AP-GfK Poll: Country in a funk

[WatchManUSA]

Are some in the “lap-dog press" finally noticing that our Maximum Leader is making a mess?

In an article entitled, AP-GfK Poll: Country in a funk
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_poll

Excerpts:

WASHINGTON – The euphoria of 2008 is over: America is in a funk.

Elected last November on a wave of optimism, President Barack Obama now finds himself governing an increasingly pessimistic country in recession while muscling through Congress a health care reform overhaul and weighing whether to commit more troops to the 8-year-old Afghanistan war.

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows that Americans grew slightly more dispirited on a range of matters over the past month, continuing slippage that has occurred since Obama took office as the year began.

"It's in pretty bad shape," said truck driver Floyd Hacker of Granby, Mo., a Democrat who voted for Obama. "He sounded like somebody who could make things happen. I still think he can."

Still, Hacker said, he doesn't agree with the president's approach to the economy, questions what the U.S. is trying to accomplish in Afghanistan, and isn't sure that Obama should have spent so much time on health care, adding: "He can't handle everything at one time."

Now, Obama's approval rating stands at 54 percent, roughly the same as in October but very different from what it was in January just before he took office, 74 percent. And some 56 percent of people say the country is heading in the wrong direction, an uptick from 51 percent last month and 49 percent in Obama's first month as president.

The economy is by far the most important issue on the minds of Americans given a crushing recession that's erased jobs. Unemployment hit 10.2 percent last month even though the administration has promoted glimmers of improvement and most economists say the recession is over.

Those jobless figures help explain why as many people said the economy got worse in the past month as said it got better — and it's not many people who thought it got better, just 22 percent. Most say the economy stayed the same, and most don't approve of how Obama is handling it — just 46 percent approve compared with 50 percent last month.

The country also has grown even more lukewarm on Obama and the wars as he tries to wind down the one in Iraq and considers ramping up the one in Afghanistan.

[MikeBjerum]

Ah yes, The post election hangover is starting to kick us all in the ass.

I didn't drink the kool aid, because I was too sick to my stomach over the theme of the party.  But for those that did drink it, they now have to deal with the morning after ... and we are going to be just like our parents were with us and not believe that it was bad sausage on the pizza either.

The sad part is that just like any other frat party we all have to walk around in the puke puddles till someone with a strong stomach cleans it up.

[twyacht]

m58,
The sad part is that just like any other frat party we all have to walk around in the puke puddles till someone with a strong stomach cleans it up.

I'd like to take a  mega psi pressure washer to the whole District of Columbia...

All Congressional Members included in the "clean up".

[tombogan03884]

 "In a funk", is that some kind of PC code phrase for, "disgusted with the liars communists and crooks that have infested Washington and the muddle headed a$$ hats that put them there" ?

[MikeBjerum]

"In a funk", is that some kind of PC code phrase for, "disgusted with the liars communists and crooks that have infested Washington and the muddle headed a$$ hats that put them there" ?

PC code is what I would call it.  I used the word funk today when the bossman asked me why I was so short with him and his sidekick ... From Last Sunday (the 1st) through tomorrow night (11 days) when I project I'll leave I will have buried (or burnt) five people and worked with two others, and I will have worked about 160 hours.  I figure it takes me 30 to 35 hours per service plus other non-licensed I call in, and this proves I'm pretty much correct. 

Any way, the word funk is what I chose to use rather than to tell him I was sick of this F**ken place, and to get the H**l off my A*s!  Yep, PC term is it.

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