in his first term- but President Obama has, for the first time, fallen below 50% popularity in the Gallup tracking poll.

Reagan's approval remained south of that milestone for the next two years, and he was re-elected in one of the most one-sided landslides in history. But the fact remains that Barack Obama can no longer claim to have a majority of the country behind him and his program. And at a time when Democratic prospects for 2010 are already looking bleak, this can't be encouraging news to any of those who ride the donkey.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Lindsey Graham vs. Eric Holder

Eric Holder loses:



HT: Race42012

Makes you think, doesn't it?

You really have to wonder a bit about the cost of the Obama Administration's program for involving the government in health care when Communist China thinks it's too expensive.

HT: Drudge

What planet does Anita Dunn live on, anyway?

Further underscoring her extremism and warped perspective (in case anybody has missed either point up to now), White House Communications Director and Mao-admirer Anita Dunn not only has renewed her ongoing tirade against Fox News, but actually has made the incredible claim that MSNBC isn't biased!

Does this lady even take herself seriously?

Dunn will be stepping down from her position at the Obama White House at the end of this month. This may be the best thing that has happened to the Administration for a long time; she's an even bigger chronic embarrassment to the President than Joe Biden.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Meanwhile, in Havana...

The Grand Old Man of Western Hemisphere totalitarianism, Fidel Castro, continues to gush about how wonderful Barack Obama is and what a great job he's doing.

HT: Drudge

Obama demeans himself- and us

If you recall, President Obama pulled this demeaning stunt once before, when he humbled himself before the King of Saudi Arabia.

From the point of view of protocol, the President of the United States is the equal of kings and emperors. From the point of view of geopolitical reality, even now Mr. Obama is the single most powerful man on earth, and heads the most powerful nation on earth. It's not simply a faux pas for him to bow before another head of state. It's a demeaning of his own position, and of our country.

The diplomatic ineptitude of this administration is massive. But this goes beyond ineptitude- especially since it's happened before. Somebody really needs to talk to this guy- who, coming up on a year after he took office, is still not ready for prime time.

I mean, don't they have a protocol officer at the White House anymore?

HT: Drudge

Let me make one thing perfectly clear...

Mao-loving Obama aide Anita Dunn has let the cat out of the bag.

No, it's not a matter of excessive, er... enthusiasm on the part of his loyal staff. Nor is it something that just sorta happened. We're talking a deliberate policy decision here.

The Administration's Nixonian war on Fox News was personally approved by Barack Obama.

A vocabulary lesson for the Left

Back when President Obama committed his "bittergate" gaffe during the last campaign, it was widely pointed to as just another sign of liberal elitism. It's fascinating that many on the cultural Left actually tried to turn elitism into a good thing. Completely ignoring the dictionary definition of the word, it tried to confuse the meaning of "elitist" and "elite," and claiming that we should all strive to be elitists! Apparently this attempt at revisionist lexicography was first undertaken when Hillary Clinton used the term to refer to certain of Mr. Obama's supporters during the campaign for the Democratic nomination. It persists among supporters of Mr. Obama's healthcare initiatives.

The word elite, of course, indicates excellence; the word elitist, snobbery. The distinction was apparently lost on the authors of those particular sites, and on others who imitated their attempt to redefine a pejorative as a compliment on their own blogs and websites. Dictionary.com defines "elitist" thus:

e⋅lit⋅ism  [i-lee-tiz-uhm, ey-lee-]
–noun
1.
practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
2.
consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
Origin: 1950–55; elite + -ism Related forms:
e⋅lit⋅ist, noun, adjective

Well, here is an article by Mike Rosen of the Denver Post correcting their mistake, and pointing out that while liberals may be elitists, they aren't necessarily elite.

HT: Real Clear Politics

An interview with Carrie Prejean

Here's an interview with former Miss California Carrie Prejean- the author of a new book- on her ongoing battle with the forces of hate, religious bigotry and political correctness.

Prejean is the woman who blew her chance to be Miss USA- she finished as First Runner-Up- because she truthfully answered a question about how she felt about gay "marriage," a question which ignored the longstanding pagent tradition of avoiding politically charged subjects. Her answer reflected her religious beliefs. She's been slandered, libeled, and villified in every corner of the rabid cultural Left for expressing a belief about which the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions agree: that marriage was instituted by the Creator as an institution involving members of two different sexes, and not only one.

Ms. Prejean lost her title as Miss California due to a "sex tape" she had made for a former boyfriend in the belief that he would be the only one who would see it. She admits that it was a mistake and says that it is something of which she "is not proud." Nobody with an ounce of objectivity doubts, of course, that Ms. Prejean's unpopular views on gay "marriage" made politically correct pagent officials anything but delighted at the opportunty to dump her.

GOP edges ahead in Gallup congressional poll

Gallup has joined Rasmussen in putting the GOP in the lead in the 2010 generic congressional race.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen

Today- the eleventh day of the eleventh month- we in the United States and in many of her historic allies honor those who have served in the military and fought for our freedom.

From the embattled farmers of Lexington and Concord to the citizen soldiers who fight the forces of chaos and darkness at this very moment in Iraq and Afghanistan, these people had risked and often laid down their lives so that we back home could enjoy the freedoms we so often take for granted.

But freedom, as the saying goes, isn't free. Those who serve would rather be with their families back home. And those who have given life or limb remind us to treasure the liberty we so often take in stride.

From the bottom of my heart, ladies and gentlemen... thank you for mine.

Virginia, NJ elect GOP governors!

My former home- Virginia- has returned to its senses and elected a Republican governor, as has New Jersey!

"Ich bin beschäftigt"

Germany is the latest country President Obama seems intent on alienating.

He's too busy to go to Berlin for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

HT: Real Clear Politics

NYT notices that Iowa is souring on Obama

The New York Times- the Democratic Campaign Pamphlet of Record- has noticed that here in Iowa, where The One got his first big boost with his caucus victory over Hillary Clinton, people are starting to have second thoughts about President Obama.

HT: Drudge

Hilarious

It's a positive review, but I can't help but chuckle at the Chicago Tribune's attempt to make 'V,' which premiers tonight on ABC, into an anti-Obama parable.

Hello! It's a remake!

HT: Drudge

A deficit in leadership?

Back in 1960, an inexperienced and frankly unqualified playboy senator was opposed by an extremely talkative former Minneapolis mayor, an old line wheeler and dealer of a Senate Majority Leader, and a twice-defeated political dilettante from Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. We might well have wondered where all the great American leaders had gone.

Except that from the viewpoint of 2009, a choice between John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Adlai E. Stevenson doesn't look all that bad.

David Gergen thinks we have a deficit in leadership these days- that Americans just aren't producing potential presidents like we have in the past. I think he's wrong. Granted, we have a deficit in leadership in the White House right now. But I suspect that every generation wonders why the leaders who will look like giants to future generations don't measure up to those of the past.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Obama alienates France

French President Nicholas Sarkozy came to office as a vocal pro-American. But the incredible ineptitude of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has needlessly alienated him, and caused him to recalculate his posture in the world.

HT: Drudge