Reuters: Obama Failings Fault of Fates

[Kathianne]

At first the article appears to explain his disapproval ratings as a result of the bad hand. Then one realizes that this is actually a report on their own polling, which is more bad news.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/12/us-obama-leadership-idUSTRE77B5G920110812?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28New s+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29


Analysis: Confidence in Obama's leadership shaken Fri, Aug 12 2011

By Alister Bull (http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=alister.bull&)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spree of bad news -- market gyrations, fears of a double-dip recession, stubborn unemployment and fallout from a debt deal -- has shaken confidence in President Barack Obama's leadership and could cloud his chances for winning re-election...



Down 4 paragraphs:


...A Reuters/Ipsos poll Wednesday found that 73 percent of Americans believe the country is off on the wrong track.
This was the highest reading since October 2008 when the financial crisis was raging and just weeks before voters turned away from the Republican Party of then-President George W. Bush to put Obama into the White House...



Good news quote, :laugh2:


..."I think Americans would like to re-elect the first African American president, but ultimately the presidential election is a referendum on performance," she said...

[red states rule]

At first the article appears to explain his disapproval ratings as a result of the bad hand. Then one realizes that this is actually a report on their own polling, which is more bad news.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/12/us-obama-leadership-idUSTRE77B5G920110812?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+(News+ %2F+US+%2F+Politics+News)



Down 4 paragraphs:



Good news quote, :laugh2:


Better spin mode than you would get from a Maytag washer.


Six months ago the liberal media was reporting we are on the road to recovery and things were getting better. Now they have to report the truth - but with excuses

Obama is toast and I am looking forward to the reaction from the liberal media when they have to "report" the defeat of Obama at the ballot box

[Kathianne]

http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/don-t-say-you-weren-t-warned-20110811


Don't Say You Weren't Warned by Ronald Brownstein (http://www.nationaljournal.com/reporters/bio/1)
Updated: August 11, 2011 | 5:42 p.m.
August 11, 2011 | 3:54 p.m. Interviews with natural-disaster survivors always feature some variation on the theme of “nobody saw it coming.”


No one in Washington will be able to say the same if the 2012 election proves as disruptive as now seems possible.


Both the turmoil in the financial markets and a procession of dismal new poll results point toward the same unmistakable conclusion: All of the leading figures and institutions in Washington are facing a collapse in public confidence probably unmatched since late in Jimmy Carter’s presidency...

[red states rule]

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.parcoltop22.13536.ImageFile.gif


So Jimmy Carter really did get a second term