The Sign of the End of Obama? "Hope" Poster Artist Says Obama's Outta Hope

I love it. The scales are falling from peoples' eyes each and every day in regards to the clown that was put into the White House and now, from this article at AOL News, we see that the artist that created the most iconic image of Obama ever, the "Hope" poster image, is saying that Obama's hope isn't "panning out." LOL

From the article:

Has President Barack Obama lost his ability to inspire hope?

Shepard Fairey, the artist whose iconic, Warhol-style "Hope" poster became one of the most enduring images of the 2008 presidential campaign, seems to think so.

In an interview appearing in this month's Angelino magazine, Fairey says the president he helped elect is "not pushing hard enough."

"I had a lot of hope for Obama, but it's not panning out," he says.

You know, when an Obamabot like this dude gets dismayed, the President is in some serious shit. And let's face it, the news the past few weeks has been inundated with examples of how support for Obama is coming apart at the seams.

A real shame isn't it? My only shock here is that it took this many Americans a year and a half to figure out this one big ass mistake.

P.s. I'm sure many of my regular readers are extremely proud of me for putting up a whole post here and not ONCE poking fun of this artist's last name. ;)

Polling Shows Hope Floats ... Away From Obama


(June 7) -- Has President Barack Obama lost his ability to inspire hope?

Shepard Fairey, the artist whose iconic, Warhol-style "Hope" poster became one of the most enduring images of the 2008 presidential campaign, seems to think so.

In an interview appearing in this month's Angelino magazine, Fairey says the president he helped elect is "not pushing hard enough."

"I had a lot of hope for Obama, but it's not panning out," he says.

Fairey was speaking in the context of a new exhibit called "May Day" that he put on this spring in New York that featured Washington gridlock as a key theme. "Washington is too intertwined with corporate America," the artist argues.

But the question of Obama's hopefulness quotient remains an important political one, however fickle voters can be when it comes to their emotional support for a candidate or elected leader.

Congress' passage of health care reform in March seemed to restore momentum to a presidency that had appeared to be on the rocks when that signature issue was stalling months earlier. The impetus seemed to pick up in the weeks that followed, as Democrats trumped Republicans in the effort to enact changes to regulation of Wall Street and the banks.

But then the BP oil spill hit the Gulf of Mexico, a problem that seemed to get worse as weeks went by without a company or government solution. It fouled the surrounding waters and shoreline, and the can-do claims of the Obama administration as well.

Obama's popularity ratings at the end of May fell to a new low, according to the weekly polling data of Gallup.

Obama's approval rating was at 46 percent. That compares with 77 percent in May of the second year for George W. Bush and 51 percent for Bill Clinton.

But hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, "is the thing with feathers."

Ronald Reagan's approval rating in May of his second year looked even worse at 45 percent, yet his popularity and emotional tie with voters later soared into history.

And another set of surveys shows just how capricious Americans' sense of hope can be.

The Pew Research Center has asked Americans several times what one word describes their impression of Obama.

In September 2008 and February 2009, "hope" and "hopeful" were among the top 10 answers. In April 2009 they slipped to the 15th-ranked spot, and by January of this year "hopeful" was No. 34, behind "communist," "arrogant" and "disappointing." ("Intelligent," however, was the No. 1 answer, and "good," "honest" and "fair" also made the top 10.)

In a separate Pew survey in March, Americans were asked if Obama made them feel hopeful. Fifty-four percent said yes, and 43 percent no. That was down from the 69 percent who said he made them hopeful the month he was elected.

But it's exactly the same amount of hope he inspired in March 2008.