So what is a president, beleaguered by a hostile news organization, and busily attempting to extinguish a forest of diplomatic and political fires ignited by the pyro tyros who preceded him, to do?
One thing that might help would be to stop disappointing those who elected him. From the LGBT community to the scientific community, Obama has been doing things that disappoint. As a scientist might state, for every action there is a reaction.
There's also an old saying that "one should dance with the one which brung ya", and Obama has yet to lift his lame ass off the chair. Even inaction can produce a reaction! Commentator Arianna Huffington pours on the perspective, noting that
Too many in Washington — and in the media — continue to take the well-being of Wall Street as the proper gauge for the well-being of the rest of America. Yes, the Dow is up 33 percent since March. But another 345,000 jobs were lost in May, raising the number of the unemployed to 14.5 million, and the unemployment rate to 9.4 percent. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, unemployment has almost doubled.
And this is the basis for the polling which shows that Obama is losing the support of the people. We on Main Street are feeling neglected at best, and abused at worst. We aren't benefiting from the alleged economic improvements. A commenter on BuzzFlash complains: "I look at the prices at the supermarket and I think this is bull. My rent hasn't gone down. My electricity, heat, phone and health care haven't gone down and my auto mechanic isn't charging less."
That is the evaluation which proclaims that Barack Obama isn't being a productive employee of the American people. This is the growing attitude which is feeding Fox with impetus to exploit this unrest for partisan political gain. Obama made a lot of promises to get elected and now doesn't care about fulfilling them, and the American people are not so stupid that they don't see their own condition deteriorating. They had hope that Obama was going to reverse things, but there has to be some kind of visible improvement, or everything he says will be treated as meaningless lip service.
Article comments
1 - Baronius
I hate to comment on an article without having read it, but Kevin Phillips is not a conservative.
2 - Dave Nalle
When did Realist claim that he was?
Dave
3 - Dave Nalle
NM, apparently you read the article more closely than I did. He does actually make that claim. Not surprising. Realist's grip on conservatism is highly subjective.
Dave
4 - Dave Nalle
There's also an old saying that "one should dance with the one which brung ya", and Obama has yet to lift his lame ass off the chair.
Again, wrong, Realist. Obama IS dancing with the ones who brung him. Specifically the unions and the democratic power brokers who put him in office. He doesn't see LGBT voters as significant enough to be worth paying off.
Dave
5 - Realist
Dave, in the interest of your own safety, I wouldn't make the suggestion that Obama is dancing with the unions to any Texas UAW local member - I hear Texans like to answer unpleasant insults with violence.