On her Christmas in Washington special on ABC last night, Oprah Winfrey asked President Obama to grade himself.
Remember, He is Grading Himself on how well “his” plan.
"Good, solid B-plus," the president said.
Explaining, he said, "we have inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"We stabilized the economy, and prevented possibilities of a Great Depression or a significant financial meltdown. The economy is growing again.
Wall St is Growing Main Street is not, Unemployment is over 10% if you include the people who have stopped looking after a year it is 18%.
"We are on our way out of Iraq. I think we’ve got the best possible plan for Afghanistan.
We are still in Iraq and we have already announced we will begin to leave Afghanistan by June 2011?
"We have reset our image around the world.
We are the laughing stock of the world.
"We have achieved an international consensus around the need for Iran and North Korea to disable their nuclear weapons.
Iran and North Korea are thumbing their noses at us and doing whatever they want.
"And I think that we’re going to pass the most significant piece of social legislation since Social Security, and that’s health insurance for every American," he concluded.
Pressed by Oprah as to why only a B-plus, the president said, "B-plus because of the things that are undone. Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed we tip into A-minus."
Of course he couldn’t give himself an ‘A plus’ because of his amazing humility.
O’Reilly’s grades ran the gamut of the alphabet – with a ‘B’ on jobs, ‘C’ on Afghanistan and ‘D’ on health care.
What has Obama Done and what were his promises?
First, I’ll reform our special interest-driven politics.
Obama created a “Shadow Government with 41 Czars. Considering that Czars only answer to Obama, are not Congressionally approved, plus have access to more then $1.7 Trillion, we should all be seriously concerned.
I’ll make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people’s business. He promised we would see the process on C-SPAN.
Nothing on CSPAN yet?
When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it.
The Final Heath Care Bill for the House was not put on the Government website Pelosi said “it was to complicated.”
The second set of reforms I’ll make will eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in our government.
The Health Care bill will create 70 new government agencies or steps in your health care process. Increase the Deficit. Increase Health Care Cost.
Finally, the third set of reforms I will pursue are the updated, common-sense regulations of the financial market that I’ve been calling for since March; rules of the road that will make Wall Street fair, open, and honest; that will ensure a crisis like this can never happen again.
If the Government continues to create bills that are 2000+ pages that are unexplainable and impossible to enforce we are in for a long road.
Looks like a solid D or worse to me.
41% of Americans Grade with an F
29% of Americans Grade with a D
In a Sphere.com poll
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Looks like he is totally out of touch!
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