Obama Has Failed His Supporters
By Bradley Blakeman
NewsMax.com
President Barack Obama was swept into office
with charisma and slogans. He had all the
answers and spoke eloquently and with passion.
He promised change you can believe in. He
promised an open and transparent government. He
pledged to listen to the people and return
civility to governing.
Now within weeks of a pivotal midterm election
where the entire House of Representatives and 37
seats in the Senate are at stake, the people are
turning away from the president's policies and
Democratic candidates and their leadership.
Why?
The public is finding out what the rest of us
knew all along. The man who had all the answers
to all that ails us in the campaign has no
answers as president.
President Obama refuses to take responsibility
for his actions. Instead be blames others. He
tells us to suck it up and that things could be
worse. He refuses to lead.
According to Rasmussen Reports, Obama entered
office with an overall approval rating of 65
percent. This week it is reported that Obama's
approval rating tanked to 46 percent.
Rasmussen reported on Sept. 22, 2010, that 2 out
of 3 voters (66 percent) think the country is
heading down the wrong track. The most damning
news to the White House and Democrats standing
for election on Nov. 2, 2010, is that 73 percent
of voters not affiliated with either the
Republican or Democratic parties believe the
country is headed in the wrong direction.
The president and his Democratic leadership
badly miscalculated their mandate for change.
They did what they wanted to do, instead of what
the American people needed to be done.
The president declared time and again that the
recession we faced was the worst since the Great
Depression, yet his handling of it was seen as
failed.
Instead of dealing head on with the economy, he
created a crisis on healthcare and rammed
through generational healthcare legislation that
the people did not want or need.
Americans from all over the country kept asking
themselves, What good is affordable healthcare
in 2014 if I do not have a job in 2010?
Today according to Rasmussen Reports, 61 percent
of Americans now favor repeal of the new
national healthcare law.
What has really turned the country sour to the
president is his aloofness to their economic
plight. The president promised us that if the
over $700 billion stimulus bill were passed that
unemployment would not exceed 8 percent
nationally.
We now know that since the stimulus bill was
passed unemployment shot up to 10 percent and
still hovers at 9.5 percent nationally. In
addition, in many urban areas unemployment is 18
percent and among the youth population those
18-29 the unemployment rate is 20 percent.
The most damning evidence of the people's
frustration with the president and Democrats
came recently at the president's own town-hall
meetings.
In a recent town hall meeting Obama's former law
school classmate Anthony Scaramucci said this to
the president, "I am exhausted of defending you,
defending your administration, defending the
mantle of change that I voted for." And who can
forget the words of the African-American woman
who described herself as a CFO, a mother and a
military veteran who said this to the president
at a recent town hall meeting: "I've been told
that I voted for a man who was going to change
things in a meaningful way for the middle class
and I'm waiting sir, I'm waiting. I still don¹t
feel it yet."
He has failed his ardent supporters.
These citizens like so many others are the ones
that had such great "hope" for this president
and Democratic leadership. But, now all they
want is change.
Bradley A. Blakeman served as deputy
assistant to President George W. Bush from
2001-'04. He is currently a professor of
politics and public policy at Georgetown
University.
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