Wow! Who knew? President Obama is less popular at 100 days than Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and (gasp!) George W. Bush!
Obama’s low approval ratings, however, are all of his own making. He campaigned as a healing moderate who would take the US beyond partisan politics and restore the economy; instead he has terrified all those Americans who rightly abhor the idea of adopting European socialist, with the most sweeping advance of the progressive agenda and growth in the power of the state since the days of FDR’s New Deal.
His cheerleaders in the mainstream media deny this is so. “Public thinks highly of Obama” was USA Today’s unbiased response to the polls, while the editor of Newsweek has argued he always campaigned as a progressive.
But the Post argues otherwise: ‘In all three presidential debates, Mr. Obama promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He blamed the economic crisis on excessive deficits. At no time did candidate Barack Obama say that more deficit-spending was the solution.’
Is Obama really worse than Carter or Nixon, though? To help readers make up their own minds and in the spirit of unity and Obama-style non-partisanship, I hereby offer a helpful pro and con guide to Obama: the First 100 Days.
