ARE VOTERS TURNING ON OBAMA? – AT 10:18 A.M. ET:   We hope so, but ultimately it's the economy that will decide.  However, I cannot imagine that the American people will accept the catastrophe that is Obama's foreign policy.  From Andrew Malcolm at IBD: 

On Wednesday, President Obama sent a draft authorization for use of military power against ISIS. But already Americans say such a half-hearted assault on terrorists is not good enough.

As a political symbol (and to spread the blame when something goes wrong), Obama has asked Congress for authority to do what he's already been doing since September -- bomb ISIS as part of an international coalition and train and arm Kurds, Iraqis and Syrians.

This is authority the Nobel Peace Prize winner did not seek before attacking Libya in 2011, a successful war that also succeeded in turning that country into a lawless land of terrorist groups and marauding militias who killed four Americans in Benghazi.

But in a brief Wednesday afternoon statement on his authorization request, Obama ended up saying as much about what he does not want to do.

"The resolution we’ve submitted today does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Iraq or Syria," Obama maintained. "It is not the authorization of another ground war, like Afghanistan or Iraq."

However, a new Rasmussen Reports poll also out Wednesday reveals for the first time that a majority of Americans are now sufficiently concerned about ISIS's barbarism and terrorist threat that it supports the use of ground combat troops again in Iraq as part of an international effort.

The poll of 800 likely voters found that 52% want to do more than Obama, 28% do not and 20% don't know.

The numbers show steady growth in support of ground troop deployment since September when 48% liked that idea and 36% were opposed. A key element in that support is involvement of other countries, especially Muslim ones.

COMMENT:  Of course we should be very careful about committing ground troops, especially under the command of a president who has no concept of victory, who won't even use the term.  Still, our position in the Mideast is deteriorating rapidly, and the forces that are rising represent a direct threat to the security of the United States.

February 12, 2015