The Obama presidency remains in decline, despite the killing of Osama bin Laden

[WestVirginiaRebel]

UK Telegraph:

For the past week Americans of all political stripes have celebrated the historic killing of a mass murdering terrorist, the butcher of 9/11. Osama bin Laden’s death has brought much needed cheer to a deeply divided nation, still haunted by the memory of the 2001 Islamist attacks on New York and Washington that claimed nearly 3,000 lives. The brilliant Navy Seals operation deep inside Pakistan was a spectacular display of US military might and a severe blow to al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism. Without a doubt this will go down as one of the greatest moments in recent US history, when the world’s only superpower acted decisively against a figure of monumental evil who had escaped justice for nearly a decade.

But the brilliance of the military operation, carried out on the foundations of a painstakingly constructed war on terror built by President Bush and largely continued by his successor, has been a rare moment of success for a presidency that remains in deep trouble with the American electorate. And the bungling by the White House of the aftermath of bin Laden’s killing, including confusion over the release of photographs and the muddled delivery of conflicting accounts of the raid on Bin Laden’s compound, has served as a stark reminder of an administration that has all too often looked inept and poorly managed. For this is a presidency that remains in an overall state of decline, overwhelmingly distrusted on the key issues that will ultimately decide the presidential election in 2012, while still clinging to the big government policies massively rejected by American voters in the mid-term elections last November.

President Obama is certainly benefiting from a bounce in some polls following the killing of Bin Laden. According to a Gallup survey released on Thursday, Americans’ approval of the president is up six points since the Pakistan raid, which it says “is fairly typical for a rally event”, similar to the seven point jump for George W. Bush following the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003. And RealClear Politics shows that on average, Obama is up by four points this week. But, as Gallup points out, this spike in support is likely to be short lived:

The U.S. military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden is a major milestone in Obama’s presidency, and now a majority of Americans approve of the job he is doing, and more than at any time since May 2010. The question is whether Obama can sustain that higher level of support, or whether it will quickly dissipate. Most often, a president’s approval rating begins to decline fairly soon after the rally event occurs, with the increases in approval often disappearing in as little as one to four weeks.

And there was bad news for Obama elsewhere. Significantly, a Newsweek/Daily Beast poll conducted immediately after the bin Laden announcement showed no overall bump in the president’s approval rating, which remained stuck at 48 percent. A striking 92 percent of respondents stated that the killing of Bin Laden will have no effect on the way they will vote in 2012, and just 39 percent felt that Obama was doing his job well enough to deserve re-election.

On the crucial issue of the economy, a mere 27 percent of respondents in the Newsweek/Daily Beast poll agreed that it was heading in the right direction, compared to 60 percent who felt it was not. And with the critically important independent voters, Obama remains in serious trouble. As leading pollster Douglas Schoen notes, independents retain grave doubts over the president’s handling of economic issues:

A detailed examination of the Newsweek/Daily Beast numbers show that while Americans accord recognition for what Obama accomplished with the raid, and believe he has been a strong leader, this opportunity to provide leadership is not a validation of his presidency in and of itself.

This is specifically true among the group most important to him: Independents, 66 percent say the economy is headed in the wrong direction, and two-thirds say that the country is on the wrong track. Over half (52 percent) say Obama is a strong leader overall, but only 32 percent of Independents say that President Obama deserves re-election, while half say it is time to replace him with someone else. And 78 percent of Independents say that news that U.S. forces killed bin Laden has had no impact on their opinion of the president, while only 19 percent say it has made them more favorable.

In November next year, voters will likely be overwhelmingly focused on domestic concerns such as unemployment, the federal budget deficit, rising gas prices, mortgage and housing costs, and taxes, the top five issues today according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, which showed that more than 80 percent of Americans believe the economy is in poor shape. This week’s jump in jobless numbers of 474,000 is hardly a step in the right direction for the White House, and a further sign that its economic policies aren’t working.

The bin Laden raid may have succeeded in temporarily halting a sharp fall in the president’s overall approval rating, which nosedived in April, but it has made no difference to largely negative public perceptions of Obama’s leadership on the top voter issues facing the American people. Barack Obama still looks clueless and in denial on the huge economic problems facing the United States, including the towering debt hanging over the country. He continues to preside over a presidency in long-term decline, while advancing many policies that are making his country weaker, less prosperous and more indebted.
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Like Herman Cain said during the republican debate: One bright decision does not a good president make.

[AceRimmer]

Like Herman Cain said during the republican debate: One bright decision does not a good president make.

 

His brilliant decision was forced on him by Panetta, Gates, and Her Heinousness. He was dragged, kicking and screaming, by those three into making such a "gutsy call" which seems to be the RATS spin on how great Obambi is.

[Pepper]

There was a cartoon recently of a jumbo jet going down in flames with Obama in the cock pit.

 

Captions of declining gas prices, increasing joblessness, and he's yelling I got Bin Laden or something to that effect.

[Pepper]

Good spoof video

 

 

The Obama Campaign Makes Thousands of Gutsy Calls

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn4Xb9aUd2o

 

Obligatory standing and saluting the BHO flag while watching this clip

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[Pepper]

What is stated above and is not a joke is this.

 

Click here and see:

 

http://www.gutsycall.com

[Pepper]

There was a cartoon recently of a jumbo jet going down in flames with Obama in the cock pit.

 

Captions of declining gas prices, increasing joblessness, and he's yelling I got Bin Laden or something to that effect.

 

 

Found it at Pookie 's place

 

http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php?/topic/31872-todays-toons-51111/page__view__findpost__p__331157