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The Obama Watch
A Weatherized President
Obama's "good, solid B-plus."
Given all his talk about weatherization and climate change, perhaps President Obama should have borrowed Jimmy Carter's frayed cardigan for his Oprah Christmas Special. But then again, Carter donned that sweater for his 1977 energy-sacrifice address due to global cooling. Obama enjoys the plenty of global warming. No cardigan and pinched living for him. In fact, Obama's White House, as Oprah was duly shown, boasts a "390-pound gingerbread house" this Christmas.
Asked by Oprah to supply a self-grade for his first year in office, Obama didn't reject the question as improper and inane but entertained the chance for grade inflation happily. He gave himself a "good, solid B-plus." If that wasn't modest enough, he explained that he had faced the "biggest set of challenges since Franklin Delano Roosevelt" and had tackled them impressively, from stabilizing the economy to laying the groundwork for glorious exits abroad to reshaping America's image in the eyes of the world.
Oprah wanted to know why he didn't give himself a higher grade. He couldn't cite any mistakes of commission, just omission, saying vaguely that the grade is "because of the things that are undone." In other words, recalcitrant Republicans and feckless Democrats deserve ultimate blame for his mere B plus. He said that he would confer upon himself an "A minus" if "I get health care passed."
It's a wonderful life, but he had to interrupt the pre-Christmas festivities to lash out on another network at the Mr. Potters of the financial industry, telling 60 Minutes that "I didn't run for office to help out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street." But didn't they vote for him too? No matter; these days he would prefer to help out fat-cat special interests on K Street.
Obama is upset that bankers are paying themselves "bonuses" at a time of unemployment and financial-industry incompetence. These aren't indispensable federal workers, after all, who, as recent reports indicate, receive pay increases and six-figure salaries despite a twelve-trillion-dollar deficit. Had Gordon Gekko been the head of a federal agency, he might have said, "Government greed is good."
The passion not on display in Obama's West Point speech suddenly appeared in the 60 Minutes interview as he warmed to the theme of evil financiers. But last year around this time, sober commentators were noting that the Mr. Potters of the financial industry would have prevented the housing bubble from bursting under the weight of bad loans. Bankers should be bankers, not social workers, chastened Americans seemed to agree. Now Potter is the villain again and Obama demands the return of community-organizers into the field.
Obama casts himself as a defender of the common man against a heartless elite. But the only evidence that he has turned the White House back into "the People's House" is that his aides have haplessly allowed them to crash or stumble into it. Any citizen could stroll into Andrew Jackson's White House and perhaps the same will be said of Obama's, as Harvey and Paula Darden learned on Veterans Day.
According to the Associated Press, the retired couple "mistakenly showed up a day early for a tour scheduled through their congressman," then found themselves "in the presidential mansion anyway."
It was "quite a treat," the Dardens said. AP reports that they were ushered into the "East Room, offered a buffet spread and told they'd be meeting the president."
A coatless and tieless Harvey Darden, feeling odd amidst the splendor, knew something was amiss -- the further we got into the White House, the more surprised we were" -- but he and his wife were told by an official to "go with the flow" and just join the invitation-only event in progress.
This is indeed a White House committed to egalitarianism. The Dardens ended up staying, says AP. They waded into the buffet line, then got their picture with the Obamas, though it hasn't yet arrived in the mailbox. The only remaining glory would be an appearance on Oprah to discuss it all.
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Ret. Marine| 12.17.09 @ 6:37AM
Yeah and those "fat cats" surround and consult him in every move of this chess game he calls his B+. This turd world wanna-be dictator really thinks the populas is as stupid as old Barb.
And just when is someone going to start throwing him the hardball questions needed in this discussion instead of the solfballs they lob? I guess these social parasites are content with themselves with their little peon mindset. They seems to not understand We the People are his boss, not the other way around. They just don't reconize a manipulator when they see one. How obvious can he get?
Chuck | 12.17.09 @ 4:39PM
The media keeps giving him a free pass and i believe will continue. I just hope he does not mess things up too much before voters get it.
Mattled| 12.17.09 @ 8:14AM
Smartest president---ever.
Genius.
Rrrrriiigghhhhtt.
Solution to unemployment: caulk windows.
That's what an Ivy League education gets you.
Or does it?
Did he really get an education?
Hardly.
John II| 12.17.09 @ 6:49PM
"Did he really get an education?"
Probably not, to judge from the colossally ignorant gaffes so far. But we're not allowed to know. The school records, if they exist, are sealed. The preening is certainly consistent with places like Columbia and Harvard, so he likely attended classes. But we're not allowed to know what the classes were, what the assignments were, who the teachers were, what the grades were.
If it's true that the MSM are starting to crack a little and even ask a few serious questions, maybe we'll know something about the Professor midway through his second term.
Maybe . . . or maybe the records don't even exist because Obama himself is just a figment of the culture's imagination.
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B+, A-, whatever. I'd rather he drop out and enroll in shop.
cuban pete| 12.17.09 @ 8:55AM
Mr.President:
Now that we have the evaluation for your first year in office will you now reveal your college and law school grades?
Stephanie| 12.17.09 @ 2:37PM
And who funded them?
Tomas| 12.18.09 @ 4:30PM
Compared to the free pass O's gotten regarding things like sealed grades, everyone else is required to pee in a cup and have the test results writ large by a skywriter....
Something is VERY fishy here. Very smelly. What does this clown have to hide?
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Mattled| 12.17.09 @ 9:21AM
After two weeks, the media uncovered 11 Tiger Woods mistresses.
After two years, they can't find a single sheet of paper on Obama.
Cuban Pete---there are no grades for OdumbOne.
He was an Affirmative Action student.
Strictly Pass/Fail. Of course in AA, there is no "Fail".
So Pass=4.0-----A++.
Voila!
Smartest president evah!
Dustoff| 12.17.09 @ 9:40AM
I bet if Bush had used the same words the MSN would be screaming for months on-end.
Why HE can't do that, only we can grade him.
O-bummer..... 2010 & 2012 are going to hurt.
Ned| 12.17.09 @ 9:57AM
He got a Nobel Prize for not what he did, but what he might do and who he isn’t. Perhaps the B+ was the result of an affirmative action adjusted test score.
Muffy Th e Weather Girl| 12.17.09 @ 10:02AM
I know all the nineteen-year-old college girls at Berkeley all swooned and felt warm and fuzzy when Obama said "we're uh, working on changing out light bulbs at the White House." Number one, as if that would make a small dent in anything, number two, Mrs. Hussien Obama takes amoured limos when she runs out of organic tuscan kale (gosh, she has her problems too, boo hoo), number three, I'm so sure that The Lincoln Bedroom has cfl's in its antique lamps when Barbra or Oprah spend the night, and number four, I doubt either Barry or M has ever changed a light bulb in their life, and I'll end with this: How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.17.09 @ 10:12AM
Muffy Muffy...I KNOW, I Know......13.
...one to turn the bulb...and 12 to form a death panel... if the one...drops the darned mercury infested thing.
VinnieCCT| 12.17.09 @ 8:27PM
How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
Zero.
One conservative will change it after a staggering cost of 10Billion to the taxpayers.
VinnieCCT| 12.17.09 @ 8:33PM
I meant zero as in... the unions will deem that it is not in the liberal's job description.
Tom| 12.17.09 @ 10:08AM
I don't want to wish the next 3 years away since time is precious. It just hurts to see America in the penalty box and having it's greatness on hold. My Christmas wish is we return to the greatness we know starting in 2010 and then 2012.
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.17.09 @ 10:30AM
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It's music, so you might want to turn down your volume if you are in a public setting.
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Muffy The Sweater Girl| 12.17.09 @ 10:11AM
Answer to "How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?" One to blame Bush for it burning out, and thousands of reporters, musicians and movie stars repeating it ad nauseam
LarryK| 12.17.09 @ 10:16AM
This whole bunch in charge now, the president and cabinet, only 8% have ever held a real job or ran a business that needed to make a profit and make a payroll.
davelnaf| 12.17.09 @ 10:19AM
Maybe Obama’s self-hype is really about putting up a barricade of propaganda against what looks like a very rough year ahead; at the end of which his party won’t be just ‘on the ropes,’ but probably knocked right out of the ring. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we have to put up with this preening, narcissistic ignoramus for another year before he is consigned to two years of political oblivion in the White House.
Dixie Pixie| 12.17.09 @ 11:48AM
B+ MY A$$.
Does anyone remember when lying to the American public was a Federal offense subject to immediate political execution by media firing squad????
Obama and his administration are the people who drove the economy into the ditch. They are also the people who are trying to loot and pillage what parts of the economy that are still functioning.
The real Obama economic horror is yet to come.
With 50% of all Federal spending covered with borrowed money, total financial collapse is only a matter of time.
Margie| 12.17.09 @ 12:14PM
Well at least the joke was good. (both answers).
I give it an A+.
Margie| 12.17.09 @ 9:22PM
*sorry, I re read my comment later and realized it could have been taken the wrong way by the article's author, or Tex's e card.
No. Article good. e card great!
I was thinking of Obama's "report card" not being good.
Got myself in a pickle, sorry!
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Yep, and where was the White House Nativity scene during the special?
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Rmm| 12.17.09 @ 3:16PM
After only ten months in the Big House, O is trying to already rewrite history. This guy lies like it is the only way he knows how to communicate.
His credibility grade is falling faster than the poll numbers. How is he going to explain away the Obamacare nosedive into oblivion?
Ray| 12.17.09 @ 4:34PM
Obama giving himself a B+ is like Ronald Reagan saying he was for deregulation.
Radioman 777| 12.17.09 @ 5:03PM
Obama the auto mechanic, home improvement expert, economist, doctor, military strategist, and so on, and so on...
Oh yeah, and did I mention, meteorologist, climatological anthropologist, historian, public relations guru, confidence man, racketeer, and machine politician... Yep, a true Renaissance man for our time!
WilliamInWien| 12.17.09 @ 7:17PM
As I recall, LBJ has the Space Center in Texas as part of his legacy, Jimmy Peanut Carter established the Fed. Training Center at GLYNCO, GA. Now, we have Obama about to immortalize himself with a prison for terrorists in his home state. Is that not worth a B+?
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Jim Hlavac| 12.18.09 @ 5:22PM
Since when do students get to give themselves a grade? He has demonstrated that he is learning as best he can on the job. Surely he had no prior training, nor was there even a 60 or 90 day probationary period in which he might be let go for non-performance.
I suppose with each trillion in new debt, with each unread bill passed, with each new apology given, with each new tax raised, with each new job-killing stimulus he can concoct his grade will go up. Up? Sure. He feels that an A+ will be achieved when the United States is a poor suffering third world country, as much as the land of his forefathers and the land of his youth. The man wants to recreate Kenya and Indonesia here so he might live in the big house like masters did in years gone by.
Charming little critter ain't he? Yah.
bluecollarbytes| 12.20.09 @ 9:25AM
Obama's "b +" comment might make for good political ads in the upcoming national election, juxtaposed against his continued destruction of the America he rejects . Obama's body language is also very telling. I thought at one point during his address to the Global Warmists his head might fall completely back like a Pez dispenser as his arrogance and self-recognition took over body function.
MacIntosh| 12.21.09 @ 6:14PM
An E from beginning to so far. E is for embarrassing. You fill in the blanks - pick an occassion, any one. My favorite was his meeting with the Indian codetalkers. These valiant, brave Americans got a SHOUT OUT, a tired ole campaign speech about Show Me The Money and then an exit by BO so he could watch the outcome of a terriost shotting at Ft Hood (on FOX). We were then told not to rush to judgement.
He absolutely boggles the mind !!!
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I know all the nineteen-year-old college girls at Berkeley all swooned and felt warm and fuzzy when Obama said "we're uh, working on changing out light bulbs at the White House." Number one, as if that would make a small dent in anything, number two, Mrs. Hussien Obama takes amoured limos when she runs out of organic tuscan kale (gosh, she has her problems too, boo hoo), number three, I'm so sure that The Lincoln Bedroom has cfl's in its antique lamps when Barbra or Oprah spend the night, and number four, I doubt either Barry or M has ever changed a light bulb in their life, and I'll end with this: How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
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alyssa| 1.6.10 @ 7:54AM
Probably not, to judge from the colossally ignorant gaffes so far. But we're not allowed to know. The school records, if they exist, are sealed. The preening is certainly consistent with places like Columbia and Harvard, so he likely attended classes. But we're not allowed to know what the classes were, what the assignments were, who the teachers were, what the grades were.
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Probably not, to judge from the colossally ignorant gaffes so far. But we're not allowed to know. The school records, if they exist, are sealed. The preening is certainly consistent with places like Columbia and Harvard, so he likely attended classes. But we're not allowed to know what the classes were, what the assignments were, who the teachers were, what the grades were.
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I don't want to wish the next 3 years away since time is precious. It just hurts to see America in the penalty box and having it's greatness on hold. My Christmas wish is we return to the greatness we know starting in 2010 and then 2012.
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jack| 1.24.10 @ 1:32PM
Obama is ruining the economy. Just wait for the inflation to come in 2010.
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coolpete| 2.2.10 @ 12:54PM
As I recall, LBJ has the Space Center in Texas as part of his legacy, Jimmy Peanut Carter established the Fed. Training Center at GLYNCO, GA. Now, we have Obama about to immortalize himself with a prison for terrorists in his home state. Is that not worth a B+?
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Is the economy stabilized with so much unemployment? I realize that President Obama has many challenges before him with very complicated issues to deal with. Is it that easy to assign a grade.
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I was very surprised when I watched him say that student loans will be waved to those who chose to work in the public service. Well we can't all work for the government, can we?
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There are certainly many challenges every president faces, maybe they are even bigger for this particular president given what he inherited. But many of his decisions are very controversial and the way he spends money..., boy, it is scary!
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