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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Yesterday's Gone
by Rich Galen
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September first. Already. You know my theory on this: As you get older, time goes by faster because each year is a smaller percentage of your age. When you were five years old, a year was 20 percent of your life. If you get to be, say, 62 then a year is only 1.6 percent of your life.

Seems to go a lot quicker.

Even though Labor Day won't be here until next Monday and the Congress won't be here until Tuesday, Summer is over. The kids are largely back in school, we're down to about 13 hours of daylight on the East coast, and the high temperature today in Your Nation's Capital is forecast to be about 78 degrees.

So, how to best celebrate the end of Summer? Let's look at Barack Obama's poll numbers!

According to RealClearPolitics.com's polling summary (as of Monday night) the current approval numbers for the President are: Gallup: 51 - 42
Rasmussen: 46 - 53
NBC: 51 - 40
ABC/Wash Post: 57 - 40
Pew: 51 - 37

Using our "The-East-Germans-and-The-French-are-Cheating" theory of scoring Olympic figure skating and political polling we throw out the high number (ABC/WashPost) and the low number (Rasmussen) and end up with a pretty consistent number of 51 percent job approval for Obama.

According to Gallup, at the 100-day mark in this Administration, Obama's job approval stood at 67-28.

That isn't just a drop of 16 percentage points over the past four months; that is an outright collapse in the public's view of how well - or how badly - this Administration is doing.

By the way, at about this same point in the Presidency of George W. Bush, his approval rating was 57-34. Not much higher than Obama, but still higher than Obama.

The fact is, not much is going right for Obama right now. Unemployment appears to be stuck at about 9.4 percent (the next official Bureau of Labor Statistics number will be released on Friday).

Keep in mind the party which has ruled Japan for the past half-century was tossed out of office over the weekend in part because unemployment there reached 5.7 percent. The unemployment rate (in June) for the EU was about 8.9 percent. Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 2, 2009 - 12:30 PM EST
Balanced - Let's Celebrate
Reply # 4
Date: Sep 1, 2009 - 4:34 PM EST

Don't open that bottle of champagne just yet.
Let's look at your 12 points of celebration.
1. Manfacturing - always picks up during the summer months as does construction.
2. International cooperation - Scotland thumbs their nose at us by releasing the Lockerbie terrorist.
3. Economy - the second wave of foreclosures will begin next year. Spend, spend, spend, your way out of a recession, really?
4. Unemployment - no new jobs created to date.
5. Wall Street - it also bounced up and down for a few years before the 1929 depresssion.
6. Torture - How do you like your terrorist, overseas or here in the USA?
7. Healthcare - 70% of Americans don't want government making decisions about their health.
8. Right Wing Extremist - Right on, the Obama administration has awaken a sleeping giant.
11. Iran - Are you kidding? Not finished yet.
10. Palin resign - She's a comming, get ready.
11. Cheney - Don't you wish you had the ganods that he has.
12. World Image - Yeah right, China has chastised our economic policy, Chavaz says Obama is farther to the left than he is. WOW!

I'm impressed.

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Reply # 2
Date: Sep 2, 2009 - 10:19 AM EST
HEY! That's MY theory!
Really! I've been saying that for decades!
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