Said powerful message is conveniently supplied for you. All you have to do is sign your name – which 9,000 Obama-zombies dutifully did in the first hour.

Stop and think about this for a minute. Sarah Palin is a private citizen. She is, of course  the former governor of Alaska, and the 2008 Republican nominee for vice-president, but she currently holds no elected office. She’s not currently a candidate for any elected office.

But Team Obama thinks that the most important project of the week (they only send out one action call a week from Change.org) is to try to get her fired from the Discovery Channel.

Three comments:

A) this is outrageous conduct by a sitting president

B) Obama’s vendetta against Palin is petty, personal, and unbecoming

C) the shrill charges that Palin wanted to wipe out beluga whales and polar bears are just plain silly.

The bottom line message from all of this of course is, Obama is really, REALLY, scared of Sarah Palin.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tcahn7PwQU

Glen Beck has a dis-dis-information Czar.

Hilarity ensues.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HgDfNsH3M

Watch for this special moment.

It comes at 1:02 into the 1:24 clip below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FKQvR0JTUc

bumper sticker from the Tennessee Republican Party

What seems to be lacking amongst the main-stream media’s love fest is a little historical perspective.

Obama remains, at this point, neither the messiah nor the devil. The best adjectives to describe him are untested, little known, unproven. We will not really be able to discern the arc of his presidency for some time yet.

Sort of like the Greek proverb, “Call no man happy until he is dead.”

To supply some historical context, I offer the following bit of data:

Presidential approval ratings, ~30 days into office
(Johnson & Ford omitted for obvious reasons)

Barack Obama                   2/21/2009   59%
George Bush (43)             2/21/2001   61%
Bill Clinton                         2/14/1993   51%
George Bush (41)             2/27/1989   60%
Ronald Reagan                  2/16/1981   55%
Jimmy Carter                     2/15/1977   71%
Richard Nixon                    2/25/1969   59%
John Kennedy                   2/15/1961   72%
Eisenhower                        2/26/1953   66%

Source: The American Presidency Project, UC-Santa Barbara
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php

In God we trust.

All others, bring data!