One botched crisis can make a huge difference in the public's view of a president. This week, President Obama is juggling two acute crises, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a terrorism plot in Times Square. Whether the country approves of his actions could color the rest of his term.

The Bush presidency, for example, never fully recovered after Hurricane Katrina. Jimmy Carter's poll numbers -- and his presidency -- hit a turning point during the Iran hostage crisis. Carter's approval ratings flopped permanently, but not immediately. Andrew Kohut from the Pew Research Center says the response to Carter's reaction was a very positive one at first.

"His approval ratings soared," Kohut says, "from a 30 percent level to a 55, 60 percent level. It was one of the biggest jumps we'd ever seen."

Kohut says the moral to the story is this: "The public is always willing to give the president credit for trying, especially in the initial time period when an acute problem occurs."

But the instinct to support the president doesn't last forever. Patience runs thin, and results matter. How do Americans make a collective decision about whether a president has succeeded or failed in a crisis?

Success Can't Be Spun

Among almost a dozen experts, from Republicans to Democrats, pollsters and spin doctors, each person gave the same answer.

"No amount of spin can overcome poor performance," Republican consultant Mark Corallo says.

"Bad behavior, I don't think, can actually be saved by good messaging," Democratic crisis consultant Lorena Chambers agrees.

Crisis consultant Lanny Davis, who worked in the Clinton White House, called it a "dog bites man" story that people in politics too often ignore. If you want to appear successful, he says, then you need to actually succeed.

"The misconception is that the message is the solution," he says. "And it's not only a misconception; it's a trap that crisis managers as well as people in the White House can easily fall into. You lose sight over what the American people are looking for: solutions."

Obama's Response Goes Beyond Crisis

Despite the professional consensus that results are more important than images, people inside the Obama administration are not taking any chances with their messaging"

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Chavez firing the groups, then annexing the product of their efforts that developed "one of the biggest reserves of oil in the world, thermal-electrical and hydroelectric sources" he then repopulated what should have been a slam-dunk asset; repopulated it with his brand of romanticized, emotionally charged "Booyah!" South American Style it-is-all-someone-else's-fault "I can still smell the sulfur" Socialism that while containing sunshine, red bandannas and many feel good components lacks - the level of operational expertise required to further what remains a capital venture - Venezuela is experiencing the downsides of a management crisis

Failures in management contribute mightily to economic crisis

using population/people to determine their true retail exchange and demographic - that is if they care to that extent. And I am sure that's how their bidness remains up essentially every year. By having taxpayers pay their way in (writing off construction/start-up expenses, securing favorable or no regional tax status that will remain a detriment to locals for decades), during (low wage pushing people into taxpayer based food, health and social services), locking the graveyard shift doors, etc (graveyard...maybe that is the business model), and back out the door writing it all off and leaving a huge-ass eye sore of an empty building that no one will be able to fill for years if ever

WalMart's capitalism really is a scourge in spite of the low price shampoo they're able to offer. WalMart is a pusher, WalMart has no per se brand. And to the extent that they do, it seems reason enough to assert *that* they do

True Value is positioning themselves to start-up their own line of flower & veggie seed. Now will they be scrubbing and culling their own seed having gone to seed? No. But I know people able to certify heirloom & organic in the millions of packs. Does WalMart care to make just the right phone call for their customers? I'm seldom left with that impression. And as dynamic as it is out there with CVS buying Long's, Walgreen's opening up across the streets from Rite Aids, etc, even they brand their own items Walgreen brand cough syrup, CVS brand daily multiples, Rite Aid bottled water oh shit!

Now there is a concept..."Prof. Uncle Sam Walton's Recycled City Water In A Bottle From Your Streets To You With Ginuwine French Bubbles!"

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"...or poking your finger on his (or her) chest" they may well be wrong but they're able to consider that entry levels of not just assault; but battery upon an officer of the court - in fact people want to see oppression? Then start poking a female officer in the chest or push her on *her* ass...yeah, that would do it in the town I live in - though again, you can argue it all day long but that is an option they have access to likely especially in a tenuous crowd control environ involving people waving their arms about "skipping" up to cops on the backs of horses

For that matter, its against the law to sidle into a traveling military convoy on the freeway or public road unless you're authorized to do so, and not just to make a point. I think the "skipping" can be seen as an effort to lend brevity to a situation that others found less so. And some of them were on horseback with batons. You don't toss squeaky chew toys at K-9 units either no matter how cute the squeak is and for what?

For what will eventually be Americans and their inalienable rights to American Corporate Sports? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GRwgIKVN8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjT71N4PGM

And walk out the door - who needs judges?

Of Pres. Barack Obama’s mental landscape insofar as the decades on-going US-Russian START accord is concerned that has produced the updated, recently negotiated and signed before the world’s view, in Prague, along with Russian Pres. Dimitri Medvedev – a daunting too often thankless task fashioned to enhance levels of balanced approach to matters involving a class of weaponry already well-able to disrupt & destroy the world on a Biblical scale several times over; while reducing what are understood as rogue elements with their attending plans for conventional, nuclear, pathogen based hopes and weaponry, etc, seeking disadvantage upon a world itself seeking stability and not the disruption of it

McLaughlin has done so from within what has become the morphing monster of a RW/hate-based propaganda machine of the GO-Tea Bagger Party; by asking point-blank coast-to-coast and round the world:

”We’re talking about the psychology of Barack Obama – does anyone on this set feel, that given the, uh, attack by a nuclear power on The United States with the bomb (certainly presumably ‘the bomb’) that Barack Obama is psychologically deficient in being able to say ‘I will nuke that nation’”

Asked from within not a sense of loyal but pridefully ignorant, divergent opposition to very fluid pliable stipulations addressed by Robert Gates; an ignoble republican opposition that remains consistent with any such misread by republicanism’s head long fall/flapping instead into the face of republican political obscurity

McLaughlin - doddering old Jesuit supremacist - does so in front of no-less than: Pat Buchanan, who has already passed prelim up & down hand-through-air chopping dismissal of Obama’s every other intention that *now* includes this one – and their White Queen Monica Crowley the ultimately condescending, smirking, thinly decorous, honey coiffed cat when not spitting along side Michelle Malkin shrieking their anti-American diatribes into the cameras of FOXnews – a Monica Crowley poor Monica that has now developed her very own ‘up & down hand-through-air chopping’ nervous tick

Aside for a moment that McLaughlin, Buchanan, Crowley and every other large or small ‘r’ republican up & down the rank & file line are, as it turns out, unable to digest even the words of their own both sainted *&* doddering Ronald Reagan on the matter:

"For the eight years I was president, I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind."

They do so by casting psychiatric aspersion upon a sitting POTUS – Barack Obama - the way they would otherwise reserve and do so where North Korea, Iran, the Taliban, etc, or some nefarious faceless amalgam of terrorist forces so-arrayed that republicans aid & abet with comforts instead

McLaughlin – receding old republican hack – may actually think he is doing so because that’s where ‘the ratings game’ is as with the case for Limbaugh, Coulter, Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly and many others and so he rises the vintage barnyard banty rooster to cash Obama out, a sitting Dem POTUS, for the twinkle the likes of spunky Michelle’ Backmann & Malkin, the Sarah Palin' of the world, the honey coiffed comely of a Monica Crowley who sits and enjoys McLaughlin’s googley eyed fawning at his stage-right hand, but, you know, either way he does so, they do so, untethered they all do so to the even greater peril & disruption of America as a nation.

Pleased, the matter of McLaughlin's media flirtation he concludes, after the general disintegration of a discussion on the issue of a US-Russian START accord he has framed as such himself amid finger pointing, shouting, hand-chopping disrespect (as is the RW’s way), but only after Mort Zuckerman states firstly that he believes Obama to not be found so deficient: “Alright, I think we all agree, except for Eleanor, who’s declining to answer” which of course she did not = The McLaughlin Group

A Most Grave Matter Indeed ~

Impugning the psychological stability of a sitting POTUS insofar as the development, deployment, verification, non-proliferation and handling of nuclear weaponry & materials in a dangerous nuclear triggered world plays as if some of the very most weak-gripped, loose-minded talk an American could ever expect to hear from a domestic enemy

The trajectory of frenetic republicanism is clear enough: that at the end of the RW's wantonly misrepresented stylings - republicans have proven, hopefully for the last time, that they have nothing to offer but feeble errant "No!" and disruption in their course of suggesting even Def Sec, Robert Gates to be a somehow tangentially duplicitous character unable to weigh properly cost, cause or effect while ultimately admitting that republicans never paid a single scrap of attention to their own bought and paid for corporate mouthpiece: Ronald Reagan



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