Man of the people? I think not.

By Jerry McConnell

Whenever I see a poll showing Obama’s popular support, I seethe a little bit at his audacity, and frankly his attitude of taking people for granted is narcissistic to the extreme. This man is so sure that he is a ‘man of the people’ and loved by all but a few malcontent Republicans that he can do no wrong.

I know he gets his news from the biased and also deliberately under-informed Mainstream Media, (MSM) which is so slanted in his favor that he actually believes he is adored instead of the pariah that he really has come to be.

This case of self love and imagined adoration of a fawning public is strictly in his own narrow mind as poll after poll proves on a daily basis. Take the Rasmussen poll of January 2009 when he first took office he had a 62% Approval rating. But by September 2010, it reported that 44% of the nation’s voters Strongly DISAPPROVE of Obama’s performance, while only 27% Strongly APPROVE. In poll terms, that indicates Obama to have a negative Presidential Approval Index rating of Minus 17.

That is a negative rating in ANY person’s opinion and it is an opinion from a professional and well qualified polling service, not a part of the MSM. Yet he keeps on smiling and going against the majority of the country’s citizens. I didn’t say the ‘country’s residents’ because that would include the 20 or more million illegal aliens within our borders who now reside here without proper permission and are not included in the poll numbers.

Obama has a history of being on the wrong side of important issues with regard to a great majority of our country’s citizens. Phyllis Schlafly of EagleForum.com in her August 27, 2010 column states that “the Democrats wring their hands over Barack Obama’s tone deafness about political reality.” She added that while it is entertaining to Americans “their despair about Obama is so painful that they are even calling on George W. Bush to come back and rescue Obama from his own mistakes.”

But he has given this country so much negative leadership as to even call it ‘no leadership at all’. His zealous desire to spend money is becoming legend. It’s as though he has come into money for the first time in his life and he is going to spend every dime of it not matter what.

He is enjoying being the lucky guy who just won the multi-million dollar lottery, or in his case, the multi-TRILLION dollar lottery, perhaps more precisely the LOOTERY of taxpayers’ dollars, probably little of which had been paid in taxes by himself. He is looking to buy out just about any major corporation or financial system or healthcare organization and under the guise of “reforming” or “restructuring” it, bring it to the brink of Destruction and bankruptcy.

Job losses in the multi-millions are just a small nuisance factor and another reason to blow away more millions and billions trying to adjust to a more favorable level. But like his campaign rhetoric looking for change, it is not happening except in a negative way. Not very bright.

Or as Phyllis Schlafly stated in her EagleForum.org article “Obama Versus Majority Public Opinion” on August 27, 2010, “The Democrats are reluctant to admit the truth that Obama is not a smart politician.

Obama is a radical ideologue determined to “transform America” into the socialist mold regardless of voter retaliation against Democratic candidates.”

Schlafly cites his unpopular moves that have caused his plummeting ratings such as his unprofessional version of medical healthcare that according to the latest polls is disapproved by about “60 percent of the people and various states are opting for legislation that would make any mandatory provisions of the healthcare bill invalid.”

And Obama’s strong desire to get Congressional action for a law granting amnesty to the roughly estimated 20 million illegal aliens who are burrowed in here in the United States is another example of his flying in the face of the public which is against such action. In fact, even a “CBS poll found that 57 percent of Americans think the Arizona immigrant law was “about right” while Rasmussen polled and found 65 percent of Americans favored the law. A Zogby poll found that 58 percent of Americans nationwide want their own state to adopt a law similar to Arizona’s.”

Schlafly points out another area where Obama and the country are at great odds and that is on the subject of a Muslim mosque being built near the site of Ground Zero in New York City “even though 61 percent of Americans are against it.”

This litany of so many incidences of flaunting his assumed authority and disdain for the people who elected him, and believe me, there are many more that could be shown, has to make a person wonder if he is in the same world as the rest of us. Has the grandeur and glitz of the “rich life” gone so far to his head that he actually now BELIEVES that he is some anointed savior of mankind?

No wonder the Democratic Party is in freefall and knows not where they will land after November 02, 2010. That’s what comes from placing too much trust in an unknown factor.