Pretty much. But government is so big, so intrusive, and is supported by so many entrenched (and often well-funded) interests that I'm not at all sure it's possible to have a better than 'C' President any more.I don't think he is a bad President, but to me he has done a C job at best. And we need a someone who can do better than a C. I feel he really hurt us with the healthcare law. I also think he could have done more about the the tax situation. He hasn't kept his word on some things either. I think his biggest mistake is, he wanted make a mark and he chose healthcare. As a country we didn't need that at this time.
If he had of just come in and put certain things in order, get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, shutdown the many tax loopholes to name a few, he could have turned the country around for the long term haul. To many things with him have been bandaids. Great election fodder, but lacking true substance.
What tax situation are you referring to?I don't think he is a bad President, but to me he has done a C job at best. And we need a someone who can do better than a C. I feel he really hurt us with the healthcare law. I also think he could have done more about the the tax situation. He hasn't kept his word on some things either. I think his biggest mistake is, he wanted make a mark and he chose healthcare. As a country we didn't need that at this time.
If he had of just come in and put certain things in order, get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, shutdown the many tax loopholes to name a few, he could have turned the country around for the long term haul. To many things with him have been bandaids. Great election fodder, but lacking true substance.
I think one reason he falls short is that if he really espoused the the policies that could shore up this country Randbots would immediately denounce him as a combination of Marx/Stalin/Hitler and nothing would get done at all.I vote that Obama is overall is good president, but falls far short of what we the American people need.
I predict this thread will be filled with rational, reasonable posts full of facts and no hyperbole at all.
I don't think he's horrible. Don't like he bows to foreign monarchs and apologizes for America frequently. Not a fan of his domestic policy either. However he showed some stones with Bin Laden, and he seems like a good family man.
Hope he's a one term president, but he's ok.
Reasonable job all things considered. Made some mistakes but so do we.
How much difference can a prez really make? Seriously.
In the modern world where corporations/business/capital have so much power, and consumer sentiment is so important, what can one man really do?
Especially with a hostile congress?
The Democrats still control the Senate, of course they're a bit hostile to some of the idiocy that Obama has come up with.
How's your cute little brown-eyed mullet Julia Gillard doing as the PM?
What you're missing is a simple question. Are you better off now than when he took office? Answer it honestly.I don't know much about him, but most of what I've heard has been good. And yet a lot of people seem to hate him. What am I missing here? He looks like a godsend compared to the carnival of freaks running for president.
What you're missing is a simple question. Are you better off now than when he took office? Answer it honestly.
Are the policies he implemented the best course of action and policies that have been proven in the past to improve our way of life? Answer it honestly.
When you judge him by what the average Joe considers to be important, he's an abject failure. Unemployment, gas prices, food prices, energy prices, the list goes on.
Why will he get the votes he gets? Because he's a Democrat. Because he's black. Because he's not a Republican. Because he's promised more free stuff to more people. He can't run on his record. His campaign will be an even more emotion based campaign than his last.
So, if I understand you correctly, he's got your vote because you're afraid the right will rule the nation based on religious ideology? Well OK then.I don't and never have received any "free things" from the government and I'd still rather vote for him than any of the current GOP Candidates who claim they want small government but then want to implement religious ideology into law. I'll freely admit that Obama was not the change I was looking for. He is still a corporate shrill like most politicians have been, but at least isn't trying for the same old idea that wealth trickles down which is the only platform Republicans seem to think will work. I think most of Obamacare is a failure and a boon to the insurance companies (something republicans won't admit, they think its hurting those companies and that's why healthcare costs are increasing), but I also know that this wasn't completely Obama's fault, it was congress's fault and it also had republican hands in it. Other than that I think he has done a decent C job with all the opposition he has had from the right and their caricature of him (it is a caricature of him).