Still, 57 percent say they view Obama favorably, putting him way ahead of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and on par with Bill Clinton at the end of their two terms. Clinton had the same 57 percent but Bush just 40, according to Gallup polling at the time.
Nearly 8 in 10 African-Americans view the nation’s first black president favorably, but far fewer see his presidency as having yielded the type of profound changes for black Americans that many had hoped. Just 43 percent of African-Americans say Obama made things better for black people, while roughly half say they see no difference.
An average of just 14% of Republicans have approved of Obama over the course of his presidency, compared with an average of 81% of Democrats. Notes: Data from Eisenhower through George H.W. Bush from Gallup.
Obama: I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. I’m enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world.
One of Obama’s focal points as president was to bolster jobs associated with renewable energy. That included making loans through an established Energy Department program that acted as investments in clean energy companies, including a California-based solar-panel company called Solyndra.
Overall, according to our tally, the above inquiries of the Obama administration totaled more than 8,400 days of investigation, from launch to final report. That’s 23 years of probes covering an eight-year administration.
In a Thursday morning tweet, President Trump lamented “The Republicans never did this to President Obama,” he added, “there would be no time left to run government.” That assertion is not true.
The final report on the investment found that the administration didn’t allow the company to fail earlier than it did, choosing instead to restructure the loan and fostering heavier losses.
Two Senate committees, then controlled by the Democratic majority, also launched probes.
While it’s true that Republicans didn’t launch investigations into President Barack Obama’s nonexistent private business or his campaign, it’s far from true that they never launched a full-scale attack on Obama’s administration. Over the course of his two terms in office, there were at least four issues that prompted significant congressional ...
An average of just 14% of Republicans have approved of Obama over the course of his presidency, compared with an average of 81% of Democrats.
Barack Obama campaigned for the U.S. presidency on a platform of change. As he prepares to leave office, the country he led for eight years is undeniably different. Profound social, demographic and technological changes have swept across the United States during Obama’s tenure, as have important shifts in government policy and public opinion.
But the partisanship so evident during Obama’s years is perhaps most notable because it extended far beyond disagreements over specific leaders, parties or proposals. Today, more issues cleave along partisan lines than at any point since surveys began to track public opinion.
Obama’s signature legislative achievement – the 2010 health care law that informally bears his name – has prompted some of the sharpest divisions between Democrats and Republicans. About three-quarters of Democrats approve of the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” while 85% of Republicans disapprove of it.
Americans felt disillusioned with the way Washington responded to the financial meltdown of 2008. In 2015, seven-in-ten Americans said that the government’s policies following the recession generally did little or nothing to help middle-class people. A roughly equal share said the government’s post-recession policies did a great deal or a fair amount to help large banks and financial institutions.
Obama’s election provided an almost immediate boost to America’s global image following the Bush administration and its entanglements in the Middle East. Americans themselves, however, grew more wary of international engagement during Obama’s presidency.
Between 1994 and 2005, for example, Republicans’ and Democrats’ attitudes toward immigrants in the U.S. tracked one another closely. Beginning around 2006, however, they began to diverge. And the gap has only grown wider since then: Democrats today are more than twice as likely as Republicans to say that immigrants strengthen the country.
Obama: I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. I’m enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world. If you think about the site of this summit and what it means, I don’t think America should be embarrassed to see evidence of the sacrifices of our troops, the enormous amount of resources that were put into Europe postwar, and our leadership in crafting an Alliance that ultimately led to the unification of Europe. We should take great pride in that.
Bobby Jindal revived an old criticism about President Obama’s penchant for multilateralism, but he went too far when he said Obama “won’t proudly proclaim American exceptionalism.”. At the U.S. Military Academy last year, Obama pronounced unequivocally: “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.”.
Two days after Obama made the comment, Fox News host Sean Hannity said Obama “marginalized his own country by saying our sense of exceptionalism is no different than that of the British and the Greeks.”
In a story on Dec. 4, 2014, Byron Tau of the Wall Street Journal noted that, “Twice in the last week, President Barack Obama has loudly trumpeted the idea of American exceptionalism.”
James Kirchick, then an assistant editor of the New Republic, for example, wrote that, “If all countries are ‘exceptional,’ then none are, and to claim otherwise robs the word, and the idea of American exceptionalism, of any meaning.”. Two days after Obama made the comment, Fox News host Sean Hannity said Obama “marginalized his own country by ...
The attack gained renewed prominence three years later when Mitt Romney , then seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said: “Our president doesn’t have the same feelings about American exceptionalism that we do. And I think over the last three or four years, some people around the world have begun to question that. On this Tuesday, we have an opportunity — you have an opportunity — to vote, and take the next step in bringing back that special nature of being American.”
Jindal, a Republican, said it pointed to a larger problem of “moral relativism” by the left. Jindal, Feb. 9: There’s a greater problem here. This is a president who won’t proudly proclaim American exceptionalism, maybe the first president ever who truly doesn’t believe in that. Look at his foreign policy.