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Looks like Statism Doesn't Sell After All

By Doug Bandow on 7.25.09 @ 2:33PM

The president's poll ratings just keep sliding. Reports Zogby International:

A new Zogby Interactive survey shows a slight decline in President Barack Obama's job approval, with 48% of likely voters now approving of the job he is doing as president, down from 51% who said the same in an interactive/telephone hybrid poll conducted in mid-June. Forty-nine percent now say they disapprove of the job the president has done so far in office and 4% are not sure.

The survey found similar results when likely voters were asked specifically to rate President Obama's performance-47% give him a positive rating, with 22% rating his job performance as "excellent" and 25% rating it as "good." But slightly more than half (53%) give the president a negative job performance rating, with 10% who say he is doing a "fair" job as president and 43% who say he is doing a "poor" job-up from 36% who said he was doing a poor job in mid-June.

Enthusiasm for President Obama's "subsidize everything, regulate everything" agenda is falling. Now is the time to pile on. The American people deserve real change, not the retreat to the collectivist past being sold by the administration.

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Liberal Reader| 7.25.09 @ 4:04PM

You're a jackass, Bandow.

"Collectivist past." Obama is a "statist."

What rubbish.

Missy| 7.25.09 @ 7:03PM

Go for the throat--NOW!!

Grzmlyk| 7.25.09 @ 8:50PM

You are so right, Liberal Reader! What a perspicacious fellow you are. No kneejerk ideologue, you.

Everyone can see that Obama's really a free market capitalist! Duh!

Just like like Wilson and FDR.

Jackassery indeed.

Angel| 7.25.09 @ 11:33PM

LOL! Lib Reader/Jeremiah likes mom jeans, too.

Eric Dondero| 7.26.09 @ 9:13AM

Readers should know of the blatant hypocrisy of Doug Bandow. In 2008, he and his comrades on the Libertarian Left, cheerily hoped for, and helped to bring about the downfall of the Republican Party and the GOP ticket of McCain/Palin.

Bandow is an isolationist Ron Paul type on foreign policy. He hates the War in Iraq, and basically anything that is Pro-Defense.

Now he's trying to gloss over his past views.

Don't be fooled by his sudden new fondness for bashing Obama. He was a closeted Obama supporter in 2008.

Hypocrisy in the extreme.

Missy| 7.26.09 @ 4:35PM

Bandow, how do you respond to Eric's accusations?

Old Texican| 7.26.09 @ 6:19PM

Liberal Twerp and Dumdero
You guys are a laugh now and then. Thank you for short posts so we can all get to the punchline.

OK Lib Twerp, how would you describe Obama's core political stance? He bows to kings and throws Honduras' constitution out... what?

Dumdero, you are talking foreign policy, and very bright patriotic people have different views.

Internal American affairs is where Doug focuses most. Very thoughtful man that doesn't like:

"""subsidize everything, regulate everything" ""...retreat to the collectivist past being sold by the administration. ""

Missy, Doug responds almost every day to events of the day. He doesn't need to respond to a dumdero...or you.

Missy| 7.26.09 @ 6:25PM

Old Texican, I don't recall asking for your permission or advice; who died and made you the decider? I want to know where Doug stands.

Butt out.

Old Texican| 7.26.09 @ 7:30PM

Missy...Nayah Nayah Nayah!
You cannot make me butt out. Heh!

Doug does not answer to you either.

Please cross intellectual swords with me! It makes for a splendid teaching exercise as to why I am a good "decider". (and you may not be.)
You will probably learn nothing. Neither will your boss Mr. Soros. (see my thoughts on another thread.)