Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 8 / BHO approval at 48.7

AS I WRITE, that's the number at Real Clear Politics.

DECEMBER 7 / More whoppers from Chronicle editorial writers

THESE assertions from an editorial in Sunday's Chronicle are exaggerations and untruths:

DECEMBER 2 / On President Obama on the Berlin Wall

. . . President Obama delivered a speech via [read by] video link so milky bland, so smothered in boilerplate, that he might have been speaking almost anywhere, about anything. . . .

NOVEMBER 27 / It was bound to happen

PRESIDENT OBAMA's job approval rating on Real Clear Politics -- which averages the results of Gallup, Rasmussen, and other major polls -- dropped below 50 percent.

NOVEMBER 20 / Record low BHO job approval

ON OCTOBER 3, President Obama posted a record low job approval at Real Clear Politics -- 50.6 percent. As I write, he's just matched it. And Gallup has him at an all-time low of 49 percent.

NOVEMBER 19 / Will Hugo Chavez go to war?

THE CLASSIC endgame for totalitarians who have wrecked their own countries is to go to war with a neighbor, conveniently scapegoated for the ruin at home. Saddam Hussein did it in Kuwait. Will Hugo Chavez follow the same playbook?

NOVEMBER 13 / Does BHO have faith in basic goodness of our system?

SO ASKS Michael Barone in "History is Calling -- Will Obama Answer?" Washington Examiner, November 11, 2009. The piece is most valuable for this idea:

NOVEMBER 6 / Major Nidal Malik Hasan is . . .

. . . a barbarian. The thing he attacked is . . .

NOVEMBER 6 / Baker deconstructs the Wall

[THE FALL of the Berlin Wall] could not have happened without Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, who disregarded their hawkish advisers . . .

NOVEMBER 5 / Turn down the lights, the party's . . .

. . . almost over.

The spread between President Obama's approvals and disapprovals at Real Clear Politics is now 6.8, a new low. And it's going to get worse, because . . .