President Obama has earned a grade of "F" for his performance so far in office. We here on TH knew that, we expected no more. But for MSNBC (of all people) to actually report a poll that shows Obama in a bad light – it’s unheard of.

Everything didn’t magically heal itself, there were no miracles. The water remains water and there are still five loves and two fish.

How can this be? Is it perhaps because the cloak of his invincibility is slipping away leaving only a naked community organizer, totally unprepared for the Presidential mantle, making inept decisions right and left?

If this trend continues, the “approves” and the “disapproves” will cross in the next month or two and Obama’s negatives will begin to outweigh his positives.

Couldn’t happen to a “nuder” emperor. 

The Obamas Want to Replicate Chicago in DC

The report quoted White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers saying the Obamas want to "replicate the same kind of environment they had in Chicago."

Oh … now that’s really good news. Replicate the kind of environment they had in Chicago – like paling around with Jerimah Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Bobby Rush, et al? It’s becoming more and more apparent that Obama has brought Chicago-style politics to Washington, D.C.

Now I feel so much better [dripping with sarcasm].

A Moratorium on Listening

An example of why I’m taking this position is that when confronted with his new Attorney General’s “a nation of cowards” comment, Obama said, “If I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language”.

Of course he would. That’s the problem. We heard the Attorney General’s actual words, we know the textbook definitions of the words and we can derive a conclusion based on they mean. If Obama had “massaged” those words, the conclusion would likely have been very different – because Obama wants us to hear only what we want to hear – not necessarily the facts or the truth.

For that reason, there is little reason to trust the words that Obama speaks, the words will have been carefully chosen and filtered through a desired result filter to be sure that the masses like what they hear.

Why then should we listen to a speech, a statement, or even a state of the union address? We can’t accept what he says without parsing the words (much like Bill Clinton) to estimate what he might mean. We need an interpreter fluent in “spin-speak” to tell us what he (or she) really said. We have little to learn by listening to Obama’s words – they tell us NOTHING except that we are (once again) being subjected to Obama administration’s 3 M’s of miscommunication (the Messiah’s Masterful Misdirection).

Obama didn’t invent spin-speak, it has become more and more common in public statements by both parties. It’s just that the dems and Obama in particular, have earned Ph.D.s in spin-speak.

I propose that the entire country stop listening to any politician’s speeches and rely only on written transcripts containing full detailed explanations.

What goes around, comes around - What’s good for the goose is good for the gander – and other clichés 

Do you hear all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the democrats relating to our treatment of Barack Hussein Obama so far? We should embrace him and his policies for the good of the country. Ignore his petty peccadillos, they’re not important – look at the BIG picture.

Have they so soon forgotten how BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) ruled supreme for the previous eight years? I fervently pray that Obama receives no less honor and respect than was afforded George Bush by the “loyal opposition” during his tenure. Doesn’t he deserve to be held in the same regard, to be as highly esteemed as was President Bush?

For the previous eight years, we witnessed the democrats do everything in their power to belittle and denigrate President Bush. There was little that he said or did that wasn’t the subject of ridicule and scorn by the dems and their surrogates, the MSM. And as far as respect for the office, they never let that stop a good Bush-bashing.

And now they say that we need to (at least) show respect for the office, if not the man. Balderdash. That respect for the office was noticeably lacking in the democrat’s actions from 2000 to 2008. Did they just grow some respect for the office? Did they just learn some consideration? Have they reformed?

Nah, it’s just that now their man is in office.

Hypocrisy, turned into an art form.

Is there no end?

It is a common courtesy for Heads of State to exchange gifts when meeting one another, especially for the first time. Here’s a report from Mark Stein, writing for NRO, about the recent exchange between BHO and Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:

“Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn from the timbers of one of the Royal Navy’s anti-slaving ships of the 19th century, HMS Gannet. Even more appropriate, in 1909 the Gannet was renamed HMS President.”

“The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.”

“And, just to round things out, as a little stocking stuffer, Gordon Brown gave President Obama a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.”

Is it not obvious that the Prime Minister’s gifts were thoughtful and carried with them significant historical consideration?

In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”

To (possibly) make matters worse, there is some concern that the DVDs may not play at all on UK televisions. The U.S. uses a Region 1 NTSC format while the UK’s standard is Region 2 with a PAL format. Unless the go-fer who actually purchased the DVDs was aware of the difference in video formats and specified the Region 2 version, it is (highly) possible that the “gift” that Obama gave the Prime Minister will not play on UK systems at all.

And the “chump-change” gift wasn’t the only snub of our closest ally. Here’s a brief excerpt from a NYT article by Maureen Dowd:

The dour prime minister was a blithe spirit despite a mutinous British press corps that was whingeing about the president snubbing the prime minister. First, President Obama sent back the bust of Winston Churchill that Tony Blair lent to W.; then the White House downgraded the “special relationship” to a “special partnership.” The Rose Garden press conference where Mr. Brown was going to stand “podium-to-podium with the Messiah,” as one British scribe dryly put it, was demoted to a “press availability” in the Oval.

These are actions you might expect from a community organizer meeting a high-level foreign leader – but totally unbecoming a United States President.

Oh good, Obama’s going to negotiate for us

My mistake, that should have been “Oh God, Obama’s going to negotiate for us,” [sarcasm].

The following excerpts are from an article by Tommy Christopher, writing for the Political Machine, and referring to the Gordon Brown gift snafu that has grown into a “minor international incident”:

“But Washington figures with access to Mr Obama's inner circle explained the slight by saying that those high up in the administration have had little time to deal with international matters, let alone the diplomatic niceties of the special relationship.”

“Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.”

Ah hah … so with Obama exhibiting all of the attributes of someone in over-his-head, not “even fak(ing) an interest in foreign policy,” who couldn’t even follow an international protocol for dealing with heads of state, this is the guy who expects to successfully negotiate with North Korea, Syria, Iran, et al?

The key is a SUCCESSFUL negotiation. A “trained monkey” (NOT a racial reference) could negotiate UNSUCCESSFULLY. NO negotiation is better than one that is not beneficial to the U.S.

Oh, and I almost forgot, it was just announced that he “seeks accommodation with Taliban.” That should be interesting – Obama will probably accept beheadings and treatment of women as chattel, if they will allow basketballs to be sold at the village marketplace. And, of course, that would be touted as a diplomatic victory.