Silver Blaze, the sequel
These Rasmussen poll numbers are curious, and not just because Obama is the least popular President at this point in time in modern US history. Any new President is going to have his share of missteps in his first year — VDH catalogues many of them. What is interesting to us is that the administration appears to be doing so little to arrest the slide.
As a rule we’d think that a President would make a mid-course correction when his policy priorities are rejected by ever expanding numbers of the American people. That would be the normal response of a political animal. Yet, just as in a Sherlock Holmes story, the expected thing is missing, and that is puzzling. We certainly hope Professor Rahe is wrong in his assessment of the siutuation.
December 14th, 2009 at 6:35 am
From your link to Rahe:
‘Vanity, perhaps. That Barack Obama thinks highly of himself is evident in every speech he gives. Why should so great a man have to submit to protocol? ‘
That comment doesn’t seem to fit with his excessive observance
of protocol when facing the Emperor of Japan or the King of Saudi Arabia.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I think the good professor is spot on about Saint Obama – vanity par excellence.
Jeff – when Saint Obama bows to foreign kings, queens and other royalty, he is doing that to show his disdain for the USA, and to show how “humble” he, Saint Obama, really is – which ain’t humble at all.
December 15th, 2009 at 2:17 am
You would make a mid-course correction only if you thought it was needed. He obviously doesn’t think it is needed. The question then becomes: why? I think he’s given that answer away with what the EPA says it will do even if Cap and Tax is not passed. In short, he doesn’t need to listen to the people when he can do what he wants without having to answer to them.