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Obama's policies are so destructive, even his union pals are getting …

directorblue.blogspot.com12/21/11

In fact, when it comes to jobs, Obama's policies are so bad that even his union pals are starting to notice. The latest to take notice is the Communications Workers of America union. It reported last month that AT&T's $39 billion …

PJ Media » Obama's Policies Are Gutting the Middle Class

pjmedia.com12/16/11

One of Obama's core claims is that the policies of the past, coming from largely Republican administrations espousing and carrying out conservative ideas, are what brought the economy to the brink, and that those ideas and …

There’s a very old joke in advertising circles that goes like this:

A big firm gets an account to launch a new brand of dog food and it’s an all-hands-on-deck operation.

People working flat-out on logos, slogans, music, endorsements, product placement, and ads suited to every medium.

Launch day comes, and everything goes perfectly, but after a couple of weeks, sales are wretched and it becomes clear that the campaign is tanking.

The whole staff of the adverizing agency gathers in a big conference room for a gloomy post-mortem and each element of the launch is second-guessed, and recriminations fly.

Finally, a junior writer in a seat against the wall timidly raises his hand and puts forth his opinion:

“Maybe the dogs didn’t like it?”

Obama’s Policies? Maybe The Citizens Don’t Like Them?

Leading Democrats and pundits are forlorn and dismayed that the president and congress haven’t gotten credit for what they consider to be an impressive record of accomplishment.

Rescuing the banking system and the U.S. auto industry, passing the stimulus, health care, financial and regulatory reform.

But the dogs, I mean "citizens" just didn’t like them.

In a survey released last week, Gallup found that of five major pieces of legislation, only the financial regulatory reform enjoys majority support. 

What’s Clear Is That:

The failure of the stimulus to produce jobs cast a pall over everything else, and the majority of the public regards the year spent debating health reform as a diversion from what it thinks should have been a sustained focus on the economy and IMHO they’re right!

The Bottom Line For The Dems

The Dems can neither run on their record nor run away from it and their only hope is to convince the American people that giving power to an opposition party in its angriest and least moderate mood would only make things worse.

And when you can only run on a platform of, "THEY will only make things worse".

Then surely you’re in very big trouble?

Prof. Niall Ferguson on Obama: A colossal failure of American foreign

The result has been a foreign-policy debacle. The president has alienated everybody: not only Mubarak's cronies in the military, but also the youthful crowds in the streets of Cairo. Whoever ultimately wins, Obama loses. …

Publish Date: 09/30/2011 6:43

http://politicalarena.org/2011/09/29/prof-niall-ferguson-on-obama-a-colossal-failure-of-american-foreign-policy/

RealClearPolitics – President's Foreign Policy Failures Increase

President Obama, like most American presidents, is lucky that the public pays little attention to foreign policy and rarely casts its votes on the basis of presidential foreign-policy performance. It required something as dramatic …

Publish Date: 09/28/2011 5:53

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/28/presidents_foreign_policy_failures_increase_111498.html

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ObamaCare finally scraped through and seems too have given Obama a little boost back home, but his overseas agenda is looking worse and worse.

Before going into the blunders it needs to be said that although the Obama administration did achieve a missile treaty with Russia, it was far more profitable for Russia than for the U.S. because Russia needed to reduce the costs of its nuclear arsenal, and the arms talks with the U.S. gave it some wanted prestige.

So Who Has Obama Upset So Far?

Canada

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly criticized the Canadians for failing to invite all eight members of the Arctic Council to a recent consultation and the following day, the Canadian Foreign announced that Canada will be ending its Afghan mission next year.

Just one day after the above was written, Clinton again publicly attacked Canada.

This time critiquing it’s approach to abortion.

Israel

Obama behaved as badly as is possible by telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he was going to have dinner and hoped that Netanyahu would have come up with some better ideas by the time he returned.

The E.U.

The administration recently angered the EU by refusing to attend a summit in Madrid and the EU powers are no longer leaping to Washington’s support on Afghanistan.

Britain

The administration angered Britain by seeming to side with Argentina over negotiations about the Falklands Islands and a British parliamentary committee has just pronounced the US-UK special relationship as over.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s  President Karzai was angered because his visit was cancelled.

Brazil

Obama upset the Brazilians by rushing over to Copenhagen to try and snatch the 2016 Olympics from Rio and Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has now publicly rejected Secretary Clinton’s public request for support for a sanctions resolution at the U.N.

Turkey

Turkey is angry about the passing of another version of the Armenian genocide resolution through a key House committee and it’s now getting closer to Iran with Russia.

Obama Is Perceived As Weak And Naïve

North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Iran have totally rejected the administrations overtures and the administration’s actions have simply given the world the impression that the administration is weak.

It’s possible that the reason that Israel is being given such a hard time right now, is not so much because of its insistence on building homes in east Jerusalem, but because the U.S. needs to gain some badly needed credibility.

April 7, 2010

Just a quick follow up to the above;

via Ganguly: India Is Annoyed With Obama – Newsweek.com.