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Hell Hath No Fury

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20. A very mixed bag.

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Original post)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 06:36 PM

Jun 2013

Good to great on LGBT issues. Pretty piss poor on labor in general, education, and the environment. Great on the economy for the wealthy and investor class, not so great for the rest of us. Utter failure on holding financial criminals accountable, as well as war criminals. Has a hard on about medical marijuana and whistleblowers that I find distasteful. Foreign policy -- wrong on Latin America, wrong on drones, currently right on Syria.

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What is your REAL view of the Obama Presidency? [View all] Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 OP

Considering the fact that the GOP is determined to FUCK HIM and OBSTRUCT HIM, I'd say he's doing a MADem Jun 2013 #1

+ 1000 jazzimov Jun 2013 #31

He ain't no socialist RobertEarl Jun 2013 #2

Acceptable in my view. Very good job domestically, mediocre job in foreign issues adric mutelovic Jun 2013 #3

professional and doing lousy job quinnox Jun 2013 #4

I think it's been a tremendous waste of potential. MrSlayer Jun 2013 #5

Agreed. GoneFishin Jun 2013 #27

Things will change CountAllVotes Jun 2013 #36

The problem is that his core is "Moderate Republican" kenny blankenship Jun 2013 #6

I can't peg him down either but chose overall acceptable Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #15

I am somewhere around these two: Xyzse Jun 2013 #7

Need option to vote for multiple choices... gcomeau Jun 2013 #8

He managed to keep the ship afloat nevergiveup Jun 2013 #9

He named his children's dog BO ... GeorgeGist Jun 2013 #10

I voted for option 3. Parable Arable Jun 2013 #11

He's not a President, he's a CEO n/t leftstreet Jun 2013 #12

Not as good as Clinton The Link Jun 2013 #13

One of the greatest Presidents of the modern era Motown_Johnny Jun 2013 #14

If you ask me? Parable Arable Jun 2013 #17

Good on some issues, lousy on other issues. I'm a tough grader though so limpyhobbler Jun 2013 #16

I'd give Coolidge an F Parable Arable Jun 2013 #18

Wow! You ARE tough! Retrograde Jun 2013 #30

Oh I forgot about Taft. limpyhobbler Jun 2013 #34

On education policy alone, Obama is a spectacular failure duffyduff Jun 2013 #38

Considering he is dealing with the insane on the right and an organized fifth column on the left Sen. Walter Sobchak Jun 2013 #19

A very mixed bag. Hell Hath No Fury Jun 2013 #20

Lousy job - so many missed opportunities. But I guess they were only missed opportunities if he had scarletwoman Jun 2013 #21

+1000 forestpath Jun 2013 #24

Yep. His hand wasn't forced on the tax give aways to the 2%. GoneFishin Jun 2013 #32

Right on, except I think he has core principles TheKentuckian Jun 2013 #41

Acceptable job but too much compromising Harmony Blue Jun 2013 #22

I'm trying to ignore it. Blue_In_AK Jun 2013 #23

It's a bummer, for sure. To have a supposed Democratic president who won't actually fight against scarletwoman Jun 2013 #25

Number 2, he's doing the best he can and overall a good president. He's too moderate for my taste Raine Jun 2013 #26

He is a complete corporate and plutonomist shill, actively advancing the neocon/Bush agendas Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #28

I like how Bill Mahee put it: Initech Jun 2013 #29

"One of the greatest Presidents of the modern era " newmember Jun 2013 #33

Overall a disappointment. My expectations were high. Better than any GOP idiot. But that is it. n-t Logical Jun 2013 #35

His failures to end/separate himself from several policies from the Bush administration trouble me. Ready4Change Jun 2013 #37

I think the executive branch works again which is a plus Johonny Jun 2013 #39

one last time Douglas Carpenter Jun 2013 #40