History Will Love Obama, But Will Voters?

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Obama's legislative experience was insignificant compared to McCain or Biden, and he had no executive branch experience at all. He came in with a clear intention to tear down the US as he saw it and rebuild it in conformance with an assortment of half-baked notions. What did you THINK was going to happen?

John Reed of TN 1:24PM October 01, 2010

It is delusional to think that any President could reverse the mess of the Bush/Cheney years in 2 years. President Bush devastated the advances President Clinton had made. And it could get worse in this country but I believe President Obama has halted to decline.
We NEEDED healthcare reform. Ask those denied coverage due to previous conditions or young people getting out of college and starting jobs that do not provide healthcare. And lack of financial regulations caused the meltdown. Ask folks in credit card debt what the new credit card law has done. Not everything but it has put in place protections for consumers.
It will take more than a full term for the President to get us out of this mess. Give the guy a break.

Felicia of PA 5:00PM September 17, 2010

You call these accomplishments? Sorry but I beg to differ. Forcing healthcare legislation that the electorate does not want, further complicating and regulating the financial system so that the government can be further entrenched in our personal lives? While these are certainly accomplishments for the president's agenda, they are not accomplishments for the country at large. The country doesn't want these things but the current administration does not care one whit about what the country wants.
And if you think Hillary Clinton is going to somehow accomplish peace in the Middle East I want some of the koolaide you're drinking. The western world will never bring about middle east peace and we shouldn't - those matters should be duked out among the involved nations and perhaps if we left it alone it would be.
My prediction is that Obama will certainly go down in history but not as some statesman who changed the country for the better, rather as the president who tried to wreck the country and all the principles upon which it was built.
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Annie of CA 3:01PM September 12, 2010

Unfortunately Obama doesn't seem to have the qualifications that his advance men indicated he was bringing to the office. He seems overwhelmed by complicated matters that are beyond his ability to comprehend. The only person on the political horizon who has the intelligence and experience to possibly rescue this country and possibly the world from the coming disaster, is Mitt Romney. And he is unpalatable to many voters because of his religious affiliation.
With dwindling energy and water, and other resources, and burgeoning populations, it seems inevitable that the standard of living will decline, and much of the wealth will be redistributed to Asia, which is even now co-opting agricultural resources in Africa to supplement its own.
Woe betide us. Malthus, your predictions went unheeded, and now we are in a position where we will be afflicted by events that you predicted. Nostradamus was a phony. Malthus, unfortunately, was the visionary and predicated on projection of empirical data, a scientific model, and not irrational mysticism. Let us install insightful Malthus in our pantheon of great thinkers.

phlogiston of UT 12:34PM September 12, 2010

Our worst president is a foot race between bush 41 and andrew jackson.

freddie cook of OH 9:55PM September 08, 2010

how can u say that the guy gets stuck with a bunch of past problems right? look the economy was falling befor he got in the office, the war in iraq and the pice of the dollar is falling. So he is trying to help america in his own way every one has an idea how to run america. But who really wants to step up and take all the weight on there shoulders so people can just put you down and no matter what u do you still cant do enough

brandon crumes of OH 4:40PM September 07, 2010

I fear that the new healthcare system will be horrible. Just horrible. So I can't see how that would be counted as a plus. But it doesn't fully kick in until he is out of office. Isn't that clever? Already many of the fools in congress who voted for it would love to have their vote back. I don't know enough about banking to know if what he did was good or not. But I will give him that one. Anything in the Middle East that helps peace is probably good, but I'm afraid you will NEVER see true peace there. NEVER. The Arabs and Jews have been enemies for thousands of years. I think Natanyahu was kind of tolerating him by appearing to trust a peace process with people who have sworn to kill his people. He looked like "well I have to sit here and act like this is real to please Obama". Not unlike when Clinton got the Israeli prime minister to shake hands with the terrorist with him beaming in the background, and thinking what good press the picture would make for him. I wish Pres Obama well but, although he is very smart he may not be as smart as his ego thinks he is. He surely could have used a whole lot more experience. I think Zogby does a pretty fair job most of the time.

Tom Martin of IL 4:38PM September 07, 2010

As a pollster, Mr. Zogby should not let his political bias show as much as it does. His surveys appear straightforward and non-biased, but his assessments sometimes don't.
Obama will likely be seen in history as our second worst president behind Jimmy Carter. If not checked, he could even take that title for himself.

Kevin of NM 2:17PM September 07, 2010

You guys at zogby are the only one's in America experiencing "tokin' joe" biden's "summer of recovery" in the climbing scores you are giving Obama. History will remember Obama as the man who tried to supplant the checks and balances built into the American political process and replace them with a czar-driven system. They will remember him as the guy who continuously redefined his promises (can you say Guantanamo) and invented meaningless metrics (jobs saved, are you serious) while sicophants like you enabled his arrogant delusions of grandeur by announcing "mission accomplished" in your ever diminishing voices. They will record how Obama relied on 1930's and recooked 1960s economic policies to hamstring an economy for a generation. They will record his use of Chicago-style patronage politics to reward his friends and punish his opponents by ignoring law and abusing the trust citizens must place in their governing institutions. Finally, they will record how he and his followers in Congress for one brief dark moment tried to undermine the best health care system in the world while ignoring the corruption and decay embedded in our legal, insurance and Wall Street institutions - ills whose origins are often rooted in government intrusion and ignorance.
How have your pal Obama's grades been going up for the past few weeks? just because he calls another meeting and gives another speach does not mean he's doing anything. Every poll I've seen not only tracks worse and worse for Democrats, they specifically show Obama in a near free fall. Especially in the growing negatives. He campaigns for noone because noone will have him. He is so toxic not even the most liberal of Democrats want anything more to do with him (except maybe at closed fundraisers). So when are you going to stop this fiction that Obama is undergoing some fictional summer of recovery just because he announced it and start worring about your own summer of respectability - because you are running on empty right now.

Michael 9:12AM September 06, 2010