Obama's ratings

[lorene]

The news today said even though obie's team)dem's) seem ot be bailling out of politics quickly, the presidents approval ratings are still around fifty percent even with his agenda ratings falling fast sooooo...

Why has not this president been attack personally like the ones in the past would be by now had they failled to do....well...anything, in their first year of office as he has done?

Could it be because of race? Perhaps people will only say they do not like his agenda and not him because they are afraid of being called racist? Or is he as a persn really that likable that no matter how much he messes up or little he accomplishes, we still love him?

[WinePusher]

Let's keep the government out of health care. They have a hard enough time running the post office, Social Security and Medicare. Ok, so by running them, maybe I should clarify, "running them into the ground".

there are problems with government run programs of course, but there are also problems with privately run organizations(http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1 ... 6CkltzGAxY), and personally, I don't think whether you get proper medical care or not should be determined by your income. I'd personally say its a right to receive proper medical care, and that receiving sub-optimal care because someone is too lazy and you don't have insurance is wrong, and guess what? this happens in our country.

I don't know if government run healthcare is the solution, but we need a solution. Right now we have some doctors charging ridiculous fees to insurance companies becasue they can, and they can get away with it. this raises insurance costs for everyone. And we have doctors who will perform needless procedures just for money, then turn around and neglect a patient entirely becasue they don't have insurance.

We need healthcare reform.

Everyone agrees with that, what the public opposes is the government takover Obama is trying to foist on us. IMHO his goal is enlarging the government and creating more people dependent on it, otherwise why does he not support tort reform, allowing us to purchase insurance over state lines, SEP insurance plans, etc.?

It's not a government take over.

Most Americans favor a public option (which would still not a takeover)

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02451.html

Your poll is a bit old. If there is so much support for it why can't Obama pass it with huge congressional majorities?

You people who like big-government/socialism, look at California. It doesn't work. Under Obama's budget we are projected to be paying $800,000,000,000 a year just on the interest on the national debt in ten years.

are u a conservative eden?

Yes, a proud member of the Christian right.

me too!