I am now starting to get really worried about our political neophyte of a president. Maybe I am just seeing what I am disposed to see, but he seems close to breaking all records in terms of losing support. And for America that is a real danger.

Obama and his inexperienced team have bungled numerous events since his election, despite the fiction the sycophant liberal media are spewing. He totally bungled the Blago incident, claiming he had no contact when it is clear his team was in numerous discussions with Blago – caught on wire taps. It was a ridiculous position to take, and I would guess it will come back to bite him again as the tapes become public.

Obama’s first acts in office were to help terrorists responsible for 9-11 and other attacks on this nation. He generated an order to close GITMO, without the slightest idea what to do with the killers housed there. It demonstrated how unfocused and random Obama’s priorities are, and how he is prone to think of his image verses the impacts of keeping his promises.

Then we have the ban on lobbyists, except those he has tapped. Who is he kidding here? I ban lobbyists, except my favorite ones who have worked with me for years? Sounds like a politician tapping powerful friends who could benefit from their alliance. I am not saying lobbyists are bad, many are not. But it was a crude facade for the dumb masses, not a real change.

Then we have the Democrat tax cheat parade, where we find the two sets of rules: one set for the elites and the set used to harass the rest of us. Obama was on five TV interviews yesterday to explain why we shouldn’t focus on his faux pax’s but talk economic stimulus:

He shed two of those appointees and then took to the airwaves — conducting not one but five Oval Office network television interviews in which he sought to seize control over the economic stimulus debate. Republicans have found traction on the issue by painting themselves as defenders of taxpayers and homeowners, while portraying Democrats as frivolous big spenders.

“I’m frustrated with myself, with our team,” Obama told NBC’s Brian Williams in a comment that was typical for his afternoon of televised mea culpas. “But ultimately my job is to get this thing back on track, because what we need to focus on is a deteriorating economy and getting people back to work.”

He told ABC’s Charles Gibson that he “can’t afford glitches.”

The man is a glitch production factory! He let the House Democrats ramrod a liberal fantasy bill through the house which did almost nothing for the economy near term. He has done more for overseas abortions than he has for the economy. And now he is letting Europe roll him on whether the American stimulus bill should go to Americans:

The European Union warned the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting a planned “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war.

The EU threatened to retaliate if the US Congress went ahead with sweeping measures in its $800 billion (£554 billion) stimulus plan to restrict spending to American goods and services.

This is the problem with ‘spending’ bills on identified projects verses lowering taxes and shoring up the housing market so the economy can generate goods and services the consumer can afford to buy. The spending bill elements will not kick in for a year or more. Trust me, my career is built on government contracts and nothing in this bill will start flowing in any meaningful manner for over a year. Even the CBO admitted as much when it scored the House version of this fiction.

Yesterday the truth came out when Gallup tried to spin the bad news on the stimulus package. Let me despin it for you:

A strong majority of Americans (75%) want Congress to pass some version of President Obama’s economic stimulus plan, but this group is split down the middle on whether it should be passed as is or with major changes. 

Translation: 75% want the economy fixed, less than 40% support the current package., 54% reject it or want it fixed.  That pretty much kills the bill, unless the dems  are willing to pass it alone. And they are not because they know it won’t do anything for a year or more and don’t want to be blamed when nothing happens and the public goes ballistic.

Obama’s poll numbers are down awfully quickly (only two weeks in). And there are signs the stress is getting to him already:

On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while.He left.

With little notice, the president and first lady Michelle Obama bolted the gated compound of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in their tank of a limousine on Tuesday. They ended up at a Washington public school, greeted by children who could not care less about the collapse of a Cabinet secretary nomination.

“We were just tired of being in the White House,” the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School.

“We got out! They let us out!” Mrs. Obama said as the kids and their teachers laughed.

H/T LGF. Most Presidents come in ready to work endlessly. But Obama seems to be reacting, not acting. He never gained control of the levers of power in DC because he did not know where they were – he is too inexperienced. He needed to lay the law down with his party’s congressional leaders to make sure his stimulus package was bipartisan. That is what Bush did when he came in, he had areas he would negotiate on to pick up opposition support.

Obama just let Pelosi go nuts and he ended up with a partisan package of garbage most the nation does not support. He is not in control, and he is making Clinton and Carter look good in comparison. The McCain-Palin ticket had the roles right, experience on top and the up and coming leader in second position.

We as a nation will see what happens when we get that wrong, and it could be serious. If Obama comes of looking weak, all sorts of challenges will start popping up across the globe and at home.

Tags: Cabinet, Obama, Polls, Stimulus Package