By Stu
Feb. 24, 2010

According to a new Rasmussen reports poll—only 22% of Americans strongly approve of the job President Obama is doing as president.

That’s the lowest in his presidency. 41% strongly disapprove—a 19 point gap. Overall his approval is floundering at only 45 percent while 54 percent disapprove.

And all of this with a level of support from the press that a Republican couldonly dream of. Remember the complaints about George W Bush? He was barely paying attention to what was going on.

He was always on vacation playing golf. It was so prominent that Michael Moore made Bush playing golf the trailer of Fahrenheit 9-11.

Yet—in the first 9 months of his first term—Obama had already played as much golf as Bush had in almost 3 years.

The media? Largely silent. Maybe they were being quiet so that they wouldn’t disturb the President’s drive on the 5^th hole. Shhhhhhhhh.

But President Obama doesn’t only set records on the links (and of course, in spending.) Let’s go back to the Bush administration again.

Throughout his presidency we were told by the media that his administration was far too closed. There was no access to the president. He just wouldn’t face reporters.

Fast forward to Obama.  He has now broken George W Bush’s record —and has gone 216 days without a formal press conference.

The last one he had? Remember the disaster of the “police acted stupidly” press conference?  Now, I guess if that were my last press conference, I might go 216 days without another too.

But, where is the press on this? I know they don’t care about being fair to conservatives, but shouldn’t they at least be concerned about being treated fairly themselves?

 

Source: Glenn Beck

 

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