President in distress by Claudia Sonea

It is high time for Obama to get back in business! After resting most of the summer, the US president must get back to face the voters who are not at all pleased of what he has done so far. Where are all the promises made during his campaign? The troops did not withdraw from Iraq, the universal health care program was soon forgotten and they did not even managed to get to the plan “New Energy for America”. This Fall Obama has nothing to brag about or at least nothing that he promised was accomplished. In spite of optimistic announcements that the economic crisis is heading towards its ends in US, there are cut backs, lay offs! and the final quarter earnings seem to have dropped from last year. All eyes are on the president and what he has done with the bailout program which is not even mentioned anymore, with the health care reform that stirred a lot of commotion without any result. After the reticent attitude and the refusal to pronounce on the health care program, Obama went down in polls and the image of long awaited hero is starting to vanish. As a matter of fact the health care reform was a mumbo-jumbo from the beginning and after a close study of it, you will find many contradictions like promising that it will not add to deficit, but then who will cover the insurance for those who cannot afford? Because the Republicans and even some Democrats are thinking more about the economy and less about their public image, the bill did not go through on Tuesday, which caste a dark shadow over the image of US president. Obama moved quickly and on Wednesday, with an ! emotional speech threw dust in people’s eyes and fed the! hungry eagles with an enormous investment in medical research. The 5$ billion would have meant a great deal in support of his health care reform and it seems absurd to waste money on researches that up to now came up with almost nothing or at least nothing to make a difference. Nonetheless, everyone is left standing in awe again and the president is happy to adopt the hero posture. Cheers America!

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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