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A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?"
Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a "failure," while 51% consider it a "success" and 11% say it's still "too soon to tell."
An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a "success" while only 32% considered it a "failure."
No kidding. Adding a trillion to the deficit can't be helping.
More and more are abandoning the Obama ship on a daily base....the Mesiah has proven to be fake and it was hot iar hope and change....
Btw I expected it to take longer for a lot of Obama followers to wake up, but Obama has showed to be distructive him seld...his arrogance has showed many that experience is what a presidents needs to have and writing a couple of books isn't good enough.
This is very short-sighted. You must keep in mind what happened with the Bush administration. Bush started his personal war against a country (Iraq) that was no threat to the U.S. and spent billions of dollars to keep his trumped-up war going for years. It drained the U.S. resources so badly that we have not recovered from it yet.
Obama has inherited a huge mess from the shrub that will take time to clean up.
Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s approval rating is falling on concern unemployment is rising and the budget deficit will grow, a Quinnipiac University poll shows.
Exactly half of the registered voters surveyed from July 27 to Aug. 3 by Quinnipiac said they approve of the job Obama is doing, compared with 42 percent who disapprove. That’s down from 57 percent approval and 33 percent disapproval in a poll taken in late June, according to results released today.
Americans are upset about rising unemployment and worried that health-care plans making their way through Congress will add to the U.S. budget deficit, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Hamden, Connecticut-based polling institute. The combination has helped drive down the president’s ratings.
A “willingness to give him the benefit of the doubt is, among some voters, evaporating,” Brown told reporters in Washington yesterday.
He blew his credibility with the non-stimulus and GM/Chrysler takeovers. People do not believe his rhetoric anymore.
Wait until the cash for gas guzzlers program, the cash giveway to even rich people as a reward for them having a gas guzzler, ends and the middle class gets a big tax hike to pay for it and the car sales drop.
That was a typical Obama-Clinton kind of program. No income limits and the cash for gas guzzlers only rewarded those people who had a gas guzzler in their garage, nothing for those people who were responsible and have older but gas economical cars. I know of several physicians who of course owned gas guzzlers as second or third vehicles or for their kids who ran out and got in on that scam.
As much as I don't like it, we hired Obama to run the executive branch of the government.
He is our employee. We bought into his schpeel about how he was going to do this and that. Well, as time goes on, we continue to learn, that like all good democrats, he is a liar.
He played us. He said things he did not mean, just to get votes. Now that he is in office, his last concern is whether or not he keeps his word. He boldly stated as recorded on video tape, that he is for a one payer health system.
Now, he contends thorough a newly hired soul selling, lying bimbo, that those statements are not true.
Even though it has been clearly shown that he did in fact say it, meant it, and ran on that as part of his platform, he is now saying he never said it.
I am sitting here, completely stumped as to how to express my thoughts on when he is lying, and when he isn't.
He tells us, that when he said he was for it, he was lying.
To NOW trust him, because now, he is telling the truth. How do we know this? Just on his word? His word has been proven to be worthless. Do we need a decoder ring to figure out when he is lying or not?
And, if someone has been proven to be a liar, how, and why would you ever want to try and trust him again?
He is a liar. He can never be anything else. Once a liar, always a liar. Always doubt as to his honesty.
He has lost all creditability as a man, let alone as an elected official who has vowed to serve us.
He is like a cheating husband or wife. He is going to lie, just to stay out of trouble. He has cheated on us.
Why would anyone believe him?
The point is, he is our employee.
In what world would he be allowed to continue in the private sector if he did to the company, as he is doing to us?
We need to fire this lazy lying worthless employee, and get someone who can do the job we hire them to do.
You cant say an administration is a failure when it is only an 1/8th (possibly 1/16th) of the way done. Anyone that even answers that survey yes or no is a fool. The answer to that survey should be "yet to be determined". Any other answer is foolish.
Are you actually comparing the cloudless skies Bush enjoyed in his first six months, pre-9/11 and buoyed by the Clinton surplus, to those Bush left Obama to grapple with?!
Also, your poll says 51% approve of the job Obama's doing compared with 37% disapproving.
You cant say an administration is a failure when it is only an 1/8th (possibly 1/16th) of the way done. Anyone that even answers that survey yes or no is a fool. The answer to that survey should be "yet to be determined". Any other answer is foolish.
agree. weird that only 11% said "too soon to tell."
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