The city of Milpitas unintentionally made a symbolic and appropriate gesture to former President Obama the other day.



The Milpitas City Council voted Tuesday night to honor the 44th U.S. President and rename a major roadway Barack Obama Boulevard.

...But when the road heads west, it passes over Interstate 880 and leads to the Newby Island Landfill, a recycling and composting plant that's consider the source of the city's notorious odors. Bay Area motorists often get wafts of the stink zipping by the Dixon Landing exit on the freeway, and Milpitas residents have complained about the stink for decades. "Hundreds of thousands of drivers that take Interstate 880 south will pass Dixon Landing and hundreds of thousands of people are aware that this is a place with an awful odor," says Tran. "It is going to be one of the biggest embarrassments in the nation to rename this freeway exit Barack Obama Boulevard. Republicans will have a field day."

Milpitas' gesture to our former president was entirely fitting for what he deserves.

The problem is that Democrats have gone nuts about Obama in the same way Republicans went nuts about Reagan. Both of them were below average presidents, who's primary accomplishments were net negatives for the country, but are practically worshiped by their partisan fans.



In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, a whopping 78 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were satisfied that Obama’s presidency did as much as was possible at the time in addressing the issues facing the country. That’s compared with 20 percent who said they were NOT satisfied, because more should have been done. Even among self-described liberal Democrats in the poll, the numbers are essentially the same — 79 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied. What’s more, Obama’s fav/unfav rating among all Democratic primary voters in the poll is 90 percent positive, 4 percent negative.

That's insane when you recall that the Democrats got annihilated under Obama. He left the party absolutely gutted at every level. No Republican could have done more damage to the Democrats than what Obama did.

Dem voters are looking back fondly on a presidency that didn't exist.

Want proof? Check this out.



Trump's approval rating on Wednesday was 44.3 percent, according to a Real Clear Politics average of more than a half-dozen major polls. That is higher than Obama's average approval rating of 43.9 percent on September 18, 2011, by the same measure. The 45th president's average approval rating surpassed that of his predecessor on Monday and stayed on top for the next two days. Trump's average approval rating on Monday was 44.1 percent compared to Obama's 43.9 percent on September 16, 2011, and 44 percent on Tuesday compared to Obama's 43.8 percent on September 17, 2011.

Yes, Trump is more popular than Obama was at this point in his presidency.

That's reality.

And we all know just how unpopular Trump is.

So it's safe to say that Democrats need an intervention.