No wonder the Democratic Party is in freefall

Obama, Man of the People? I Think Not.

By Jerry McConnell
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Whenever I see a poll showing Obama’s popular support, I seethe a little bit at his audacity, and frankly his attitude of taking people for granted is narcissistic to the extreme. This man is so sure that he is a ‘man of the people’ and loved by all but a few malcontent Republicans that he can do no wrong.

I know he gets his news from the biased and also deliberately under-informed Mainstream Media, (MSM) which is so slanted in his favor that he actually believes he is adored instead of the pariah that he really has come to be.

This case of self love and imagined adoration of a fawning public is strictly in his own narrow mind as poll after poll proves on a daily basis. Take the Rasmussen poll of January 2009 when he first took office he had a 62% Approval rating. But by September 2010, it reported that 44% of the nation’s voters Strongly DISAPPROVE of Obama’s performance, while only 27% Strongly APPROVE. In poll terms, that indicates Obama to have a negative Presidential Approval Index rating of Minus 17.

That is a negative rating in ANY person’s opinion and it is an opinion from a professional and well qualified polling service, not a part of the MSM. Yet he keeps on smiling and going against the majority of the country’s citizens. I didn’t say the ‘country’s residents’ because that would include the 20 or more million illegal aliens within our borders who now reside here without proper permission and are not included in the poll numbers.

Obama has a history of being on the wrong side of important issues with regard to a great majority of our country’s citizens. Phyllis Schlafly of EagleForum.com in her August 27, 2010 column states that “the Democrats wring their hands over Barack Obama’s tone deafness about political reality.â€