US President Barack Obama suffered a painful defeat in Massachusetts on Tuesday. With mid-term elections looming, it means that Obama will have to fundamentally re-think his political course. German commentators say it is the end of hope.This is a very interesting take on the current state of the Obama presidency and what the world thinks. The love affair many have had with Barack Obama is coming to an end. The president and his team need to become more resolute and not just utter the words they think people want to hear. The time has come for each of us to ask President Obama was does he plan to do for Main Street and to start fixing this mess. I can't point a finger to anything of significance the Obama Administration and the Democrats have done over the course of a year. Talk is cheap. It's time for action.
US President Barack Obama has had a number of difficult weeks during his first year in the White House. Right after he took office, he had to wade through a week full of partisan bickering over his economic stimulus package combined with a tax scandal surrounding Tom Daschle, the man Obama had hoped would lead his health care reform team....
This week, though -- a week when Obama should have been celebrating the first anniversary of his inauguration -- may have been the president's worst yet. Scott Brown, an almost unknown Republican member of the Massachusetts Senate, defeated the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley for the US Senate seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The defeat in a heavily Democratic state not only highlights Obama's massive loss of popular support during his first year in office, but it also could spell doom for his signature effort to reform the US health care system.
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