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Today’s Rasmussen Presidential Tracking survey will have hit the poll-obsessed Obama White House like a bullet train at full speed. For the first time, Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen below 50 per cent among likely voters. 51 per cent of Americans now disapprove of the president, with 38 per cent strongly disapproving. The poll also reveals that 53 per cent oppose the president’s hugely controversial congressional health care reform package, and a mere 31 per cent believe America as a country is heading in the right direction under Obama’s leadership.

Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina was absolutely right when he pointed out this week that the Obama socialized health care plan could end up being Obama’s Waterloo, though arguably the initial outlook for Napoleon at the start of his own battle was slightly less grim. Even Democrats on Capitol Hill have balked at the huge costs of the $1 trillion Obama proposal, and the Senate has delayed a vote until after the August recess.

To add to Obama’s woes, unemployment in America now stands at a staggering 9.5 percent and rising (the same level as the Euro area), compared to 7.2 per cent in the UK and 5.2 per cent in Japan, with the U.S. economy continuing to shed hundreds of thousands of jobs every month. According to figures cited by The New York Times, over 3.3 million jobs have been lost since January of this year. Apart from an unexpected rise in profits for prestige investment banks, there is little sign the $787 billion stimulus package is actually working (of which only $100 billion has actually been spent), and the size of America’s debt has reached staggering proportions – about $11 trillion.

As recent Gallup surveys have shown, the United States remains a largely conservative nation, and Obama’s brand of high spending, high taxing neo-socialism is increasingly rejected by the American public. While much of Europe, including Britain, is moving rightwards, America is the only major country in the Western world whose leadership is dramatically moving to the left. Although he ran for the presidency largely as a centrist, Obama’s government is without doubt the most left-wing administration in American history.

Even with liberals dominating the Executive Branch and both Houses of Congress, as well as about 80 per cent of America’s print and television media, the Obama team has so far spectacularly failed to win over the American people to a radical big government agenda that seeks to significantly enhance the power of the state over the individual.

If he is not careful, Barack Obama may end up as one of the least popular presidents in American history. His dream of re-making the world’s greatest power into a large-scale version of modern-day Germany - with high taxation, dominant trade unions, overbearing government bureaucracy, stifling employment regulations, low defence spending, de-nuclearisation, a naive emphasis on soft power, and a constant desire to apologise for the past – is a nightmarish vision that fortunately is opposed by a growing majority of Americans.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100004655/the-obama-dream-turns-into-nightmare/