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President’s Day 2012: Five Concluding Observations

Feb 21, 2012

By Dave Andrusko
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Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

Our commemoration of President’s Day would not be complete without at least a few words about our current Commander in Chief. Well, here they are, in five bullet points.

·         As we cautioned for the last year President Barack Obama’s approval numbers will ebb and flow continuously, reflecting a host of factors, including who is doing the polling. Over the past few days we’ve read a boatload of stories that President Obama’s approval ratings are now in the 50% range. But why? In addition, Gallup published a three-day “rolling average” today which put his approval at 44%, compared to 48% disapproval.

·         The same cautionary caveat must be applied to the pro-life Republican candidates for President. For example, while former Senator Rick Santorum maintains a lead over for Gov. Mitt Romney in the February 28 Michigan primary, his margin is declining, as measured by poll. May go up in a few days, may disappear altogether, that’s how quickly things change. For the moment, both are behind President Obama, still another number that will fluctuate.

·         Obama partisans are taking their own (and each other’s pulse) to come up with a way of placing a positive spin on his record to date. One of the chief bones of contention is why he gave away so much to those Rascally Republicans. Talk about getting it backwards. President Obama is famous for “leading from the rear” so that he could blame Republicans for “not compromising.” In fact all you really need to know about Obama’s continual “why-don’t-I-get-credit-for-all-my-common-ground-initiatives” whine is what he said in early 2009. In a meeting with Congressional Republicans, who objected to the size of his stimulus package, Obama dismissed their concerns with a curt, “I won.”

·         Ezra Klein, one of his biggest fans at the Washington Post (he has plenty of company), told us last week that Obama might be constrained in a second term if one or both Houses of Congress are controlled by Republicans. Well, to an extent, sure. But there is an awful lot a President on his own initiative can do to make life miserable for unborn babies. But grant Klein his premise for a moment and what do you get? “The most important fact of Obama’s reelection campaign is that, if he wins, the single most important accomplishment of his second term will be protecting the gains of his first term. If he wins, [for example] the Affordable Care Act  [ObamaCare]— barring a truly unexpected ruling from the Supreme Court — becomes the law of the land.” By that Klein means even more objectionable features of ObamaCare won’t kick in until 2013. That ought to grab your attention.

·         Finally, in today’s New York Times, we get a profile of Obama’s hatchet man, David Plouffe. Writes Mark Leibovich (at www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/us/politics/plouffe-obama-aide-lends-firm-hand-to-campaign.html),

If the campaign of four years ago sold Mr. Obama as a force for what Mr. Plouffe called ‘a politics of unity, hope and common purpose,’ this one is rooted firmly in the grind-it-out imperatives of re-election. Today, Mr. Obama seems every bit primed for ‘brass-knuckle time,’ as Mr. Plouffe once termed campaign brawling, with Mr. Plouffe leading an effort that has shown every sign of doing whatever it takes to succeed.”

I mention this only because we need to be fully prepared for a campaign waged by a man whose self-image is as a compromiser of unsurpassed ugliness.

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