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To: LindyBill who wrote (423004)	4/21/2011 8:00:51 PM
From: unclewest	1 Recommendation Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 793917

Here we go again. Obama must think he can win this war with aircraft. I said it a long time ago...Wars like to expand! online.wsj.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (423004)	4/21/2011 8:03:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Guess who this scathing Obama critic is? Back in the heady days of the 2008 campaign, a powerful, impassioned speech like the one Obama delivered would have had a definite positive impact on the numbers. But the soaring rhetoric now comes with a bitter aftertaste. Perhaps it's because we feel like we've seen this movie before. Call it "Attack of the Impassioned Yet Empty Rhetoric." But this version was even more unsettling than the earlier versions, in which the president delivered great speeches then failed to back up his words with the promised action. In this sequel, his words turned to broken promises as soon as they passed his lips. It's almost as if the speech was premised on the hope that most of his audience hadn't been keeping up with the news. "They want to give people like me a $200,000 tax cut that's paid for by asking 33 seniors each to pay $6,000 more in health costs? That's not right. And it's not going to happen as long as I'm president," he said, drawing rhetorical lines in the sand. The problem is, he had already welcomed Republicans across these lines and enjoyed a few celebratory toasts with them on the other side. We got used to the president making strong promises and then caving -- from closing Guantanamo to not extending the Bush tax cuts for millionaires. Now he's making strong promises he's already broken. He's like a political version of the Guy Pearce character in Memento -- he's figured out a way to break promises outside of the limitations of linear time. With his signing of the extension of the Bush tax cuts in December and his agreement to cut $38 billion -- including from programs that help the less fortunate he championed in his speech -- his actions pre-belied his upcoming words. As a result, those words, no matter how powerful or masterfully delivered, are no longer working the magic they once did. . . . . . Ans: Arianna Huffington. huffingtonpost.com I think Obama's numbers are dropping because his base has decided they are now officially unhappy with him.