Grade Obama

[Kleves]

What grade would you give Obama for his performance thus far?

[Caliga]

I would say somewhere between a B and a C.  B-?

[Valmy]

He gets a F for not doing what I wanted him to do 

But I guess overall he gets a C.  His inability to work with Congress renders him pretty inneffective.

[derspiess]

D

[Ed Anger]

A for the bombing brown people class

C for everything else.

[Berkut]

C, but that is an upgrade from a D because I figure he has an exceptionally difficult job because the Republicans are being such complete and utter douchebags. On the other hand, he has completely and utterly failed to handle them being complete and utter douchebags.

[DGuller]

C, but that is an upgrade from a D because I figure he has an exceptionally difficult job because the Republicans are being such complete and utter douchebags. On the other hand, he has completely and utterly failed to handle them being complete and utter douchebags.

This. +1

[Ed Anger]

I'd like to poke out the eyes of people who post 'this'.

Nothing against you DG, just a pet peeve of mine. And I feel better now getting that off my chest.

[CountDeMoney]

I'd like to poke out the eyes of people who post 'this'.

Nothing against you DG, just a pet peeve of mine. And I feel better now getting that off my chest.

This.

[Ed Anger]

 

I saw what you did DG. 

[Sheilbh]

I think B overall. Generally solid on security and foreign policy. In Obamacare a more substantial domestic achievement than any President since LBJ. He also deserves credit for a set of policies from the election on that helped stop an awful recession from turning into a depression (Bush and McCain also deserve credit) and gave the US the strongest recovery in the developed world.

I think had immigration reform and, say, gun control passed he'd be pushing to an A.

I sort-of shared Andrew Sullivan's hope that a younger charismatic President would sort of move everything beyond the boomer culture wars. Actually it looks like they've just infected everything in American politics, which is a shame. But I think culturally or socially he'll be significant to and, in my view, his contribution's positive: a President supporting gay marriage and mentioning gays in his inauguration, a black President and a black first family.

[Scipio]

B for international trade agreements and state health insurance exchanges; C for foreign policy; D for ramping up drug war and border enforcement.  I'm on the fence re: Medicaid expansion, since at this point even I'd prefer single-payer.  A for gun control failure and his amazing ablative shielding in the cabinet departments.  Eric Holder is the sweetest meatshield of all time.

I'll say this: he's a better president than Mississippi's governor is a governor, but that's a low fucking bar.

[garbon]

Sheilbh is so...generous.

[JacobL]

C- to D+ range but since others overgrade him I decided to undergrade him for the sake of balance and a better looking poll result.

[Habbaku]

Sheilbh is so...generous.

No kidding.  Probably gives Bush a B+.