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This video is a discussion of why President Obama's popularity poling is so low. The initial guess is that it is a result of racism. The alternative presented is that people disagree with the president's actions or are disappointed with his progress toward his campaign promises. The problems President Obama inherited from George Bush are mentioned, but the systematically obstructionist congressional leadership and the big money behind them is not mentioned.This video fails to achieve any answers, because they failed to interview a representative sampling of the population and allowed use of false information. What it does show is that the support for the President among the ordinary people being interviewed is much higher than the opinion of people who are politically motivated. It also shows that those who are politically motivated either choose to use poor information or don't know any better.A variety of people from various walks of life are interviewed, but almost all of them identify as African American and most of the general public interviewed are from a single beauty shop. Members of the general public who were interviewed almost all have high praise for the President and think that the complaints are due to racism. The politicians and those who claim to represent religious populations tend to have a low opinion of the president.Those with a low opinion either call President Obama "The worst president ever" (patently false, he has not been accused of treason), think that ObamaCare is a fraud that is decreasing availability of health care for the black community (false when one examines the numbers), or that black unemployment has increased under the Obama administration. Only one person thought that the President is not keeping up on his promises.Several people who hated the President hated him because of his support for equal rights, regardless of sexual orientation. However, it was the federal courts that required states to permit "Gay Marriage", not the President.The number presented for black unemployment at the start of the Obama administration was false. The real black unemployment number in January 2009 was estimated at 43% (plus or minus 4%).The Bush (43) administration deliberately misreported the federal debt by omitting the costs of military incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Adjusting for this misreporting shows that the federal debt increased by a much smaller amount under the Obama administration. One opponent of the President used the falsified figures from the Bush administration to try to show that the Obama administration caused a huge increase in the national debt.
