Why Obama Is Losing The Trust of The American People

Rassmussen reports today that 54% of the American people say no health care reform at all would be better than passing the bill making its way through congress.  Yet, the Dems plan to “go it alone” on ObamaCare, without a shred of Republican support. That should surprise no one. What is rather surprising is the self- destructive way the Obama administration has been going about selling his plan.  Jana at Speak Dog Speak! listed some of the Obama tactics that are backfiring: name calling of fellow Americans who voice dissent, stacking town hall meetings with bused in supporters, White House spamming Americans with email propaganda, the snitch site, mobilizing SEIU and ACORN mobs, and I would add the administration’s corrupt  relationship with the drug lobby, the demonization of doctors, and his relentless repetition of demonstrable lies about ObamaCare, while claiming that the opposition needs a “realitycheck”. I think it’s safe to say the bloom is coming off the rose.

But with all due respect to Jana, I do think it’s a little premature to say that ObamaCare is going down in flames. The Dems still have solid majorities in congress and a very determined President who says he’s is willing to be a one termer in order to get this done. But his tactics are raising eyebrows, and causing some to question his psychological make-up:

When a President repeatedly makes assertions that are obviously false, he has created a problem for himself that, to us, looks nearly unrecoverable. Breaking trust with a vast number of the American people while looking stupid doing so is a formula for disaster. As the Washington Post has reported, President Obama won’t stop repeating the same falsehood over and over again. Obama says:

“I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren’t listening: If you like your health-care plan, you keep your health-care plan. Nobody is going to force you to leave your health-care plan”

Obama’s statement might be true for the nanosecond after Obamacare becomes law, but at its heart is obviously and deeply untrue.

Everybody knows that the public plan would force people from their private plans to the government run plan. Who is he trying to kid? What kind of person is comfortable with trying to deceive Americans on such an important topic?

It should speak volumes that Michelle Malkin was able to write a 400+ page book about the corruption in the Obama administration after only six months.

People are waking up to the fact that Obama is not the moderate, well intentioned, post partisan, post-racial Messiah he was billed to be,  and he has a somewhat limited bag of tricks.  As Andrew Breitbart told Judge Napalitano on the Glenn Beck Show, yesterday:

People are starting to realize that Barack Obama has two tricks…he’s mellifluous, he speaks well, and he uses the teleprompter, and on his behalf he has people that intimidate and community organize….that’s it – he has no other trick.

You have to be willfully blind at this point not to see it.