By Nile Gardiner
This week’s Quinnipiac University national poll should be devastating reading for the White House, against a background of mounting confusion over Libya, paralysis in the face of a massive national debt and deep-seated economic problems, and a possible shutdown of Congress. Liberal hopes of an Obama recovery in the first half of 2012 following disastrous midterm elections in November are proving short-lived. According to the Quinnipiac survey, Obama is now at the lowest approval level of his presidency, with his weakest reelect score ever:
American voters disapprove 48 – 42 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing and say 50 – 41 percent he does not deserve to be re-elected in 2012, both all-time lows, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This compares to a 46 – 46 percent job approval rating and a 45 – 47 percent split on the President’s re-election in a March 3 survey by the independent Quinnipiac University. In a hypothetical 2012 matchup, President Obama gets 36 percent of the vote to 37 percent for an unnamed Republican challenger.
President Obama receives strong negativity ratings for his handling of virtually all key issues, including the economy, budget deficit, health care, foreign policy and energy policy. According to Quinnipiac, on the economy 60 percent of Americans disapprove of his performance, including more than a quarter of Democrats. That figure rises to 64 percent on the budget deficit. On health care, less than 40 percent of Americans back the president, with 55 percent opposing. On foreign policy, 47 percent disapprove of his handling, compared to just 41 percent in favor, with only two in five Americans approving of his leadership of the Libya issue.
The Quinnipiac poll chimes with Rasmussen’s latest Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, which gives Obama an approval index rating of minus 18 points, with 42 percent of Americans strongly disapproving of his performance (against 24 percent strongly approving). On the Libyan issue, which is dominating much of the news coverage at the moment in the United States, Rasmussen finds that only 21 percent of likely voters think the United States “has a clearly defined mission in Libya”, with 56 percent disagreeing.
Obama has already spent well over $500 million on this Bull-Shit thing he’s calling a “Humanitarian Mission” which is really nothing else but a WAR in Libya including about 180 Tomahawk Cruise missiles, a large number of bomber performing air attacks night and day, War ships and Subs, and now he’s going to arm the "opposition" (whoever they are), yes, whoever they are. And whatever they believe in, and that includes Killing our Troops with the same weapons the we are supplying them with. Great plan Obammy.
If Obama thinks this is going to give him a quick fix of machismo, and help him with the American voters, I'll have some of whatever he's using.
Can this country survive another 2 years with this man as our president? I pay that it can, but only God knows.