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Poll: Community Organizer-in-Chief Obama Confronts Plummeting Public Trust of Government

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 22 2010

For someone with such paltry private sector experience, Barack Obama sure seems to think he’s qualified to captain it. A remarkable new Pew Research report, however, highlights a dissonance that helps explain Obama’s miserable performance so far as the nation’s Community Organizer-in-Chief. Namely, the man who spent most of his professional life in the government sector collides with an American public increasingly hostile toward that very government. The new poll also provides an instructive reminder why his latest crusade against the financial sector is a…

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