Closing Arguments: Obama’s Dwindling Approval

It’s not a matter of confidence, we knew it would be hard and difficult, he’s just the face anyway. The real power running this country won’t move that easily. What is likable about Obama from the beginning and still is, he cares, his efforts in wanting to do something good for the American people, not how much he gets done or how fast. We know his every effort will be challenged by those that don’t truly care about the people, only themselves and their legacies. Do what you can Obama, ignore the “polls”

Pres. Obama needs to listen to Dave Ramsey…YOU CAN’T BORROW YOUR WAY OUT OF DEBT!!!!!!!!!

No faith, I have lost it all. Maybe, the descendants of Will Durant will write about the fall of the American Empire.

Personally, I like the guy. However, I have no confdence in his policies. He and Congress are spending us toward hyperinflation and a collapse of the U.S. dollar.
Also his naivete about foreign issues and his excessive reliance on his personal charm are also alarming. He almost “gave away the store” on his recent Russia visit.
Medical insurance reform? So far, he and Congress are doing nothing to effectively restain costs in any of the current medical reform proposals. The current situation is that Medicare alone may well bankrupt the USA in 15 years. Congress is not willing to address that looming crisis, yet they are rushing to spend even more? Obama is not showing any realistic effective leadership in this area.
Doug

I have no confidence in Barack Hussein Obama. If you think the problems Government creates are bad, wait till you see their solutions. Hmm… I wonder why Obama is having the dropping in poll numbers and such. Maybe it is because America does not want socialism! Maybe is is because we Americans are standing up for our rights and the freedom that our forefathers and ancestors fought and died for. We are Taxed Enough Already!

We have complete confidence in President Obama and the Democratic Congressional leadership. After 8 years of failed Bush/Cheney policies change will not happen overnight. Give the President some time to reform the disfuntional aftermath of Bush/Cheney et al.

Everyone is looking for a quick fix!! Too bad no one has a answer to Health Care, The Economy, & Taxes! Not even Bush stepped up to the plate before the end of his term as Pres. Like Obama has told us all…we were in this mess before he even came into office. Obama made it clear Americans that things would get BAD, before it got better! NOONE was listening!! There is no quick fix to a Recession. Obama keep climbing that mountain and you will make it to the Top!!! I pray God be with you and blesses you in every decission that is made! God be with you and your Family!

I never had confidence in him; the extreme far left individulas that he hung with are representatitve of the anti-American/socilaist ideas that he admires and is committed to. He is very good with words, like a used car salesman, but I never expected Congress to agree with his extreme ideas to the extent that they have. Just as prople voted for Democrats because they didn’t like Bush, they will probably against Democrats by voting for another party in the next elections.

Are negative numbers allowed in this confidence poll? Certainly less than zero! Read “Liberty and Tyranny” by Mark Levin – which should clear up any questions about who Obama is and what he is trying to do to our country. Just say Nobama…

I don’t have confidence in Obama.I don’t think he is listening to the middle class people at all, with all the bailouts given what has it done for the economy? If even part of the money was given to the AMERICAN PEOPLE that was used to bailout the banks and insurance companies we would be much better off. The government would have recieved taxes from the money. The AMERICAN PEOPLE could have kept the economy going by buying new houses, cars,boats,vacations,ect. Instead of the banks getting all kinds of money and PEOPLE don’t have any extra money to even get a loan let alone to keep up with a house payment a car payment and then if you are lucky to have enough to buy groceries and pay the rest of your bills. I really think our Congress Men and Congress Women need to get back into the real world and not the world of Washington D.C. To try a pass the health reform will put us much further in debt, which is already way too much.I
think passing this would be a bad
decision.

Obama and his socialist heath care plan rates a big fat ZERO with me!! Obama’s inexperience and the scary details of his liberal socialist agenda are leaking out to the general public a little more each day despite his love affair with the MSM liberal media and their best efforts to keep it all under wraps. If Obama backed up by Pelosi and the out of control Dems in congress, are allowed to continue on this course with reckless abandon and out of control spending, they will break our country. Obama has gone after something now that affects EVERY American, their healthcare, well being and their quality of life. When people of all ages, especially our seniors begin to see and fear what will happen to their healthcare under socialized medicine, Obama does and will feel the backlash. No matter what party you are from, no matter who you voted for and how much you may like or dislike Obama the man, your own health and that of your loved ones comes first. Policy becomes all to real when you think of your loved ones and what socialized medicine such as Canadians suffer under and run across the border to the US to escape from, hits home. For example, my 96 yr old grandmother lives alone in her own home in amazingly good health. Last year she fell and broke her hip and the only way to repair it was to replace it. Under her current health care plan that option was available to her and she is back to good health again, walking again on her own and back living in her own home. Under Obamacare my grandmother would have been denied this hip replacement and either be dead now or living in a nursing home simply because of a number, her AGE of 96. No one would have looked at her unique situation and realized as she and her young doctor did that a hip replacement to repair her broken hip would actually save her health provider money. This hip replacement allowed her to return to her own home instead of lying in a nursing home left to die with a broken hip under Obamacare socialized medicine. She is but ONE example of the poor choices Obamacare would offer to unique individuals such as her who now are looked at case by case between a patient and his or her own doctor. Obama has already called for a team of 15 so called “medical experts” to make these types of decisions, who will or will not be given necessary care and procedures under Obamacare medical rationing. When you look at the DMV, the USPS, the IRS, Social Security Administration and other government beauracracies, why in God’s name would you want to put you and your loved ones lives in their hands???? The Democrats in Congress don’t want this for themselves, they have been asked to sign a paper saying they will switch from their golden Government health care plans to this new Obamacare they are trying to push on all of us and ALL have refused to sign to switch. If it is good enough for us and they sign and pass this, then it should be good enough for them! Then and only then might we get something worth switching to.

Obama has only put the economy in worse condition than it was before. As if Medicare Part D wasn’t straining the economy enough, now we ALL need healthcare weather we are actually citizens or illegal aliens in this country. How did our parents and grandparents make it in this country before we were all given healthcare (at the expense of much higher taxes to come)? I do not have healthcare and neither does my boyfriend. If we wanted that badly, we would pay for it, but we choose not to because we don’t want to be more strapped for cash than we are now. Giving it to ALL will only insure we pay for it ALL whether we want to or not. Now if I did actually pay for my healthcare it would only be compromised because all doctors offices & hospitals will be overflowing beyond measure.
Our President is only concerned about being on TV everyday and being popular all while taking over large portions of the auto, housing, financial and now healthcare industry. He promised a million+ jobs minimum with his stimulus plan and our unemployment rate is skyrocketing while he has only used 5% of that “oh so needed money they just had to have”!
Oh and let’s not forget closing Gitmo. There’s another half baked idea when he doesn’t even know where he is going to put KNOWN convicted TERRORISTS! Cause God forbid we send them back to their countries of origin where they will immediately be executed upon their return. Why is this our problem? Why don’t we care about our own brothers & sisters of this country that died at the hands of these men? And why is Nancy Polosi still in office when she lied about being informed about waterboarding when she was pretending to be appalled and outraged over it? The CIA proved it! Do we believe Nancy Polosi over the CIA? Come on Obama lovers…wake up! Smell the coffee now or we will all be drinking the same exact cup of bland coffee whether we like it or not by the time he gets done with his need to make everyone “Same,Same”. No richer or better off than anyone else. Everyone “Same,Same”. Is this the land of opportunity or the land of “Everybody gets the exact same thing til everyone is equal to each other.”

oh, and kathy? the bailouts were instigated by the previous admin – not by obama. blame the greed of wallstreet financiers for their total disregard for middle class america.

Obama has a different agenda than helping the Americans and defending America and the U.S. Constitution. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that plunging our country into trillions of dollars into debt does not help our nation. Our founding fathers abhored the abusive power of government. Someone has to pay for the proposed universl health care. Who and how? It doesn’t work in Massachusetts, so how will it work nationwide. Listen to FOX News to find out what is really going on.

I wonder how other Presidents were doing 6 months into a depression? Oh, the last time we had a depression was 1932 – The First Republican Dystopia.
We are now in the second Republican Dystopia caused by the Deregulation Disaster. Just about anybody I talk to recognizes the Republicans pulled off a major catastrophe with this Deregulation Disaster coupled with the over-inflated housing market (thanks to inflationary money policies meant to oscure the loss of real income by average people over the last 2 decades.
MOst people realize it’s way too soon to be expecting a change in the economy in only 6 months. Despite all the M$M talking heads constantly parroting the mantra: “Why hasn’t Obama fixed the economy yet?”, “The stimulus is NOT WORKING”. The people know it’s way too early to expect to see much results. The real proof that Obama’s and the Democrats efforts are working is that we are not in The Great Depression II – where we would have been talking about 20% unemployment instead of 10%. The Obama plan IS working in that things would be much worse without it. The Deregulation Disaster coupled with the loss of real income for the greatest portion of our society (not of course the top 5%- thank you GOP) combined with an over-inflated housing bubble has wrought extraordinary damage to the economy which will take many months to start to make real progress (such as declining unemployment.
By the way, speaking of polls, How’s M$M doing on the question of “How much do you trust the M$M to tell you what’s really going on>?”, HUHHHHHHHH????

If the MSM and all of you stop to consider the amount of the messe that the Bush administration left to be cleaned up, maybe you will see President Obama more kindly.
I have never seen a president inaugurated only six months ago who is being so assailed because he has no magic wand to wave to make the mill tails of Hell, which were handed to him, disappear.
Obama is pushing for health care reform but he is fighting the Republicans, the lobbyists and even members of his own party. It is not an issue he can deal with alone. Most of the members in congress are about as friendly as North Korea. Be glad they are not making their own nukes!.
They only care about the corporations that made donations to their election. So please all of you, cry me a freaking river.
The good thing about all of this is that NOT ALL OF US are falling for the stupid trap that we forgot how everything was when he took office.
We have not forgotten and we know who the main responsibles are.
Thank you.

This new president is SO REFRESHING! He’s actually getting things done! no timeouts at the ranch… He’s going around the world engaging other rulers. He’s visiting our people too. He’s getting things done. YAY!

Please do some homework and google Tommy Douglas, nominated, The Greatest Canadian by our nation for his perfect national health care idea and it’s implemintation. A Catastrophic illnesses will bankrupt you my freinds,

Obama scares me to death. I would love to have faith in him but all I have seen since he took office is disaster. How can we stop this man before he destroys our land of the free. I don’t feel safe with him in office.

Oh for goodness sakes! Those poll numbers just prove that the American public really has become an “instant” society. It seems to me that no one has the ability to practice patience anymore. Nothing in the government can be accomplished over night. The President has only been in office since the end of January! He has my full confidence and with a little cooperation from the House and Senate and the American people will bring us out of our current difficulties.

I have confidence in him because at least he is trying to solve the problems that have been ignored far to long

You can’t tax a country into prosperity. All He is doing is hurting the middle class. He thinks that by taxing the rich and businesses even more than what they are already taxed will save the economy. Many businesses don’t have a very large profit margin, and by adding more taxes (healthcare) will only put them out of business. Giving tax breaks might give people the confidence to spend money, same with businesses. Again, you can’t tax a country into prosperity.

I have tremendous confidence in President Obama. He’s smart, his heart is in the right place, and he’s modeling pragmatism and respect for all people. He may be modeling what my friend Bob Fuller calls “dignitarianism” at the expense of pushing through an agenda that I think the country needs and that I personally would like to see enacted (single-payer healthcare, for starters), but perhaps this will yield more long-term good for this country and the world than pushing through any one agenda item. Hard to say; it’s a gamble. That said, I’m still delighted to have our country in the hands of someone this smart, this articulate, with the vigor and energy of relative youthfulness, who cares so deeply about the future of ALL Americans!

I have full confidence in our wonderful President.
I don’t have confidence with the media and the right wingdings who always make up negative stories and statistics on just about everything Mr. Obama does, even insignificant matters. Notice how they play the game when something as simple as a 1 or 5 point drop in a poll. This becomes front page headline news taking up half the newspaper and endless chatter on the tubes. Yet, when Mr. Obama is above average in a poll, we hear nothing!

Unfortunatly, President Obama made a couple of grave mistakes in his first week in office by spending over 1 trillion dollars in bailouts that the average citizen can not benefit from. While I agree that our health care system needs an overhaul, I do not think that spending money we do not have is the solution. Let’s work at regulating excessive charges by drug companies who are reaping record profits. I think that President Obama has good intentions, but I do not think that he has the experience to provide us with the leadership we so desperately need. At this point, China and Japan are financing a huge portion of our deficit, which is worrysome. As in real life, the only way to improve your finances is to live within your means.

I think we expect too much too fast from our president. He has inhereted a mess. He did not create it. Some things take a time to fix. And as with all other presidents before him, they as well as Obama faced opposition. We all know that there are those that want him to fail for many different reasons. I think he is doing a great job. He is taken on more than any other president in my lifetime (53 years). I feel the American people should be patient and our lawmakers should try to work together for the good of the people.

I have absolutely no confidence whatsover in Obama. I voted for this turkey. His presidency has been a disastrous waste of time and taxpayer money from Day 1 with his totally unnecessary and lavish inaugural circus. He is clearly not qualified for the job. He does not understand health care, economics, energy, technology, or anything else. He does not realize how bad us common people have been hurt by the failed government of the past 40 years and how dire our situation is now. Get him out there now and give someone else a chance. The country cannot afford to let this failing presidency happen for another 3.5 years.

The man has only been in office for seven months!
Can he and his administration fix a country that was broken long before they entered office? They can do it if God and we help them do it!

His 1st 6 months are just a preview of what is to come. Get ready to lose all your rights.All you have worked for. You will be doing as they say when and where Very Sad!! My family is scared Absolutely NO! Confidence

I continue to have total confidence in Obama. He is on the right track. I don’t understand how people can think everything will be resolved overnight. I think some people don’t understand how seriously the Bush administration damaged our economy, our foreign relations, everything. Obama and anyone else trying to bring about real change will be seriously challenged by the entrenched vested interests like the insurance companies who have a stranglehold on Congress and many state legislatures. They are experts at distorting facts and blaming everyone else for their mismanagement – and covering up their greed. Ditto the other major power players. Real change means the big money interests will lose some of their money and they will do anything to prevent that. AND they are perfectly positioned to do it. Only we can stop them.

I have confidence that President Obama will do and is doing what he believes is in the best interests of us citizens of this great United States. Lets not forget who got us into all of this mess to begin with, stop all of the hate-mongering, and do what needs to be done. It is past time that our government put on it’s big boy britches and stop letting the rich run our country for their own benefit at the cost of the majority of the citizens.
DOES ANYONE REALIZE THAT THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY HAS A HEALTHCARE OPTION FOR CHILDREN AND SENIORS, CALLED MEDICARE AND MEDICAID? I don’t hear people talking badly about how awefully ran those programs are. After all, those programs take care of people WHO NEED IT.
There is nothing wrong in my book with President Obama stepping up to the plate and hitting a home run for all of us who are slaves to private insurance. In fact, I think he deserves a standing ovation.