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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Oh, he can deliver change. Bad change.
bttt
What he is delivering calls for change.
Same stuff that makes change necessary when found in diapers.
Obama can deliver change the same way Lenin and Trotsky did. But with a smile.
Beat me to it...he is keeping everyone of his ill-considered promises.
Obama and the Democrats can deliver change if they are willing to commit suicide in the process (which they just may be). The outrage caused by ramming this thru over voter objections will send them off to the electoral wilderness, but the incoming GOP will find it VERY difficult to subsequently pull recipeints away from the Government teat. The country will be by then addicted to Socialism and “changed” forever. Commited true Leftists may take that bargain.
Absolutely dead wrong!!! Obama will deliver all the change he intended to deliver - $0.02 here, $0.05 there . . . . .
/extreme sarc
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I dont know if there will be a Free World for very long with out a Super Power to defend it.
With slave states like China growing in power, if there is no Fortress America to defend freedom from such states who can?
Appeaser Europe can not be counted upon to defend itself let alone another democracy.
Israel will defend itself as long as it can but it does not have the strength or the reach to defend another state.
No, with out the United States defending Freedom I do not think there is anyone to defend Freedom in the world.
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I posted two, so I'm not sure which you meant...
The first one, or this one:
Sorry the first one.
Bread lines and soup kitchens is where I see Obama taking us.
Then they aren't watching carefully. Change is all they're getting. A change from capitalism to communism.
A convenient choice for the globalist elite.
Only if Obama and the Democrap Congress are permitted to continue their assault on the Constitution unabated.
I believe that the general public is beginning to become aware that this administration is on the wrong path and will let its voice be heard.
I also believe that this rush to socialism by the Libs will cause a blood letting in the 2010 election that will make the 1994 election look pale in comparison.
I would categorize myself as Hoping That He Can’t.
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