Obama’s job-approval rating in Gallup’s tracking poll stood Thursday at 53 percent, better than his 49 percent average during his first term, when he took office amid the hopes of a nation making history, then crashed on the rocks of a recession and sometimes seemed hapless in the teeth of ceaseless Republican attacks and opposition.

Dude got a 4 point bounce after being reelected and inaugurated again? GASP! It’s almost as if he’s receiving a 2nd honeymoon from a slight majority of the American people who are hoping this term doesn’t suck as bad as the last one.

Here’s the thing about honeymoons. They don’t last forever(well except for Obama and the media). And while Bush couldn’t see the Social Security reform backlash and Katrina coming down the pike, everyone who’s paying attention knows that a crappy economy(which is even worse than we thought), tax hikes, and Obamacare will all create a dark cloud over Obama’s 2nd term. And who knows what unexpected developments could make things even worse(a nuclear Iran?)?

Which is exactly what our media has done. Mainstream media has become state-run television.

ajacksonian on February 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM

Well, at least you shouldn’t be able to get away with. Thank you, Media.

Obama just got the one policy change he actually campaigned on, an increase in the top tax rate. Everything else he tries to do is going to have to be sold to the American people and he has proven he is not very good at that outside of the campaign. Of course, and endlessly cheerleading media may help.