{"id":191335,"date":"2009-09-02T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/02\/why-barack-obamas-poll-numbers-are-dropping\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T17:28:00","slug":"why-barack-obamas-poll-numbers-are-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/02\/why-barack-obamas-poll-numbers-are-dropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Barack Obama&#8217;s Poll Numbers are Dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/oh-heres-new-idea-by-digby-i-just-love.html\">Outsourced to Digby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>This makes perfect sense because his problem is that he&#8217;s been kow-towing to the left so much that he&#8217;s lost the country, what with all the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">war crimes investigations<\/span>, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tax hikes for the rich<\/span>, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">crackdown on the banks<\/span>, the repeal of &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">don&#8217;t ask don&#8217;t tell<\/span>&#8221; and the thumbing of his nose at the Republicans every chance he gets. Not to mention the plans for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">full withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan<\/span> by 2012 and his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">full blown assault on the health care industry<\/span> and insistence on a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Canadian style health care system<\/span>. You&#8217;d think Obama would have been far, far more cautious so as not to give the Republican freakshow any possible path to demonize them as &#8220;far left.&#8221; It&#8217;s not like they could just make stuff up and a lot of people in America would believe it, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s what an anonymous &#8220;top official&#8221; (**cough** Rahm **cough**) says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outsourced to Digby: This makes perfect sense because his problem is that he&#8217;s been kow-towing to the left so much that he&#8217;s lost the country, what with all the war crimes investigations, the tax hikes for the rich, the crackdown on the banks, the repeal of &#8220;don&#8217;t ask don&#8217;t tell&#8221; and the thumbing of his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,979,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-wanker","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}