Obama Blames Voters for His Political Failures; Says We’re All Confused and Not Thinking Clearly (Shades of Jimmy Carter!)

WASHINGTON – According to President Barack Obama, Americans are angry, frustrated, scared, anxious, uncertain, nervous, discouraged and shaken up.

 

They’re also confused and not thinking clearly.

 

Heading into critical midterm elections, Obama has been freely sharing this gloomy diagnosis on the campaign trail, at times sounding more like a psychiatrist than a politician. He usually couples it with a reminder that the country’s been through tough times before and is resilient enough to bounce back, and an appeal to voters to “choose hope over fear.”

 

Obama’s dreary assessment appears to be an attempt to empathize with voters in a time of acute economic anxiety. It also can serve as an explanation about why voters haven’t embraced his agenda — and why they look poised to deliver a drubbing to Democrats Nov. 2.

 

Americans would be more supportive of his policies, the president suggests, if they weren’t fettered by anxiety he accuses the GOP of stoking. And the descriptions of angst from a president criticized as overly cerebral and aloof also allow him to attempt to show he feels voters’ pain — even if he can’t cure it.

 

So the president who campaigned on hope and change now sometimes sounds more like he’s diagnosing depression than offering inspiration.

 

“People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared,” Obama said recently at a Boston fundraiser. “And so part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.”

  

From:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101026/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_angry_voters

Latest Poll: Americans Have Lost Faith in Barack Obama…

The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll is a major blow to the White House just four months before crucial mid-terms in November. According to the poll, “nearly six in ten voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country”, and two thirds “say they are disillusioned with or angry about the way the federal government is working.” A staggering 58 per cent of Americans say they do not have confidence in the president’s decision-making, with just 42 per cent saying they do.

The unpopularity of the president is hurting his party’s prospects in Congress, and prompting many voters to seek a greater balance of power in Washington. By a margin of 56 per cent to 41 per cent, “those most likely to vote in the midterms prefer the GOP over continued Democrat rule”, which could spell disaster for Democrats in the House of Representatives, with significant losses in the Senate as well.

…A significant majority of the American people have now lost faith in President Obama and his big spending message, and are nervous about the towering mountains of borrowing and debt that threaten to sink the US economy. The Obama White House is facing a major crisis in public confidence, and as this latest poll shows, the outlook for this November looks even worse.

From:  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100047106/americans-have-lost-faith-in-barack-obama/