Political Class vs. Mainstream

 
 

from Rasmussen:

Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters say their views on illegal immigration are closer to those of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer than to the views of President Obama.

[Excluding what Rasmussen calls the "Political Class"]  72% of Mainstream voters say they think more like Brewer.

It's just another tidbit of evidence for Dorothy Rabinowitz's contention that

"A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class."

 

Better bundle up. Looking at today's weather, there's still a bit of a chill in the air at the House of Hussein, where today's temperature is a brisk  -17.

 

 

46% approve, 26% strongly so

53% disapprove, 43% strongly

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Dorothy Rabinowitz's superb column helps explain something about Obama that many observers have noted: The man, for all his ostensible rhetorical skills, is a cold fish -- aloof, remote, distant. That's one reason his visits to the Gulf area aren't gaining him any political traction. He voices sympathy and concern for the folks who are suffering, but it all sounds contrived and hokey. Warmth is a very difficult emotion to feign, but all Obama can do is feign it, because his heart simply isn't in it. This is plainly because, as Ms. Rabinowitz has suggested, he doesn't feel at home among ordinary Americans. I've always believed this was a big factor in Truman's 1948 victory over Dewey. Truman came across as a regular guy; Dewey came across, as the joke had it, like the "little man atop the wedding cake." Obama, too, has the stiffness and artificiality of a plastic figurine. And that's because, as Ms. Rabinowitz said, his identification lies not with the American people but "elsewhere." Elsewhereness is deadly for polticians. It ruined Tom Dewey's career; it will ruin Obama's.