Clearly the Nobel damaged the President

[fugop]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Wow. He's taking a beating.

Not.

[asdjrocky]

1. You know, people should click the link,

or at least read the whole post before they unrec.

[thunder rising]

2. There are some folks on board this morning that need a hug.

:toast: :toast: :toast:

[CakeGrrl]

6. Some of them probably unrec'd because it WASN'T bad news

for the President.

It's jacked up like that around here.

[asdjrocky]

8. I don't really believe that.

I think a lot of the people here at DU that have problems with the President are sincere people with honest issues.

You can criticise the President without hating him.

[CakeGrrl]

9. A lot may be, and in my opinion, a few are not

based on patterns of comments I've seen.

I just don't think that unrecs on positive threads are 100% attributable to the obvious boogeymen that are trolls and Freeper agitators, that's all. JMO.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. You are correct.

Among the extremely jealous, Obama has been damaged. You would have thought that he couldn't have been any worse in their eyes, but envy is a perennial crop.

[Democrats_win]

4. To be against a Nobel Peace Prize winner is to be against good. nt

[calimary]

11. Yeah, this can be boiled down pretty far.

That's a completely fair statement - worth repeating!

I think we're seeing jealousy on parade because of Obama's next award. I'm glad some Dems are starting to talk back, and point out the hysterical hypocrisy of the "Country First" :sarcasm: crowd. I'm glad we have the likes of Alan Grayson - "if Obama had a BLT for lunch today, the republi-CONS would try to ban bacon." And Hillary, pointing out that "if Obama walked on water, john bolton would say it's because he couldn't swim." We need more points like that being made out loud, in public, on mic, on camera, in blogs, etc. EVERYWHERE. I'm glad there are people now making them. In another thread here the talk was of the Dems finally getting "uppity" with a chorus of hallelujahs and amens following it. I certainly added mine there, too!

It's long past time this point was made all over the place til it becomes absorbed into the pores of the national zeitgeist. Robert Heinlein's novel, "Stranger in a Strange Land", frequently mentioned the theme of "grokking." "To grok" means to understand something so intimately and thoroughly that you have almost literally eaten it. You've consumed it totally. And in one sense in the novel, it was literal. The ultimate union or melding - where the thing or concept you've come to understand this intensely has literally become part of you. You've internalized it to that extent.

That's the level of penetration we need to seek - in planting these seeds and memes!

Everyone must grok this idea - that "to be against a Nobel Peace Prize winner is to be against good."

[fugop]

5. Faith returns

Time and again, the media seems to join together and try throwing some blood in the water to stir up the sharks. All last year, they never failed to disappoint, from "He's an empty-suit celebrity!" to "Lipstick on a pig!" to "Bill Ayers!" and so on and so forth. But while the teabag types fall victim to the feeding frenzy, it seems that the majority of Americans really are seeing through it. We voted for Obama in November, in spite of being told in September that the masterful Sarah Palin had changed the game. After every debate, the spinners tried to tell us how great McCain and Palin did, only to have the instapolls come up again and again with the decisive winners on the Democratic side. And now, even as the media tries desperately to sway us into believing that the Nobel is a horrible thing for the President to win, it doesn't seem to be working. At least not yet. I'm keeping the faith. The media really is fast becoming a callback to "The Boy who Cried Wolf." They just yap and yap and yap about this or that crisis for Obama. And Americans are tuning them out. Yay for us. I hope!

[Kind of Blue]

10. Thank you! Well said and wish it were an OP. n/t

[chieftain]

7. It is conceivable that GOP Joe and his crew were wrong when

they declared that there was no upside for the President in winning the Nobel Prize. I wonder if these fools realize how stupid most of their pronouncements are.