Bruised if unbroken, President Barack Obama faces shrinking public confidence, increasingly negative views of the country's direction and far lower ratings than those he carried triumphantly into the White House a year ago this week.
But it could be worse.
Despite their disappointments, 53 percent of Americans in this ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Obama's job performance overall -- 15 points lower than his opening grade, but still just over half at the one-year mark. He remains personally popular, if far less so. And confidence in his leadership, as weakened as it is, greatly exceeds that in the Republicans in Congress, or, for that matter, in his own party.
What me tell unno him ah D Manchurian Candidate. dem just make ppl feel like dem have a choice....Republican Democrat no matter what is D same ting. How can D president control his country economy when the making of his countries money is not even under his jurasdiction? Federal reseve is a privately own institution that is a known fact D Werl GONE LUUUUUUUUUU