Politically correct: Obama’s report card

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• Posted by JConnor on November 10, 2009 at 12:47 a.m.
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• Posted by gracie407 on November 10, 2009 at 2:07 a.m.
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Linguo - are you suggesting that the health care bill that passed last weekend was one and the same with any of the bills discussed in April? That folks shouldn't need to read the final bill before it's passed because it's essentially a carbon copy of the myriad draft bills? Wise up my friend.

Can democrats do no wrong? Why are you bending over backwards to make excuses for those who secured votes for the bill behind closed doors (which was neither bipartisan nor, more importantly, transparent) and pass legislation designed to be unread?

Linguo credibility: F

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• Posted by RTBatKU on November 10, 2009 at 8:11 a.m.
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It is true, though, that the Republicans refused to help do anything about healthcare. They were asked many times for input and when they finally decided to think about suggesting things for healthcare instead of just saying no, they came up with a healthcare bill that was practically the opposite of reform.

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• Posted by reuben on November 10, 2009 at 8:38 a.m.
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I'll post the same list here that I did on one of the previous political columns, as to what Obama has done so far: Lily Ledbetter Fair-Pay Act Basically a 180-degree turn in world opinion of U.S. Massive education reform efforts that even Republicans are lauding We're now closer to health care reform and climate change legislation than we've ever been. Along with Secretary Gates, created a sensible defense budget for fighting in the 21st century. Reversed non-sensical stem cell research policy. Signed a stimulus bill that has already invested almost $9 billion in highway infrastructure improvements alone, not to mention all the other parts of the stimulus. Authorized investment of the largest energy-related portion of the stimulus package several weeks ago, to create electric smart-grid that will potentially cut energy waste by billions of dollars.

My assessment: B-. He doesn't get A from me, basically because the administration's efforts haven't gone far enough. The economic measures based on propping up investment banking are still too much of a market-based approach, something that I have serious doubts about working. Also, his foreign policy changes have been great, but human-rights-violating "national security" measures should be ended, immediately. Close Guantanamo, put "terror suspects" in federal prisons, give them fair trials, close CIA blacksites, end torture, and get rid of FISA. Also, I think the Obama Justice Department needs to prosecute the Bush administration and CIA officials that broke the law.

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• Posted by dlowell on November 10, 2009 at 11:12 a.m.
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The poll is leaning decidedly nowhere as there have been 14 votes (at the time of this posting) which is certainly not a large enough sample to declare anything, even if it was your comment is just a case of argumentum ad populum. Republicans in Congress have been uncooperative (to say the least) and the Dems have given up on most of what their base would like in a health care bill. A House bill which the Senate says is DOA. Disappointing on both sides.

It has been 9 months and people have been declaring Obama a failure since he entered office. Give it time and at least some impartiality and maybe things will get better.

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• Posted by empirelucas on November 10, 2009 at 12:11 p.m.
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Immediate action does not imply immediate results and averting disaster is different from making everything all better in one fell swoop.

I thought Republicans were fine with things taking time. You know, like the two wars we are in and have been in for 10 times as long as Obama's been in office. Has another terrorist attack on the United States been averted? Possibly. Are Al-Qaeda and the Taliban wiped out along with terrorism for good? Definitely not.

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• Posted by empirelucas on November 10, 2009 at 1:36 p.m.
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"the little poll up there is, and has been on the other polling stories, leaning decidedly to the conservative side."

Yeah, because Internet polls are totally accurate.

And wow, Chet Compton thinks that Obama has completely failed? I am SHOCKED, I tell you, just SHOCKED.

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• Posted by G_E on November 10, 2009 at 3:45 p.m.
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It would be a lot easier to take Compton's opinion seriously if he didn't just follow the lead of whatever he caught on Fox News. Anyways, Obama ranks a B- in my book. He's been waffling on some of his values (the skirmish with Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy was unnecessarily partisan) and flat out impotent on others (such as stopping Alaskan national forests from being leveled). But he's not Bush, which automatically makes him better than all the Dubya copycats the GOP is trying to prop up right now.

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• Posted by xz007 on November 10, 2009 at 6:50 p.m.
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Oh why not, I'll let a little thing like getting published go to my head a little.

My opinion?

C+. Better then average, but not by much. He caves to large companies when he shouldn't, he doesn't seem to get it that being bipartisan is worse then harmless when one side says regularly that they'd rather see the country fail then him succeed, and a lot of the programs he's enacted have been very expensive and we got very little for our buck back.

Still, he does at least put up a good try and a lot oh energy into doing a lot of things I do like like shutting down Gitmo, fixing the economy, and he certainly doesn't try to talk us into wars of questionable worth- and so far the worst we've seen from appointees is tax evasion while they do passably competent jobs as a rule. The spirit is willing, the reach is weak.

So Better then Average, but not by much.

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• Posted by JasonForson on November 12, 2009 at 6:53 p.m.
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