| Obama in history (updated as of July 2010):
Political views and opinions:
In the book “The Audacity of Hope” (2006), Obama wrote: “Right from the beginning of being in the Senate, I always was a rather rigid critic of the policies of the Bush Administration. I considered the tax relaxation for well-to-do citizens was not only unreasonable but also rather doubtful from a moralistic point of view”.
Barack Obama was strongly opposed towards President George Bush’s policy in respect to Iraq.
The newspaper the International Herald Tribune wrote on November 16, 2008 about his political views and how they were articulated during the election campaign: “Obama did not have definite ideological concepts even though his track record and program are far away from the center”.
Obama supported the permission for the artificial termination of pregnancy, including abortions at later stages.. During discussions in the USA about the “Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act”, Obama wrote that if he has been elected, he would tirelessly protect this method of abortion as a legitimate medical procedure. Obama also participated in working out programs on the prevention of pregnancy amongst teenagers through the distribution of contraceptives and educational programs on sexual education for teenagers.
On November 18, 2008, Obama confirmed his commitment to work towards achieving significant targets in the fight against changes of the global climate.
“The Independent” wrote on November 19, 2008: “For many believers, it is unexpected that a Black Democrat, staunch supporter of the right of women re abortion and supporter of embryonic stem cell research, has won the majority of votes from religious voters”. The edition has printed the statistics of the Pew Research Center, according to whom 53 percent of religious citizens from the USA voted for Barack Obama, 46 percent and for John McCain. On the other hand, four years ago, John Kerry conceded to George Bush by loosing the votes of religious Americans: 48 percent against 51 percent.
Immediately after Obama’s inauguration the political analyst Nikolai Zlobin noted: “As the day of handing-over of powers to the Country’s New President by Bush approached, the more and more benevolently and positively Obama spoke high in praise of his predecessor. It is dramatic change in comparison with Obama's extremely critical anti-Bush rhetoric initially during the election campaign. It is understood that such a change in the public relationship of the new president with respect to his predecessor is, in many aspects, connected with the measure of introducing Obama to affairs, acquaintance with real situations, with which George Bush had to deal with and with which the new president has to. Finally, Obama started understanding that his predecessor had taken enough rational policies considering all possible factors and restrictions.”
Addressing a gathering in Georgetown University on April 14, 2009, Barack Obama came out with the following argument in protection of the consumer society and explained the reason for the intervention of the state in the free market:
“If all the families and all the US firms simultaneously cut down their expenditures, then nobody will spend money and the number of consumers will drop , which in turn, will lead to new dismissals and the economic situation will worsen even more drastically. Therefore the government had to intervene and temporarily increase expenses with an aim to stimulate demand. This is what we are up to” – stated American President Barack Obama.
"Obama sees light at the end of the tunnel”, reports the EuroNews Television Channel.
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President Obama after a year into the office, suffers from one thing - the lowest approval ratings of any US president after the first year in the office. According to Gallup, Obama started out his presidency with a 68 per cent job approval rating. But that has dropped to 50 per cent going into 2010. Obama never promised the fast results as he took over the country in deep economic recession. However Americans who voted for Obama expected that the positive "change" will come faster.
