# Word on the street: How's Obama doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 18, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825 "2009-05-18T05:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![caligulashorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@caligulashorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulashorse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/21 "2009-05-18T15:46:29Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > :rolleyes: Nope, no racism here at all. Man, not my fault she had her face beat in(literally) by the ugly stick. Hell, she **is** an ugly stick. How do you get such a pudgy/wide body and such thin appendages. And who the hell told her she’d look better walking around in 10 inch heels. It’s like highlighing a zit on your forehead by circling it with a ballpoint pen or something. Lipstick on a pig? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/22 "2009-05-18T15:49:37Z")
> [@caligulashorse](#): > > Yes, yes, silly me. Anyone who criticizes a black person is racist. Well, “rascist” at least. Oh, please. Comparing black people to apes is an old habit of racists, and no one else. There’s no other plausible reason for you to compare someone like Michelle Obama to an apelike mythological creature than racism. And you aren’t criticising her, you are engaging in baseless insults of her. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/23 "2009-05-18T15:51:41Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > And you aren’t criticising her, you are engaging in baseless insults of her. Yeah, but your momma dresses you funny. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/24 "2009-05-18T15:52:22Z")
I think he has run smack into a wall of opposition that will not allow the economy to be fixed. There are rich and politically powerful people who do not want to accept the blame for the damage to the world economy or to relinquish their control. I think his economic moves will be thwarted and the economy will continue to spiral down. His presidency will fail. ---
**Author:** ![caligulashorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@caligulashorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulashorse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/25 "2009-05-18T15:55:22Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Oh, please. Comparing black people to apes is an old habit of racists, and no one else. There’s no other plausible reason for you to compare someone like Michelle Obama to an apelike mythological creature than racism. > > And you aren’t criticising her, you are engaging in baseless insults of her. Dude. Have you spent your whole life in cali? You’ve never heard the phrase “sasquatch bitch”? ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/26 "2009-05-18T16:14:49Z")
[QUOTE=google] Results 1 - 10 of about 465 for “sasquatch bitch”. (0.24 seconds) [/QUOTE] It’s sweeping the nation! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/27 "2009-05-18T16:16:31Z")
> [@caligulashorse](#): > > Dude. Have you spent your whole life in cali? You’ve never heard the phrase “sasquatch bitch”? I lived in Northern Virginia for 20 years, and I’ve never heard it either. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/28 "2009-05-18T16:34:55Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > 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. Sums it up nicely - I’m still giving him the benefit of the doubt, but it’s running low. I’d damn well better see some more constructive movement on the processing of Gitmo prisoners and the gays in the military thing soonish, or I will be very miffed indeed. Not so miffed as to vote GOP, of course - that’d be stuffing a grenade up my nose to spite my face - but still pretty miffed. As for snubbing the PM, frankly I doubt Gordon Brown noticed any “snub” amidst the flurry of abuse he’s getting in the UK from friends and enemies alike. He was probably just happy to have someone speaking to him on civil terms. And the Queen likes Michelle so clearly has endured her “molestation” with grace. And I’ve never heard the phrase “sasquatch bitch” in either eastern Pennsylvania or Nebraska. It’s probably an echo chamber thing. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/29 "2009-05-18T16:39:51Z")
> [@stolichnaya](#): > > I just took a quick poll and it turns out that 80% of people in America live within five miles of me. You’re Interstate 95? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/30 "2009-05-18T16:53:25Z")
Re the OP: The sense I get is that people are taking a wait & see attitude, and are more concerned with bread and butter issues than Obama. Everyone I talk to has little energy to spare besides an enormous amount of anger at how things got where they are today, particularly with the housing crisis, mostly vented at the previous administration but I’m sure you know there several different views on who should take the blame. Also an enormous amount of disgust and discouragement that whoever is to blame will see whatever punishment would be just. I think this shared view gives Obama a lot of leeway – people feel he has a lot on his plate. I’m not sure this is okay to say, but: thank you, Mods, for your swift actions today. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/31 "2009-05-18T17:44:18Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > I’m not sure this is okay to say, but: thank you, Mods, for your swift actions today. You shouldn’t have said anything, because now I want to know what the Hell you’re talking about :D. Tell me. I command it! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/32 "2009-05-18T17:48:54Z")
Hint: look for the word “BANNED”. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/33 "2009-05-18T18:12:09Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Hint: look for the word “BANNED”. Meh. About six days late. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/34 "2009-05-18T18:20:32Z")
You know why trolls are like slinkies? They’re not useful for anything, but pushing one down a flight of steps always brings a smile to your face. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/35 "2009-05-18T19:30:22Z")
“Sasquatch” is racist? I thought Bigfoot was supposed to be in the Pacific Northwest. _:shrugs:_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/36 "2009-05-18T19:32:46Z")
I’m not sure what your point is, **Shodan**. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/37 "2009-05-18T20:37:13Z")
Unless the Queen is visiting Oregon, nor am I. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/38 "2009-05-18T22:40:52Z")
I spent Mother’s Day with my very Republican family. They are pretty much acknowledging that Bush was a disaster and say they didn’t really care for McCain either. They are far from supporting Obama though. They are against everything he’s done to fix the economy and anything he may do to fix health care. They are mostly “fiscal” conservatives but at least one of them is really pushing the “Obama fake birth certificate/not a citizen” angle. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/39 "2009-05-18T23:00:28Z")
My dad, a hyperconservative fundie, floored me the other week when he said that he respected Obama. He still thinks all of his policies are terrible, but he respects the way he can get things done and face his opponents calmly and without raising his voice. Considering that that’s the only nice thing my dad has said of any Democrat since Carter, I’d say that the word on the street for Obama is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825/40 "2009-05-18T23:26:41Z")
> [@stolichnaya](#): > > I just took a quick poll and it turns out that 80% of people in America live within five miles of me. And, yet, none of those have ever been in your kitchen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-on-the-street-hows-obama-doing/496825.md?page=3)