Adele Ferguson

Hue and cry will not derail Obama’s second term

USING THE EXCUSE of presenting a long promised jobs plan, President Barack Obama tried last week to launch a political comeback “amid the lowest approval rating of his presidency.”

Plus “a growing sense of economic foreboding here and across the country among voters who are increasingly questioning their president’s skills and priorities.” So says the Wall Street Journal on the basis of a poll it jointly took with NBC News Aug. 27 -31 that found only 44 percent of Americans approve of the job he’s doing, taking the disapproval over half to 51 per...