Barack Obama Popularity Remains ‘Hopeful’

March 27, 2009
Filed under Opinions

Scott Alsafin
Staff Writer

Who doesn’t love Barack Obama right now? Obama is feeling the love with his  modest approval ratings according to a USA Today/Wall Street Journal poll. Two-thirds of Americans are ‘hopeful’ of the new president. The poll claims a meager 28 percentof Americans feel ‘doubtful’ about Obama in office.

The poll also determined some universal thought on the troubled economy. 70 percent of Americans are ‘very dissatisfied’ with the economy. However, the general public isn’t putting that one on Obama. Americans do not feel it is not Obama’s fault, but more so that he inheirited the situtation. So Obama holds a get out of jail for free card right on the most important issue in America.

Obama appears to be doing well in all the hot button issues also. Obama has released plans for a withdrawl from Iraq to be concluded in 2010. Obama has even began to budget for his massive healthcare program.

To recap, America has elected a person to fix the financial system (a work in progress). Someone to bring the boys back from Iraq (Check). Someone to fix healthcare (check in progress). To summarize, America elected an Mr. Fix It.

If the first hundred days are a glimpse at the future, America should be back on the right track. George Bush was asked to comment on Obama’s first hundred days but fumbled the question and asked, “Has it been a year already?”

In bleak times such as these, one must often take optimist perspective, so at least Bush’s term is finished (which he concluded with the worst approval ratings…ever). If polls are any indication as to how effective president is, Obama should be one of more successful in recent history.