Grade Obama’s first 100 days
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In his first 100 days in office, Barack Obama’s administration passed the $787 billion stimulus bill, and faced problems including struggling banks, a flailing auto industry, piracy on the high seas, and a potential swine flu outbreak, among other issues. The president has traveled to Europe and Mexico and given press conferences and town hall meetings.
How would you grade, on a scale from A to F, President Obama’s performance in his first 100 days in office? What would you like to see him tackle in his next 100 days?
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denise williams
April 29th, 2009
10:06 am
i will give the President an A+. he has shown that he has a heart for the people and is approchable. in these 100 days we can not exxpect him to fix 8+ years of mistakes but he is taking the initiative. he is walking the walk and not just talking the talk.
Eyes
April 29th, 2009
10:41 am
For what he had to deal with I would give him a A
duv4luv
April 29th, 2009
10:42 am
PRESIDENT OBAMA gets an A+. But 100 days to undue 8 years of hellish hell? Any progress, is good. I challenge folk to consider where the US economy, jobs, etc would be with the past administration? scary isnt it!
W. Eliz
April 29th, 2009
11:17 am
Considering what he inherited, I would give President Obama an “A”
The next 100 days – tackle education
W. Saulter
Jessica
April 29th, 2009
11:55 am
Good job on being open and honest. Great job getting the stimulus bill passed. Good job on working to mend foreign relationships. I hope health care comes up this year. So far, A.
Kim
April 29th, 2009
11:55 am
He’s on the A+ list!
Darlene Charles-Breaux
April 29th, 2009
12:03 pm
I would grade President Barack Obama as B-. President Obama inherited a lot of the problems that plagues the nation. It didn’t take 100 days to inherit this debacle were in, so its going to take even longer to fix this nation. We have to give him the benefit of the doubt and don’t judge him. I would love for him to tackle the problem of first time home buyers and the problems of trying to purchase a home with not so good credit. I sure hopes he reads this comment. I have faith in you President Barack Obama.
Voice of REASON.
April 29th, 2009
12:04 pm
F+
Sharon
April 29th, 2009
12:07 pm
I grade him with an A – would like him to continue on the same path. Would like some more concentration on health care
lovita
April 29th, 2009
12:22 pm
Good job President Obama!!! Keep up the good work!
jimmy
April 29th, 2009
12:31 pm
c-
Willdeb
April 29th, 2009
12:47 pm
I think he has done an admirable job, considering what he inherited. 100 days is too soon to judge anybody. Let’s see how things are one year and a half from now.
Robert Schwagerl
April 29th, 2009
1:39 pm
Grade – F. This man is a disaster!!!!
Reality Time
April 29th, 2009
1:50 pm
I would really l like to tell Mr. Obama that he won and he can stop campaigning now. A little more time spent in Washington working on problems, less in town hall meetings, and an end to blanket apologies to dictators that blame everything bad that has happened in the world for the last 200+ years on the United States would be appreciated.
Donna Kirkendoll
April 29th, 2009
2:23 pm
If the next 100 days are any thing like the first 100 days, we are in big trouble. I have never seen such a left-wing “lean” towards a socialistic country. God help us quickly!
Marti Hanni
April 29th, 2009
2:31 pm
I think Obama is a self-centered egotistical man–and one of the worst Presidents I have ever seen–calling us “arrogant Americans” if anyone would know arrogance—it would be him..He has been in the Spotlight for the past 100 days–I really think he needs to concentrate on the job he campaigned(and is still campaigning for) for the past 2 yrs. 100 days down and about 1200+ to go…(and counting).
Michael
April 29th, 2009
3:19 pm
Grade: D
What he needs to do during the next 100 days?: Get impeached and out of office.
My2Cents
April 29th, 2009
3:39 pm
A+
Alvin Carson
April 29th, 2009
3:40 pm
President Obama gets an “A” for being a man of “Action”, and a strong decision maker as well as a good listener. At a time when America desperately needs to be in tune with what’s going on in other parts of the world, President Obama has provided the world an emphatic ear.
Self-conceit has ran rapport on U.S. soil far too long.
(Reality Check – - – please see U.S. Auto industry)
Miss Diva
April 29th, 2009
4:11 pm
A- ( I would like him to tackle health care and create more jobs)
Tyra Ellis
April 29th, 2009
4:12 pm
President Obama has done more in his 1st hundred days in office to help more Americans than Ex and I do stress EX President Bush did during his 8 year term in office period!
Biren Patel
April 29th, 2009
4:17 pm
A, simple. We have an ambitious leader in difficult times.
Andrea
April 29th, 2009
4:22 pm
I would give him a B+. He inherited an economic mess and anyone that thinks you can get out of this mess in 100 days is just not rooted in reality. He had some public gaffes (particularly with his cabinet nominees) and his speeches have become very candid. But, to get ourselves out of this economic mess, we have to roll up our sleeves and get to work and I think the President should lead that charge.
Many will debate the Obama stimulus package vs. the Bush stimulus package for banks, but that is wasted energy. Let’s get about the business of moving forward.
ernestine willingham
April 29th, 2009
4:27 pm
I grade President Obama an A+ . President Obama has gone over and beyond his Call of Duty. I think he needs to slow down and take a breather. I know President Obama wants to straighten things out, but he has to slow down. No matter what he does or how hard he tries people are going to criticize him. The Country was left in a mess by the last administration,let’s stop trying to find fault and help our President.
Dr. Phillip H. Barnhart
April 29th, 2009
4:33 pm
He is doing what needs done because he knows who we are.
Dr. Phillip H. Barnhart
April 29th, 2009
4:34 pm
President Obama is doing what needs done because he is aware of who we are as a people.
nana
April 29th, 2009
4:41 pm
D. Be less of an apologist. We are the greatest and most generous country in the world we have NOTHING to apologize for. Be less of a spendthrift. We do not need to burden our children and grandchildren with this insurmountable debt.
Reggie Cook
April 29th, 2009
4:41 pm
I give President Obama and “A” on his first 100 days in office.. base upon these facts:
1. Great Transition
2. Immediately working on the economy..tackling the issues rather than complaining and blaming Bush
3. Staying true to his campaign promises…
However, President Obama has a ton of work left to do but the most important thing he has done is instill hope not only to the American people but the world. When was the last time any world leader has lifted an entire world? Not until Preisdent Obama………
John
April 29th, 2009
4:41 pm
give him an F in everything! He even has failed to do what he said he would do. He is wasting our money (NYC Flyby) and not upholding the office of the President of the USA – re: European trip, bowing to the King, etc. He is a shame to the USA.
None of your business
April 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
A BIG FAT F. He still has not paid off my credit cards and mortgage like he promised.
Obama No 1 Supporter
April 29th, 2009
4:50 pm
President Obama is doing a Fantastic job. He has everyone’s best interest at heart, both domestically and foreign. He wasn’t chosen by the people, he was chosen by a higher power. He won’t fail.
michael olukan
April 29th, 2009
4:52 pm
concedering the challenges before him,he has exeeded my imagenation so i will give him B-PLUS .
James L.
April 29th, 2009
4:55 pm
Whoohooo! A plus! He’s done his best and that’s all we can ask from him, right?
Lulu
April 29th, 2009
5:20 pm
I think so far he’s held up. Unfortunately 100 days does not a decision make. We the people should support and encourage him to do great things but with the problems we face it is too soon to give him a free pass. In my opinion the Constitution endows Congress with most power and we need to hold their feet to the fire vigilantly in these trying times.
Bill W.
April 29th, 2009
5:44 pm
F
Stimulus bill is a band aid while our children will pay for it, taxes on the rise, palling around with Chavez, ignoring N. Korea’s missiles, changing interrogation tacticts, befriending Cuba, Secy. of Treasury fiasco, weakening of the missile defense plan, socialist agenda, teleprompters, ignoring the GOP, having to hide the VP Biden, anything else…..? He definitely has gotten “Change” right….Counting down to 2012.
RGB
April 29th, 2009
5:46 pm
“F”.
1. Obama has put the U.S. on a path of indebtedness from which we will never recover. The only way this country can begin to pay off the debt is to tax everyone heavily and to introduce rapid inflation that renders your savings nearly worthless. So much for hard work over many years.
2. The president has invited provocation from other countries by the weakness he has displayed overseas–including apologizing to dictators who suppress their own people. Democrats used to claim to be the party of the helpless–such as those killed and imprisoned in Cuba, repressed in Venezuela, murdered in Iraq, etc. Those days are long gone.
3. Mr. Obama has weakened the social fabric of the country by degrading the lives of the unborn. A country that does not respect the unborn won’t respect the elderly or anyone else.
But to Mr. Obama’s followers (worshipers) who apply no thoughtful criticism, he can do no wrong.
I would like Obama to rescind his huge budget requests, stop taking over private industries, quit appeasing our enemies, and go to a real church where he can learn some higher values.
David
April 29th, 2009
5:52 pm
F
Dave
April 29th, 2009
5:57 pm
F-
Winston Smith
April 29th, 2009
6:04 pm
On substabce, Obama gets a “D”–his ideas are warmed-over and discredited programs resurrected from the 60’s and 70’s. His inability to stick to campaign promises is almost as disturbing as his arrogant belief in his own “awesomeness.” And his naivete on foreign policy may even surpass that of Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, Obama also gets an “A” for effectiveness–he has skillfully employed economic fear tactics to move ahead with his agenda and exploited a lazy media too starstruck to ask critical questions of him. Our country’s Founding Fathers are surely spinning in their graves.
melanie
April 29th, 2009
6:18 pm
I cannot grade him, because he has not done anything to grade him on! Unless you want to grade him on how incompetent he is, how he vows to never have war in a Islamic country, how he tells how ashamed he is of this country, how he wants to tax us to death, how we are losing jobs by the thousands since he took office, how he has dwindles our national security to nothing & here is the big one…he did not know HIS plane had been taken to do photo shoots? If you want me to grade him on this, then he gets an F; other than that he gets a zero because he has done nothing for me & my country.
pat
April 29th, 2009
6:24 pm
A
Celeste Hall
April 29th, 2009
6:29 pm
I would like to give the president a grade of F. Long before the election he was very clear about his Marxist philosphy and his intention to implement many socialist policies during his administration, yet this country was so enamored of the fact that he was a black man. I believe that many voters simply ignored what he was saying because it made them feel good and compassionate to vote for a black man. To vote for someone simply because of the color of their skin is unspeakable ignorant and irresponsible. Now we have the government owning a major auto manufacturer and many of the banks. The size of Americorps has been tripled, and the proposition for Obama’s youth community service plan is closely tied in to it. Congress has already approved a committee to “research” it. If this community service plan becomes law, young people between the ages of 18 and 25 who receive any federal aid for college will be required to go into this program in which they will be assigned to community service. No more freedom of choosing what community effort you would like to serve. The people who voted for this man are going to reap the fruits of their own ignorance, the problem is, people who did not vote for him will still have to suffer. The government is going to be in every aspect of our personal lives and this is not what America is about. It’s about personal freedom for everyone. Everyone gets to choose what they want to do with their lives. That is quickly slipping away from us. I hope in 2012 we can get ANYONE else.
R. H. Gord
April 29th, 2009
7:39 pm
I believe that President Obama has had a lot to tackle in his first 100 days in office. He has taken on major issues that are facing America like lost jobs, foreclosed homes, the health care crisis and many others. He is doing what he can with what he has. I grade him an A-. He earned it. There is still much more to accomplish and more to endure.
the evil rich
April 29th, 2009
7:47 pm
D – besides bailing out everyone and recommending tax cheats to high positions, what has he done to keep America safe?
Sam Jones
April 29th, 2009
7:53 pm
Obama is leading our country in the wrong direction. I am dumbfounded at how the blacks voted for him, yet he is radically pro-abortion, and supports Planned Parenthood, whose founder wanted to eradicate the Negro race! Here’s the quote, do your own research – “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,” she said, “if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” -Margaret Sanger, in Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon
Lisa Amos
April 29th, 2009
8:02 pm
My grade for Congress and the Senate is a D for Obama is an F and for Geithner is an F
Dctr Ron
April 29th, 2009
9:06 pm
There sure are a lot of “commenters” here who don’t have a clue what Obama has done to this country. They should read something other than the AJC and NYT. Do the research! Obama has spent more tax money than Bush did in eight years and almost all has gone to the rich bankers, auto executives and insurance companies. He gets a D-!
Pookah
April 29th, 2009
9:38 pm
F– . Regardless of what is thought of our last President, our current one is dangerous to the current and future United States of America. He has bowed and buddied up to those who want to see us fall, he has apologized to our enemies for this nation (as my speaker to other nations he had no business doing this – and yes, as my president he is my speaker) and has jeopardized the national security of this great land. In his first 100 days he has already broken a half dozen, if not more, of his campaign promises, including the raising of taxes.
jo
April 29th, 2009
10:24 pm
An A obviously, he has been given an unrealistic task and for those screaming about the debt, he’s trying to fix the DISASTER created by your former president and his bogus agendas. Remember, this is the hand he was dealt.
kr
April 29th, 2009
11:15 pm
F All those who say that BO ‘inherited a mess’ forget that the Democrats were in control of Congress for the last two years. They forget that it was Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, and Chris Dodd who said that everyone who wanted a home should have a mortgage even if they couldn’t afford one. The Bush administration went before Congress a number of times to warn what was going to happen but Frank and Dodd both said everything will be okay. Everyone is to blame, the Democrats, the Republicans, Wall Street, and the American public…. people living beyond their means, huge credit card debt, buying homes they couldn’t afford, saving very little if at all. And now everyone is paying the price for all the greed that went on for the last 10+ years.