It’s not a coincidence that Australia and the US ended up with the worst governments in our history at exactly the same time. The lame brain media, who could not identify a sensible policy if their lives depended on it, have backed incompetence to the hilt because they know no better. In Australia, with some luck, things should come good. In the US, it is hard to see how any of this could end well.

Obama’s disapproval ratings show him at the lowest level of his presidency. A survey conducted by ABC in the US figures no doubt correctly that it’s the Affordable Care roll out that has brought him so low. They’re a shrewd lot the American media. But what has taken five years for people to work any of this out:

He’s at career lows for being a strong leader, understanding the problems of average Americans and being honest and trustworthy – numerically under water on each of these (a first for the latter two). His rating for strong leadership is down by 15 points this year and a vast 31 points below its peak shortly after he took office. In a new gauge, just 41 percent rate him as a good manager; 56 percent think not.

But with everything that’s going on this is not in the least a bad result. It’s not the 56 percent who think he’s not all that crash hot that’s the phenomenon, it’s the 41 percent who still think he is a good manager who need their heads read. The US is becoming a nation of serfs. And if the election were run again today?

Registered voters divide numerically in Mitt Romney’s favor, 49-45 percent, if they had a mulligan for the 2012 presidential election.

45 percent still prefer Obama who’s only down by four percentage points! Well they’re welcome to him. But you do have to wonder what they must think a bad president would be like.