Posted on 11/11/2009 7:07:19 AM PST by IrishMike
WASHINGTON (Nov. 11) - President Barack Obama still has the public approval of a majority of Americans, but he finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country. This comes at a time when he is trying to revive a struggling economy, weighing more troops for the 8-year-old Afghanistan war, muscling a health care reform overhaul through Congress and hoping to push through other ambitious measures like legislation focused on climate change. The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Americans grew slightly more dispirited on a range of matters over the past month, continuing the slippage that has occurred since Obama took office. People were more pessimistic about the direction of the country than in October. They disapproved of Obama's handling of the economy a bit more than before. And, perhaps most striking for the commander in chief, more people have lost confidence in Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan over the last month. Overall, there's a 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."
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He is making things happen, none of it good, but he's making things happen.
CORRECTION: Poll: Grouchy Public STUCK With Obama (82% don't approve of Obama or 83% of Americas direction)
Talk about spin! Can you imagine what the headline would have read had this been Pres. Bush’s numbers: “Nation Suffers Under Gross Bush Incompetence: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit”
Huh. I always thought they were frisbees.
Yet, the poll shows that 82% of Americans are dis-satisfied with Obama's job performance.
Do the people who write this Orwellian spin even hear what they're saying?
Unbelievable.
Why haven’t we seen this in the Main Stream Media I wounder??? (SARC)
How do those numbers translate into the rest of this article?
Looks to me like they are saying Obozo sucks.
It must mean the K-Y lubricant is probably old...or so I've been told be some sticky liberal folks
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