Last week, I got a lot of resistance from many of you, calling me a Debby Downer and worse for expressing my thoughts on this presidential election.  Sorry … I’ve always called ‘em as I saw ‘em, and this election beats them all.  I look at these pictures of typical Americans just beside themselves with idol-worshipping glee when meeting Obama and I just have to wonder what is wrong with these people. In what strange corner of American society do the people live who think that this guy has done a good job? 

Maybe things will look a bit more promising for simple concepts like freedom and self-reliance after the debate on Wednesday.  But right now you can’t go skipping down the sidewalk singing happy songs if you’re paying attention to the polls.   It’s not only the polls showing Obama ahead, by double digits in some cases.  There are other polls that are just implossible to logically comprehend.  How about the polls that show that people believe that Obama would do a better job of turning this economy around?  Are you kidding me?  The man has had four years to help our economy get back on its feet.  At the rate we are going, 2012 is shaping up to be the worst economic year in the history of America when we were not either in a recession or a depression.  All of the economic signs are pointing to another recession in 2013.  And these people still think that this man running the show is the best one to turn it around?  It’s Romney who is the turn-around artist, not Obama!   I just don’t get it.  And then we have polls which show that a vast majority of Americans want a change in November, yet in that same poll, Barack Obama is leading!  How do you make sense of this?

The trend of Obama’s dominance in the polls, especially on the economy, seems to have escalated in recent weeks.  I have yet to figure out why this is.  Right now I’m focusing on Romney’s 47% remark.  But I am asking you: What has changed?  Why does Obama suddenly appear to be an economic wizard, capable of turning this economy around?  What has happened politically or otherwise that has convinced people that this is the case? 

There was the Democrat convention, but Obama’s speech at that convention was widely panned by people, conservatives and liberals alike.  Michelle Obama gave a great speech … maybe people are willing to vote for Obama simply because they like his wife.  Yes .. American voters can be that mindless.  Bill Clinton’s speech was impressive to many, but we aren’t re-electing Bill Clinton, we are voting on Barack Obama.

Obama has been doing a lot of this “soft media.”  He has been doing shows like David Letterman, The View and local TV and radio station interviews.  You’ll recall that the only interview he gave on September 11^th --- now get this, folks --- the ONLY interview Obama gave on the anniversary of the Islamic attack on America, and on the day our Consulate in Benghazi was under attack and our Ambassador killed -- was to a Miami radio DJ ‘Pimp with the Limp.’  Does that sound like a serious presidency?  Maybe the strategy is really resonating with Americans, who get most of their news from Entertainment Tonight or People Magazine.

There was the terrorist attack on September 11^th.  You would think the killing of an ambassador and 3 other Americans, coupled with an apology from the consulate in Cairo and the subsequent misleading on the part of the Obama propagandists to blame the terrorist attack in Benghazi on a film would have been a big blow to the Obama regime.  But no.  Thanks to the ObamaMedia, the story became Mitt Romney’s “gaffe” in calling out the Obama State Department in Cairo.  Tracking the polls, his numbers explode right after September 11^th.

Once the brouhaha in the Middle East subsided from the ObamaMedia headlines, then they spent an entire week talking about Mitt Romney’s comment on the 47% of Americans who don’t pay any income taxes.  The ObamaMedia myrmidons did everything they could do paint Romney as an evil rich man who is cold, callous and would only be a president for rich Americans and not all Americans.  Brilliant.

Then the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York.  Now I’m not the greatest researcher in the world, but I can’t find news of one single time in the past 50 years when the President of the United States traveled to New York to make an address to the UN General Assembly and failed to meet with at least once foreign leader.  Not one time, that is, until this year.  Obama was just too busy.  With the Middle East in turmoil, and with Israel perhaps ready to attack Iran, Obama has no time for meetings.  He does, though, have time to appear on The View. 

Pimp with a Limp .. and The View.  Two interviews on two crucial days.  Is a pattern forming here?  No … it’s fully formed.  The American people just can’t see it. 

I guess, after going through all of that, I could see why Americans would be leaning toward Obama and we have the ObamaMedia to blame for much of that.  The other part of the blame lies in the Romney campaign and its lack of effectiveness.  But that still doesn’t explain why Americans suddenly believe that Obama would be better at handling the economy.  That point still baffles me.