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Coming up on the one year anniversary of the inauguration, grade the Commander-in-Chief & Head Executive of the United States based on the previous twelve months.

Feel free to state your reasons or don't. We're pretty casual here in =4.

Also, this thread is for talking about whatever Jophiel wants.

Edited, Jan 13th 2010 8:25pm by Jophiel

B+.

He gets high marks for making the world not hate America as much, and for helping the Great Recession not become Great Depression 2.0. He loses a few points for being slow on other issues.

I gave him a D-, mainly because he didn't actually cause the entire country to collapse into chaos (yet). He's broken nearly every promise he made during the campaign (it's interesting and telling that most Libs think the opposite, which only highlights the "mixed perceptions" argument I've made in the past). He's telegraphed to sponsors of terror that he's not going to go after them, but merely arrest and try the dupes they send to commit attacks, leading to more planned attacks on our nation (predictably, but there you have it). He's followed and compounded upon a potentially disastrous economic policy, using it to put his people into positions of power in industry rather than to actually fix the problems themselves. He promised us the most open and transparent administration ever, yet so far appears to be running the most secretive and evasive one since Nixon (and he might just be edging him out on that score).


I'll acknowledge that as many of the problems going on are caused by nuts in the Congress, but he presented himself to the voters as a moderate who wouldn't do crazy things, but instead of moderating the more radical forces in Congress, he seems to be egging them on. His cabinet is almost a who's who list of US socialists and nutters. He's managed to bungle virtually every single major trip he's taken, and every single issue that has come across his desk. I can't think of a single important event which he handled "well". European trip? Failure. Middle East? Failure. Asia? Absolutely horrific failure. Havard professor going nuts? Failure. Terror attack? Failure.

While technically his promise to close Gitmo by the end of the year is a failure, it's something I think he shouldn't do, so that's kind of a wash. I think that health care, whether it succeeds or fails (and I mean, passes or not, it's a failure by design already) will hang around his neck for the rest of his administration. At this point, there is no "win" for him or his party. The best they can hope for is to get some mangled thing passed and hope to spend the next 20 years fixing it. No one's going to be happy except maybe the far left socialists who will cheer the increased government control.


Um. Yeah. Just shy of an F.

Hehehehe... I saw the D- and the F and looked at the recent visitors. Sure enough, Gbaji and Varrus were on!

I even guessed right which one of you picked which grade

B+, mostly because I'm of the mindset that if Bush didn't fuck everything up as royally as he did, it would've given him more liberty for "Change" instead of dedicating most of his efforts on "Repairs".

Then again...I guess a repair would be change anyway?

Either way, he's got a full plate.

I gave him an A in hopes that he will read this poll and be inspired to live up to that grade.

All failures eh?

Why was the recent terror attack a failure? Because he took two days to respond?

Edited, Jan 12th 2010 3:06pm by Xsarus

In retrospect, I should have gone B/B-.

I forget what a monumental thing getting a HC bill passed is. Although Obama could have kept his hand on the keel more effectively, it never would have happened at all without President Obama. That's worth a bump or two on its own.

Went with B+. Overall content with the job so far, has backpedaled on some things he promised that I wanted to see happen so not the best of scores.

I gave him an F because I'm in a bad mood.

I tuned into the Daily Show last night for a few minutes, and caught them recapping the terror attacks during presidency stuff. It was quite funny.

Given the option to vote for "Incomplete", I would have done so.

I went with a B- more on the grounds that he's doing better than anyone with his relative lack of experience should be expected to do.

And ten bonus points for managing to get the Nobel Peace Prize without actually doing anything, which bumps him from a C- to a B-.