CNN Poll - Most People Who Disapprove Of Obama Say He Is "Too Liberal" [View All]

[TomCADem]

I know that some DUers have been gleefully citing polls regarding 2012 Presidential match-ups to argue that President Obama should be challenged from the left in the primaries for 2012. Likewise, there is this narrative being pushed on this Board that President Obama is a closet Republican.

My personal opinion is that the corporate media has been manipulating the left AND right. The corporate media repeatedly emphasizes stories of attacks from the left AND right on Obama, which is why we can have some liberals swearing the President Obama is a closet Republican while right wingers swear that he is a foreign national who occupies the same position on the idealogical spectrum as Hugo Chavez.

The only way the left gets any media coverage is if they attack the President from the left, thus they have been trained by the corporate media to attack the President Obama and the Democrats, while giving Republicans a free pass. Remember Jane Hamscher on Fox News with Grover Norquist? The ticket to coverage is to attack Democrats!

This is why on this board, even though the Republicans are the ones who voted against the latest effort to repeal DADT, most of the posts attack President Obama and Demcratic leaders. Likewise, even though all Republicans voted against Democratic efforts to let the high end Bush tax cuts expires, most of the posts give Republicans a free pass and attack President Obama for his compromise.

Conversely, even though the Republican backed tax deal blows a hole in the deficit, the corporate media makes no mention of Tea Parties who were motivated by deficit concerns (remember Glenn Beck weeping about the deficit) being upset at the deal. Republicans get a free pass from their deficit obsessed fanatics!

In short, the left has been trained by the corporate media to attack our own while the tea party right (and the left) has been trained to give Republicans a free pass.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/11/15/rel16a.pdf

(1) Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?
(2) (IF DISAPPROVE) Do you disapprove because you think his policies and actions since he became president have been too liberal, or because you think his policies and actions have not been liberal enough?

Approve: 48%
Disapprove, too liberal: 38%
Disapprove, not liberal enough: 9%
Disapprove, unsure: 3%

Moreover, according to this poll, more people are now saying that Democrats are too liberal, then people are saying that Republicans are too conservative:

9. In general, do you think the political views of the Democratic party are too conservative, too liberal,
or about right?

Too conservative 10%
Too liberal 49%
About right 39%
No opinion 2

10. In general, do you think the political views of the Republican party are too conservative, too liberal,
or about right?

Too conservative 37%
Too liberal 17%
About right 43%
No opinion 4