We have seen President Barack Obama's election drive political liberals and several Goanetters into flights of supreme ecstasy, even though he has implemented policies that harm Indians, like restrictions on H1-B visas and on nurses from India and other countries.
Because of his inexperience in running anything other than his mouth and hie own campaign I always believed that he was elected largely due to the mistaken belief among younger Americans and brown Americans that Democrats are socially inclusive, residual guilt among white Americans over slavery and his clever and always calculated and teleprompted rhetoric which fooled so many people who ignored all the facts to vote for him. As we know, President Obama has approved massive federal spending in an attempt to counter the economic crisis. I heard one analyst say that his spending proposals now exceed all the federal spending from Washington to Bush 43 combined. He then approved a massive Omnibus Bill for the balance of this fiscal year which a lame-duck Bush had threatened to veto for its profligacy and earmarks. This bill has over 8,500 earmarks which Obama had previously repeatedly and very publicly opposed. This has lost him credibility with those who believed his message of change. On top of all this, he is promising massive and expensive government intervention in the economy with his government initiatives to address climate change, failing public schools, union voting methods and health care. Even his prominent supporters like Warren Buffett and Jack Welch, former GE CEO, and Andy Grove, former Intel CEO, have now publicly opposed these plans and initiatives as excessive, and not focused on stimulating the economy. In the foreign policy area, America's enemies like N. Korea and Iran, freed from their fear of the previous president, are on the march, showing more aggression in their missile and nuclear weapons development programs and taking advantage of Obama's appeasing and conciliatory attitude and belief that he can fool anyone with his rhetoric. He is also the most pro-abortion president in US history, by promising to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would remove all restrictions on any abortion anywhere in the US, provide federal funding for abortions as if it were a constitutional right, and prevent the states from placing any restrictions either. His pre-abortion policies were predictable. The pro-abortion lobby were among his biggest supporters when he was considered the most liberal of all the US Senators. As a State Senator in Illinois he had even voted four times against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, even after the wording was changed to address his previous concerns. He was the only State Senator to proactively oppose this bill which basically said that an infant born during a botched abortion should be protected by law and given the same medical treatment that any live baby would receive. He opposed this because he claimed that this would jeopardize Roe V. Wade. What he was apparently concerned about was that people would realize that the fetus by surviving an abortion proved that viable humans were being aborted, not unviable tissue masses as abortion supporters claim. Finally, a growing number of people have begun to notice that there is a huge disconnect between what the president brazenly says to the media on an almost daily basis and what his administration is actually doing. Even the mainstream media who turned on John McCain and covered up every Obama weakness during the campaign have begun to notice and comment. Will he learn from his mistakes, surrounded as he is by ultra liberal Democrat party hacks and leaders in the Legislature, and an aggressive and highly organized far left wing demanding to be rewarded for their support? Only time will tell. For now, less than two months into his presidency, President Obama is less popular in the US than President Bush was at the same time. This poll was conducted by the Rasmussen organization which came the closest of all the polling companies in predicting Obama's victory in the presidential elections. See, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html Excerpt: Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama's net presidential approval rating -- which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve -- is just six, his lowest rating to date. Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative. [end of excerpt]
