Obama's grades for first 150 days
As an independent, former history teacher, I feel there is enough information to grade Barak Obama’s performance as president. I would give him the following grades in the most crucial areas of his job. Overall, he is failing, in my opinion. I give him a D-. He has the potential to do much better, but only if he replaces all of his advisors and department heads. Obama is a solid centrist at a time when centrist is a state of decay.
Obama is saddled with an avalanche of debt inherited from gross mismanagement and outright crimes, treason and subversion by the George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan Administrations. Obama needs to remind Americans at every opportunity that this debt is so massive, it will take at least four years just to stop the hemorrhaging. Only then can repair and rebuilding begin. Obama should "redo '32," villifying the Republicans and reducing their numbers to the 20% they held in Congress in 1937. Then he could bring about real change. Currently, he lacks the wisdom to know what is necessary to repair the nation and has no one around him that knows. Bipartisanship that he favors is lethal. It will make al Qaeda happy.
1). LEADERSHIP Grade: D
Barak Obama has surrounded himself with problem-causers, not problem-solvers. Many of his most important department heads have served before. They helped create the shaky structure that is collapsing and threatens the existence of this nation.
Times of profound crisis demand bold leadership. Obama has displayed the timidity so typical of members of the Democratic Party. He has bent over backwards to attract bipartisan cooperation from the Republican Party, a party that notoriously does not play well with others.
Obama lacks a vision. He generally has continued the policies of his predecessor. He puts the interests of the corporations above those of the people.
2). ECONOMY Grade: D
The people who got everything wrong about the economy advised a bank bailout. Demand-side economics is superior to supply-side economics because demand is two-thirds of the economy. Supply eagerly follows demand. So called “toxic assets” could have been transformed into real assets. Bankrupt people could have had a better chance to become stable tax payers as their lodging problems were reduced. If the bailout money had gone to them, they could have became property-holding consumers sooner.
Obama has not addressed or even recognized the structural problems caused by Reaganomics. Nearly a dozen nations tried neoliberalism with disastrous results. Obama has not yet considered fixing those massive problems.
3). HISTORY Grade F
As he promised, Obama is launching military strikes inside Pakistan and escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is making Pakistan more unstable. He is showing contempt for international law and sound judgment. Afghanistan is known as the “Graveyard of Empires.” The Soviet Union was defeated there as were the British and the Mongols.
Obama is repeating the mistakes Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon made in Vietnam. Bin Laden accomplished his goal, which was to remove the U.S. military from Saudi Arabia. George H. W. Bush promised to withdraw the troops as soon as Saddam Hussein was removed from Kuwait. Bush lied. Bin Laden’s attack on 9/11 was far more justified than Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Why is Obama “looking back” on that incident and not on the damage Bush did to the U.S., which is about 1,000 times greater?
History tells us that the last time Republicans controlled every branch of government for an extended period was 1921-1932. They were able to implement their cockamamie ideas, which produced The Great Depression. By 1937, the Republicans held less than 20% of the seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Rather than compromise, Obama could “redo ’32,” gain a large majority for his party and bring about real change.
When Ronald Reagan committed treason, subversion, contempt of Congress and ran drugs into the U.S., a crime spree known as the Iran/Contra affair, Democrats gave him a stern tongue-lashing. They felt that would deter any future aspiring totalitarian from snubbing his nose a Congress. The message it sent was that Democrats lacked the will and courage to enforce the Constitution when major crimes are committed. The lesson was not lost on Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Obama has failed to grasp it so far.
4). CONSTITUTION Grade F
Obama’s is a lawyer by profession. He must have specialized in criminal defense law because he is willing to overlook the most hideous crimes and massive crime wave of the 21st Century. The Bush Administration committed treason, subversion and war crimes; it used WMDs against civilians, sent nearly 4,300 American soldiers to unnecessary deaths and mutilated tens of thousands more. Bush looted the Treasury of over $5 trillion dollars, gave lucrative, posh contracts to friends of the Administration, suspended habeas corpus, rigged elections, spied on all Americans, kidnapped innocent people, tortured people, killed people without a trial or reason, often acted like a dictator, violated treaties, concealed and fabricated evidence and facts and violated most of the Bill of Rights and the first three Articles of the Constitution.
Obama is willing to launch attacks against Pakistan risking more contempt for the U.S. and the deaths of innocent civilians in the hope of killing Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is accused of masterminding an attack on the U.S. that killed 2,974 people of which approximately 2,105 were U.S. citizens. Obama wants to kill him and anyone around him, but does not want to punish George W. Bush who killed 4,300 Americans. The U.S. has been damned with too many big-gun, small-brain leaders. The U.S. appears to be run by fools and madmen acting arbitrarily rather than by a Constitution. It’s unclear where Obama stands.
5). HEALTHCARE Grade: F
The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world costing more than twice that of Switzerland, the second most expensive. Many Third World nations provide better healthcare. The primary goal of the U.S. healthcare system is to enrich executives and stockholders of the insurance, pharmaceutical and medical delivery corporations. Profits have priority over patients. The bloated healthcare corporations are rewarded for denying and not delivering adequate healthcare services. Healthcare is an embarrassing, festering wound exposing the bare attitudes of the rulers toward ordinary American people and the nation itself. Obama’s top priority is to insure the survival of those derelict, predatory, heartless corporations.
Obama has earned an overall grade of D-. He shows no sign of an ability to improve. He's on the way to failure, and will take the nation with him.
Obama is saddled with an avalanche of debt inherited from gross mismanagement and outright crimes, treason and subversion by the George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan Administrations. Obama needs to remind Americans at every opportunity that this debt is so massive, it will take at least four years just to stop the hemorrhaging. Only then can repair and rebuilding begin. Obama should "redo '32," villifying the Republicans and reducing their numbers to the 20% they held in Congress in 1937. Then he could bring about real change. Currently, he lacks the wisdom to know what is necessary to repair the nation and has no one around him that knows. Bipartisanship that he favors is lethal. It will make al Qaeda happy.
1). LEADERSHIP Grade: D
Barak Obama has surrounded himself with problem-causers, not problem-solvers. Many of his most important department heads have served before. They helped create the shaky structure that is collapsing and threatens the existence of this nation.
Times of profound crisis demand bold leadership. Obama has displayed the timidity so typical of members of the Democratic Party. He has bent over backwards to attract bipartisan cooperation from the Republican Party, a party that notoriously does not play well with others.
Obama lacks a vision. He generally has continued the policies of his predecessor. He puts the interests of the corporations above those of the people.
2). ECONOMY Grade: D
The people who got everything wrong about the economy advised a bank bailout. Demand-side economics is superior to supply-side economics because demand is two-thirds of the economy. Supply eagerly follows demand. So called “toxic assets” could have been transformed into real assets. Bankrupt people could have had a better chance to become stable tax payers as their lodging problems were reduced. If the bailout money had gone to them, they could have became property-holding consumers sooner.
Obama has not addressed or even recognized the structural problems caused by Reaganomics. Nearly a dozen nations tried neoliberalism with disastrous results. Obama has not yet considered fixing those massive problems.
3). HISTORY Grade F
As he promised, Obama is launching military strikes inside Pakistan and escalating the war in Afghanistan. He is making Pakistan more unstable. He is showing contempt for international law and sound judgment. Afghanistan is known as the “Graveyard of Empires.” The Soviet Union was defeated there as were the British and the Mongols.
Obama is repeating the mistakes Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon made in Vietnam. Bin Laden accomplished his goal, which was to remove the U.S. military from Saudi Arabia. George H. W. Bush promised to withdraw the troops as soon as Saddam Hussein was removed from Kuwait. Bush lied. Bin Laden’s attack on 9/11 was far more justified than Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Why is Obama “looking back” on that incident and not on the damage Bush did to the U.S., which is about 1,000 times greater?
History tells us that the last time Republicans controlled every branch of government for an extended period was 1921-1932. They were able to implement their cockamamie ideas, which produced The Great Depression. By 1937, the Republicans held less than 20% of the seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Rather than compromise, Obama could “redo ’32,” gain a large majority for his party and bring about real change.
When Ronald Reagan committed treason, subversion, contempt of Congress and ran drugs into the U.S., a crime spree known as the Iran/Contra affair, Democrats gave him a stern tongue-lashing. They felt that would deter any future aspiring totalitarian from snubbing his nose a Congress. The message it sent was that Democrats lacked the will and courage to enforce the Constitution when major crimes are committed. The lesson was not lost on Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Obama has failed to grasp it so far.
4). CONSTITUTION Grade F
Obama’s is a lawyer by profession. He must have specialized in criminal defense law because he is willing to overlook the most hideous crimes and massive crime wave of the 21st Century. The Bush Administration committed treason, subversion and war crimes; it used WMDs against civilians, sent nearly 4,300 American soldiers to unnecessary deaths and mutilated tens of thousands more. Bush looted the Treasury of over $5 trillion dollars, gave lucrative, posh contracts to friends of the Administration, suspended habeas corpus, rigged elections, spied on all Americans, kidnapped innocent people, tortured people, killed people without a trial or reason, often acted like a dictator, violated treaties, concealed and fabricated evidence and facts and violated most of the Bill of Rights and the first three Articles of the Constitution.
Obama is willing to launch attacks against Pakistan risking more contempt for the U.S. and the deaths of innocent civilians in the hope of killing Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is accused of masterminding an attack on the U.S. that killed 2,974 people of which approximately 2,105 were U.S. citizens. Obama wants to kill him and anyone around him, but does not want to punish George W. Bush who killed 4,300 Americans. The U.S. has been damned with too many big-gun, small-brain leaders. The U.S. appears to be run by fools and madmen acting arbitrarily rather than by a Constitution. It’s unclear where Obama stands.
5). HEALTHCARE Grade: F
The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world costing more than twice that of Switzerland, the second most expensive. Many Third World nations provide better healthcare. The primary goal of the U.S. healthcare system is to enrich executives and stockholders of the insurance, pharmaceutical and medical delivery corporations. Profits have priority over patients. The bloated healthcare corporations are rewarded for denying and not delivering adequate healthcare services. Healthcare is an embarrassing, festering wound exposing the bare attitudes of the rulers toward ordinary American people and the nation itself. Obama’s top priority is to insure the survival of those derelict, predatory, heartless corporations.
Obama has earned an overall grade of D-. He shows no sign of an ability to improve. He's on the way to failure, and will take the nation with him.
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