Obama’s Rookie Year (part two)
As President Obama campaigns on behalf of liberal candidates in current elections and has school children singing his praises thanks to questionable encouragement from their teachers one has to wonder how voters view his performance thus far. Indeed, Obama’s honeymoon with the American people lasted less than six months. So Mr Obama, how are all those government interventions working for you? You know, government motors, government healthcare, government pay czars and your nanny state agenda?
VPOTUS Joe Biden was tapped to shore up Barack Obama’s lack of foreign affairs experience during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Apparently most people dismissed any concerns about Obama’s lack of experience in other areas. A community organizer-in-chief was what the majority of American voters selected. The new President tapped his former rival for President as his Secretary of State. So how is Hillary Clinton doing in the minds of voters?
Obama’s honeymoon is over and according to the poll above about half the voters think Hillary or Barack would be doing about the same as president. Barack Obama has done nothing to inspire confidence resulting in the honeymoon being over and half the voters think Hillary would be doing about the same. So how’s Hillary doing as Secretary of State? Forget that most of the year she was promoting human rights as her central focus. What about the Middle East?
What was the result of these discussions?
Clinton praises Israel for doing their part and the Palestinians register a complaint.
Clinton reverses her earlier praise of Israel in response to Palestinian objections.
Well then, how’s it going on the issue of Iran and their pursuit of nuclear weapons?
All the rhetoric from various nations including the US over Iran’s nuclear program has produced zero results except that Iran is still stalling and being allowed to get away with it. And the answer from the US……
That’s reassuring.(NOT) Given the impotent international response to date and Clinton’s caving on statements made about the Middle East peace process more of the same is anticipated.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
November 5th, 2009 at 7:31 am
You know, I almost approve of Barack Obama’s job performance. He’s managed to get just about none of his “fundamental alteration” of the United States actually accomplished in his first nine months in office. So, while things aren’t as good as they could be, they’re nowhere near as bad as his party would like to have made them (although they don’t see it that way).
On the other hand, I strongly disapprove of Secretary Clinton’s job performance. She has done nothing at all to strengthen our position in the world - rather she’s harmed our standing just about everywhere she’s set her hand to.
Three more years of nothing from the present administration domestically wouldn’t be a bad thing. Three more years of the status quo in our international relations could well end up turning us into illegal aliens in Mexico. When the world calls due our debts and switches to another currency than the dollar at the same time, that may be the only place we’ll be able to find work.
I’d love to see the Democratic Party thrown out of office. But then again, I’d love to see the majority of the Republican Party swept out too, replacing just about all of our Representatives and Senators with men and women of character that actually respect the Constitution and their constituents for a change.
The only thing wrong with that as far as I’m concerned is that the entrenched bureaucracy in Washington D.C. might come out of that exchange even stronger than it is. Perhaps if the new Congress enacted a law requiring a complete turnover of all executive positions within the bureaucracy and the elimination of those parts of it that can’t be traced directly to one of the federal government’s enumerated powers.
Ah, but then, a man can dream - can’t he?