U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about education at the
Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, November 4, 2009.
REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS EDUCATION)
Posted on 11/10/2009 3:08:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – The euphoria of 2008 is over: America is in a funk. Elected last November on a wave of optimism, President Barack Obama now finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country in recession while muscling through Congress a health care reform overhaul and weighing whether to commit more troops to the 8-year-old Afghanistan war.
The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Americans grew slightly more dispirited on a range of matters over the past month, continuing slippage that has occurred since Obama took office as the year began.
They were more pessimistic about the direction of the country. They disapproved of Obama's handling of the economy a bit more than before. And, perhaps most striking for this novice commander in chief, more people have lost confidence in Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan over the last month. Overall, there's a public malaise about the state of the nation.
"It's in pretty bad shape," said truck driver Floyd Hacker of Granby, Mo., a Democrat who voted for Obama. "He sounded like somebody who could make things happen. I still think he can."
Still, Hacker said, he doesn't agree with the president's approach to the economy, questions what the U.S. is trying to accomplish in Afghanistan, and isn't sure that Obama should have spent so much time on health care, adding: "He can't handle everything at one time."
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Who is GfK?
That is exactly why the rest of us are in a funk.
Really? A funk?
I thought it was a malaise.
The Obama loons still making excuses for Obama.
Unemployment averaged about just under 6% with Bush.
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about education at the
Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, November 4, 2009.
REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS EDUCATION)
A lot of Atlas shrugging too. I have cut back on things and thank God I am better off than most folks.
Cable TV - buh bye. Why should I pay for propaganda? Foix is good but has too much Saudi ownership. Going out to dinner less. etc etc.
Obama funk? Or is it the other way around?
Well, Michelle did say her husband smelled kind of funky, didn’t she? He thinks “funk” is something else. Someone needs to post that clip of Obama dancing.
#1 - Do we really need a poll to tell us this?
#2 - It’s not being caused by the war in Afghanistan. I think it has more to do with rising unemployment and a non responsive government.
I wonder who could have put the country in a funk?
hmmm. someone who said Bush messed up the country and said we are in a great depression?
I have never heard someone who was such a downer on their own country.
A funk?
No, no, it’s a malaise.
I just read an AP article saying that cities are reporting fewer burglaries now that more people are at home due to being without a job. Happy days are here!
The Leftists are unhappy because 0bama isn’t governing to the Left of Stalin, and conservatives are unhappy because he IS governing like Jimmy Carter.
Throw in the bailouts, out of control spending, healthcare “reform”, and the country going to hell in a handbasket, and you get what amounts to a toxic political environment.
One of the things that pisses me off is we have an entire year before the we can really do anything about it!
The Obama Recession
The Obama Recession
Say it over and over everywhere you go ...
Americans grew slightly more dispirited on a range of matters over the past month, continuing slippage that has occurred since Obama took office as the year began. They were more pessimistic about the direction of the country. They disapproved of Obama's handling of the economy a bit more than before. And, perhaps most striking for this novice commander in chief, more people have lost confidence in Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan over the last month. Overall, there's a public malaise about the state of the nation.
It's apparantly a market research company. That's their name. Capital 'G,' lower-case 'f,' upper case 'K.' Not exactly a household name.
You can google it.
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