Obama is in big trouble

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Obama is starting to get into Bush territory.

The McClatchy-Marist poll finds the president's job approval rating at 39 percent among registered voters, while 52 percent disapprove. His grades are lower among independents: 32 percent approve and 57 percent disapprove.
RealClearPolitics - President Obama Hits New Low in National Poll

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From the same poll:

The biggest gain came for Palin, the former Alaska governor who hasn't yet announced whether she'll jump into the fast-changing race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

After trailing Obama by more than 20 percentage points in polls all year, the new national survey, taken Sept. 13-14, found Palin trailing the president by just 5 points, 49-44 percent. The key reason: She now leads Obama among independents, a sharp turnaround.

Read more: Poll finds Obama losing ground to Republicans - Political Currents - MiamiHerald.com

[SloopJonB]

Originally Posted by BentSailor

As I said, I don't believe the line "if you have nothing to hide, you'll talk to us" to be reasonable. I don't need to believe myself guilty of crime to believe that people might try to convict me of *something* in a politically charged environment.

Honestly, if I were to be called up in front of a bunch of politicians knowing that some will spin anything they can into an indictment for the purposes of smearing the current political leader - I'd refuse to answer questions to and I'm not guilty of anything but spending too much time in the office instead of out on the water.

Both I & the Supreme Court do not believe the Fifth Amendment requires guilt to be invoked. Call it a difference of opinion, but I at least have the opinion of Constitutional Judges agreeing with me

I was thinking in terms of a courtroom environment, not a political Star Chamber - there I'd take the 5th if they asked me my NAME.