Obama's approval rating ties Nixon's

According to a recent Gallup Poll for the week ending Aug. 30 2009 President Obama's overall approval rating is currently hovering around 50%.
This puts Obama on par with Richard Nixon's job approval rating going into September in his first term

Those polled gave Obama a 52% approval rating versus a 41% disapproval rating. To me this is a rather stunning turn in the Fortunes of our 44th President.

When elected last year one could argue that President Obama was one of the most popular Presidential candidates-in recent times- having won the election-according to CNN-with nearly 67 million votes compared to John McCain's 58 million.

Consider also that Mr. Obama won the electoral vote by a whopping 365 electoral votes compare to McCain's 173. This gave Obama a comfortable 53 to 46 percent victory over the Arizona Senator.

Obama seems to be falling in favor like a rock. This is stunning given the fact he started his first term in office at 68% approval the only recent President with a higher rating after his first month in office was John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

What could be the cause for his rapidly declining favor in opinion polls? I think one word sums it up spending. The people have watched as this President and congress have spent money like drunken sailors with apparently no end in sight.

Americans are disturbed that this horrific increase in spending will have disastrous consequences for this country in the long run.

In another area directly connected to spending the townhall meetings show that a sizable number of Americans reject his health care proposals. And yet Obama keeps pushing a public option and Congress is threatening to pass a public option over the will of the people.

Add to this all the bad publicity from tax evading cabinet appointees and bizarre Czars-that have been exposed as far left radicals- and it is little wonder the American people are becoming skeptical about this President.

Many-like myself- are coming to the conclusion that President Obama borders upon being a Communist-and is at the least- the most far left President we have had to date.

It is my humble opinion that unless this President purges his administration of distasteful radicals, and modifies his support for far left socialist policies, this trend will only continue and Barack Obama-like James Earl Carter- will be a "One Term Wonder".

Polling data from http://www.gallup.com

Foreclosures once again hit all time high

The American Dream! Home ownership. Unfortunately the American Dream-for many families- is becoming a nightmare.

According to Reuters:" U.S. home loans failed at a record pace in July despite ongoing federal and state programs to avoid foreclosures, which have severely strained housing and the economy."

Record numbers of home foreclosures? What happened to the billions, and billions, that Congress appropriated and then borrowed from China to help people and lenders renegotiate home loans?

We were told by the Obama administration that we had to do something, apparently anything, to stop the foreclosure crisis. However here we are-eight months into the Obama administrations first year and according to Reuters-not only are foreclosures at all time highs-up 7 percent for July-but upwards to 32 percent from the same time last year.

Well I guess the Bushulus, the Porkulus, and all the other pork barrel spending boondoggles of the last several months have been a waste of time. People bought homes in many cases that they couldn't afford, others have been slammed by the recession and are now fighting for their lives.
Americans were told that help was on the way. Seems help got lost somewhere along the way along with billions and billions of dollars.

This may sound harsh but it comes from someone who barely managed to escape foreclosure just as the first mortgage meltdown occurred. In fact if I had waited just a couple of months before catching up my payments I would have been eligible for a "loan"modification. (See yesterdays story)

This may sound harsh, but I think if the government had stayed out of all this downturn stuff, and allowed the free market to work, we would already be out of the crisis. Government cannot solve our problems. In fact as Ronald Reagan said "Government is the problem".

Things would have been pain full. But in the long run, I think we would have got back on track sooner. As it sit stands now we have so mortgaged -our own as well as - our children's future so much that the next foreclosure sale may well be America itself.

" Extremism In The Defense Of Liberty Is No Vice"

"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. "

Acceptance speech, R.N.C, San Francisco, July 1964

Since the election of 2008 When our President, Barack OBama, was elected. It seems as though he, along with his accomplices in congress have been on a crusade to gather all- and I do mean -all power into Washington D.C. And unto them selves.

They seem to be following the same path as the Russian Communists of the Twentieth Century. Who sought to have everything centrally controlled.

The genius that has made this Nation great-is the notion- that individuals, local governments, and state governments, could come up with better solutions to the problems they face than a centralized government

Things have been happening lately that boggle the imagination, C.E.O.'s being fired by the government, companies being taken over by the government, and health care, being threatened by the government.

Our President and his minions in congress have been accumulating more and more power unto themselves. There's not a day goes by, that a new Department, Czar, or regulatory body, is not created by this president. At the same time the government seems to be less, and ,less responsive to the People. From the President on down this administration, and the Democrats in Congress, seek to bring "equality, and social justice, to the people. Salaries must be regulated, because it just isn't fair, for C.E.O.'s and top executive to be paid so much.

Companies must be regulated, because it's not fair for workers to take cuts, or even, be layed off, in order to save the company. It's not fair for big corporations , such as the oil companies, to make huge profits. Never mind that they also have huge expenses, and on average, only make about four cents, on every dollar they invest. While the Government makes more on a gallon if gas than they do. The financial sector must be regulated to bring "economic justice" to us all.

We've been down this road before. all the way back in the 1700"s, when King George the 3'rd took it upon himself, to usurp the power of local legislatures, replace Colonial Governor, and annul charters that gave certain rights to the Colonies.

Consider these words from our Declaration of Independance... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

This greatest of political documents- in the history of man- goes on to list the grievances which our forefathers had against the King... "He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them." Given Barack isn't guilty of this specific trespass. But at his direction the Congress did dictate to the states how spending bills relate to the stimulus should be crafted, specifically, demanding that any stimulus spending states make be permanent.

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance." Does this sound familiar! especially the eating out their substance part. The harassment has already started, and if not vigorously opposed, will spread its evil tentacles into the lives ,as well as , livelihood of every man,women, and child .in this country

I don't want to be extreme. I have no desire for any kind of violence. Abraham Lincoln said" The Ballot is more powerful than the bullet". I still hold out faith, that the genius, of our Constitution will prevail, and we get rid of the current gang , through the wonder of a bloodless revolution through the ballot box.That said. Our founding Fathers didn't seek violence, they did not want to be extreme, but alas circumstances, history, and the stubbornness, of a King, to listen to His people, forced their hand.

At this point, if it is extreme, to want a return to our original values, and , ideals of Liberty,Freedom ,and Justice, Then count me extreme.

This current crowd would do well, to bone up on their history, and turn away from this headlong rush to socio-facism. And God forbid- they attempt- to make permanent- their grip on power by subverting the political process. then I to will be forced to say...

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!

Gene, A lover of Freedom!