Stand Your Ground and Obama Losing Ground

Stand Your Ground

The Patriot Post is always an informative and inspirational read.  Today’s Wednesday Chronicle has a revelation via the Wall Street Journal about  Obama’s  duplicity regarding the issue of stand your ground legislation.  It seems he was for it before he was against it.

Illinois Review, a conservative blog, recently unearthed Illinois Senate records showing that then-state Senator Obama voted for and even co-sponsored a 2004 bill that expanded the protection of the state’s 1961 stand-your-ground law to include immunity from civil liability for people who use deadly force to defend themselves or their property. The bill wasn’t controversial in the liberal legislature, passing the Senate without dissent and the state House with only two nays before then-Governor Rod Blagojevich, also a Democrat, signed it. …

The absurdity of Eric Holder implying that stand your ground laws contribute to violence is well made in this PJ Media article by Andrew Klavan :

Eric Holder’s Proposed New Law: ‘Lie Down And Die’

Re: Obama saying . . .”If I had a son . . . he would look like Travon”  Now we get it.

Obama Losing ground

From today’s End of Day Report by Gary L. Bauer at Campaign for Working Families;

More Bad News For Obama

This afternoon President Obama delivered yet another major address on the economy. According to one top White House advisor, today’s speech was just the beginning of “a series of speeches” Obama will deliver over the next few weeks.

Why now? Some reports indicate that the White House is hoping it can frame the agenda for upcoming budget fights. Congress is getting ready to head out of town for its August recess. And with top congressional leaders gone, Obama can dominate the headlines. But based on the latest polling data, it appears as if Obama is really in damage control mode.

Yesterday, we reported the latest Marist poll that found Obama’s approval rating at a post-reelection low — a dismal 41%, and another poll that found many Democrats have turned against Obamacare. The news isn’t any better today. For example:

•    According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, only 29% of Americans think the country is headed in the right direction.
•    While Mr. Obama is trying to take credit for an improving economy, Americans aren’t buying it. Just 31% believe the economy is likely to improve next year.
•    Only 34% said they believed Obamacare is a good idea. Anyone who thinks Obamacare is a good idea should talk to part-time workers in Florida, Nebraska, Ohio and communities across the country where hours and paychecks are getting slashed thanks to the new law.
•    Asked whether they wanted Obama or Congress to take the lead in setting policy for the country, 38% said Obama, while 48% said Congress. That’s an interesting finding because the liberal media constantly tries to inflate Obama’s standing by noting that he’s so much more popular than Congress. Yet the American people would still prefer Congress set the agenda rather than Obama!

In other news, Obama’s program to aid struggling homeowners is a failure. According to a new report, nearly half of the mortgages modified under Obama’s 2009 program are in default again. And taxpayers are still losing billions on Obama’s bailout of “Government Motors.”

Instead of just talking, maybe Mr. Obama should sit down and read a few economics textbooks!

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