So we’ve had a new president for a few months now, I know what I think in great detail, and I know the inside baseball of punditry and the political responses, but sadly I don’t get out enough to gauge the much more casual general consensus. I mean there are polls but…who actually responds to those things anyway?
So who’s chatted at home, work, church, or school about the early impressions of our new guy? Have you heard any frequent complaints or praises? Is race still an issue? Is he better than Bush? Are people thinking much about it at all?
General consensus that I’m hearing is that in his first 100 days, he’s managed to triple our national debt, insult our allies and badmouth America to the four corners of the earth. With 45 months to go…
Moving thread from IMHO to Great Debates, hoping that post #2 isn’t going to represent the majority of respondees-I’d hate for this to be moved to The BBQ Pit.
Most people I talk to are still pretty optimistic - though I don’t know too many people that are very happy about the spending. And that includes the Obama supporters I know.
I have my criticisms, but I’m happy that certain unrealistic promises from the campaign have been modified or reversed.
Color me shocked – shocked – that Clothahump doesn’t think Obama is doing well!
As far as polls go, there are bad ones from time to time, but it seems that the only political types who have even a modicum of experience in reading polls who say that polls cannot be trusted, are those political types who are losing in them. I’d put a nationwide poll as being a million times more reliable than what you heard at the barbershop in Berkeley, Wasilla, Chicago, Houston, or DC. So yeah, based on the polls, people are pretty happy with Obama so far.
However, let’s get real: we’re still in a honeymoon period.
he will still never catch up with Donald Rumsfeld.
Seriously though, what allies has he insulted? That does not sound like his style at all. Surely someone who could seriously believe he was badmouthing America would be more inclined to see him as being too obsequious or deferential to allies.
I believe Clothahump is referring to giving PM Gordon Brown a set of DVDs as a present upon their first meeting, while Brown gave Obama something considerably more refined.
Oh, man … I SO want to see this as a sit-com. “The President’s Sasquatch.” It could be a “Harry and the Henderson” thing except in the white house. Imagine the possiblites. Obama tries to have Nicolas Sarkozy over for dinner and hilarity ensues when Bigfoot trips over the carpet and demolishes the dinner table. And of course, a “very special” episode where Bigfoot is visted by a sasquatch angel who shows him what would have happened had not Obama taken him into his home. We’re talking comedy gold here.
On a scale of 1 to 10 I give Obama a 6, precisely because of his recent equivocations. I support him, and believe he will ultimately be considered a successful President, but I’m becoming a little weary of his mollifying stances and pronouncements as relates to his agenda, especially so early in the game.
