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Less Believe Obama Capable of Leading Than Before He Went to Europe

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 1st, 2008 at 09:43 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

The poor guy’s stock keeps falling. No wonder he’s crashing in the futures market. After his messianic journey to the Middle East and Europe, less people think Barack Obama can handle the job of Commander-in-Chief than did before he left for his trip.

Granted, the drop is small; it’s down from 55% to 52%. However, after ditching the troops in Germany and apologizing for us ugly Americans to the German horde, can you blame people for questioning his fitness to lead the troops?

Oh, and here is the real kicker: less people no think Obama is capable of handling terrorism and the situation in Iraq.

Again, how can you blame them? He went to Iraq, met with the general, and flatly ignored him. He says he’d still vote against the surge and his surrogates still deny the surge had any impact.

The public cannot be blamed for a diminished view of Obama. Look for him to start throwing the race card toward middle America.

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  • The_Gadfly

    Now, maybe Obama didn’t see the movie Amistad, but one of the things that stood out for me was that, at least according to Hollywood’s take (which you would think Obama could hear), it didn’t really matter how right John Q Adams was about the morality of the case, and it didn’t really matter how passionately he argued the case, he was going to lose on the facts and established precedent of the case… Right up until the point where he was able to convince the court that the French had put in the fix and what the court what is was going to decide was not only a forgone conclusion, but a mere formality.

    Americans have never liked foreigners dictating OUR foreign policy. Standing in front of thousands of foreigners who were acting like star struck groupies was the one thing MOST likely to cause Americans to rethink whether or not he should be conducting our foreign policy.