Economy - I give him a C. He did good with the stimulus and rebuilding the banking and auto industries after they were about to go broke. Healthcare - I give him a D because while there is a lot within his healthcare plan that will help many people, he stupidly listened to Republicans and decided to chop the "Public Option" and also decided to instate the individual mandate, which was the Republicans alternative to hillarycare in the 90's. Generally, when you try to model your health care plan after Republican demands, the people get screwed over one way or another. Foreign Policy - I give him an A. He killed Osama Bin Laden, helped bring down Gadaffi in Libya, rescued the ship captain from somali pirates and also rescued one danish and one American from Somalia. He ended the war in Iraq and escalated the war in Afghanistan. Jobs - I give him an A. This is a graph of the monthly gain or loss in private sector jobs. Note how it only begins to recover after the President takes office.
I was going to give him straight c's....but the honesty requirement pushed Obama down to the straight F's he deserves....... .........this isnt to say Obama has been a complete joke and utter failure.....he has..... ....but were talking about a 143 day Senator/Community Organizer with a 5 minute career and a 5 second resume.....who never ran so much as a lemonade stand much less a candy store.......a President with zero economic experience......no foreign policy experience......no a bit of executive experience....and not a shred of military experience. .....what else could be expected.......besides an ObamaFail . . .
The plan to leave Iraq was created under Bush. Obama actually tried to extend the time our troops were in Iraq but failed. He gets absolutely no credit for Iraq. http://the-american-journal.com/oba...11-agreement-yet-takes-credit-for-withdrawal/ http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-los-angeles/iraq-how-obama-changed-victory-to-defeat http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...awal-fro-iraq/2011/10/21/gIQAfCYM7L_blog.html http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1439/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7543 Also, we were illegally fighting in Libya so fine he can take credit for violating the Constitution. He killed bin Laden instead of capturing him. Sure bin Laden was a scumbag but we could have made the effort to capture him. We captured Saddam, why couldn't we do the same with bin Laden? He also sent troops to Uganda which violates the Constitution.
Since he was a "no show" for so many important votes when in the senate, he gets no grade at all. He is self-serving as president and spends more time "preening" than being presidential. Grade: No Show
Hardly an A my friend,,,what did he spend???, and we all know unemployment picks up by itself at some point. What about the number of people who never returned? He did nothing, especially considering what he spent... This man had no business in the White House, no experience, no ideas, he just wrote out checks. The division among people is worse than ever and getting people together was supposed to be one of his strengths, now it seems he is relying on class war fare and division to get himself re-elected, what does that tell you?
Welcome back Flounder. We are still fighting back the flood of Liberal Facist ignorance that's trying to drown America.
I agree,,,all he did was double the debt in half the time, has a health care plan that most do not want, was a disaster with energy and still can not come up with a budget that makes sense to anybody....but,,,,,,,,his wife did give the kids veggies in school..... THAT THEY THROW OUT!!!! Even his wife wastes money,,,,,,,,geeeez.... Some give him credit for pulling out of Iran, but was that not Bush's plan and time line? He did it, and did not even get the number of troops to stay as planned...he got...............ziiiiiiiiiiiiiip I also feel we knew where Bin Ladden had been for some time, he just waited till he needed a boost in his polls, they were his lowest just before the hit,,,,some coincidence,,,heh? This guy is nothing more than a cheap Chicago politician, probably not a bad guy...just not Presidential material, not by a Looong shot!
Some give Obama a chance at re-election,,,,I dont. Wait until the Repubs stop beating up on each other and start on him, this guy will have no answers. If he did we would have heard them by now,,,,,,Oh yeah, it's Bush's fault! The truth is coming out about all their numbers, and they were not even close. I imagine we will hear the same about his ''so called'' recovery....
they need to hurry and get on Obama before it's too late. I want more than one month of them holding his feet to the fire. they need to start in on him by July.. that's 4 full months to bury him alive.
I thought the same thing, however they have experience with these things, perhaps they feel over kill does not work. God,,they will have so much, nothing he has done has worked out, I almost feel sorry for the guy,,,,really. However I think of how he bullchitted everybody and get so angry, especially the cost of the Health Care. We knew it, we knew they fudged those numbers. That thing should not have ever have gone through, it was fraud as far as I am concerned. How can they defend themselves?, if it's incompetence then they should all be fired, if not they should go to jail!!! Oh sorry, I said Bullchited, I will give myself a warning.......
The facts show that Obama is one of the most productive and successful presidents in history. He's gotten more good done in 3 years than Bush or Reagan got done in 8. Considering he accomplished that while facing the most uncooperative and near-treasonous GOP congress in American history, it's especially impressive. That's why he'll easily win another term. He hasn't even started campaigning, and when he does, he has a big list of accomplishments to point to. Let me list some. -- Instituted health care reform, something no president in history could pull off before. -- Ended Iraq involvement. -- Achieved major deficit reduction, despite GOP attempts to run up the deficit through more tax cuts -- Pulled us out of second great depression through the stimulus -- Killed Bin Laden -- Helped liberate Libya, Egypt and Southern Sudan. -- Eased off on the suck-up-to-Israel thing -- Started Afghan drawdown -- Passed major Wall Street Reform -- Turned around auto industry, saving millions of jobs -- Repealed Dontaskdonttell -- Prevented financial system meltdown -- Reversed Bush torture policies -- Cleaned up dirtiest polluting power plants -- Kept China and Iran contained intelligently. -- Put sensible centrists on Supreme Court -- New START treaty -- Majorly improved food safety system -- Began military drawdown, killing many useless systems. -- Killed useless NASA programs -- Speedily responded to Gulf Oil spill -- Put more regs on CO2 -- Reformed education loan system -- Avoided all scandal (currently holds the scandal-free record for a modern pres) Now, I am aware of the bad things he's done. He's failed to change the Washington culture, he's too much into letting Homeland Security trample civil rights, he gave away too much on health care before he started negotiating. That's not what the list is about. I'm pointing out that his accomplishment list is pretty impressive, showing that claims to the contrary are crazy. You can disagree with the policies, but claiming he hasn't been successful in implementing them is delusional. Win or lose, history is going to give him very good ratings.
You lose all credibility when you say we should have done anything other than exactly what we did with Bin Laden!! Saddam Hussein was the former head of state of Iraq, no matter his crimes. He was found in a hole in the ground, and was defenseless. Bin Laden was found in a heavily fortified compound, which had to be taken by force. As far as my answers to this question. D- on the economy. He should have ignored all the economically ignorant people in the country, and passed major stimulus packages plus major tax cuts. I mean much larger than they were. He should also have passed significant and binding financial reform, he hasn't. There are hundreds of other things he could have done, and didn't do. I didn't give him an F, because I feel it diminishes the other F's I am going to give him on other categories I feel he has been worse on. Health Care- F. He passed a bill that was very similar to the Republican plan from the 1990s, and similar to the plan Romney passed in Massachusetts!! Obama promised positive change that would help people, instead we got change that is just a giant handout to insurance companies!! It wass at times like that, that I wish Obama would have let some of his famous socialist tendencies out!! I am told constantly that he is a socialist, but he fails to govern as even a liberal. Foreign policy. F+. He gets the plus on his F, because they did finally kill Bin Laden. However, he has done Absolutely nothing to change the policies which made some one like Bin Laden possible in the first place!! He has failed to offer even the smallest amount of support for the Syrian uprisings, while supporting an intervention in Libya. He continued to support Mubarak, until it became entirely impossible to do so, and then threw US support behind the SCAF. He has continued our friendly relations with the despicable house of Saud. I will give him credit that he has not tried to pander to the lowest common denominator, and impose tariffs or any other sort of suicidal economic policy, but that will contribute to his plus as well. Jobs- I suppose a C maybe C-. Jobs have been created, and massive jobs loss has stopped. However, the recovery of jobs has been FAR too slow. Not deserving of an F in this category, because he inherited an economy hemorrhaging jobs, but doesn't deserve a particularly strong grade either, because after stopping the losses, the recovery has been FAR too slow(as I already said). Overall I would give him a D-, and the benefit of the doubt that he is only our second worst president of the last decade. Unfortunately when your competition is George W Bush, that is the least impressive accomplishment I can possibly imagine!!
Instituted health care reform, something no president in history could pull off before...no one needed to. Ended Iraq involvement....he'd have been duck soup if he hadn't Achieved major deficit reduction, despite GOP attempts to run up the deficit through more tax cuts...your math sucks Pulled us out of second great depression through the stimulus...try recession and we're still there Killed Bin Laden...show me the body Helped liberate Libya, Egypt and Southern Sudan....if that's what you call it Eased off on the suck-up-to-Israel thing...bad move there to blow off an ally Started Afghan drawdown...shouldn't have beefed it up to begin with Passed major Wall Street Reform...that's a laugh Turned around auto industry, saving millions of jobs...distorted lies there Repealed Dontaskdonttell...why? Prevented financial system meltdown...it's just a slower meltdown that the GOP will fix soon enough Reversed Bush torture policies...yeah, those poor whining terrorists, give them steak! Cleaned up dirtiest polluting power plants...cough-cough, yeap, I can sure tell Kept China and Iran contained intelligently....get a life, they aren't a threat Put sensible centrists on Supreme Court...one's in his pocket New START treaty...my only no comment Majorly improved food safety system...eating all that ice cream helped Began military drawdown, killing many useless systems....brilliant move there...NOT! Killed useless NASA programs...one of his dumbest moves Speedily responded to Gulf Oil spill...sure, now hardly any oil flows from there Put more regs on CO2...had to reach waaaaaaaaaay dow for that one Reformed education loan system...while the economy takes a nosedive and students can't repay because they can't get a job Avoided all scandal (currently holds the scandal-free record for a modern pres)...because the press is afraid to say anything about him, unlike Clinton. All in all, a dismal failure!
We should have tried our best to capture him. We probably could thrown in a stun grenade and shot him in the leg instead of killing him. Of course there is a chance we needed to kill him, but I highly doubt we tried to take him alive. We should kill the least amount of people as necessary. bin Laden was a bad guy, but we should not purposely kill people. If there was a way we could have taken him alive we should have. Killing people is wrong no matter how bad the person is.
Wrong. He only started one war to Bush's two! And his war didn't cost three quarters of a trillion like Bush's. But he did figure out innovative ways to put the nation in the red a trillion and a half dollars per year, dwarfing Bush's measly $400 billion dollar deficits in 2003, 2004, and 2008. So Obama wins the deficit category but blew it in the starting new wars department. Maybe the next president can show 'em how it's done. .
Not me. Remember, liberal here. I understand why you made that assumption. You're a conservative. You'd auto-give any Republican straight A's, and any Democrat straight F's. Your party demands absolute mindless loyalty from their herd, and you don't dare disobey. Your herd identity is your life, and you won't do anything to risk it. Your mistake, of course, was assuming that liberals think like you, even though the reason we are liberals is because we specifically reject your groupthink way of life. Anyways conservatives, good luck with the whole unhinged thing. That's really going to swing the independents your way.
I made that assumption because only one person gave him all A's and you two were the only ones posting who didn't say what grades you gave. As soon as someone starts making excuses for his lousy performance, it's fairly obvious they're brain-dead Obama supporters.
Indeed. they won't fess up. they know Obama is not a grade A President. Had to be some PAC member troll for the Obama team.
