Tuesday, August 16, 2011
"Dashed Hopes: How Obama Disappointed"
Journalists in other countries are writing about Obama much less favorably than in the past...
In Germany's Der Spiegel, Marc Hujer wrote this as part of his article about Barack Obama:
"According to opinion polls, 54 percent of Americans say they have had to change their lifestyle, their American way of life, while a third of Americans say they are furious with the banks, the politicians and Obama.
Obama's approval ratings have plunged, with only 40 percent of Americans now saying they are satisfied with his performance. In April 2009, shortly after his inauguration, some 68 percent of Americans were still on Obama's side.
All that remains of the great hopes Americans and the world had pinned on Obama, inspired by his stirring campaign speeches about change and renewal, is a battlefield of unsatisfactory and contradictory compromises. Obama, who just turned 50 and was once a symbol of youthful change, suddenly seems old and worn out, as gray as his hair has become.
His decline in popularity has also destroyed the hope that Obama could bring new momentum to America and the world."
