Scandals Finally Eating Into Obama's Popularity: Millennials with a 17% About Face; It's the NSA Snooping Stupid

Well it seems that the triple scandals and the leaker admitting that the NSA is snooping everyone's phone calls and emails are finally damaging the Obama brand.

Public views of Mr. Obama’s personal qualities have also taken a hit: The latest CNN/ORC International survey, released Monday, shows that, for the first time in his presidency, half the public does not believe Obama is honest and trustworthy. All of the above cuts into Obama’s “political capital,” that elusive commodity that fuels a president's second-term mojo.

One group that is really turning on Obama are the young.

But perhaps most concerning for the president are the numbers among young adults.

“The drop in Obama's support is fueled by a dramatic 17-point decline over the past month among people under 30, who, along with black Americans, had been the most loyal part of the Obama coalition," CNN polling director Keating Holland said in the cable network’s report.

I don't think any of this is only because of the scandals and its more because of the NSA snooping allegations. Obama is continuing something that hated Bush put in place is taking their toll as well. In other words their savior-man Obama is no better then devil-Bush. 

Also the idea that some creepy dude with a rat face (ie NSA Director James Clapper) is reading their text messages, snooping their Gmail, and listening to their phone calls probably doesn't sit well with millennials at all. I mean this guy just looks like a dastardly spy sent right from central casting.

In fact this is the guy who has the potential to read all of a given millennials sexting, has every naked picture she sent to her boyfriend when she was studying abroad in Madrid, and has all of her text traffic with her pot dealer (who was born in Pakistan) in a folder titled "Debbie Pinkowski (24, Kissimee, FL) potential actionable Intel" somewhere on an NSA server farm.

I mean every stupid thing that a millennial has done on the Internet or using their phone is just a PRISM search away. A dossier can be built on anyone and scary, spy man can listen in on any phone conversation without a warrant or with anyone even knowing it. Big Brother is a real thing and there doesn't seem to be a discussion of how ethical their approach is.

The worst part is all of this snooping is supposed to be preventing terror. But two Chechen brothers with a couple of pressure cookers and gunpowder bought at a fireworks shop still bypassed all this scrutiny and unprecedented levels of data collection and blew up the Boston Marathon. Their actions then shut down one of the largest American cities for an entire day. All of those zettabytes of snooped data was totally worthless and will probably remain so when the next terror attack strikes.