Barack Obama - Rating
(continued
from
Barack Obama Platform)
Barack Obama began his presidency with record approval ratings. The 80-83%
approval ratings that Barack Obama enjoyed on his 2009 inauguration
day easily topped the 71-73% previous inaugural approval ratings record set by John F. Kennedy
in 1961.
Three days after his inauguration, however, Barack Obama's approval rating
dropped 15 points to 65-68% after his executive order on
abortion and the
details of his economic plan that had been
hidden emerged.
Barack Obama's approval rating declined steadily thereafter and
then languished in the 40 to 50 percentile range for the remainder of his term except
for a brief spike just after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.
The current rating of Barack Obama's presidency reflects his handling of the economy,
social issues and foreign policy.
During his term, the economy became more fragile and dependent on imports of
manufactured goods, the income gap widened, the national debt
continued to grow unabated, and the middle class continued to struggle (see
America In Decline).
Bar
ack Obama promoted sin as a civil right (see
Barack Obama & Racism
and
Marriage), murder as a woman's right (see
Abortion Is Murder
and Born
Alive Abortion), and placed two more liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court (see
Ages of Supreme Court
Justices).
He also promoted Islam (see
Obama & Islam) while marginalizing Israel, legitimized the Communist
regime of Cuba's Castro, handed $150 billion to Iran and set it on a path to
become a nuclear threat (see
Barack Obama's
platform).
For the details linked above, our rat
ing of his presidency remains an
F.