Hope and change? A national gloom descends over Obama’s America

UK Telegraph ^ | April 22nd, 2011 | Nile Gardiner

[Scanian]

You know things are really going badly for the White House when even The New York Times, the most powerful bastion of liberalism in America, is warning the president he is in serious trouble. Today’s New York Times/CBS News poll makes devastating reading for Barack Obama’s advisers, showing the nation’s mood at its lowest level for two years:

"Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

"Amid rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment and a cacophonous debate in Washington over the federal government’s ability to meet its future obligations, the poll presents stark evidence that the slow, if unsteady, gains in public confidence earlier this year that a recovery was under way are now all but gone… Disapproval of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy has never been broader — at 57 percent of Americans — a warning sign as he begins to set his sights on re-election in 2012."

According to the poll, a staggering 70 percent of Americans believe the country is moving down the “wrong track”, nearly three times more than the number who believe it is heading in the “right direction” (26 percent). 39 percent believe the economy is getting worse, 16 points higher than the number who think it is getting better, and 59 percent disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling the federal budget deficit.

[MuttTheHoople]

THis is exactly what BArack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm) wants. He was raised to believe America is evil, and has to pay for its sins.

[DesertRhino]

It’s almost lke a malaise,,, huh?

[Sea Parrot]

NYT, a liberal bastion, say it ain’t so.

I read where the NYT revenue is down 57%, and I smiled, broadly.

[ETL]

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA...
(prior to the election)

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
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After the election....

A Landslide Mandate For Change

A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...

Change is Here, Change is Coming

Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.

In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.

We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.

We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.

In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.

Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.

Isn’t it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?

Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?

And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism – no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?

All these things are within reach now!

http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[Newton]

Makes the carter days look like sunshine, lollipops and fuzzy bunnies.... (except for that lone killer rabbit - whereabouts unknown)

[Scanian]

I spoke to a Northeast lib last night and he is OUTRAGED about having to pay to read online NYT articles.

If they lose THAT type of clientelle, it’s all over.

[Jane Long]

According to the poll, a staggering 70 percent of Americans believe the country is moving down the “wrong track”...

70% of Americans know
Hope and change = Doom and gloom.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Obama’s Amerika almost makes me long for “the good old days” of the Jimmy Carter administration.

[Soothesayer]

Since when did a dictator need a high approval rating? All Barack needs to do is declare himself president for life. Whether he realizes this is yet to be seen.

[central_va]

The word ‘change’ is also a verb, a command.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[FrankR]

[Savage Beast]

In Comments beneath the article, johnmcevoy writes:

"It's very simple. Welfare democracies like the US and the UK have made promises they can’t keep.

"William Godwin said 'Government can have only two legitimate purposes, the suppression of injustice against individuals... and the common defence against external invasion.'"

"State funded retirement packages, unemployment benefits, bailouts, payoffs, tariffs, subsidies, free food and lodging, committees, councils, quangos, regulations, expense accounts – all quickly have perverse outcomes. More and more people switch from producing to conniving and chiselling.

"The more something-for-nothing is available from the government, the more people do nothing useful to get it – including getting control over the government itself."

All this is obvious to those of us who are honest and reasonably intelligent.

It's a shame that everyone else--and especially many who pass for an intelligentsia in America and elsewhere--are so intellectually and morally inferior to johnmcevoy.

[thethirddegree]

All Barack needs to do is declare himself president for life.

In today's environment, that could be a very ill-advised decision.

[Soothesayer]

“In today’s environment, that could be a very ill-advised decision.”

I strongly doubt it. They have already destroyed the Republic and reverted us to socialism without a hitch. All they have to do is give more money to unions and instantly push the country into full communism.

Nobody will fight back because they are too afraid of violent Democrats.