Another day, another poll to tell us what we already know: The American public is growing more tired of President Barack Obama by the day.
The latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll released Tuesday found that only 40 percent of people approved of the job Obama is doing. This is the lowest the president has seen since taking office and is one percentage point down from last month’s rating in the same poll.
Apparently traveling the country on the taxpayer dime, taking lavish golf trips, and using executive orders to fulfill your agenda without regard for the public’s elected representatives in Congress don’t increase your popularity.
His foreign policy ratings fares even worse and a quick look at world news makes it easy to see why.
A whopping 66 percent of people disapprove of Obama’s job on foreign policy, the president’s worst rating ever on the topic, the Wall Street Journal reported. Only 36 percent approve of Obama’s handling of foreign policy.
An Associated Press poll taken in late July placed his approval rating in a similar range. About 40 percent of people approved of the president’s job on foreign policy.
The American people have had enough, but it’s unlikely that Obama’s ever-falling ratings will change anything soon on the foreign policy front. The president jets off Saturday for a 16-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard and the agenda is light between now and then.
