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Top of the class? Barack Obama’s first year report card
Published: 20 January, 2010, 18:21
Edited: 20 May, 2010, 23:26
The international euphoria that greeted America’s first African American leader one year ago seems to be weakening as some ask if all the hype over Barack Obama may have been overdone.
I think this year has been one big Joke. It is time to stop playing White House games and making history and get down to putting this coutry back on its feet or we will be back to where our great great great Grandfathers began
Yesterday, I sent a comment on that topic. Generously, I gave 2/10 for Barack Obama and 0 for that silly aticle. Since then, I talked to american friends, whom I know since 1967. Consequently, I shall change the notation: Still 0 for the aticle...0 for the deceitfull pawn-president, but 2 or 3 for Michelle Obama. I don't know her but several of my US acquaintances are very positive about the first lady. According to them, she should have been the candidate for the presidency. (Do not feel obliged to publish that comment either). Best Regards. Jean-Claude Meslin
I just viewed your report on the one year anniversary of Obama's inauguration. Unfortunately, you've interviewed people on the extremes in this country (both right and left) and have an uneven view of the electorate and their desires. The US has always been a center/right nation. Obama was elected by projecting himself as a liberal, but one who respected center/right concerns, though he now worries a majority of Americans that he does not respect those concerns. He has spent too much, left the heavy decision making to others, and has conducted meetings in secret. Your report also would have benefited by including the most recent election results, which saw Republican governors elected in two significant states (Virginia and NewJersey) since Obama's inauguration. Even more significantly, liberal Massachusetts elected another Republican to fill Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat, another startling repudiation of Obama's management so far. I might suggest that you seek out the comments of these new Republicans, as well as more center and right commentators like Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Breitbart.
Good article. Fair advice.
This article is absolutely ludicrous. What people refuse to remember is that Obama is a part of the problem. He was after all a US senator prior to the election. He had the opportunity to make changes, but chose rather to vote, "no vote," or abstain instead of offering legislation to fix perceived problems.
It's all about fate at the end of the day. Some of us were destined to succeed while others were not. As it is said, God choses who to uplift and who to carry the bags. The stars can't hear anyone, no matter which mountain a person stands on. The sun is equally indifferent. It rises because it does and has before. We'll stop rising when it does, so we'll never know when it stops. We're with it as it is with us. At the end of the day of humanity, it's about who you butter up, especially if one has certain cards in the right environment. We're all monkeys in a hierarchy. 99% the same because we didn't listen to the stars, I'm sure. Life is luck to some. One must say that it's how you look at matter, however. It doesn't look at us. 33 is better than 0. 60 is much too perfect. No one could become God.