Posted on 07/21/2009 7:05:57 AM PDT by FromLori
Six months into his historic presidency, Americans are beginning to show the first real signs of doubt that President Barack Obama can deliver on his promise of change.
A new poll out Monday suggested that amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, rising unemployment, and a ballooning deficit, the honeymoon could be waning for Obama.
And the president's determination to push through a radical reform of the creaking US healthcare system could come to define the success or failure of his fledgling presidency.
Obama has invested much personally in his high-stakes campaign, a cornerstone of his 2008 White House race which saw him defeat Republican rival John McCain to become America's first African-American president.
But the far-reaching plans to afford health insurance for all Americans have left many worrying who will end up footing the bill.
Six months after his January 20 inauguration attracted record crowds and television audiences, Obama remains popular at home with a 59 percent approval rating according to a poll by ABC News television and the Washington Post.
But it was the first time that the rating had slipped below 60 percent. And it marks a six percent fall since June.
Obama's detractors meanwhile have plenty of fodder to fuel their discontent.
Unemployment has hit more than 10 percent in 15 states and in the capital Washington, the promised economic recovery has still not arrived and the nation's deficit has passed a trillion dollars.
While 52 percent of Americans said they still supported the Democratic leader's economic policies, that is down on 56 percent last month.
And 46 percent told the pollsters that they did not back Obama's proposals, with for the first time the numbers of people who strongly disapprove surpassing those who strongly approve.
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I am 100% certain it will deliver change if passed. Most costs, higher taxes, less efficient, longer waits, less service.....
Oh, he’s delivering change alright. Change that’s sending us into the toilet.
The change we really need is sending this lazy impostor back to Kenya (or Indonesia, his choice).
All ZERO does is lie, who doesn’t know.
How much longer ca it possibly be until we start seeing the state-run media begin to blame everyone for being racists and always making a black peson the scapegoat or fall guy?
You can almost hear it now, Obama’s black and he was set up and it’s easy for us to blame the black guy for all our problems in “white America”.
If you call going back to the economic and foreign policy of the 1970s change.
Obama can change the United States from an economic titan in to an economic wreck.
Obama can change the United States from the leader of the Free World to the leader of the worlds despotic Regimes.
That would be because he’s never run a lemonade stand and is an asshole.
Am I going to get banned for saying the sky is blue?
“Unemployment has hit more than 10 percent in 15 states and in the capital Washington, the promised economic recovery has still not arrived and the nation’s deficit has passed a trillion dollars.”
Unemployment Could be 20% in all 57 states, the deficit could be 10 trillion dollars and the media will STILL blame GW Bush while reporting that Obama is as popular as ever.
Pretty soon, they will be SCREAMING for even more change...
This phrase always bothers me. I don't particularly care that JFK was the first Catholic president or that obama is the first partially black person to usurp our White House. I won't care if our next president is the first woman in the White House. No presidency is "historic" in any meaningful sense just because the occupant of the position has a new but superficial physical trait. What should matter to historians is whether the president has unique ability, or whether that leader demonsrates exceptional responses to the challenges that our country faces.
BTW, I would be thrilled to see a historic presidency in which the next resident of our White House is (1) eligible for the position, (2) a believer in the Constitution of the United States with all of the written amendments including the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 10th, and (3) someone who thinks babies are a good thing and not just a punishment that can be made to go away. Those traits alone would make the next presidency historic, if we're lucky enough to have another election, and the detail that such a president might be a rather cute former Alaskan governor should be a footnote rather than the primary focus of any historical commentary.
Obama can change the United States from an economic titan in to an economic wreck.
Obama can change the United States from the leader of the Free World to the leader of the worlds despotic Regimes.
Since that is what I was going to say I will just repeat your comment.
The real caveat is that it is being done on purpose rather than by some bumbling incompetence by the Democrats. As long as the media keep flying cover for him some will sleep through the "change" until it is too late.
We must continue to bombard the media and Congress with our ideas and expose the present administration for who they really are.
Change will include secession, civil war, and revolution.
Won't really be a civil war, Liberals will not fight. The standing armed forces are almost 100% Red-State. It would be a walk in the park.
It won’t be unopposed.
Think of the mindset of the BATF.
I know their aren’t enough of them, but it won’t be a cakewalk. People will die.
Oh he’s delivering change alright....the little bit that still jingles in the pockets of gouged Americans!
From my observation,
the left is pushing for a race war.
I believe they want this to happen
while they have control of the State
so that they can have and excuse to do
what they always do historically -
use the power of the state to kill their
ideological enemies.
This is why the birth cert thing is so
frustrating. You know that public officials
are withholding the evidence out of fear of
racial violence when 0bama is proven ineligible.
But, the left is pushing for this violence anyway.
Can we apply a little Honduran therapy as well?
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