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Obama Ratings Sink as Trustworthiness Comes into Question

Obama has two growing sentiments about him. Either he intentionally mislead the American people in order to get his healthcare law through, or he was just not informed enough to know that what he was saying was a lie.  The President told the public that if they wanted to keep their healthcare plans they could, but that is proving not to be the case and many reports say the White House knew that was not the case.  Other incidents have caused the public to call into question the President’s trustworthiness, like claiming to have no idea he was spying on our allies.  His go to excuse has been that he had no idea what was going on, but that is dangerous too, the public thinking he is just inept.

Scott Simon shares the Gettysburg-length piece he wrote commemorating the 150th anniversary.  It was a good piece and easy to agree with, though I don’t agree that the war was “senseless”.  Though the war wasn’t fought over slavery it did in effect put an end to it in America.  It could have been handled better without so much bloodshed but the end result was eventually a slavery-free, united America.

There have been 10 confirmed cases of Polio in war-torn Syria.  The disease is terrible and deadly and there is worry of an outbreak becoming a real possibility because of the masses of people fleeing the area.  The Syrian government launched an immunization campaign to prevent such an outbreak, but many people have already fled to neighboring countries.The goal is to reach 1.6 million children across Syria, which is an enormous challenge during wartime.

I enjoyed listening to NPR for a while and will do so in the future for news-related stories.  I really liked the host and thought the program was done well.  I had not listened to NPR radio before but I did know what NPR was.