Where did this come from???????

Oh my word!
Honestly I had stopped posting for quite a while because I thought no one was listening to me, but a recent event makes me think maybe I have to respond.

I was Listening to what Obama had to say during his acceptance speech of the Nobel peace prize.
Now in anticipation of his speech (the day before) I thought, if I was him I would turn it down with a statement about how the Men and Women of our armed forces deserved the prize so much more! Well boy howdy was I surprised when Obama almost met me halfway there!

In his speech, which I had heard someone say he allegedly wrote himself, he actually PRAISED the American military and stated that for the past 60 years they defended and preserved peace and democracy in this world.
I thought I can NOT have heard that right, but sure enough Obama praised the military! in fact a lot of what he had to say was... well... good! the man actually sounded for a little while like a president!

He made declarations that made me believe he was an American instead of a toady for some foreign group or cabal, I wondered where exactly he grew the... um... Huevos to make such a speech.
I wondered if maybe he found them in a desk drawer left over from T. Roosevelt, R. Reagan or what. Apparently even CBS thought it was out of character trying to claim he was channeling George Bush.

But upon reflection I thought of something else too. shortly before he went to receive his award, a poll came out (from a liberal pollster group of all places) that declared "his [was] the worst presidency, by poll, in the history of the United States".

Apparently NO president in History has ever had such a huge drop in approval rating from the public for a first term, first year presidency... in plain english... people voted him in office and thought oops! more so than ANYONE EVER before.
Even Carter didn't get such a bad response.
(And remember Carter was a one term wonder who, by the time he left, was universally hated by the military and single handedly drove the American voters to vote overwhelmingly republican for the next 16 years.)

No president has ever had such a drop in how people feel about him ever before... and I cannot help but wonder if the speech he gave wasn't an attempt to regain some seriously lost ground.
Also in the mix he recently "HAD" to increase the troop deployments to Afghanistan by 30,000... so maybe he was trying to "defend" that choice.
well one thing I did notice is the lack of applause that greeted his speech and I thought better of him that he faced that.
When someone is voted into office purely because of his Charisma, as Obama was, it is nice to see him do something that is unpopular and follow it through, even if it is only in the short term.

To be honest I feel for those who are in that office, Really I do! doesn't matter who they are. Being the leader of America is not easy. But that is something that ANY (all?) candidates need to be ready for.
I am afraid that with this president we may have someone who was not, and even IS not ready to be in office. But, as I heard someone declare last November, I finally see a glimmer of hope. Maybe we can make it through this yet.