OBAMA AND THE FALSE, "LIKABILITY," FACTOR

Everyday I have listened to commentator after commentator, pundit after pundit and yes even members of the GOP running for office talk about the Obama, "likability," factor. Stating polls that show Obama's job approval ratings low but those same polls ask the question about whether they, "like," him or not the polling suggests that most like him.  To this I say hogwash.

Does anyone like someone who breaks into their house and takes their personal belongings?  Yet Obama by his failed fiscal policy has taken money out of the pocket books of the majority of Americans and cost MILLIONS of Americans their jobs.  How many people do you know that like a boss that fires them yet polls suggest that the person who has cost millions of Americans their jobs still , "like," the guy.  I don't think so.

Many GOP politicians state that Obama's a, "nice guy," but just has the wrong ideas and policy for America. Again I say hogwash..  A, "nice guy," doesn't use political ads to try and claim his opponent is a crook, a murderer or tax cheat knowing that all of the accusations have no merit nor any evidence what so ever. A nice guy doesn't stand before a crowd of people and claim, again without merit, that a political opponent seeks to pollute the water and the air, kill someones grandma and starve the poor and all children. Yet Obama, "the nice guy," has done and continues to do all of the above on a daily basis.

I believe there are two factors that create this illusion that Americans, "like," Obama although his actions have  hurt most Americans. First one has to take into account the polling and the skewing of the sampling of that poll. Most polling leans left at a rate of about + 6 or 7 Democrat. As Obama's approval numbers have continued to tank that number has increased to + 12 - 14 in most polling. Which explains why he would be, "liked," in a poll and also why his numbers in the swing states and nationally have remained either tied, a couple of points ahead or behind Mitt Romney when a vast majority of the country states that we are going in the wrong direction under an Obama administration.

The second factor I believe has to do with a fear that many who are polled do not want to be thought as racists by saying they don't like Obama.  I grew up in the sixties and remember the terrible race riots and ridiculous laws as well as stupid restrictions based on the color of ones skin. We as a Nation came along way from that until race once again became a factor in almost everything after Obama was elected. Now one can't disagree with the President without being accused of racism and I believe people fear being thought of as racists if the state they don't like Obama not because of his race but because of his policy and what he has done since taking office.  I could care less about the color of his skin, I don't like what he has done to my country and I don't like him as a person and would say the same if he were white, green, yellow or blue!

Obama is NOT a nice person and I am tired of hearing people say this because of fear of being thought racists. Never did anyone say when disagreeing with George Bush that he may be a nice guy but.....  Never do I remember a poll that stated that Bush's approval rating was low but people still liked him.  Obama should not be treated any different. If one does not like him then regardless of his race one should feel free to state they don't like him without fear of being labeled a racist.

Unfortunately Obama and many on the left have made race a deciding factor about everything and taken race relations back almost 60 years.  As such voters are afraid to say they don't like Obama and politicians who should be going after him with every fiber of their being are trying to be nice and as such neglecting the hard hitting politics that are needed to tell the truth about Obama's failed Presidency and his destruction of our country.

It's time to play hard ball. It's time to call them like we see them. Obama IS A FAILURE.  Obama is destroying our country and sees it as his destiny to reduce American strength, make America, "fair," by reshaping who we are as a country. Eliminating individualism and favoring a collective where the bondage of slavery to an all powerful government rules the lives of every American regardless of race, color or creed.  That is the America Obama is seeking and that is the person who is in The White House. My friends someone willing to do that IS NOT likable or a nice guy.

Ken Taylor