There’s really no other way to put it. Ron Fournier just really dislikes the president. I don’t know why, but it’s personal. And Fournier is clearly annoyed with anyone who defends the president. But how many times can Fournier write essentially the same article criticizing the president’s leadership?
I also loved this:
For months, the White House and its allies mocked critics of Barack Obama’s leadership, arguing that no president has “Green Lantern” superhero powers. Now these same people are predicting that Obama can salvage his agenda by waving a magical “pen and phone.”
The contradiction illustrates how far partisans will go to defend a flailing presidency, grasping at slogans and insults as a growing majority of Americans tune out. We witnessed a similar drama under President Bush, who set a low bar for public approval that Obama is close to matching.
President Obama’s approval numbers are improving and are not that bad. Rasmussen actually has him in positive territory. CBS has him at 46/47. And even Gallup and FOX have his approval in the forties. Let me remind you where Bush stood when he left office:
President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll showing Mr. Bush’s final approval rating at 22 percent.
Seventy-three percent say they disapprove of the way Mr. Bush has handled his job as president over the last eight years.
Mr. Bush’s final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.
The rating is far below the final ratings of recent two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, who both ended their terms with a 68 percent approval rating, according to CBS News polling.
Recent one term presidents also had higher ratings than Mr. Bush. His father George H.W. Bush had an end-of-term rating of 54 percent, while Jimmy Carter’s rating was 44 percent.
But Fournier made that comparison anyway, which is how you can tell that he is consumed with hate.
