-By Warner Todd Huston In another breach of trust between President Obama and the American people, Obama has once again broken a promise to change the business-as-usual habits of Washington. As a candidate and early in his presidency Obama claimed he’d bring an unprecedented transparency to Washington. But now it looks as though he’s Okayed his
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Obama: Transparency? Who Needs it?
Obama will try to launch a comeback amid the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and a sense of foreboding among voters who are increasingly questioning his skills and priorities, a WSJ/NBC News poll says.
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Obama Faces Deepening Voter Pessimism
The timing of this CNSNews report published early Friday about a definitive statement made by President Obama seems particularly eerie given the fact that Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S’. credit rating Friday evening for the first time in history . The rather foreboding report delved into a flashback of Obama circa 2009, in which he stated that his presidency would be a “ one-term proposition ” if the economy did not turn around on his watch in ” three years .” His statement, made that February, puts Obama less than six months out from his three-year milestone. “Look, I’m at the start of my administration. One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable . You know, I’ve got four years,” Obama told The Today Show’s Matt Lauer on February 1, 2009 . “A year from now I think people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress,” said Obama. ”But there’s still going to be some pain out there. If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition .” One wonders if, as 2012 approaches, Obama will still think it “nice” to be “held accountable.” Watch Obama’s words come back to haunt him here:
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Obama Flashback: My Presidency Will Be ‘A One-Term Proposition‘ if Economy Doesn’t Turn Around in ‘3 Years’
AP – Golf shoes in the Oval Office could have been a clue.
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Obama golf shoes could have been clue to bin Laden
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