Overkill. Like eating a bowl of frosting or nursing a bad hangover the morning after, there is such at thing as too much of a good thing. Barack Obama seems to have discovered that.
His much ballyhooed world tour, with the U.S. press fawning all over him in rapt adoration, seems to have bombed with John Q. Public. Rather than a humble listening tour, as billed, Obama has thrust himself out in front, like a rock star. For many Americans, it is unseemly to see a pretender doing what only the actual U.S. President should do.
Obama isn't president yet, and may have presumed too much. A funny thing happened on the way to the White House . . .
The newest polls show that Americans are most concerned about gas prices at the pump. They view the surge as having worked, and Iraq as no longer America's biggest problem. Obama has joined his fellow leftist-fringe Democrats in being on the wrong side of the oil drilling question. John McCain is having a mini=surge in the latest polls.
As President Bush showed by lifting the presidential executive order to ban offshore oil drilling in U.S. waters, it is the prospect of increased supplies, not the actual oil online, that lower prices. Oil is down some $27 a barrel from its spring high, since Bush's order.
Obama and the Democrats oppose all drilling and supply enhancement. They only support so-called "alternative energy" and are no-so-secretly glad oil prices are high to cut consumption. This is not what the public wants to hear.
The Demorcratic leadership in Congress will not allow bills to allow offshore or arctic oil drilling to come to the floor. They know they'd lose enough Democratic votes to pass them. Today Republicans stalled the Demo's phony "speculator" bill in the Senate, so now Democrats have to fish or cut bait.
Obama has been out of the country, and missed the shift of public sentiment from Iraq to oil prices. He could be in trouble.
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