Thread: Obama’s Ratings Dive: "nasty, surly, angry image has taken over"

Obama’s Ratings Dive

By Dick Morris on July 24, 2012

His personal favorability, once a strong point for Obama, has vanished and is now being replaced by a personal dislike that is dragging him down.


These data, buried deep in the latest NY Times/CBS poll (of registered voters, not likely voters) are both stark and important. In April, Obama had a 42-45 favorable/unfavorable rating, itself a shock given his vastly higher favorable ratings only a few months before. Now, he has a favorable rating of only 36% and an unfavorable rating of 48%.


The NY Times poll showed Romney getting 47% of the vote compared to 46% for Obama (again, this poll is of registered voters, likely voter polls are more pro-Romney). So that means that one-quarter of Obama’s voters do not give him a favorable rating – a danger sign for the president.


What is most notable about this statistic is that it is not due primarily to the bad economy. While the Times poll showed that the percent of voters who feel he is doing a good job in handling the economy has dropped to 36%, Obama’s ratings in this category have been low for some time. The drop in favorability is new.
Rather the cause of his decreased likeability is his negative campaigning, both in person and on the air. He is now no longer the sunny, optimistic, friendly person he portrayed himself as being in 2008. Instead, a nasty, surly, angry image has taken over.


This change is at the heart of Obama’s dilemma. The more he goes negative, the more he hurts himself in the process and undermines the reservoir to good will that has sustained him through tough economic times.
As recently as one year ago, Obama’s personal favorability was ten points above his vote share in most polls. Now it is ten points below it presaging further a likely further drop in his poll numbers.



Obama’s Ratings Dive at DickMorris.com

To paraphrase Joe Wilson... Obozo you're a liar! The negative ads he has out make me want to puke at the outright lies. And I imagine after that "You didn't make that" ticked off more and more small businesses...

Obama: "If You've Got A Business, You Didn't Build That. Someone Else Made That Happen" - YouTube

This change is at the heart of Obama’s dilemma. The more he goes negative, the more he hurts himself in the process and undermines the reservoir to good will that has sustained him through tough economic times.
As recently as one year ago, Obama’s personal favorability was ten points above his vote share in most polls. Now it is ten points below it presaging further a likely further drop in his poll numbers.

He can not run on his record. He has no viable plan for improving the economy because it would run 180 degrees in the opposite direction from his socialist/marxist/communist economic philosophy. His foreign policy sucks, and Michelle Bachman is right when she challenges Hillary Clinton's aide with regard to Muslim Brotherhood ties,,,the administration has been 100 per cent pro Muslim Brotherhood, 100 per cent for toppling secular middle eastern governments and replacing them with theocracies, and has been virutally 100 per cent anti-Israel. He has angered virtually every segment of our society including his own base.

Now the reality of it is setting in, and all he and his minions need do is look at the statistics to know his chances of re-election get dimmer every day. We are not seeing a new Obama. We are seeing him as he really is: a self-centered, petty, egotistical Chicago thug with few marketable skills who will not and cannot accept responsibility for his own ineptitude, blames others for all things bad, and would ditch Darwinism for Creationism in a flash if he could get credit for it instead of Him.

Someone else made that happen? Business owners know hard work, long hours lead to success -- and an early grave

By Perry Chiaramonte
Published July 24, 2012
FoxNews.com

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  The family of Philadelphia cheesesteak king Joey Vento, who died last year, say he owed his success to brutal hours and hard work.
  
  
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  David Ruff's father, Edward (l.) and his uncle, Lonnie (r.) started building their family business when they were just kids on bicycles.
  

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Long hours and hard work helped Joey Vento build a landmark restaurant in Philadelphia from the ground up, but that work ethic may have also sent him to an early grave.
That's why Eileen Vento's blood boiled when she heard President Obama declare last week that small business owners like her husband owed others for their success.
“That is ridiculous. My husband had $6 in his pocket when he started.” Vento said to FoxNews.com about Joey Vento, who opened Geno’s Steaks in 1966 in the neighborhood of South Philly.

“He worked hard his whole life to build the place up. We made a lot of money. Unfortunately he didn’t get to enjoy it.”

- Eileen Vento, widow of cheesesteak king Joey Vento

“He worked hard his whole life to build the place up. We made a lot of money. Unfortunately, he didn’t get to enjoy it,” she added.
Vento worked at the shop right up until a heart attack killed him last August at age 71. His widow believes 45 years of toil to build a prosperous life for his family took a toll on him. She bristled at the comment Obama made during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., last Friday when he said business owners owed some of their success to help along the way, noting that government often provides the infrastructure needed for success.
“If you got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” Obama said. "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive."
The comments created a backlash among small business owners and others across the country who feel that entrepreneurship is the backbone of the American economy. Vento's sister-in-law said Joey Vento owed his success to his own hard work and the loyal customers he cultivated.
“He went there at 3 or 4 in the morning and stayed until 11 every night. He did it seven days a week,” said Diana Vergagini. “And when he wasn’t there he'd call in at every shift change asking, ‘How did we do? What’s the bread count? What’s the steak count?’”
Vento gained national notoriety in 2006 when he posted a sign at the order window that read, “This is America: When ordering please ‘speak English.’”
The president's slight of entrepreneurs also riled David Ruff, owner of Petit Jean Meats, in Morrilton, Ark. He said his father and uncle began building the business in the 1920s, when they were kids and would deliver meat on their bicycles throughout the town, located an hour north of Little Rock. They spent their lifetimes making it a success, and Ruff remembers his father Edward's pride when they built a new 70,000-square-foot facility in the 1980s.
"When you start work at 12 years old and at 73 to see what it has become...," he said. "You can't help but be proud of that."
Edward Ruff died of heart failure in 1990 at age 73, but he lived to see the company he devoted his life to become a success. And his son, who now oversees a business that employs 70 people and has annual sales of $14 million, resents any implication that Petit Jean Meats was built on anything but generations of sweat.
"There wasn't a handout," David Ruff said. "We had to borrow the money from the bank. We didn't have any guarantee.
"This is what the president doesn't understand, the risks that people take."
"People work their tails off for 20-30 years before they see a return."










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Popular Raleigh hotdog place gains notoriety by questioning Obama

Larry Cerilli, Snoopy's co-owner

Snoopy's sign in Raleigh





By: Dane Huffman | NBC17.com
Published: July 24, 2012 Updated: July 24, 2012 - 6:08 PM


RALEIGH, N.C. -- A popular Raleigh hotdog stand received some national exposure after a tart sign pointed at President Barack Obama and his comments on businesses at a speech in Roanoke,Va.
Obama, on July 13, said, “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
“If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Obama’s line about business didn’t sit well with Republicans, nor with the owners of Snoopy’s _ Larry Cerilli and Steve Webb.
The Snoopy’s on Wake Forest Road in Raleigh posted a sign that read, “Mr. Obama, I did create this business _ Steve Webb.”
"We both decided to put that sign up,” Cerilli said Tuesday. “It was knee-jerk reaction that I am glad I did. It was an answer to, we did create this business and we are insulted and I stand by it."
The sign has since been changed.
Cerilli said he and his wife have been with Snoopy’s for six years, and Webb founded Snoopy’s 34 years ago. Snoopy’s now has 75 employees.
"Owning this business has been the hardest it has ever been, there is no one to fall back on,” Cerilli said.
"I have two weeks a year of time share that I have not used in seven years. It’s weekends, it’s long nights, it’s early mornings, but it’s very rewarding."
Cerilli said sales have dropped the last three years as people have cut back on eating out.
"I don’t have the construction workers coming in every day for lunch anymore. I don't have the painters, I don't have the landscapers. It’s been a trickledown effect. The person that can afford a $5 lunch today is saving his money and bringing his own lunch tomorrow."
Cerilli said he was stunned by Obama’s comments.
"I looked at my wife, and I looked at my partner and I dropped my jaw and he had his jaw dropped and we couldn't believe what he had just said,” Cerilli said.
"I think he meant, ‘Who needs the businessman? It’s not the businessman who makes America go. It’s not the small business man who creates jobs. It must be the government.’”
Asked what he would tell Obama, Cerilli said, "I would tell him he hurt my feelings and he hurt a lot of other business people’s feelings that work very hard every day, that give up their whole life to run a business on their own. I would tell him he hurt a lot of feelings and ask him for an apology. …
"I am not angry at all, I am insulted."
Obama has insisted the comments were taken out of context.
And Todd McGowan, who runs Haddock Collision Centers in Wake County, saw the comment by Obama differently.
"If you read it, it didn't mean you didn't build your own business, it meant you didn't build the bridges and roads we work on,” said McGowan, a registered Democrat who supports the president's re-election bid.
McGowan employs 110 people in his auto body shops. He said, "Leadership is about we not me, and so I really understood" the president's comments "to be part of a great community and to have a great business you rely on a great society."



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Love the sign!

Im taking my family to Snoopy's this weekend just to thank them for this sign!

W

Thank them for ME too w!

For those of you who don't live in NC but would like to thank them, drop them a line!
snoopys3@snoopys.com

I sent them a email and had to go back to work... They emailed within an hour!

Thank them for ME too w!

Yeah and for me TOO!