Congrats President Obama — 43% of Americans strongly dissaprove of Obama

There are likely no areas where President Obama has equaled President Bush.  Bush didn’t do everything right, but he shot straight with the American public and he let the cards fall where they may.  A stark contrast to President Obama who routinely misstates the truth, attacks the former administration and outright lies about his mythical bi-partisan efforts.

The President’s approval rating has been on a steady decline.  Specifically there has been a steady and severe increase not only in the number of people that disapprove of him, but those people moving from the ‘somewhat’ disapprove category to the ‘strongly’ disapprove category.

Rasmussen reports, via The Volokh Conspiracy, has released new poll numbers that show after only a little over a year, the number of people that strongly disapprove of President Obama is equal to President Bush’s numbers when he left office:

When George Bush left office he was deeply unpopular: in Bush’s last month, according to Rasmussen 43% strongly disapproved of the job Bush was doing, while only 13% strongly approved, for a staggering negative rating of –30%. Rasmussen’s Thursday release shows that after 14 months in office President Barack Obama has achieved Bush’s 43% of the people strongly disapproving of his performance, but Obama is still 10% ahead of Bush in those who strongly approve (23% v. 13% for Bush).

I suspect that the main difference in their overall approval ratings is among African-Americans, not whites.

Imagine how unpopular Obama would be if the press and the late night comedians (who are at least as important as the press) treated Obama as they treated Bush.

It’s important to understand that when President Bush left office, not only had we been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan for years, but we just finished the longest Presidential campaign ever (Senator Obama started his campaign years before the election), with the Democrats main platform being the demonization of George Bush and the claims that any Republican elected would be four more years of George Bush.