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Today I’m flying the South Carolina State Flag … I fly this flag when events are “politically” calm.  The Rasmussen monthly graphs came out this morning and I’m posting them here for posterity.

Relatively Quiet

The Presidential approval monthly rating graphs came out this morning from Rasmussen.  And the graphs both show what we all are “feeling.”  Obama is losing his “messiah” popularity as reality sets in and people now “discover” what many of us have known and warned about since the election.  The man is not a “middle- of-the-road  moderate” … he is a radically left ideologue. The only “change” is that the rest of America is finally seeing what anyone who sought the truth in Nov 2008 already knew.

We have to remember the “downward trends” are a reflection of peoples’ attitudes towards this administration.  What is it they don’t like? Why didn’t they “see” what they didn’t like before they elected this man?  Here’s the data from Rasmussen:

Rasmussen - Total Job Approval

Rasmussen - Approval Index

From RealClearPolitics: This leave-them-guessing strategy slips out in the book’s prologue. “I serve as a blank screen,” Obama writes, “on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” He notifies readers that “my treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete.” It takes some doing for a politician to write a 364-page book, his second volume, and skate past all controversy.

Hope – A Winning Strategy But A No-Win Game

Fading Fast

He followed his own strategy, he was (and is) a “blank screen.” Because he really “said nothing” during the campaign and because we could “find out nothing about him” (sealed records, etc) … he actually used the strategy in his book to get elected.  By being “nothing” he was “everything” to anybody with their own idea of what a President should be. People simply “hoped” he would become what they projected onto his “blank screen.”   This is the whole key to the “HOPE” of the “hope and change” mantra of his campaign.  People who voted for him “hoped” he would be what they “hoped for.”  Unfortunately for the United States of America, the “hope” part of the mantra worked. People and a news media too lazy and disconnected to DIG for the facts allowed someone with “nothing” to become President of the United States. The (factless) American People elected a “blank screen.”  (That bridge is getting easier and easier to sell!)

… and as for the Change nobody believes in?

Obama said ” In 5 days we are going to fundamentally transform America”

Every day, the Change and Transformation are happening. And change is happening  that people did not necessarily vote for last November. Many of them wanted a “change from George Bush” … they got it.  Many wanted a “change in fiscal responsibility” … and they got that.  Many are now realizing the “change” they had “hoped” for is not the change Obama had in mind for them.

Did people really want to change from Capitalism to Marxism?  Did they want a “strong America” changed to an “America of Appeasement? ” Did they really believe this man when he said there would be “no more taxes” for the “un-rich” ?  That change isn’t working out quite as well as they had “hoped.” The the seniors really believe he would make their health care safe … just like all Democrats have (not) done before?  “Change” for some of these folks is a death sentence.

Change?

The Summation being calculated on the “blank screen”

• Libs are Turning away from Obama
  • He supports war (more troops in Afghanistan, etc)
  • He didn’t pull us out of Iraq like he promised
  • Now he is quietly involving us in a new war in Yeman
  • He didn’t (and maybe will never close Gitmo
  • He has not fully supported gay marriage
• Moderates are turning away from Obama
  • We are less secure, two terror attacks this year
  • Terrorists are being given Constitutional Rights
  • Fiscal Responsibility is a JOKE with this administration, Bush was “conservative!”
  • Taxes are out of control
  • The National Debt is out of Control-TRILLIONS!
  • Employment is at 10% plus (some saying even 32%)
• Conservatives are still just appalled!
  • Disapproval for Obama was strong in the beginning, and has not wavered

The “End Game” of Blank Screen Politics. With the Left, Moderate and Right factions all disapproving of Obama, no wonder his overall “screen” is showing the huge negative trend in approval.  He could never be what everybody “hoped” he would be … that was a myth, as much a myth as was the man himself.  And the “change” Americans are seeing actually frightens them.  But America had bought the “hope and change” … so it was a “winning strategy” for an election … but a strategy that will lose the game in the end because the “hope” did not meet project expectations and the “change” is in a frightening direction for the Liberty and Freedom loving people of the United States of America. And the new Rasumssen numbers are proving the point.  (Go to their site to see even more specifics.)

A blank screen is just that … a blank screen.

1. MoneyMorning: Coming Soon: The “bill” for the massive debt ***
2. RealClearPolitics: Krauthammer: The Fall of Obama  01.15.10
3. ABC: Obama’s at one year: Lower Ratings Higher Doubts 01.19.10
4. Townhall: 7 LowLights from O’s first year in Office 01.19.10
5. Heritage: The Ground Shifts under Obama 01.19.10

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