Poll: Grade Obama’s first 100 Days

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1. Donsquishydishimaharishi says:

   April 29, 2009 at 8:23 am

   It depends, if I’m a republican I give him an incomplete because “we just don’t know yet”

   If I’m a guy that voted for him I give him a C+. The banking bailout has really impacted how I feel he is going to govern the greed on Wall Street and I don’t see much change coming and as a result I don’t see how we get this country really back on track long term. The chance to make real change is now, but we are losing that chance.

2. jason330 says:

   April 29, 2009 at 8:28 am

   I love the poll choices.

3. Unstable Isotope says:

   April 29, 2009 at 8:32 am

   There’s two places I worry: torture/human rights and bank bailouts. I think Geithner may be coming around to our way of thinking, judging by the stress test results (6 of 19 failing) but it’s frustrating because smart people have been saying this all along. The continuance of Bush’s state secrets and ignoring torture is what’s worrying me.

4. Dorian Gray says:

   April 29, 2009 at 9:00 am

   I don’t see how he doesn’t get an A. He’s done many things I disagree with but he has done everything he said he would do. I am not too fond of the bank bailouts, but that ship had sailed with Paulson & Bush. He isn’t keen on the toture investigations, but again, he never pretended to be the vindictive type. I never had any delusions that he “punish” or be out for revenge.

   He tried “bipartisanship” and compromise – like he said he would.

   He has made many scientific and environmental policy reversals, which is great. The foreign policy thing is getting better. The large ship is beginning (beginning) to come about.

5. David says:

   April 29, 2009 at 9:48 am

   There is no torture and never has been as an instrument of statecraft. Enhanced Interrogation is appropriate and legal in limited circumstances.

   As for the grade on the first 100 days, he did what he said he would do during the first 100 days minus the silly lobbyist stuff. I also ding him for not filling key positions in a timely manner. I give him an A- for performance.

   I give him a D+ for substance. The negatives are clear. The trillion dollar deficit budget is atrocious. His social policy is abysmal. His blame America tour was appalling. His quiet abandonment missile defense, cut backs on troop recruitment, treating terrorism like a legal problem, and the lack of a border policy is disturbing.

   I give him points for not abandoning the war in Iraq, but working to get us out as carefully as “we carelessly got in”. I give him points for trying to win Afghanistan so we can leave a stable nation. I give him points for not being afraid to pull the trigger on the pirates. I also give him credit for moving on housing and trying to stimulate jobs by ensuring local infrastructure projects weren’t canceled.

6. Von Cracker says:

   April 29, 2009 at 9:52 am

   If Obama or any non-R played the fiddle while watching the raging fire burn would garner an ‘A’ from David.

   “There is no torture and never has been as an instrument of statecraft. Enhanced Interrogation is appropriate and legal in limited circumstances.”

   Shorter – “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”

7. cassandra_m says:

   April 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

   I give him a B.

   He has certainly gone about doing what he said he’d do and I think that is a good thing. The continuation of the use of the state secrets privilege is deeply troubling to me as is the efforts at closing the door on the torture era without taking a hard look at what we did and whether crimes were committed. These two concern me enough to bring the grade down to a B.

   The economy I don’t think I can grade yet. The stimulus is a good start, but the banking problems don’t seem to be much on a path to a long-term fix. Certainly not one that doesn’t require alot more taxpayer funds to fix.

   But I’m glad that Obama is our President now — I can’t imagine where we’d be with McCain and Palin still working at sorting out the real vs the pretend Americans. It is delightful to have leadership that people look up to, respect and like.

8. cassandra_m says:

   April 29, 2009 at 10:01 am

   Do notice how David still had to make up a bunch of stuff in order to come up with his grade.

9. Unstable Isotope says:

   April 29, 2009 at 11:40 am

   I just skipped David. It’s just noise as far as I’m concerned.

   I think Obama is off to a great start. You can tell that he really is trying to keep his campaign promises. I can tell that he’s a studier as well. He’s looked at what other presidents have done and tried to learn from them. He certainly hasn’t taken the easy route and sat on his popularity – he’s spending his capital.

   I gave him a B. I think it’s a strong start but I have grave concerns about the bank policy and torture investigation policy.

10. Molon Labe says:

    April 29, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    I have to give Obama an A+.

    In only 5 months, he has single-handedly all but completely dried up the availability of guns and ammunition (2-5 month backorders for for those icky evil black rifles, and caused such a shortage of ammuntition, that it is now cost prohibitive to buy ammo in bulk) while stimulating the economy to such a degree that the gun industry has seen an almost 20% increase in sales.

    Protecting The Children(tm), limiting access to guns and ammo, and economy stimulation by political stance only.

    Outstanding! 😉

11. a. price says:

    April 29, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    B. i cant forgive the wire tapping, being so ambiguous on prosecuting Bush’s war crimes, and the loss of those 5 days before bills are signed.