A year later, hope dissolves into disappointment

Philly.com ^ | 1/17/10 | PAULINE ARRILLAGA

[Born Conservative]

A year ago, on an Inauguration Day like no other, Barack Obama placed his hand upon the Lincoln Bible and then assured a weary nation that, with hope and virtue, we could "brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come."

Across the country, in Seattle, Glen Boyd had only just entered his own economic storm. A couple of weeks out of work as a DIRECTV salesman, the Obama supporter nevertheless watched the inauguration on TV with a kind of goose-pimply, things-are-bound-to-get-better anticipation. He really felt it, that thing which the poet Alexander Pope said springs eternal.

"I felt a tremendous sense of pride. I felt like he was the right guy. I felt a sense of optimism," recalls Boyd.

Now, a year later, Boyd writes this in his blog: "We believed what the man said in all those `yes, we can' speeches. My one question is, where are all those reassuring speeches now?"

"To say I'm disappointed by the Obama presidency thus far would be an understatement."

Forget "can," "change" and, above all, "hope." The new word echoing in the blogosphere and beyond as Obama enters Year Two: disappointment.

The polls have shown a wide decline in Americans' approval of Obama since he first took office last Jan. 20. In fact, according to the latest Gallup Poll, he entered his second year with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president in the last half-century (50 percent of Americans approved of his job performance at the first of January, and 44 percent disapproved.)

[Doc Savage]

Hope for WHAT? The destruction of freedom and liberty? The destruction of the Constitution? The destruction of Capitalism? When you see the polls and discover that this marxist thug moron STILL has 45 of the country thinking he’s doing a good job you just have to cry!! How can we have produced so many whining, complaining free-loaders who want to suck the government teat?????? It’s absolutely sickening.

[PGalt]

Hope and Change => Hoax and Chains

I've seen it before but thanks for posting. Short and sweet.

[ASOC]

OH bam mah

Proof that with enuf dough you can purchase any political seat in the US, including that of POT us.

It was just very obvious this last time around.

[dayglored]

That has the look of a poll that’s been FReeped! :)

[ThePatriotsFlag]

This is the result of "blank screen" politics. You can "win" using this tactic, but you cannot sustain the "win" ... and in the end it will cause his destruction:

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The Patriot's Flag - Blank Screen Politics

[Grizzled Bear]

Aside from the obvious ACORN (now COI) and SEIU shenanigans, many Americans chose style over substance (not that the GOP's choice of McCain provided very much in the way of substance).

They now have neither.