Obama's Wrong Left Turn

President Obama is in trouble. His poll numbers fluctuate wildly on a daily basis. The polls themselves are all over the place increasingly reflecting the bias of the poll takers so it’s hard to grasp what’s what. Unfortunately for Obama, these poll fluctuations seem to be based more on the state of the Republican primary rather than on Obama and his policies. Depending on which Republican is slamming whom, Obama alternately moves between winning against various Republican candidates then losing to the same guys only a few days later.

Sooner or later Obama’s record will catch up to him, and that will be a tough nut for him to crack. When the Republicans finally do settle on a candidate, increasingly looking like Republican moderate Romney, then Obama will have to face the most devastating poll number of all…his approval rating, which is abysmal. This stand alone figure indicates the American public is ready for a change so long as the generic Republican is not objectionable.

While Obama and his buddies in the press and Hollywood gleefully exfoliate what they perceive to be right wing whack jobs, the truth of the matter is Barack Obama made a wrong turn to the left in 2010 when the America overwhelmingly objected to his progressive policies and punished anyone associated with Obamacare. Instead of moving to the middle, Obama returned to his true roots, the extreme left. His White House advisors deserted him in droves. He replaced all of them with folks even more to the left. The one exception was the appointment of White House Chief of Staff Bill Dailey, a pragmatist from Chicago, who made polite excuses and resigned this past January.

What is left in White House are left wing academics and “bomb” throwers. It was embarrassing to watch Energy Secretary Chu in front of Congress back track on his left wing statement of just two years ago that America has to find a way to allow its gasoline prices to rise to the level of Europe in order to promote “alternative” energy in the United States. He doesn’t own a car. He defines the proverbial left wing Ivory Tower.

So what is the White House to do? Run against Sarah Palin and gin up issues like contraception with a Democratic operative pushed in front of the cameras to feign poverty and reproductive rights for women. It backfired, and the all of the hate and vitriol from left wing hate mongers has spilled out all over alternative media and the blogosphere showing these folks for what they are. 

In an overt play to stir up fear in the Hispanic community, the left wing press has been ginning up the issue of whether English should be the primary language in Puerto Rico should it become the 51st state.  I am certainly going to lose sleep over that one notwithstanding Puerto Rico figured out a long time ago that it gets the benefits of statehood without any of the responsibility by just leaving things as they are.

While the media had been focusing on those horrible tea party folks and ignorant, toothless right wingers from the south, they have ignored the grass roots rumblings from the far left in the Democratic Party. A group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, an extreme left wing organization with roots in Moveon.org has begun to identify moderate Democrats at various levels of government from Congress down to mayor, and is beginning to run “true” Democrats, translate: leftists, against them with identifiable races in New Mexico and Illinois. These folks will make the Tea Party look like a walk in the park.

At the end of the day, political propaganda loses out to the truth. It happens 100% of the time. Sooner or later Obama is going to have to produce his vision for his second term. More of the same won’t cut it…and neither will the strategy of running the 2008 campaign all over again. Sarah Palin isn’t running this time. He may be liked, but his credibilty among the electorate is sinking...because in all things Obama, look at what he does...not what he says.  America is becoming more and more afraid of what he is doing.