There is an Obama backlash surfacing across America as evidenced by the president’s sharp decline in approval rating and concern within his own party that he has brought “Chicago-style politics” to Washington DC.

In April of this year President Obama had a 62 percent approval rating; it has now dropped to 53 percent, the sharpest decline of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.  Contrast this to when Obama entered the White House with a soaring 78 percent approval rating.

The love affair is quickly fizzling as often happens with shooting stars.

Within his own party there is concern that his “Chicago-style politics” to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash.

POLITICO reported that Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania said “it’s a mistake.  I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.  The congressman was talking about the Obama administration efforts to undercut Fox News, but his remarks also applied to the White House efforts to marginalize the US Chamber of Commerce.

“There’s no reason to gratuitously piss off all those companies.” added another Democrat Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia.  “The Chamber isn’t an opponent.,”  Politico reported.

Obama’s actions are classic Chicago-style community organizing tactics where you target and attack your critics.  It evolved directly from the late Saul D. Alinsky and his book “Rules For Radicals” whose teachings Obama closely followed during his community organizing days in Chicago.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn defends the attack stating that the administration made “a fundamental decision that we needed to be more aggressive in both protecting our position and in delineating our differences with those who were attacking us.”

The administration has launched an all out attack on the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity who are commentators on shows that feature opinion programming.  However the White House does not make the distinction between opinion programming and News, which Fox News clearly does.

If these two incidents were the only examples of America’s disenchantment with Obama it might not be so drastic, but these are but the tip of the iceberg.

Obama wants big government and a government that is involved in every segment of the public sector.

Obama has already made inroads into the auto industry, the investment community, banks and controls executive salaries.  He wants government control of health care, the people clearly do not want that – but he isn’t listening.  He promised transparency – instead he advocates one-party health care reform discussions behind locked doors.  He promised no increase in taxes for the middle class because he was going to take from the wealthy.  Wealth re-distribution is on its way, but it looks like he will be taxing the middle class also, because there’s just not enough to go around.

Obama  has our children singing songs of his praise, artists developing totalitarian-like posters of himself with campaign slogans, he gets favorable mentions in Broadway shows, he wants government control of the internet and talk radio and of course the media.  In the interim he will neutralize and marginalize anything in his way, whether they are voices of criticism or actions that are not in line with his policies.

Divide and conquer is a strategy used by community organizers, the only real job Obama ever had before becoming President, the very strategy he used to marginalize the US Chamber.  He invited Chamber members to the White House for one on one spin meetings to infiltrate from within; some companies actually dropped their Chamber membership.

Obama is now hovering at an approval rating of 53 percent, which is just above the level that would make re-election at this time an uphill struggle.

Breaking up isn’t so hard to do when the love affair is over.