Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Once more with feeling…
Riddle me this: what planet is MSRNC’s Domenico Montanaro living on?
While the political world continues to focus on the Blagojevich scandal, which at this point has been only a headache for the incoming Obama administration (although he’ll probably get a question — or two or three — about it at today’s press conference), it’s important not to overlook this fact: Obama is enjoying a bigger honeymoon than his recent predecessors ever did. Just consider these numbers in the latest NBC/WSJ poll: 67% say they’re pleased with Obama’s early appointments, 75% believe that the level of his involvement in making policy has been exactly right, and his fav/unfav rating is 67%-16%. By comparison, a month after their initial presidential victories, Bush’s rating was 48%-35% and Clinton’s was 60%-19%.
Whatever “honeymoon” Obama is receiving from the public, it doesn’t matter in the rough-and-tumble world of Beltway politics. The ones who do matter — the press and the Loyal Opposition™ — are giving him exactly the same “honeymoon” that they gave Clinton — NONE.
Idiots.
