By nearly 2 to 1, respondents to the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll believed the United States is on the wrong track. Despite the yelping and destructive machinations of the deficit hawks, employment and the economy are by far the public's biggest concern. Mr. Obama is paying dearly for his tin ear on this topic. Fifty-four percent of respondents believed he does not have a clear plan for creating jobs. Only 45 percent approved of his overall handling of the economy, compared with 48 percent who disapproved.
He follows this up with the hopeful but naive sentiment that it's not too late
for Obama to turn things around and give us reason to hope again. He will not.
It may be true that Obama is hoping to reelected to a second and final term and
enact a truly progressive agenda not beholden to corporate interests.
But we elected him to do that now. The man who made a show of eschewing
lobbyists and corporate campaign contributions from his campaign had now loaded
Washington with the same people
who were told to wait at the door, many of them the very same people who helped
get us into the aforementioned economic quagmire.
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