Happy New Year to the Pantload-in-Chief

For the record, ladies and gents, here are a couple of Raz DT milestones; Obama's inauguration and year end on 12/31/2009:

01/21/2009
Raz DT Index: +28
Strongly Approve: 44%
Strongly Disaprove: 16%
Overall Approve: 65%
Overall Disapprove: 30%

12/31/2009
Raz DT Index: -18
Strongly Approve: 24%
Strongly Disaprove: 42%
Overall Approve: 46%
Overall Disapprove: 53%

Since his inauguration, he's had a -30 point swing in the index, lost 20 and 19 points in the two approval categories, and gained 26 and 23 points in the two disapproval categories.

To remind people, the Rasmussen "strongly" categories are those in which respondents are motivated to do something about their feelings about Obama. That is, a person who strongly approves will tell friends, proselytize, or volunteer for a campaign or other such effort. Those who strongly disapprove are motivated to tell others about their feelings or work against his re-election.

The daily tracking index is the strongly approve less the strongly disapprove. It was zero for the first time back on June 5th and, in for the month of June is hovered around +1 to +5. On July 6th, it turned negative and Obama has never had his head above water since that date. It started wandering consistently into the negative teens on October 22nd and hit a low of -21 on December 22nd. Interestingly enough (and I will confirm this) it seems that whenever Obama slips out of town on a vacation, his negatives drop.

Out of sight, out of mind?

The strong disapproval numbers seem to steadily rise from his inauguration while the strong approval numbers have been within 24-30% since November 9th. The last time he was above 30% was 32% on November 9th. It seems the cause fluctuations in his index figures is due to the vacillation of support between the strong approval and overall approval categories. His 24% strong approval yesterday was his lowest level to date.

An incident that should happen more often in 2010 is what I call the PacMan index, where the the strong disapproval numbers overtake his overall approval numbers. It has happened once so far, on December 22nd when he had a 46% strong disapproval and a 44% overall approval. That must be truly a catastrophic situation for such a narcissistic person as our Chief Pantload. It means he has pissed off more people in this country than like him to any degree.

Only supposition on my part and I will want to analyze these numbers and see if there are any interesting correlations to Obama and his activities that might give a clue to how clueless he is. But, just offhand, I'd say he is on the wrong track.

Oh, and for the record, count me with the 42% who strongly disapprove of this ass-clown.

I would make a New Year's resolution to get a life, but knowing my penchant for looking at numbers and my obsessive-compulsive tendencies, it would be a resolution broken early and often. By the way, a very happy and eventful New Year to you all.  

So we have a lot of things to do before next November; quit fooling around here reading my numeric drivel and get to work!

Stop the Presses! Obama cuts golf game short!

The AP has another knee-pad adulation story about The Pantload breaking off his golf game for a crisis:

KAILUA, Hawaii – President Barack Obama abruptly ended his golf outing and sped in his motorcade to his compound Monday after he learned a child of a friend was injured while playing on the beach.

Members of the first family were fine, a White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of a reluctance to discuss personal matters involving the president.
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After a brief delay, Obama returned to the course.

Of course, we are concerned about the child, but the Chicago Jesus can take time out of his golf game but can't be bothered to speak to the public about a potential terrorist act until 72 hours later?

Shocked, I tell you! I am shocked!

72 Hours with the Underpants Bomber

In another one of those obligatory "me too" posts on the Underpants Bomber who wanted to give everyone else a Melvin, I thought I'd chime in with some overlong tract, bloviating about how the dithering of this administration allowed this scumbag to be treated as a criminal instead of a terrorist. However, The Architect spends almost eight minutes deconstructing the Obama administration's failure to act decisively.

I like Rove's repeated referral to this guy as being treated like some criminal "who just knocked over a 7-11". I hope Karl doesn't get tagged by the administration or its lefty-Louie followers as being RA-A-A-A-C-I-S-T because 7-11's are largely owned and managed by Muslims..

..except, of course, in Maryland, where Joe Biden thinks they are run by Indians.

Obligatory Adjunctive Commentary: O.K., I cannot let a good crisis go to waste. Where have we seen this scenario play out before? Why, of course! It was back in August 2008 in the heat of the presidential race. Russia chose that time to overrun Georgia and The Pantload - once he was briefed that it was the former Soviet satellite nation and not the state between South Carolina and Florida - shuffled out in the midst of yet another vacation and, blinking in the bright Hawaiian sunlight, proceeded to pontificate to the assembled knee-pad media. As ABC reported it:

Obama also condemned the Russian invasion. But he cast a wider net for advice -- including Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and his foreign policy advisors. When he spoke, he was characteristically circumspect.

"I think it is important at this point for all sides to show restraint and to stop this armed conflict," Obama said. The candidates' responses reveal a stark difference in governing style, and both seem carefully calibrated to appeal to American voters.

Of course, we all come to recognize two things now: the press will do anything to give this clown a pass and here was the first green shoots of a habit he has of dithering, triangulating, and otherwise voting present as he had done so many times in the past.

The picture above? yes, that's our beloved Pantload-in-Chief on vacation carrying - what? - an important tome on world politics, economics, or military strategy? Naw, it's just the latest Harry Potter book. Hat tip to HillBuzz for this. You owe it to yourself to go over there and check out that post. They have a raging controversy about the scar on Obama's head. Past brain surgery or what?

It's really creepy!