Naive? Yes. Losing faith? Sadly yes…Stimulus tanked. Now he wants us to trust our healthcare to him. It’s such a personal issue and I don’t trust him to have my best interest. I am seeing a slick politician who “thinks” he has the answers but he has yet to prove himself capable. He is stumbling daily and we are losing confidence. I for one am very thankful for the blue dog dems. His spending is truly out of control.

Failure to uphold the costitution, leaving the bush lawyers in place, giving the banks billions with no strings attached. The list is much to long. Oh lets not forget, He promised to do everthing without input of the loobyists. I as a likely voter will not vote for him.

Failure to uphold the costitution, leaving the bush lawyers in place, giving the banks billions with no strings attached. The list is much to long. Oh lets not forget, He promised to do everthing without input of the lobbyists. I as a likely voter will not vote for him.

This is just many realizing, now that it’s too late, that which many of us knew befor the election — Mr. Obama was and is ill-prepared to lead our nation. Now that the campaign shine has dulled, all are starting to see the clunker underneath.

Obama’s plans has been a failure to our economy. For example, he talks about wanting the economy to grow but how many jobs did his Stimulus Package produce? The highest unemployment rate in history.

Also he cut the F-22 project when it would have created more jobs. And it would have sent a strong message to North Korea, Iran, and Russia not to mess with the USA. Then he cut down our military budget in half. Then he went to Russia to talk about America getting rid of our Nuke’s. His stimulus package did nothing for our economy. He is the worse choice for America at this time.

In 2000 when President Bush was sworn in, the economy was going down in the tank. President Bush turned it around with tax cuts. The economy continued to grow despite Sept 11 and the Twin Towers. The economy was the strongest it ever was until November 2006 when Obama’s Democrats took over Congress. Now with Obama over everything the economy is going down into the tank.

All we need is a large tax cut or for the government to give WE THE PEOPLE the money instead of giving it to the large companies and Banks. If we had the money, we would put it in banks or buy cars. Our ability to choose where we spend the money is what would stimulate the economy.

Obama should just give us tax credits that we can use toward picking our own health care provider.

people are seeing the light, but i am afraid it is too late and the damage is already being done. I don’t know if we will ever relinguish control from them.

As an african amercian man and around the same age as the president and from Illinois, I totally disagree with him on almost every front. Socializing our healthcare is a big mistake, and demonizing the rich is sad, and wrong. He was too inexperienced to be President, then you couple this with this love affair by the main stream media with this guy, and he will not be held accountable except by the imformed public.

“48% approve, 49% disapprove and 4% not sure”
What’s wrong with that picture?

I am curious as to why I, a white republican cares about my health care.
He didn’t care about his half brother living in a hut in Kenya on a few dollars a month. He didn’t care about his aunt living here illegally. This is what I ask myself. You are known by the fruits of your labor.. not what you preach

Take a man able to create a grand fantasy of himself and allow “hope and change” to mean whatever every listener wants it to mean you get a cult following. Add a media willingly avoiding a quest of reality, not investigating or reporting it, then you get a prescription for electoral victory. You also set up unobtainable expectations. Even worse than failing to fulfill unrealistic campaign promises were claims made as president, especially regarding the economy and the stimulus. When millions believed he would rescue us and then massive unemployment occurred, reality began to shatter the fantasy. Trust is being replaced by fear and anger. There is much uncertainty for the future. Continually blaming former President Bush does not increase confidence in his leadership abilities. True leaders take on responsibility, period! The shattering of illusions can be excruciatingly painful, but reality is liberating. I believe this is one of the major factors driving his ratings down. His agenda and style will only continue this trend as long as the true effects of it are widely reported, and individuals experience painful reality.

By the way, dependence on TOTUS, along with the publics awareness of that fact tarnishes the grand illusion of his oratorical abilities.

Obviously, the Dems retain the votes to pass his agenda. His power should not be taken lightly.

“Was Obama’s quest for a post-partisan politics naïve?” An unproven assumption. What evidence is there that his statements were nothing more than manipulative political rhetoric?

[quote]Was Obama’s quest for a post-partisan politics naïve?[/quote]

it was naive to believe in it, that’s for sure. for obama, “pospartisan” means you are supposed to accept the premise that it is up to the government to solve a problem X. then, you are allowed to contribute ideas on specific direction i which government should expand. they will be dismissed, as well, but he will listen to you and acknowledge that you have some “good ideas”.

I don’t think Obama’s “quest” for post-partisan politics was naive. I think it was disingenuous. A brilliant political move to add the rhetoric for that righteous idea to his platform after the noticeably positive public response to Sen. McCain’s May 15th campaign speech in Ohio, IMO.

The hyper-partisanship of this administration, as well as this Congress, is beyond disappointing to me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think any more highly of the Republican party’s hyper-partisanship. But that wasn’t the question.

I think the shift in the poll responses to the President’s approval ratings is at least partly due to the fact that not all voters are partisans.

the master baiter of ‘change you can believe in’ being disingenous?

oh puleeze!!!!!!!!

only the real die hard obombatons out there have much use for the marionette with the long black nose that looks like Pinocchio but acts like Finocchio.

Maybe reality has finally set in for those who highly approved of Obama shortly after the election and early on in the year. Maybe it was the thrill of seeing someone different take office that the American people highly rated him. Let’s face it, Bush’s approval ratings were downright terrible nearing the end.

All ratings and approvals aside…it seems to me we look to the President of the United States to be the miracle worker. This economy is so screwed up it may take a few administrations to fix it. Regardless, I give credit to anyone who takes on this office…it is not a job I would want. The pressure of facing and pleasing the American people. No thanks.

Let’s see: worst recession since WWII and it is supposed to be fixed in a few months? Yeah,McDole and his stewardess Palin would’ve fixed all the country’s problems created by the incompetent and imbelcilic Bush Administration. Where are the polls for the the congressional GOP’rs? Oh wait, their numbers are still about half as good as Obama’s, so they are not getting published; that wouldn’t be a good story.

@Dennis Smith
Mr. Obama and his lemming congress more than doubled the deficit in a single misguided “stimulus” package. They created the expectation that it would “fix” the economy but failed to deliver. It’s time to get over Bush.

Congressional dem’s numbers are also half as good as Obama’s and 55% of the country thinks we’re headed in the wrong direction. What’s the explanation for that? Wait, don’t tell me… it’s Bush’s fault.

@Dennis Smith
Dennis,
Do you think for yourself? Get over Bush, he is not running again. He inherited a bad economy also (from beelzebubba) AND faced the worst attack on the US in nearly 60 years, yet he turned it around into a growing economy AND kept us safe for 7 years. Things started to turn sour in 2006 when the Dems got control of congress. Yes I fault Bush for not vetoing any of the Dems spending bills. Yes I fault Bush for supporting illegal immigration. Yes I fault Bush for only commuting the sentences of Compean and Ramos instead of Pardoning them. He wasted too much time trying to get the democrats to like him. That said, he didn’t outright HATE the US like uh-uh-uh-bama. Zero has apologized to just about every country in the world for the United States of America. He thinks that we are the root cause of everything bad that has happened in the world. He does not believe in American Exceptionalism. He has cozied up to the worlds worst dictators: Ahmadinajad, Castro, Chavez, Kim Jong Il, Ortega (I know, some of those were elected, wink, wink.) When you have the likes of Hugo Chavez joking to Fidel Castro that they are to the Right of Obama, we’ve got a problem. When you have the Red Chinese, Pravda, and Vladmir Putin lecturing Obama about his being too socialist, we’ve got a problem.

Bush allowed a pork bill of three quarters of a Trillion dollars to pass, but the false messiah is about to incur a ten Trillion dollar additional debt over the next decade, with absolutely nothing to show for it so far except cronyism. The car dealers who got to stay open were those who contributed to his campaign (not necessarily the profitable ones.) And you cannot borrow your way out of debt. He is about to ruin a flawed, but still the best, health care system in the world. He will destroy the US economy trying to appease the Apollo group (Environmentalists, Community agitators{acorn}, and unions) by invoking the junk science of Anthropomorphic Global Warming (that’s Manmade global warming to you.)

I’m sorry that you are afraid of competent, accomplished, AND good looking women. I understand though, most liberal women look like Hillary, Nancy Pelosi, Janeane Garofalo, or Helen Thomas. It must be due to constantly being unhappy. Just look at any Democrat woman. They control ALL to levers of power in DC, yet they are perpetually unhappy.

Finally, you apparently haven’t been listening to the “Won” (I don’t blame you, he’s boring), but he has taken full credit for the economy. He said that it is his. And well he should. He promised that if the porkulus bill was passed, unemployment would not pass eight percent. It is currently over nine and a half percent and headed for double digits (and that doesn’t even include the people who have given up on finding a job!) Misery Index, here we come. Jimmy Carter should be “zero’s” biggest supporter. He had the distinction of being the worst American President in the past 74 years or so, now he is about to be rescued from some of his infamy by Obama (and Plugs, once the dumbest man in the Senate, and now the dumbest VP.)

I meant to say that Democrats control all the levers of power in DC.

@Obombaton disingenuous??
Your ever changing screen names are as entertaining as your never changing comments.

Hats off to you. I am glad to see that an African American man thinks with his head instead of his heart. I am also from Illinois and I know many, many African American people. Many of them I dearly like, but I also know that they voted for him more for the purpose of making history, then doing what is right for the country. It is a real shame. But, I am glad to meet someone as yourself, who actually, has the exact same thoughts about the President as I do and commend you for putting aside the history aspect and just being honest about him. He is a disaster and I just hope the next 3 years or so, will not drive this country even further into disaster.

Denise,

No matter what the deficit Bush left, does it excuse Obummer to SPEND FREAKISHLY even more??? Did you not hear Rahm say that they are not going to let a “bad economy go to waste”? Put your thinking cap on for a change…..don’t you know what that means??? That they are using that deficit and the lack of jobs, etc., etc. to CAPITALIZE ON IT?

Get a life. It is time for your messiah to stop blaming Bush. For God’s sake woman, just when is your President going to grow up and take some responsibiity??? Is he going to say this for the next 3 and half years when he is kicked on his skinny heiny with his his family and that dog back to Chicago????

As far as the Repubs…..GEE WHIZ. Look on Rasmussenreports.com (closest in ANY and ALL elections with his predictions and polls), the Repubs are AHEAD of the Dems and going strong. Just keep your panties on and stay tuned for the ride. The Dems are going to lose some seats next year!

The reason Obama is slipping has to do with his including the same guys that screwed everything up in the decision making process. The American people threw those guys out and put Obama in for a reason. Get it done.
The American people are frustrate with his inability to realize these guys want one thing and that is to destroy him. They have never supported people programs in life. What makes Obama think he will win them over. Obama just do it. America has spoken in the last election. Besides these guys are all on the corporate payroll and you don’t bight the hand that has been feeding you for the last eight years.

It is ever more increasingly obvious that Obama has his mind up and will sacrifice any and every talking point, switching to a new selling point as needed to accomplish his agenda. It,s all about him. He could not care less about the voters will. He will lie (as his claims about health care reveal) and intimidate (his website encouraging citizens to “snitch” on those who oppose health care reform or health insurance, he can’t remain consistent) at will.

Bashing town hall attendees is another egregious example.