Syndicated from Alan Caruba

Ever since polls have been taken there have been presidents who encountered disapproval during their terms in office. Usually history exonerates them to some degree. This is not likely to happen with Barack Obama.

As this is written, a Politico.com polls puts Obama’s job disapproval rating at 46.4% and Congress has a disapproval rate of 72%, a figure matched by Rasmussen Reports. Obama’s disapproval rate according to Rasmussen was 44%.

Polls, we are always told, are “snapshots” of public opinion at a given time, but the polls consistently tell us that the vast majority of Americans disapprove of the President and Congress, and believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction.

In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Peggy Noonan, wrote “I don’t see how the president’s position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president’s judgment and instincts.”

Suffice it to say that, if elections were being held next Tuesday, voters would replace most of those in Congress and, if Obama’s ratings continue to fall—-and I think they will—-there would be an angry mob surrounding the White House carrying torches and pitchforks demanding his resignation.

In that fanciful scenario Obama would head home to Chicago to work on another ghost-written autobiography or memoir of his brief stay in the White House and America would be stuck with Joe Biden. If Nancy Pelosi is reelected, she would be next in line!

Since January 2009 the Obama administration has created an economic and financial house of cards. No part of it is sustainable.

Turning around Congress and the nation’s future can be likened to turning a super tanker. It takes five miles of ocean just to slow the ship. In America’s case, the ship has been outward bound on a sea of progressive programs that everyone knows are not working and which have begun to spring giant leaks in the hull.

There is plenty of blame to go around for our present troubles. Both parties studiously ignored the ticking time bomb of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that have put taxpayers on the hook for $1.6 trillion. The “toxic assets” they created brought down banks and investment houses.

The people in charge of maintaining the value of the U.S. dollar, primarily Alan Greenspan of the Federal Reserve, began to reduce the amount of interest banks had to pay to borrow. By the time that amount reached zero percent and banks became reluctant to loan even among each other, one might conclude our money had become valueless.

When the market crashed in September 2008, the U.S. government bailed out some banks and investment firms, buying their “toxic assets.” Banks stopped lending, Lehman Brothers went out of business, and the slide toward economic collapse began in earnest. With all that TARP money and subsequent “stimulus” billions, the one element of the economy that didn’t get any help were our small and medium size businesses, the ones that create eight out of every ten new jobs.

Meanwhile Social Security is broke and Medicare soon will be. The former is insolvent and the latter has been expanded in ways that will require rationing medical care European-style. There may not be “death panels”, but the effect will be the same. There will be little incentive for anyone to go into the medical profession.

Thanks to the Obama administration’s close association with SIEU, the mammoth government service workers union, Americans are discovering that it and other comparable unions have been operating on a “public be damned” philosophy. In America, the biggest employer is state and federal governments. Union members are no longer affordable.

When a teacher recently complained she wasn’t being paid enough, New Jersey’s Governor, Chris Christie, told her to get another job.

Around the 1970s the American economy began to move away from one that actually made things to one in which “financial services” replaced this essential requirement for a viable economy.

Now conjure with this. The national debt is $13 TRILLION. The Gross Domestic Product is around $12.9 trillion. According to Reuters, the United States posted an $82.69 billion deficit in April, “nearly four times the $20.91 billion shortfall registered in April 2009 and the largest on record for that month.”

Moody’s Investor Services keeps repeating that our “AAA” rating is going to go bye-bye any day now. It will cost more for the U.S. to borrow money and we are already paying billions in interest on what has been borrowed. If this sounds like Greece, it is.

One reason Congress is so unpopular is that they are repeating and exacerbating all the failed policies of the Depression years; not getting out of the way so that the private sector of the economy can recover. More and more of the economy is being nationalized.

There are two outstanding reasons President Obama is unpopular. He lies all the time and he is spectacularly incompetent. He is the living example of the Peter Principle in which a person is finally promoted to a job for which he has no qualifications.

He engaged in the same kind of mockery with the Tea Party when he said about its view of over taxation and the health care reform bill, “I would think they would be grateful…”

This time the President went after John McCain, Arizona and Arizona’s newly passed illegal immigration law. To the delight of the main stream media attendees, he mocked Arizona’s attempt to control its borders with these words:

“Unfortunately, John McCain couldn’t make it. Recently he claimed that he had never identified himself as a maverick. And we all know what happens in Arizona when you don’t have ID. (Laughter.) Adios, amigos. (Laughter and applause.)”

iVoteAmerica is headquartered in Arizona, where the approval rate of Arizona’s new law making it illegal to be illegal is a staggering 70% and climbing.

I wonder how the widow and family members of rancher Robert Krentz felt when she heard those words from the President of the United States, the Chief Law Enforcement officer charged with enforcing immigration laws and controlling the borders.

I wonder how the President’s mockery felt to Pinal County Deputy Louie Puroll, his family and the many law enforcement officials as Barack Obama made lite of the border situation in Arizona that led to the Deputy Puroll’s being shot by two undocumented aliens. Puroll was attacked about 5 miles south of Interstate 8 near its junction with Arizona Highway 84 and sustained a gun shot would near one of his kidneys. The Deputy was patrolling near Interstate 8 when he discovered marijuana bales and five suspected smugglers, at least one of which opened fire upon him with an automatic weapon.

On Saturday, May 1, 2010, Arizona law enforcement officials reported arresting the alleged drug smugglers responsible for shooting the Deputy and reportedly captured 17 suspected illegal immigrants, among whom are the three illegals who are now believed to be the shooters of Deputy Louie Puroll.

iVoteAmerica would like to predict the ouster of Barack Obama as our President in 2012 and to quote him precisely, “adios amigo.”

With a wink and nod northward to our President, “felicidades” was one word used by dictator Fidel Castro to praise President Barack Obama’s successful implementation of his new national health care program.

“We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his government,” Castro said in an editorial that further chided the U.S. for taking “an incredible 234 years after the Declaration of Independence” to do so.

Castro further said that medical services for all Cubans was “something that Cuba was able to do half a century ago.”

What does the praise of Castro really mean to us? What does it tell us, if anything?

Obama’s Global Appeal, Expanding

Barack Obama has spent considerable time and effort developing his global appeal. It started with the great “apology tour” that found the President apologizing to Europeans for the mistakes America has made.

Obama’s global appeal at America’s expense was further exemplified by his bowing before the Saudi King. It was maginified at the summit of the America’s in Trinidad in April, 2009, by his recognizing and receiving the 1973 leftist book written by Eduardo Galeano entitled “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent” from Hugo Chavez, who gave our President a back slap and big smile.

Apologizing, Bowing and Back Slapping

Despite the anger of up to 77% of American voters, Obama and the Democrat controlled congress rammed through health care legislation that will most certainly create further economic upheaval in the United States. But never mind the views of the electorate, what seems to count is “change” at any price.

It’s more than a bit puzzling that the pattern of patronization endorsed by Obama in Europe, Latin America and yes, in the U.S. as well, seems to be grabbing the attention of the likes of Fidel Castro, one of the most brutal dictators in history.

We ought to be concerned when our President received accolades from dictators. We should be distressed when our President travels the globe posturing himself as the great apologist, rather than the great defender for all the America has contributed to global stability.

The blood, guts, tears and treasure of America have kept the world and its people from falling completely into the hands of Hitler, Stalin, Mau, Mussolini, Castro, Chavez and the long list of other tyrants who have used the iron fist of government to smash freedoms and enslave the world’s millions. save for America.

Declaration from Castro of “felicidades” followed by his “what took you so long to catch up to us” rhetoric should cause us to wonder what Barack Obama’s long term agenda really is.

After all, it was President Barack Obama who trumpeted the altruistic nature of a his soon to be one term Presidency, was it not?

Post Presidency Retirement for Obama

So, what happens to Barack Obama after the American people vote him out of office in 2012? Some suggestions include, speaking tours in Europe, lectures in Cuba, bowing lessons in Saudi Arabia and co-speaking appearances with Chavez in Venezuela. Perhaps our President can move his annual physical from the U.S. to Havana or Canada, countries with incredible health care systems.

For iVoteAmerica, Oramos por la creación de un gran milagro en América en tiempos de elecciones.”

Translation, “We pray for the creation of a great miracle in America at election time.”

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? “Dreams of My Father” was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The “Audacity of Hope” followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a “communist with a small ‘c’” was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley’s formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed “cool” in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984’s Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.

Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to “wish away” some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign “world tour” were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party’s hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an “obstreperous” Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against “jumping to conclusions” about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted “Allah Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by called the Christmas bomber “an isolated extremist” only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual’s life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist’s dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?

This post syndicated courtesy of Alan Caruba who writes a daily post at Facts not Fantasy.