A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released today shows that 63% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track; up three points from a similar poll last month. But approximately half of the poll respondents (49%) approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing. Think that means he's not being blamed for the current state of the union? Think again.

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According to the poll, Mr. Obama's approval rating among Independents fell to 39% down 5 points in just the past month. So while partisan Democrats are still standing behind the failed administration even while admitting in larger numbers that we're on the wrong track, a majority of the Independents vital to the president's re-election are blaming him and his failed policies for the nation's plight.

In addition to the 9.2% unemployment rate, the out-of-control federal spending and the ransom demand for higher taxes or he'll cut off grandma's social security; President Obama has also failed miserably in terms of foreign policy.

His 2009 Cairo speech included quotations from the Quran, the promise "to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims" and his belief that "in order to move forward, we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts."

Well those in the Arab world are openly saying what they now think of Mr. Obama and it turns out that the United States is viewed less favorably in much of the Arab world today than it was during the final year of the Bush administration. As if that weren't enough proof of his foreign policy failures, President Obama is even less popular in the Arab region today than Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

According to another new poll, this one by the nonpartisan research and advocacy group Arab American Institute, 9% of Egyptians had a favorable attitude toward the US in 2008 (the last year of the Bush administration). Once President Obama was elected and embarked on his 'Apologize for America' campaign, that number briefly rose to 30% but has now plummeted to just 5%. Poll results from Morocco, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates also show the US with a more favorable rating during the Bush administration than today.

Failing at home, failing overseas and even failing so badly that a growing number of his supporters admit something is definitely wrong with the course President Obama has set. Yet he still remains committed to bigger government and foreign appeasement and isn't hesitating to fan the flames of class warfare and threaten the most vulnerable of our citizens to keep us on his fast track to failure.