Polls indicate that President Obama’s policies have fallen below fifty percent approval, while his personal popularity has remained high. This seems a contradiction, so I asked a woman why she liked Obama. She thought a moment, then said:

 

 

Obama brings us hope and change

He makes me feel so very strange

I like him

Obama brings us change and hope

The dreams he dreams are vast in scope

I like him

I know the country that we knew

Will be no more when he gets through

But lordy how I’m telling you

I like him

 

But will the Obama presidency change for the worse the country we knew? Will the country we knew be no more? I suspect if we keep our heads we can keep the worst from happening. A man I know, who voted for him, expresses the beginnings of doubt.

 

 

Obama brings us hope and change

And though his plans are off the range

I like him

Obama brings us change and hope

And while I’d not give him more rope

I like him

Of course we’ll have to rein him in

To keep the country like its been

With luck he’ll not be Ho Chi Minh

I like him

But then when I think of the crimes

In other places other times

What he’ll do now will surely pale

With what will happen if we fail

To guard our liberties and homes

So when the writers write their tomes

About the times we live in now

The people then won’t scrape and bow

And sing Obama, Father’s Son

We know you surely are the One

And though my doubts have now begun

I like him