Despite ambulance chaser Sarah Palin's attacks and the oil disaster, Obama is doing OK (Lupica)

[jefferson_dem]

Despite ambulance chaser Sarah Palin's attacks and the oil disaster, President Obama is doing OK

Mike Lupica - News
Monday, May 17th 2010, 4:00 AM



There was Sarah Palin yammering on about immigration, one more thing in her limited world view that is all Barack Obama's fault.

Sitting next to her was the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer. The picture of the two of them was more than somewhat frightening, like a political experiment gone horribly wrong.

Obama is moving up on 500 days in office now. Palin and the army of the right come at him harder than ever. Occasionally he leans back on the ropes and makes it easy, as he has with a response to the oil-rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that has been no response at all.

The President looks like one more finger-pointer on this, and less than stellar, having recently signed off on more offshore drilling himself.

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In so many ways, Louisiana is like the oil slick Obama inherited from his precedessor. Obama doesn't use that analogy. He is sticking with the car the Republicans drove into the ditch. In a speech the other night he said that now they want the keys back.

Yet his job approval rating is 50%, not so terrible for a man elected with 53% of the popular vote. It means that 16 months into this, half the people polled by NBC and the Wall Street Journal don't think he really is the menace that he is portrayed as being by the people who hate him as much as the other side hated George W. Bush at the end.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/17/2010-05-17_time_for_a_500day_tuneup.html#ixzz0oBtcHgHx

[NJmaverick]

1. K & R! to counter the Palin supporters unreccing this thread

[jaxx]

2. +1

No more keys to the country for the repubs.