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We as parents will oftentimes warn our children of potholes in life’s road in hopes that they will avoid them. When they willingly choose to ignore us and do their own thing, all we can do is simply watch as they run right smack into one of those avoidable holes.

EVERYTHING Obama is doing right now he talked about doing during his entire campaign for POTUS. He is the same Barack Obama who voted “present” on many important issues throughout his political career. He also is the same person that often talked about “spreading the wealth” and creating a “new America”. Everything we are seeing now is simply part of the process of fulfilling his dream. If you spent too much time talking about his actual record during the campaign and not about how little Black boys now have a role model to follow and the race card was smacked right on your forehead.

Suddenly, the same so-called “independents” that helped put Obama in officer are now getting concerned about how Obama is running the show.

From wsj.com

“While the president remains broadly popular, his standing has eroded noticeably among political independents in recent weeks. That slide, among a set of citizens central to Mr. Obama’s sizable victory in last year’s election, means he has reached a politically hazardous juncture at the midpoint of his first, exceptionally hectic year.

The shifting attitude among independent voters, in fact, is the most significant change to emerge from a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, completed just last week. In that survey, Mr. Obama’s job-approval rating among Americans overall slipped a notch, to 56% from 61% in April. That’s not much of a drop, and is in keeping with the pattern for a new president at this point in his term.

But the slide was much more pronounced among self-identified purely independent voters — that is, Americans who express no loyalty to either party.

Among these people, who tend to reside in the middle of the ideological spectrum, the president’s job-approval rating fell to 45% from 60% in April.

The drop is the result of a ‘much more critical evaluation by these voters of President Obama’ than in the administration’s earlier months, Democrat Peter Hart and Republican Bill McInturff, directors of the Journal/NBC News poll, write in their analysis of the findings.

In particular, the survey suggests, independents are developing gnawing fears about government spending. They are markedly more worried about the federal budget deficit as an economic issue than are Americans in general, and they are more likely to be skeptical of Mr. Obama’s plan for a health-care overhaul.

Above all, though, independents are starting to simply view the president as more liberal than they expected. The share of independents who say Mr. Obama is a liberal has risen to a substantial 64% from 46% two months ago. A large portion of them actually classify him as ‘very liberal.’ That’s a particular problem because independents tend to view themselves as center-right — 78% call themselves moderate or conservative — so they see a president moving to the left of where they are.

‘This is a clear and important danger for him,’ says Mr. Hart, the Democratic pollster. Independents, he adds, don’t seem to worry so much that Mr. Obama is trying to tackle too many issues, but rather that ‘this administration is leaning much more left than they expected’ as he handles those issues.” (more…)

The article goes on to say that 7 out of 10 independents like him personally.
And you know what? This is exactly how they voted.

From washingtonpost.com

“The shift in public assessments of the stimulus package has clear political ramifications: At the 100-day mark of Obama’s presidency, 63 percent of people in states that were decided by fewer than 10 percentage points in November said the stimulus act had or would boost the economy. Today, in the telephone poll of 1,001 Americans conducted Thursday through Sunday, the number has plummeted to 50 percent in those closely contested states, with nearly as many now saying the stimulus program will not help the national economy.” (more…)

Folks are also waking up to the fact that billions of dollars spent on government expansion and failing companies is not a recipe for sustainable job creation.

Also from the Washington Post “Recovery’s Missing Ingredient: New Jobs”.

“Analysts say the high levels of joblessness would be accompanied by increases in child poverty, strained government budgets, and black and Latino unemployment rates approaching 20 percent.

‘I find it unfathomable that people are not horrified about what is going to happen,” said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “I regard all this talk about how the recession is maybe going to end, all the talk about deficits and inflation, to be the equivalent of telling Americans, ‘You are just going to have to tough it out.’ But we’re looking at persistent unemployment that is going to be extraordinarily damaging to many communities. There is a ton of pain in the pipeline.’”

The “But Bush…” line doesn’t work any more.

The following images are mirrors that “concerned” independents apparently are not willing to gaze into.