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Presidential Report Card

How's His Driving?

  • A

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A-

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • B+

    Votes: 3 7.0%
  • B

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • B-

    Votes: 4 9.3%
  • C+

    Votes: 3 7.0%
  • C

    Votes: 6 14.0%
  • C-

    Votes: 7 16.3%
  • D+

    Votes: 6 14.0%
  • D-F (please specify, I ran out of room)

    Votes: 14 32.6%

  • Total voters
    43

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I shouldn't even bother with the first 3-4 options, but wth. There may be rose-colored glasses on board.

As in any other report card, it would be greatly appreciated if you gave at least one (if not more) example of what he is not only doing wrong, but doing right.

I'll post in a bit after I start the poll.
 
C/C-. Campaign Obama is nothing what Presidential Obama is. Healthcare was a good try, but done wrong. Libya was a mistake. Passing the Patriot Act pisses me off.
 
C/C-. Campaign Obama is nothing what Presidential Obama is. Healthcare was a good try, but done wrong. Libya was a mistake. Passing the Patriot Act pisses me off.

I quite agree.
 
Now we just need to get the poll results to him. I really should have just left off everything above B-, and specified through to F-.
 
F- ......worst driver in history........would rather have Stevie Wonder driving at this point.
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Party leadership: B-, seems to be willing to meet with dems and reaffirm message, but doesn't seem willing to do much until asked

Bipartisan leadership: D+, has blatantly blocked out repubs on a few occasions, only includes them in talks when pressed, does a LOT of finger pointing and name calling on the self-promotion trips he's made

Foreign relations: C-, waits too long to respond..got us involved in another offensive, doesn't seem to be taking a strong leadership role there

Economic leadership: D, his policies inherently disagree with those which I feel are best and we haven't seen positive results from the Stimulus. Bailout repayment reports involve a lot of fuzzy math and re-arranged figures in some case, government stock ownership in a private company for the purpose of keeping said company afloat is worrisome and over-extends govt.'s role/authority

Social-policy leadership: B-, his passive-aggressive approach to gay rights issues isn't leadership, it's tacit rejection of the status quo. Changes require action. His entitlement proposals (or lack there of) don't solve any problems, but don't cause them either.

Education: B+, i agree strongly with his assertions regarding parents being more actively involved and like the general idea of federal money being allocated on the basis of school performance, but only if checks are put in place to assure we don't have an Atlanta-like situation for the sake of funding/recognition.

Overall average: C/C+
 
I am surprised that you gave him a better grade than me Tessy.
 
my vote went to a C+. I would give Obama higher if he would show some guts and stand up to the right wingers a whole lot more. When he signed the tax cuts after the election - that was a terrible mistake.

I think he has done more good than bad but his move to the right to placate the right wing is just not a good thing.
 
I give him a big fat F double minus. He is a complete failure and has replaced Jimmy Carter as the worst President in History.
 
I would agree that Libya is a mistake...but I've always contended that domestic politics plays an important part in foreign policy. If the US hadn't intervened in Libya, he would've been criticized for having less balls than the French, and Libya would be his Rwanda.

stuck between a rock and a hard place.
 
my vote went to a C+. I would give Obama higher if he would show some guts and stand up to the right wingers a whole lot more. When he signed the tax cuts after the election - that was a terrible mistake.

I think he has done more good than bad but his move to the right to placate the right wing is just not a good thing.

He isn't placating me, and I am by no means very far to the right.
 
D+.

According to a lefty like myself Obama has been far from impressive thus far. I understand that he's not a dictator and he doesn't have a magic wand but his campaign promises have yet to be applied. Gitmo is still open, healthcare reform has been a joke, the Bush tax cuts were extended, another military conflict has been initiated, the Patriot Act has been extended ect. I'm having trouble thinking of something that president Obama has delivered that candidate Obama promised.

The extra credit for getting Bin laden is the only thing keeping him from recieving a failing grade from me.
 
she is fair-minded.

I think the difference is that she gave him a B- in Party Leadership whereas after writing two papers on it I gave him a C+/C in my head which I guess would be the difference between her C+/C and my C/C-.
 
I think the difference is that she gave him a B- in Party Leadership whereas after writing two papers on it I gave him a C+/C in my head which I guess would be the difference between her C+/C and my C/C-.

I think he's good at rallying his own team, at least on the hill...and since he set records for voter participation in '08 I had to weigh that ability to incite the base and independents like he did. Doesn't happen very often.
 
I think the difference is that she gave him a B- in Party Leadership whereas after writing two papers on it I gave him a C+/C in my head which I guess would be the difference between her C+/C and my C/C-.

You wrote two papers on party leadership? What was that like?
 
I think he's good at rallying his own team, at least on the hill...and since he set records for voter participation in '08 I had to weigh that ability to incite the base and independents like he did. Doesn't happen very often.

Candidate Obama =/= President Obama.

I would say Congressional Dems are trying to rally him, more than the other way around. There's an increasingly larger wing of the liberal Dems who are super-dissatisfied with what they perceive has him giving in to the right.
 
I would agree that Libya is a mistake...but I've always contended that domestic politics plays an important part in foreign policy. If the US hadn't intervened in Libya, he would've been criticized for having less balls than the French, and Libya would be his Rwanda.

stuck between a rock and a hard place.

My problem isn't that we did something in Libya, is what we have done after. Our purpose has lacked directions.
 
Candidate Obama =/= President Obama.

I would say Congressional Dems are trying to rally him, more than the other way around. There's an increasingly larger wing of the liberal Dems who are super-dissatisfied with what they perceive has him giving in to the right.

You're gonna make me change my graaaaaaaadeeeeeeeeee. I can't re-vote, damn it.
 
My problem isn't that we did something in Libya, is what we have done after. Our purpose has lacked directions.

I know this is gonna sound hackish...but lack of solid direction seems to be a big issue with a lot of Obama foreign policy/economic policy.

*runs and hides*
 
I think he's good at rallying his own team, at least on the hill...and since he set records for voter participation in '08 I had to weigh that ability to incite the base and independents like he did. Doesn't happen very often.

He is, but that is Campaign Obama. President Obama lacks those party leadership skills and many Congressional Democrats complain about the lack of him in certain areas.
 
My problem isn't that we did something in Libya, is what we have done after. Our purpose has lacked directions.

It's still a situation I see as being between a rock and a hard place at this point. Obviously, in reality, we want to get rid of Gaddafi. But the pursuit of that goal is constrained by decreasing American stomach for foreign wars, and also by international law. To withdraw at this point would basically mean everything we did from the beginning was for absolutely nothing. I think at this point the strategy is just to wait it out until the guy runs out of resources.
 
You wrote two papers on party leadership? What was that like?

Well only one was specifically looking at party leadership and the other was looking at riders and ways Congressional leaders get them off. The results I got were interesting. If you want to know what I specifically looked I can tell you later.
 
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