It's hard to turn on a national news program and not see a story that President Obama's poll numbers have jumped on both the overall question of "how's he doing" and "how's the Afghan War going." The reporters talking about this and the editors approving the pieces are imbeciles who have no functional sense of history.
Turn on the Wayback Machine, Sherman, and set the dial to 1991. Coalition forces, acting by authority granted by the UN Security Council, had thrown the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait. The loss of life of the Coalition's troops was very low. President George H. W. Bush had an overall approval rating of 91%. The following year, in a three-way contest, he would lose his bid to be re-elected.
What the President's poll numbers are now, following the killing of Osama bin Laden, are meaningless. So are the reporters jawing on the air about them.
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One big difference for Obama is that the Great Sucking Sound for him is the entire Republican candidate lineup.
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