re: After 67 Months of Obama, How Would You Grade Him?

Domestic Policy: B/B+- dealt a hard hand, went too small with the stimulus, health was a bit too accomodationist and conservative but was likely watered down because it had to be. If the early results with Healthcare Reform hold, this could be upgraded to an A-, if the recovery continues its a solid A, given what he inheirited you can make a decent argument that he had the most successful domestic presidency in terms of longterm positive change since LBJ.

Foreign Policy: B-, again he came into office with American credibility at its lowest point since WWII, but rebuilt a lot of it, Russia is an obstacle with no real solution but containment and the Arab Spring is a bit of a gordian knot. Possibly a bit too aggressive and hawkish but a definite improvement over his predecessor.


Current Verdict: Right now he's in line with Reagan and LBJ as the most influential US presidents in the last 50 years and like those two he's overall a mixed bag with both great triumphs and some letdowns, he could move to being in line with Eisenhower but he's never going to reach the FDR plateau of greatest president in a century. A poor finish would put him in line with Clinton and Bush I-- successful but except for a few things largely unremarkable.

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Current Verdict: Right now he's in line with Reagan and LBJ as the most influential US presidents in the last 50 years and like those two he's overall a mixed bag with both great triumphs and some letdowns, he could move to being in line with Eisenhower but he's never going to reach the FDR plateau of greatest president in a century. A poor finish would put him in line with Clinton and Bush I-- successful but except for a few things largely unremarkable.

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I don't think any of my liberal friends would feel this way about him.

The dude is fricking terrible and anyone who disagrees should re - examine their life.


This coming from a guy who voted for him in '08 because of how terrible Bush was. Newsflash, Obama is worse. Here's why. Bush did his thing and was straight up about being a terrible human being. Obama lies constantly about everything and is still a terrible human being. Sad really that this is what we get in this nation.

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I mean, if you are a libertarian or a conservative, you have to give him an F.

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I'm a libertarian, I give him a D. His foreign policy hasn't been terrible, outside of Libya and the abortive Syria gun-running. Most of the grief he gets is Republicans blaming him for a bad thing happening somewhere in the world (e.g., Egypt uprising, Crimean invasion) and assuming that Team America: World Police would've prevented it rather than (a) made it exponentially worse (b) at a cost of several hundred billion dollars.

That plus sitting on his hands so far with DOMA and state-level cannabis. Plus dead bin Laden and withdrawing from Afghanistan will get you a gentleman's D.

There, that's the nicest post I will make about Obama probably ever.

On a 10 degree slope with the biggest tractor I can find.

There is not enough FAIL in the word or concept of fail to describe how bad the Affirmative Action president has been.

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How Would You Grade Him?

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Extremely Carteresque. We're reliving 1978 all over again.

Obama has accomplished everything he has set out to do, based on that he deserves an A. Unfortunately the country is stuck in the shower with Michael Sams and have to bend over to pick up the soap.(a small percentage are looking forward to it)

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No, but to keep the program solvent will require additional taxes. My particular part of the insurance world got more expensive with less benefits. Make sense to you?

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I haven't seen this to date. What part of the insurance world do you live in?

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His campaign promises:

Bin Laden dead
Out of Iraq

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Yea. Thats what he ran on 24-7. You should check on the which prez set the deadline for troops put of Irag. Really go ahead.

Have a cherry.