Appaholic wrote:Only 35 percent say they’re confident he's got the right set of goals, policies
WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama entered office, the expectations that he and others set for his presidency couldn’t have been higher.
Obama announced that he was embarking on an ambitious agenda — to create new jobs, to reform the nation’s health care system, to lessen the world’s nuclear threats and to curb partisan bickering.
But as Obama wraps up his first full year in office, the American public has grown increasingly skeptical over his promises to change Washington and his "yes-we-can" agenda, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Obama and his uber-leftists have been the ultimate bait-and-switch change meisters, using the mantra of change to purposefully transform society away from the Constitution and towards national socialism.
...and no, kalm, turning to the left will not benefit the middle class in the long term. Leftist solutions are nothing more tan euthanasia for the middle class. You are a false prophet. Is it due to purpose, ignorance, or both? Saul Alinsky fan, are you?
I didn't know I was any kind of prophet. A Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt fan am I. The trust busting, honest days pay for an honest days work, down with the economic royalist type of left.
In his book "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama had the insight to explain much of his political appeal. "I serve as a blank screen," he wrote, "on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." That lack of definition proved a big asset in the presidential campaign, allowing him to attract support from liberals who saw Hillary Rodham Clinton as too hawkish, moderates who saw her as too liberal, and independents who saw John McCain as too conservative and too partisan.
But in his first year in office, the president has had to fill in that screen. And many Americans are disillusioned with the picture that has emerged.
... The president's admirers think that as the recovery strengthens, Obama will bounce back, just as Reagan did.
We wouldn't bet too much on it. What Reagan had that Obama doesn't was a mandate for a clear set of policies: cutting taxes, rebuilding the military and freeing the economy from too much government, which eventually yielded good results. Obama, by contrast, has embraced policies more ambitious and sometimes quite different from what he led Americans to expect — and which may not work out so well.
During the campaign, he proposed a stimulus plan costing $60 billion, but once in office, he signed one with a price tag of $787 billion. His health care plan is far more expensive than he estimated during the campaign. He didn't campaign on a promise to take over General Motors and Chrysler. His budgets forecast an endless river of red ink. And he's done little to install the bipartisan approach he once extolled.
The result is a picture of the president as an old-fashioned, big-government Democrat — not the open-minded, non-ideological innovator he once portrayed. Much of the impetus for this direction comes from Democrats in Congress, notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who have never been accused of fresh thinking or devotion to bipartisanship. Obama's biggest mistake was to defer so much to them.
Had Obama taken a tougher stance toward his own party — shown a bit more audacity — the stimulus might have been less larded with pork and the health care plan might have focused on incremental, broadly popular changes that could have attracted significant Republican support. Instead, he now finds himself of being lumped with a Congress that has even worse approval ratings than he does — and in danger of losing the health care battle anyway.
Barry needs to read the bolded part over and over until he gets it.
I said it before the election - Barry = Jimmy Carter II
If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism. Ronald Reagan, 1975.
native wrote:
Thanks for posting the article, Appy!
Obama and his uber-leftists have been the ultimate bait-and-switch change meisters, using the mantra of change to purposefully transform society away from the Constitution and towards national socialism.
...and no, kalm, turning to the left will not benefit the middle class in the long term. Leftist solutions are nothing more tan euthanasia for the middle class. You are a false prophet. Is it due to purpose, ignorance, or both? Saul Alinsky fan, are you?
I didn't know I was any kind of prophet. A Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt fan am I. The trust busting, honest days pay for an honest days work, down with the economic royalist type of left.
I don't see much of Teddy in your posts, kalm. Franklin is a whole 'nother "deal," and a bad deal at that.
Proud Prince of Purple Pomposity YT is not a communist. He's just a ...young pup.
