Republican lies are why Obama's bump in the polls may last a while

[wndycty]

Republican lies are why Obama's bump in the polls may last a while

A Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll released today showed that President Obama's approval ratings jumped 9 percentage points to 56% in the immediate aftermath of the attack that killed Osama bin Laden. According to the Post this is his highest approval rating since 2009.

Conventional wisdom suggests this bump might be temporary. I am challenging conventional wisdom for two simple reasons, the American people are waking up to the lies being told about our nation's first African American president and he is distinguishing himself as a mature, calm, cool and confident leader.

Two significant developments last week, the bin Laden raid and the release of the long form birth certificate, made many Americans look at Obama differently. Additionally Obama supporters, like myself, are encouraged by the swagger he has displayed since he gave his budget speech on April 13, in which he took Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and the House Republicans to task.

A PARTIAL list of the lies include:

1. He is a socialist
2. He is a Muslim
3. He was not born here and has no birth certificate
4. He is not serious about the war on terrorism
5. He is weak on national security
6. He wants to raise taxes on all Americans
7. He doesn't lead
8. He was going to kill granny with death panels

Republicans/conservatives/teabaggers can only lie about Obama so much, and when those lies are proven to be false those doing the lying will pay a price, the subject of those lies, Obama, begins to reap benefits.

While the economy continues to struggle and unemployment remains high, the lies being told about him have played a significant role in his low approval ratings. As time goes on Americans are beginning to and will continue to view him differently.

Many people who have been in the "disapprove" column voted for him, they genuinely like him, but they had concerns about him. These concerns have been reinforced by the lies being told. Many of those folks started to believe the lies, but the events of the last few weeks have given him the opportunity to answer his critics and show America he is not the man that the Republicans/conservative/teabaggers make him out to be. Hell, even 70% of teabaggers are beginning to wake up and realize that is the House Republicans who are the enemy of Medicare, not Obama.

They have taken their best shots at Obama and they have done some damage, but he didn't loose his head, he just kept going. His pushback on Ryan's budget, chastising the press for focusing on the birth certificate, comforting of Alabama residents, calling Trump out to his face, while planning to take bin Laden out and succeeding, gave many of his detractors a reason to look at him differently and his supporters a reason to hope again.

The bump might be temporary but even if his normals drop a bit he continue to trend up, Obama is back and America is falling in love with him again.

[Peacetrain]

1. I think that is right... I have talked to a few Presidental skeptics in the last

day and they are singing a much different tune. They feel better about where the country is and where it is going.. and they are giving that credit to the President.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. "no gift certificate" What? I sent them a Target certificate! n/t

[wndycty]

3. ooops

:kick:

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Just yankin your chain. Weird what we type when our brains are whirring!

Yesterday someone posted about her father's funeral and she used the word wedding! Humans!

[damntexdem]

4. He doesn't need a gift certificate -- he's gifted enough already.

Now, if he'd only take that swagger to the Repukes more often, and back off the swagger when it comes to "leaks" of what he considers "secrets."

[wndycty]

6. I'm very happy with how he uses his swagger . . .

. . .if Obama is deserving of one thing from both sides of the aisle, it is the appreciation that he thinks long term, he thing strategically. He doesn't do what we want him to do, he does what he feels he needs to do.

[RichGirl]

7. I also think....

That many people's eyes have been opened with republicans trying to bust Unions and wanting to do away with Social Securtiy and Medicare...and wanting to continue the tax cuts to the rich.

Odd that after 10 years of tax cuts to the rich and a steady decline in the job rate, most republicans STILL believed that the cuts would bring jobs. I think they've finally figured out that the only jobs those cuts created were overseas!!!

[NICO9000]

8. If this had been Bush, they'd claim the numbers were 90% or higher

Just like his daddy's bogus 90% approval rating after the first Gulf War. I never believed Dumbya had such astronomical ratings after 9/11 and still don't, especially after living through eight years of his endless propaganda.