For all the glowing attention the media has showered on the President, it's hard to imagine his 100-day prime time TV press conference viewership dropping 29%. Maybe it's because he holds them too frequently? Since February he's had one each month, and of course the TV networks are losing ad revenues because of them. And it looks like Fox made the smarter move by rejecting Obama's request and carried on its regular programming. It does help the economy, right?
As jobless rates rise and the recession deepens, many Americans are starting to realize that their President can certainly talk the talk, but he cannot walk the walk. (And he only talks the talks when the teleprompter is present and operational.) His economic policies follow just one plan: let the government take over. Translation: transfer the burden to the taxpayers. The federal government is on a multi-trillion dollar spending spree. Future generations of Americans are going to suffer greatly.
Internationally, he may be well received but world leaders don't always see eye-to-eye with him. Even with our longtime allies like Britain and France and other NATO members. When he attended the Summit of the Americas, the biggest news that came out was Chavez's friendliness toward him and how other Latin American leaders were criticizing the U.S.
A dip of nearly one-third of viewers is significant. The media absolutely loves him, but I'm starting to think that the public has seen past the honeymoon period with this new president.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
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