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Obama's time is up. My take: He actually seems like a decent guy. Family guy, etc. Polite.
But he made a LOT of mistakes, and he ran up a lot of debt.
The country is in worse shape now than when he got here. I know, he saved us from depression, blah blah blah because of George W Bush's poor decisions. But here's the bottom line. When you borrow the amount of money that he borrowed, you should have a LOT more to show for it. For that reason I give Obama a grade of
D
For his entire presidency.
History will rate him a below average president although not a failure.
I give him a B. 16 million private sector jobs created under his presidency. My only gripe is that the job quality was the worst on record. Our U6/U3 ration is very distorted, and GDP growth has been very lackluster, particularly this last year. Also housing starts never got out of recession territory under his presidency.
He fixed crucial problems with our healthcare system (pre-existing conditions), osama bin laden dead, we aren't in as many military conflicts, made our tax system more fair with letting super rich tax cuts expire, he expanded rights for the LGBT community. And he is likable to boot.
I give him a D-. The only reason he did not completely and utterly fail in my eyes is because he did do a bit for the VA. Not enough, but he did do some good there. Other than that, he was a failure.
The only thing that saved him for me is killing Bin Laden and at least attempting to fix the health care crisis in the country. At least he got the Republicans on board with some kind of a plan for the poor and the working poor.
But it was a terrible, half hearted lame attempt. He's got no guts, that is most of his problem.
I give him a B. 16 million private sector jobs created under his presidency. My only gripe is that the job quality was the worst on record. Our U6/U3 ration is very distorted, and GDP growth has been very lackluster, particularly this last year. Also housing starts never got out of recession territory under his presidency.
You know most economic policies take years to manifest. Maybe those 16 million jobs came from Bush's policies.
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He fixed crucial problems with our healthcare system (pre-existing conditions),
By "fixed," you mean "broke"?
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osama bin laden dead, we aren't in as many military conflicts,
I gave him credit for that.
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made our tax system more fair with letting super rich tax cuts expire, he expanded rights for the LGBT community. And he is likable to boot.
How is that in anyway fair? A fair tax system means everybody pays the same AMOUNT. Hell even if everybody pays the same ratio, it would be fairer than what we have today.
You know most economic policies take years to manifest. Maybe those 16 million jobs came from Bush's policies.
By "fixed," you mean "broke"?
I gave him credit for that.
How is that in anyway fair? A fair tax system means everybody pays the same AMOUNT. Hell even if everybody pays the same ratio, it would be fairer than what we have today.
Sure, that deserves a B if B means, bad.
Nonsense
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