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Study: War on terror weakened Obama's support

Published: 18 September, 2009, 21:36
Edited: 15 March, 2010, 16:02

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A study in the U.S. has shown Barack Obama's media image is on the decline. According to research by two American universities, the President's standing has seen a 16 percent decline.

“In his first 100 days, about 59 percent of his coverage was positive. The majority of the stories about the President were actually good. Now in his second 100 days, it is below 43 percent” – says Nikki Schwab, a reporter from the U.S. News and World Report magazine.

Talking about the role of media in the decline of Obama’s approval ratings, Nikki Schwab described it as a “chicken and egg” situation. “Approval ratings will be sliding and the media will obviously report on that, and than people will read these stories and, perhaps, they will think that the president isn’t doing a good job” – said Schwab.

In the US, the media tends to focus on domestic issues, notes Schwab. However, it's not his domestic policies that caused the decline in approval ratings, but foreign policy decisions.

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Obama is dangerous, because he no more leads the country but the military Apparatus does.

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Criminally insane drug addicts in America rule, unfortunately. These people are POLY addicted which means they ingest more than one drug and therefore, the controllers of politicians - THE "HANDLERS" - have a fairly easy task in puppeteer manufacturing. Until the poly-addicted criminally insane have been taken into a center where they can be assessed for the brain damage that has been inflicted by and through the poisonous systems named as "medical," "academic," "agriculture," "water," etc., with no rules or regulations regarding being human .... ... well, the obvious is that those who called and call themselves the ELITE of the U.S. or LEADERS, have been outed by the global community for what these miscreants are, in reality: insane. Why in heaven (Condi used the celestial metaphor) would anyone believe in the possibility of human beings in America who call themselves the "government" to be other than exactly as their actions prove as NATO dark lord wannabes, the tongues wag and wag never ending lies. War on drugs, war on terror, war on human beings who choose to breathe a breath of life without paying the families of antiquity for whatever it is they dream up as a brand to force into their Obamas and other puppets, to sell as though 21st Century civilized human intelligence is continuing in the "think tanks" of ignorance.