Formatia trans sicere educatorum

Anyone who saw Joe Biden’s acceptance speech after being nominated as the Democratic party choice for Vice President of the United States might have noticed an error or two in his speech. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t watch the Senator’s speech, but rather caught a few highlights from Foxnews and immediately turned off the TV and came here to write. Biden believes that Barack Obama will help bring back the people of America’s trust in our Federal government. This is the same Senator Biden who currently serves in the United States Senate with Senator Obama and the other majority Democrats with one of the lowest approval ratings for Congress in history. That’s right, Senator Obama is so good at bringing back the trust that has been misplaced by our Federal Government for the past-century I’d say-that he belongs to a Congress that has one of the lowest approval ratings ever.

A quick glance at pollingreport.com reveals that Congress’ highest approval ratings during Bush’s last term were in 05 when the routinely hit above 40%. However, since the week of April 12-15, when ABC/Washington Post reported the approval rating at 44%, Congress has failed to reach 40%. Since the week of April 25-May 1, Congress has managed to only reach an approval rating of at least 30% a few times (that week they reached 39%.) Since 2008 began Congress has only reached an approval rating of 30% once, reported once again by ABC/Washington  Post for the week of January 30-February 1.The most up-to-date poll by Diageo/Hotline RV show an approval rating of 16%.

When dividing the parties, we come to different numbers. The Harris Poll shows currently that only 22% of people polled believe the Democrats in Congress are doing a good job. Republicans received 21%  of people believing they have done a good job.

The President on the other hand currently has a 30% approval rating, for those who can’t do math that means he is 8% higher than Democrats in Congress, 9% higher than Republicans in Congress, and 24% higher than Congress in general. For a man who is routinely made out to be the bad guy, President Bush has managed to maintain at least a 20% approval rating in 2008. In 2007 Bush failed to have at least a 29% approval rating only five times, the lowest not even dipping beneath 25%.

The Supreme Court has the highest approval rating to date at 39% of Americans who approve of their job. This was taken by the Quinnipiac University Poll for July 8-13. When asked by the same people for the same week if the Court was moving in the right direction, 33% of those polled answered yes. The Gallup Poll back on the week of June 9-12 asked how those polled viewed how the Court was handling it’s job, 48% of those polled said they approved.

It is hard to imagine that Mr. Biden really believes that Barack is the man who will bring trust back to the Federal government. If this were true then his own party wouldn’t have had threats of schism all the way up through the historic nomination of Mr. Obama earlier tonight. If Obama can’t even have assurance that his own party will stand unified behind him, why does Mr. Biden believe that this will be true for the whole nation? At this point I find it hard to imagine that any man, woman or child could possible regain the trust of the American people for a flawed Federal government. If the Federal government desires to regain our trust they must be willing to earn it, and it won’t come by electing a self proclaimed Messiah. Remember Mr. Biden, not even Jesus Christ had the support of most of the world until after he was executed for high treason.

After Senator Obama announced Senator Biden as his running mate, the masses did not flock to Obama as experts had predicted. In fact, Biden has actually caused Obama to lose ground in the early stages of this Presidential election. How could he or anyone claim that Obama is the Messiah we have been promised to help return the lost children of America to her bosom? Obama couldn’t even get a spike in the polls, which is traditional after a candidate has announced his running mate. It would appear that the hopes and dreams of the Democratic party rest in who Mr. McCain will choose as his running mate. Either way, Joe Biden must be drinking from the same pitcher of kool-aid as Jim Jones. I can only hope that there are those out there that will not fall into the trap, because certainly in this election year the Democrats have been full of crap at their Convention.