By Kevin “Coach” Collins
“Obama’s approval numbers are up” “The unemployment rate is going down” “Consumer confidence is up.” Blah blah blah.
Then there is “Obama leading (fill in the GOP nominee) by (pick a number it doesn’t matter)” more blah blah blah. Barack Obama has two intractable problems: the rising gas prices and his major mistake in handling the contraceptive mandate to faith based institutions particularly the Catholic Church.
Yes Rush it was a mistake. You Obama and his media may think he has some “super-secret decoder ring” plan for reelection, but that’s just talk. It will turn to ashes as we get closer to Election Day.
It’s just mid-February and we have already seen national gas prices spike above $3.50 -the earliest in a calendar year this has happened since 1981. In the all-important State of Florida gas is averaging $3.68 with many stations in South Florida where Obama’s base is supposed to be, a bit higher.
GM aka Government Motors’ sales dropped 6.1% in January and 2011 was the worst year for new home sales in history – yes in history- can we please see those rosy poll numbers for Obama again?
Those who are skeptical that these damagingly high gas prices will linger until November ought to take note of the reasons for these price rises. They are twofold and NEITHER one can be overcome by Comrade Obama’s dictatorial fiat.
Europe has clamped down on buying crude from Iran as a way too late reaction to her nuclear weapons program. Nothing Obama can do will change that, and as a result, the Muslim Brotherhood which now controls Egypt and much of the oil producing North African Muslim countries will extort higher oil prices from the feckless Europeans who will look to us for cheaper gasoline.
Because of this for the first time EVER America is the LEADING EXPORTER of gasoline! This has happened because the Europeans know they can get it cheaper from us and neither they nor Obama care that it drives up prices here on Main Street.
Obama’s rejection of the Keystone pipeline will make this problem still worse.
A new Rasmussen poll shows “Catholics” disapprove of Obama’s job performance at a 59% rate. This number is deceptive. It makes no distinction between real Catholics who make up about 1/3 of the 70 million Catholics in America and the Catholics in name only (CINOs) who are 2/3 of the total. Nevertheless, if 59% overall disapprove of Obama the percentage of real Catholics who voted 54/44 for Republicans in 2010 probably swells to 70% resulting in more than enough votes to offset Obama’s minority support which is sagging as it is.
So give Obama his “edge” in February polls, the one that counts in November will send him packing.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-s-us-auto-sales-fall-61-in-january-2012-02-01
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/united-states-gas-export_n_1177559.html
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/14/poll-59-of-catholics-disapprove-of-obamas-performance/
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I think we'll be under Marshall Law by then, that's why he dosen't give a shit now.. hope im wrong
captdax your comment was pulled for language.
Please adjust,
Thank you
Coachj
Poll after poll shows that a majority of Americans support the President's position on birth control, despite this nonsense about real Catholics versus CINOs. Women will galvanize around this issue.
This issue – and gas prices – will not be enough for Americans to put a Republican in the White House and send America back into the abyss that brought on the recession that got us into this mess.
You might believe the polls if they make you feel better but many Democrats whose jobs depend on Obama don’t. I realize you know very little because you are a Leftist, but your ignorance about the Catholic Church and the difference between actual real Catholics and the people pollsters lump in with real Catholics is surprising. Your line about “women will galvanize around this issue” is wishful sophistry.
Keep reading CiR Gary and maybe you’ll learn something.
Coach
Oh I'm learning something alright.
And I thought Free Republic was the nuttiest website on Earth. You got 'em beat, Coach.
Your snappy repartee is so impressive! You can’t support your insistence that Comrade Obama will be reelected so you just make believe it is true. Dream on and by all means keep reading CiR. It takes courage to accept the truth that everything you have believed all of your life is a lie, but I think you have it in you.
Coach
Coach…either there is something amiss with your website that causes my posts not to appear at all, or to be found in some other location within the site which I have not recently visited, or my posts are being "pulled" without benefit of explanation.
Think I will hang around "The Hill" until CiR can iron out a few problems.
I haven't had the last two posted either. Probably too long.
"Because of this for the first time EVER America is the LEADING EXPORTER of gasoline! This has happened because the Europeans know they can get it cheaper from us and neither they nor Obama care that it drives up prices here on Main Street."
This is absolutely correct, and to it I will add that most of the North Slope crude leaving the Port of Valdez, Alaska is bound for Asia, including China, not the lower 48.
And speaking of China. It is curious to me the Afghan Government has recently granted Chinese interests licenses in two northwestern provinces for the development of oil resources. That is nice, is it not? If you're China, yes. China gets the oil,. Karzai gets paid. We, the United States, foot the bill for defending the oil fields — just as we do for the Chinese mining operations (Copper, I think, though I may be wrong on this specifc point) granted licenses in eastern Afghanistan during the previous Adminstration.
Then, still on Afghanistan, most of its petroleum comes from Iran. We, the United States, essestially pay for it through our aid, and we also pay with blood as well as treasure, to defend the transmission infrastructure.
I think if this were a normal president, Coach, you would be totally correct. Unfortunately we have a usurper in the WH; and one that does not want to relinquish his "kingdom", "dictatorship", whatever we want to call it. I am afraid that captdax is correct and he will find a way to impose martial law on this country and suspend elections; while the shillings in congress sit back and continue to be useless.
Gary, you really need to get off the Kool Aid. It is very unhealthy and you'll follow the rest of the sheeple right over the cliff.