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Obama has enjoyed a very friendly media, unlike Bush faced during his two terms. Yet, even with a media that was instumental in getting him elected - a media that has defended his every blunder, the socialist label has stuck with the majority of Americans. Obama has done very little to support his claim to be a moderate. As for fixing our problems in four years, there is no evidence that he is making any progress keeping that promise.

Historically, recessions have been followed by periods of rapid growth and drops in the unemployment rate. That has not happened under Obama. Wall Street and Main Street have no confidence that things are or will be getting better under Obama's watch. That is why Democratic candidates are avoiding being seen with Obama and why the Republicans expect to retake the House and have a good shot at taking the Senate in November.

Clinton also enjoyed favorable coverage from the media but despite being a liberal, he was a pragmatic politician who was able to appeal to enough Republicans and independents that the majority of Americans never viewed him as anything but a moderate or typical liberal Democrat. When Americans failed to support his attempted takeover of the health care system, he deferred to American public opinion. When faced with the same option, Obama twisted arms and bribed moderate Democrats to force nationalized health care down our throats. Now, he and the Democrats are about to pay for their disregard of the public will.

Obama has earned the socialist tag despite 24/7 news coverage that has attempted to sell his agenda. James Carville has supported and defended Obama, which makes the results - and even the existence of this poll even more remarkable. Obama has lost the support of the overwhelming majority of white Americans and independents. Even Jeffery Immelt, CEO of GE, which owns MSNBC and who has been a huge supporter of Obama, recently criticized Obama for being anti-business.

Obama's agenda is the reason people now believe that he is a socialist. The media was able to fend off that allegation for a long time but the truth has finally emerged as it usually does.

Wow you are far to partisan take off your right wing glasses and read my post again Hoot. I am not agreeing with Obama. I agree his agenda he has not lived up to and as it is right now as a Progressive I would not vote for him in the up and coming primaries. However, the right wing media bash him every single day and you are saying he has had an easy road with the media? Are you kidding me? Yes, left wing media glorify him in some ways, no they do not call him a socialist and for good reason they would lose their jobs. That is the problem with the 24 hour news cycle because we have what we call in the communication field "Big Media".

Big Media delute the message to the general public especiallly during election years. Yes, that did aid in Obama being elected as it did as well with Bush in both terms, as it did for Clinton as well. Since the 80s we have saw a growth in the media and that is a problem. You have four elite groups that run this country now the political, economic (wall st), military and the media. We the people have a very small voice in this country besides activists groups and forums. That is the point im trying to raise but apparently I have to spell it out for you in a paper format that could be 30 pages for you to realize that because you disagree with anything any one says besides old school. I do not agree with alot Obama has done, however, I think every politican never lives up to what they are saying. They are just trying to win votes and once they get into office the back off of what they truly said they were going to do. Now part of that does have to do with what was going on.

One thing I do want to put out to you though is Obama did NOT say it would take 4 years. He actually said he would not be able to fix things in ONE TERM he said it is going to take more than 4 years to fix the recession. I thought that before he even said it, we could be in this recession for 5 more years pending on what we the people are willing to do as well. Its not just based on economic policy we as Americans have a job to do as well.