Obama: Big wins, little credit focus 07/20/2010

Obama: Big wins, little credit

focus 07/20/2010 WASHINGTON — Not even President Barack Obama’s sworn political foes would dispute his claims to have forged sweeping political change — their cries for repeal of his historic new laws are proof of that. But Obama, despite adding a new one last week that reshaped regulation of the post-crisis finance industry, has garnered little political reward for fulfilling campaign promises like enacting health care reform. And the hope he whipped up among voters in the 2008 election has dissolved, as America’s trademark self-confidence stagnates as economic gloom takes its toll. Questions about Obama’s leadership are growing, amid crushing unemployment, a grinding war in Afghanistan, and as fallout lingers from the country’s worst environmental disaster sparked by BP’s gushing oil well. A flurry of polls in recent weeks have reignited fears among Democrats that their control of the House of Representatives and the Senate could be at risk in November’s mid-term polls. Historically, a party lumbered with a president who has approval ratings below 50 percent suffers badly in congressional polls.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100720com3.html

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