THE MOUTH THAT ONCE ROARED - AT 10:325 A.M. ET:  There was a time, and it wasn't long ago, that Barack Obama's rhetoric could move the masses.  Apparently, no more.  Even after the most publicized, and broadcast, Obama speech in recent memory, the president's numbers have not improved at all.  From Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).

These results are collected from nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Today’s update is the first based entirely upon interviews conducted after the President’s Tuesday night speech on Afghanistan. The results are little changed from before the speech indicating that the President did not receive a bounce in the polls from his presentation.

COMMENT:  This is the first time I can recall when a president of the United States didn't receive at least some bounce from a war speech.  Are Americans tired of Obama?  On to him?  Finally aware that he's an inexperienced egotist?  All of the above?

If a president can't rally America behind a war policy, what's left for him?  This president is in trouble.

December 5, 2009