From the Economist.
Approval/disapproval poll on Obama WRT the oil spill.
Does Obama really have much to do with that? Not really, but the perceived passiveness has hurt.
About a quarter see no connection.
About 30% say he's doing a decent job.
About 45% say otherwise.
Maureen Dowd, quoted in the piece, sees this as part of a "pattern of passivity, detachment, acquiescence and compromise."
You get this sense of the defendant yelling at his counsel, "You're my lawyer, damn it, do something!"