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After 8yrs of bad governance and ill advised decision. obama shows up to clean up the mess, the GOP should just let him be.

He needs to stop the his campaign and get to work. That's all this guy does is campaign.

Well, I would say that American's expect to be told the truth. I voted for BHO because Bush was a horrible President and BHO had energy and what appeared to be a real vision to change DC. What has changed? Nothing. None, NONE of the promises he made to us have been kept. None,NONE of the great and wonderful things he said he would do have come to past. The only thing for sure is that he has tripled our debt from what GWB ran up and are we better off? I don't think so. I am very disappointed, and I completely understand why he is slipping. Change? If you had been asleep or in a coma for the past year and just woke up,you would swear GWB was still in office.

It's hard to keep up the magic when everything you say, do, possibly think or believe is dragged out and trashed ad-nauseum by naysayers. I have heard Americans cheer at losing the Olympics and jeer at our President for being given a prestigious award....that 7 out of 10 times has been given for striving for peace not achieving it. Hard to fight that kind of logic.

It was HYPE, not Hope he was spreading.

The Obama honeymoon is over!!!

Bob McDonnell has a double digit lead over Deeds in VA. By Obama speaking today for Deeds, that lead will widen to about 13-14% points in my opinion.

Deeds may as well surrender now with some dignity he is gonna get crushed next week and send a referendum to this White House that AMERICANS are not tolerant of their socialism.

Love seeing Harry Reid get smacked down by his fellow Democrats.

Filibuster here we come. Trying to cram this down America's throat and she is gonna vomit it all over the place.

It has gone the way of all fantasies; drowned in the bog of reality. I voted for him, but as the lesser of two evils. He's an untested politician who, despite a magnetic presence, had a centrist platform. Because Bush and his ilk were so right-wing, Obama looked like some kind of real change. He has towed the middle line on just about everything so far, just as those of us who switched from Hillary thought he would do. If McCain had had a brain, and picked someone worthy of the office of vice-president to be his running mate, I betcha all of this would have played out differently. Weren't you paying attention to the real candidates, voters? Hillary was the obvious best choice, but so was Gore. Such is politics is the starry-eyed world of United States voters.

GO Jack...You are a breath of fresh air...Obozo does not have a clue where he is...Lots of smoke and mirrors.

Please Jack. The magic is there. Just wishful thinking on your part.

CNN isn't usually bent on bashing Obama.
The Obama magic has gone where magic always goes: to reality.
We no longer see the President as a magic man; we see him as a man.

Don't mix apples and oranges. The local races are just local races. GOP want to make local races a political referendum on Obama. That will be too much streching!

I can't answer that yet, Jack, the media hasn't told me how I should feel, or what I should do, say, or think yet........I'll have to get back to you on that! Peace out!

It is being stolen because so many people are bashing Obama for not changing the world over night! The man hasnt been in office a full year yet everyone expects everything to be diffrent and better for everyone... Mean while he's getting next to no cooperation from the senate or congress and even the countries were wasting money and troops lives on arent helping is! Maybe if people would go on their own beliefs instead of letting special intrests and their party leaders make up their minds for them we wouldnt be losing our hope in faith that things can get better. Everyone is too busy trying to convince everyone nothing is getting done or will ever get done becuase politicians care more about their careers and their money rather their own people!

He tried too hard to include Republicans that never wanted to be included, but would want Obama to fail even if it means THE COUNTRY WE ALL LOVE goes down the drain.

A sad state of afairs!!

My Dad a life long democrat has voter regret. I don't know what the big deal was he's doing everything I thought he would.

People have gotten over the novelty of having a Black President and now just see him as the man they expect to get some work done in DC.

The Magic has gone up in smoke along with his campaign promises and empty rhetoric. This President is an empty suit and a puppet of the left wing!

What magic?

Jack, your question is irrelevant and totally biased against the President because the Magic didn't go away. It is just tougher to sustain it as president needs to focus on administering the country. But when it comes to elections, people know who are sincere and who are not. Most of Republicans had a nice honeymoon (only for them) for eight years with no result, I bet it will be a totally diffeernt next eight years.

C'mon, Jack. I hate the way news works these days. Obama currently has Iraq, Afghanistan, the economy, and civil rights issues piling up in front of him. We all knew this was going to happen and we all knew he'd have to take a couple hits for it. Two years from now, he'll be fine. You know and and I know it. This isn't news.

As a Virginian, I have to agree that Deeds has run a horrible campaign. After McDonnell's thesis came to light, Deeds stopped running positive adds and turned his campaign completely negative. The key of any campaign is to carefully balance negative and positive adds. However, Deeds only ran negative adds for about two months. If Deeds had done a 60% positive 40% negative campaign after McDonnell's thesis came to light, this campaign would be much closer (Deeds might even have been leading). However, my running an 100% negative campaign for two months, Deeds drove away the independents. This is coming from a Democrat.

How can we stay excited for Obama? He seemed like he would help the working man but instead has simply continued the Republican pattern of giving the store away to the very people who robbed us blind. He has continued Bush's policies of secrecy and torture, and reneged on almost all of his campaign promises thus far. He seems more concerned with appeasing Republicans (who are only 20% of U.S. citizens, btw) than with delivering the promises he made to his base during the campaign.

Like stage magic, the Obama magic may have been just smoke and mirrors for the gullible.

The Obama magic has not gone anywhere!
The media is now trying to tear down the person they built up for months.
Obama is doing a wonderful job.
After all, he is trying to clean up the mess that Bush left our country in.

Where was the magic in the first place? It's called buyer's remorse. Too many people voted for him because they believe in magic. And after his apology tour, even though the libs and socialists ( what's the difference really?) cheered it on, every whack job leader out there wants to smack us in the mouth because they know he has no spine. I wouldn't be surprised if Cuba is thinking very seriously to declare war, just so Obama will surrender.

Honestly, you have voters who read articles and watch the news all day about the same ol' stuff! After about a week of this, these impatient voters start to have doubts. They start thinking that Obama isn't doing much and he is a "fraud". Thing about it is that every time I ask the question "What specifically did you think Obama could get done in a year?", I get no response. It's interesting to say the least.

Also, I not to sure about Corzine, but Deeds was a really bad candidate.

It was called Hype not Hope. Glad to see you are starting to wake up and smell the coffee. Hopefully now we will have less biased articles and real commentary.

Doesn't it feel so much better to stop carrying someone elses water?

I am a worker of the coal industry in west virginia and I thought the object of obama was to create jobs and help this country? This admin. Is trying to put thousands of us on welfare I guess that is what they call helping they wanted to impeach clinton for sex who did that hurt his family only! Obama is wanting to kill our electricity before we have a substitute we need to get rid of this guy before he goes to far with his crazy ideas and the country is destroyed I am a christian and I believe the bible and he wants to go against the bible and the beliefs that the founding for fathers of this country believed in who is he to do these things in my bible gays and lesbians are an abomination in gods eyes read the back of a dollar bill I will bet it will say in god we trust if they haven't replaced that yet like one of my friends said only difference in osama and obama is a little bs I am a great fan mr cafferty u say things how they are hopefully all is not lost for the american people in this new age of tyranny that our elected reps. Are doing thank you petey hatfield gilbert,wv the heart of the billion dollar coal fields. Yes its true coal keeps the lights on!

Get used to it.

well it is going to take a long time to try to do what all he is doing,,which is to straighten out a bunch of problems that were there before bush but has been exasberated by bush cheney and the illegal wars,,,,give him some time

How simple to be a back seat driver. I am sick to death of media sensationalism.

The MAGIC left when everyone realized their taxes, fees, and deficit were going up.

OBOZO's ideas on paper sound good until you realize that YOU have to pay for them, and most people are REFUSING to pay any new taxes or fees.

OBOZO is ruining the economy and our kids will never be able to bail themselves out of this OBUMMER DEFICIT

Back in the toilet where it came from.

Calling it Obama "magic" is spot on, Jack.
All of the President's critics seem to think he is ineffective because he hasn't been able to wave a wand and fix problems in 10 months which took decades to create! President Obama is continuing the thoughtful and methodical approach which convinced me to vote for him in the first place, but the American voter's attention span will not suffer a strategy which takes time to implement .

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I agree some of the luster has faded. However, the majority of his moves have made our country better in the eyes of other countries, which is what we need after our absurd actions of the previous adminstration..

Cry me a river...the facade is starting to crumble. If anyone has ever read Hillary Clinton's book, "Living History", you will recall that she talks indepthly about how overwhelming the first few years are in the White House. Obama HAS to be experiencing the same thing, yet he continues to campaign!!! Get to work and stop worrying about date night with your wife, official portraits and putting your wife on late night TV (BTW, I thought she was flat and not very impressive...). GET TO WORK! People are starting to figure it out, that is why the magic is gone!

The aura of the Obama Magic is reaching its twilight due to the following reasons:
* The economy is still in recession and unemployment is on the rise.
* The President has not shown real leadership on healthcare reform.
* The President is directing stimulus money to businesses and banks instead of allocating that money towards job creation.
* The President is more concerned with bipartisanship than with accomplishing tasks such as reforming healthcare.

President Obama needs to get his policy priorities straight and start showing real leadership on healthcare reform and on other issues. He needs to pay attention to the people who put him in office.

Previously, people were unaware of Obama's real substance and after the last 10 months, they now know he lacks any real substance!

Obama magic is still alive and well.If it doesn't seem obvious, its because the extreme right wing conservatives along with the Republican Party brass have done and are doing everying possible to discolor the Obama magic. The brickwall President Obama has run into should surprise no one. Capitol Hill is the most inefficient form of Government, and is dfragging the Obama magic down with it. But time will tell that Obama will put his stamp on many things that Republicans could never dream of.

That some of the media going around sturrup trouble every time they post something in print or on T.V.

The electricity of the 2008 campaign is a distant memory because Obama has let down the American people whom believed in him. We did not want the stimulus packages shoved down our throats, and screamed in rage about the bailouts but he did not listen. And when running his campaign and promising to revamp the tax codes and bring jobs back to American, we believed. Change you can believe it!!!

None of the current policies have done nothing to enhance American lives, and now trying to push Healthcare reform, with more taxes on to us is unacceptable.

No, I am not a republican, I am not bashing Obama, I voted for him in good faith and he has disappointed me and millions of other. I am an Independent and I doubt if one Democrat get elected in 2010 or 2012

Hope and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee. People better get their head out of where ever they have it and see that Obummie is nothing but hot air and hope. We need to pull ourselves up by our boot straps get it done by hard work not hoping and wishing. This isn't Alice in wonderland Obummie!!!

With millions more unempolyed and the war in Afghanistan getting worse by the day, maybe it is hard to find large numbers of the still faithfull to get fired up.
With the death of 8 US soldiers yesterday, October now has 55 dead US soldiers in Afghanistan. Thats the highest death toll month since the war started in 2001. And August 2009 had 51, the second highest. So under Obama we have had the two worst months on the war in Afghanistan. And they are trying to blame it on Bush. If Bush was so bad, at least it did not cost US soldiers their lives. How can Obama be better? He has no clue what to do, and is letting politics get in the way of listening to his top generals while US soldiers die on the battle field.

The liberals can only carry on this goofy idol worship so long!

The Obama Magic is beginning to fade in the midst of increasing unemployment and a so-called jobless recovery. President Obama needs to start formulating and implementing job growth policies to facilitate a real economic recovery from our current recession. A jobless recovery is really no recovery at all. Obama should throw down the gauntlet, take a page from FDR and create a public works program and put people to work. There are many things that need to be done around the country to rebuild infrastructure-roads, bridges, walkways, and revitalize neighborhoods. Developing and implementing a jobs producing and growth strategy resulting in economic recovery would restore the magic of hope for the Obama Administration.

I think people are waking up from there coma's.

Obama is all talk right now anyways and the dems in congress are indecisive fools , so i can understand why the dems are hurting as of now .. although i still prefer democrats over the republicans.

Obama is a socialist and it's beginning to show. America doesn't want it.

Once the people see what he is like you can understand. It's always been about smoke and mirrors.

He can't do the job you elected him to and we are on our way to socialism why can't the people of this great nation see that.

Where has CAFFERTY's magic go????? He doesn't have any!!! President Obama is not a magician and he does not do TRICKS!!

To YOU the so-called magic probably disappeared!

But to many others – who hardly tune into cable news anymore because of the constant HAMMER on the top of President Obama's head to get all he promised done in 1 year – STILL see the MAGIC if you want to call it that!!

It's because lots of stupid people had unreasonable expectations that he was just going to march into Washington and everything would change. He said he would do everything in his power to produce change and he has... you can thank the Repugnicants for stonewalling every effort to bring about needed change. He expected to be stonewalled, but he continues to try anyway. Did all of those idiots really believe that magic would happen? It takes time, people. Try getting behind him again and showing him that you support what he's attempting to do.

Because hope and dreams are giving away to reality.

People are finally starting to realize what a joke this moron is,unfortunately it is too little too late,the Traitor in Chief is effectively taking control of all sectors of this once great country. Where are you when we need you the most Ronald Reagan,America has lost its way.

I guess you have to find something to talk about when it's your job every day. That's the problem with all news these days.

Everyone has realized uhbama is an incompetent joke.

Majic? He never had any to begin with. All he had was a bunch of desparate and ignorant people who believed anything he said. We tried to warn you people about him, but nobody wanted to listen. He needs to stop with this healthcare bull and get back to important issues like winning this war. You deserved what you voted for. Dont worry though dems, we will take back power in 2010 and fix this guys mess. let all who voted for obama learn a lesson that you cant have an inexperienced, naive, coward as our president

His magic is not gone infact it's even better, now if people were still carrying on like we were during the campaign you people would be really mad. President Obama is fine just like he said he ain't losing any sleep over any of this negativity.

People are waking up to what a disaster Obama is for this country. Hope it keeps growing while we still have a country. Hope Deeds loses by a landside; people in Va. cannot afford any more tax increases.