President Obama's on the Honor Roll

Well, not really. But he's passing.

Health Care: B-
This was a tough decision, because the poor guy is trying so hard.  But we can't give grades based on effort now can we?

Obama's Health Care plan did get passed and are all ready to be put into action in the near future, but it's losing steam.  The republican congress is picking away at it before it's even had a chance to go into effect. And Obama's not really doing much about it.

Dealing with the Economic Downturn: B
Very, very solid.

This is mostly for the stimulus package.  We haven't had a ton of recovery since it was handed out, but it's a good thing it was. I personally don't agree that big businesses should be propped up by the government or that the government should have a huge hand in the economy other than regulation, but by saving some colossal companies from collapsing, the economy was essentially saved from 25% unemployment.  I am glad, although many economists aren't, that at least one bank was allowed to fail: Lehman Brothers.  Not that they in particular had it coming, but someone needed to be made an example of so that maybe the big guys will be dissuaded from trying to overuse sub-prime mortgages again.

And I haven't heard of any Obama-villes yet so at least he's doing better than Hoover.

And his jobs plan was a good idea.  Even if it got very very much killed.

War on Terror: C
This is the one area Obama seems to be really struggling in.  And consequently it's the one thing that might keep him from passing.  God forbid we have to hold back our president.

While he came into office at a disadvantage (he was basically cleaning up after Bush), he hasn't pulled through.  Troops, instead of being pulled out of Iraq, were at one point in time being sent there.  On top of that, there's no real end in sight. The timeline was to remove all troops by August of this year.  But the thing is, even if we remove troops, we've done a lot of damage to our PR. Bombing and fighting just gives Muslim extremists even more reason to hate America.

Osama Bin Laden was killed.  But that meant more to us that it did to Al Qaeda and didn't actually solve any problems.

An eye for an eye just means there are a lot of blind people.


Reelection Bid: B
Also rather solid. 

This one is a bit early to call, but, and I might be biased here, Obama has a good chance of being reelected.  Whether it is because there is no strong republican candidate or based on his own merit doesn't matter, as long as he pulls through.

But I would rather it be based on his own merit.  Obama has approached the election season with some strategy, that I, based on principle, oppose. I believe that the best candidate should be president.  In real life though, his strategy is well formed: get the health care constitutionality question out of the way so closer to the election he can look good. 

OBAMA 2012