C’mon Charlie.
Domestic Policy:
1. Bush’s TARP is what saved the day. Love it or hate it, it was Bush’s initiative, not Obama’s
2. Same number uninsured as before AHA. Also, AHA does not address the core issue.
3. Really?
4. Well, yeah. but the levels are still unacceptably high with no relief in sight. Obama’s programs are making the the same error that FDR’s programs did. They institutionalize the economic problems instead of solving them. FDR essentially made high unemployment the new norm. Obama’s problem isn’t near as great as FDR’s was but he’s making the same mistake.
5. In spite of Obama, not because of his energy policies.
6. Ditto
7. Double Ditto. That’s unfair. The fact is that Presidents get blamed for poor a economy so it’s only fair that the should take some credit when the economy improves. The fact is that Presidents don’t really have a lot of control either way.
Foreign Policy
1. Good Job
2. Good as far as it goes but it’s like cutting a head off of the Hydra. Three grow back.
3. Do you actually think that the mess we left in Libya is a foreign policy success? It was a really bad idea to interfere in Libya. Qadafi may have been a ruthless dictator but he was
cooperating with the U.S. and the international community.
4. What on earth did Obama have to do with the Greek economic crisis? By the way, Greece isn’t out of the woods yet by a long shot.
5. The intent was good but Putin ate Obama’s lunch on that agreement.
6. Good job
7. Ditto
8. Double ditto
9. Congress not Obama but not near “draconian” enough
10. Higher than under Nixon?
11. Good job
12. Really? Bush left a “stable, growing, democratic” Iraq. (Obama’s own words in 2011). The current complete mess in Iraq is totally due to Obama’s complete failure to obtain a remainder of forces agreement.
13. Good. I guess he learned his lesson in Libya.
14. Good.