THE FOOLS ARE BEGINNING TO REGAIN THEIR SENSES

What burns me up is that people who, like myself, have been critical of Obama are branded as racists. Let’s hope that Sarah Palin will not be the Republican candidate in November 2012, so that voters will be able to exercise the good sense of dumping Obama onto the ash heap of history.
　
FRESH BLOW TO BARACK OBAMA AS FOUR IN TEN AMERICANS SAY THEY WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM
By David Gardner
　
Mail Online
October 12, 2010
　
Hope has turned to disenchantment for almost half of Americans who said they had supported Barack Obama in the presidential election.
　
More than four in ten one-time Obama backers now admit they are either less supportive or have turned totally against the president, according to a new poll released today.
　
With just three weeks to go before the U.S. mid-term elections, the findings have alarmed Democrats who face an uphill battle to cling onto control on Capitol Hill.
　
The president’s popularity was crucial to his party’s dominance in 2008.
　
Now Washington analysts claim the growing backlash against Mr. Obama could doom the Democrats to defeat next month.
　
In the Bloomberg National Poll, fewer than half of likely voters approved of the president’s job performance and most said his policies have harmed, rather than helped the U.S. economy.
　
The erosion of support was most noticeable in two groups that were key to his election triumph - women and independents.
　
More than six in ten of the former supporters who have changed their minds were women and 53 per cent were independents.

Many Americans are bitter over the nation’s slide back into economic malaise after hundreds of billions of pounds worth of taxpayer money was used to prop up big Wall Street banks and financial institutions.
　
‘He’s made compromises that have hurt the middle class,’ said survey participant Alan Graham, a 55-year-old Kentucky surgeon who supported Mr. Obama in the last election but is now on the fence.

The poll shows that almost two-thirds of Americans now think the country is on the wrong track and unemployment is the top concern for about half of the electorate.
　
The growing budget deficit is the second most pressing issue, cited by 27 per cent of respondents.
　
Despite discontent over his effectiveness, Mr. Obama is still liked by voters.
　
Those with a positive view of the president rose to 53 per cent from 49 per cent in a July poll.
　
But he is still outshone by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is viewed favorably by 64 per cent and First Lady Michelle Obama, who boasts a popularity rating of 62 per cent.
　
In a hypothetical match-up with one of the Republican Party’s most prominent figures, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Mr. Obama won hands-down by 51 per cent to 35 per cent.
　
Two-thirds favored keeping tax cuts implemented by George Bush for all Americans, rather than supporting the administration’s plan to breaks for the rich.
　
On Mr. Obama’s main foreign policy initiative, six out of ten voters say Afghanistan is now a lost cause, up from 55 per cent in July.
　
‘It’s worst than a dead end, and he doesn’t seem to recognize that,’ asset manager Nick Ruffin, 66, told Bloomberg.