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How is everyone liking our new President?
Please comment respectfully.
[Please make sure to check the top “sticky” thread on the Coffee Room. Do NOT post comments here about that thread – JUST about the presidents performance in his first few days.]
Are you working for the Gallup poll?
well so far, i thimk he has been doing a pretty good job except for a few mistakes. but of course it is up to Hash-m.
BS”D
With all due respect, is it not a bit early to rate him?
However, based on the call made to Abbas ShR”Y, the planned closure of Guantanamo, the nasty and unprofessional reference to Rush Limbaugh, and his choice of Rahm Emanuel who made such a fool of himself at the inauguration, I would have to rate him a -5 on a scale of 1 to 10.
A+
i’ll give him a 1/2 a star so far….it’s not even a week yet!!!!
I think the world sees him as a movie star, not as a president!!! I do not like it!!!!!!
syriansephardi: i agree with ya!!!!!
is anyone collecting ll the newspaper articles of obama????
It’s way too soon to assess his presidential skills. As far as I am concerned, the real test will come with how he reacts to the next Mid-East crisis. He has said he is dismantling “Gitmo,” but I have a feeling that many of the things he stood for while running his campaign, will of necessity have to be re-evaluated when he realizes what he is truly facing. I personally want to see him succeed. I did not vote for him, but I don’t want our country to be run by an incompetent leader, so I wish him hatzlacha in being the right shaliach for this country as well as for the benefit of E”Y.
Asdfghjkl what do u mean collecting the articles? And did u guys see the pictures in the news papers?! They seriously treat him like a movie star!! Its not normal. Well nothing about him becoming president was ‘normal’ but that’s a whole diff issue
syriansephardi: i collect newspaprer articles of big events, like the obama stuff, miricle on the hudson, sept. 11th articles, mumbai tragity……. yeah tread him like a movie star–crazy!!!
As to my opinion, he’s proven to be one of the worst presidents
Just like Itzik & syrian wrote.
Btw. The combination of him being a “proven” anti-semite, liberal & a movie star (as rush calls him the messiah) that cannot be or do anythimg wrong is very scary
redhead: on behalf of the coffee room board, welcome to the coffee room!!! head to the new members thread to get a proper welcome!!!!
now back to mr. president obama……
i say that if he had class he would not have commented about ush, second that if bush had made a similar remark regarding listening to liberals they would have been screaming that he was trying to repress free speech
i heard this a couple of weeks ago and i think it’s true.
Obama’s not going to be judged by the color of his skin. he’s going to be judged according to how well he fixes the economy.
which is all Americans really care about anyway. economy first. then maybe foreign affairs second.
haha “Obama” is not in my spell-check. guess he’s not chasuv enough yet.
obama hey moish ur right hes not in mine either…back on topic -its been less then a week -theres no way u can know yet ,i hope hes good but it doesnt look like hes trying to be a respectable person hes trying to be chilled but thats not what we want from a pres
in just a few short days, Obama has proven to be a little kid from the country side who came to visit the big city. He is clueless of how to rule a great nation like ours. The decisions he has made proves him immature and incompetent. I only hope he doesn’t do irreparable damage. He surrounded himself with a bunch of clowns whom he’ll have a hard time controlling, and will have to spend numerous hours shushing them up. Obama is doing to the presidency of the USA, what Shabtai Zvi did to our Rabbanim in those days. May Hashem put his right hand over us, his children, so that President Barak Hussein Obama’s policies all fail!!! Amen!!!
He has yet to perform.
I was very skeptical about him considering his lack of exposure and experience, but not discounting his education and brilliance.
Thus far he seems to have made only the best possible appointments and surrounded himself with some of the best and brightest cabinet members and administrators.
he spoke very well at the inaugeration. We shall see if he does what he says. I’m wandering, does anybody think it was a good idea to close down guantama bay?
Town Crier, spare us. You’ve more than made clear your left ideologies on the main yw board.
since obama didn’t do much yet because he is only in office for less then a week, let’s talk about bush’s accomplishments. I think bush was a great president, what is the cr’s opinion on the matter?
Igree with with Joseph – as of right now, Obama hasn’t done enough to get rated by. However, his cabinet appointments have B”H been fairly moderate, but I have a bad feeling about his emphasis on peace in the Middle East…
I didn’t know the CR had created a satire thread! It must be that, since no serious person could possibly be evaluating a President after 1 week.
lesschumras: i guess nobody in the CR is serious(except you).$
Joseph, i do not understand
qwertyuiop-(your log in name is easier to type than I thought)–I’d like to think that I’m in the category of serious, so lesschumras has company….and i’m sure there are others that would fall into the realm of serious.
Moish: ppl are obsessed with obama BECAUSE of the color of his skin! Its their dream come true!!!
kiruvwife: not too many others fall into your category in the cr!!!!
The Town Crier (or anyone else who’d care to answer),
What do you think of Obama’s “Team of Rivals” approach? Do you think appointing his political opponents to important positions (Biden as vice-president, Clinton as Secretary of State) will ultimately serve him, and the country, well?
kiruvwife: i guess you didn’t realize that i was being sarcastic.$(i am serious sometimes though, but usually not.$)
anon – Many past President’s have done so. i.e. Reagan appointed his political opponent Bush (Sr.) as his running mate/V.P.
qwertyuiop—I did sense some sarcasm, but have a tendency to respond despite it…
on the topic of this thread, is the president being asked to be evaluated based on his performance of speechmaking, popularity, getting things accomplished, or an overall assessment of one week on the job? don’t feel there is enough to go on just yet. my approach is sometimes aniticipation to see what Hashem wants to let him (obama) do.
Joseph,
Yes, but most presidents don’t appoint political opponents to their cabinets, especially to prominent/ powerful positions like Sec of State. Generally speaking, the vice-president is not a politically powerful position, though it can be a springboard for a future presidential run. In recent years, a presidential candidate’s selection of a running mate has become opportunity to broaden one’s demographic/ political appeal (see John McCain & Sarah Palin). Thus choosing one’s former political rival as a running mate is a practical move that can help a candidate achieve a win that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. There is no similar political advantage to appointing a competitor to a Cabinet position.
How many presidents since Lincoln have appointed a bitter political oppponent to an important Cabinet position, as President Obama appointed Ms. Clinton?
Clinton and Gore were rivals, Reagan and Bush were rivals…
Anon, here’s some simple American History. did you know that there were not always “tickets” in the presidential elections? Once upon a time, the second place winner in the presidential election became the vice president. that means the president had to work with his opponent who came in second to him and had to be his vice president. (lhavdil, the type of coalition building that takes place evertytime there is an israeli election)
The Town Crier,
I did know that the second place winner used to be the vice-president. But in more recent times, presidential candidates have chosen running mates to broaden their appeal (as I stated above) and thus their electability. This has, as you & Joseph have noted, led to candidates choosing former rivals as running mates. But this wasn’t the case for President Obama’s choice of Ms. Clinton as Sec of State (one of the most powerful cabinet positions), since he’d already been elected at that point. Again, which presidents in recent times do you know of who’ve done this?
What I see is a man ruling by fiat. He makes his wishes happen by issuing executive orders. Had a Republican do that the media would call him/her a despot.
I’d give him a C- for his performance thus far. However, if you compare him to Bush, he gets a A++.
Mayan thats funny especially cuz some of obama’s executive orders was to overturn some of Bush’s executive orders!
Bush himself issued like 300 executive orders
…and if you’re comparing to Bush’s performance, C- is a pretty familiar GPA.
I did like former president Bush. Mr Obama is overturning everything he has put in place. The fact that he is closing quantanomo bay, does not sit well with me. I think he is taking a soft stance on the security of the U.S. to appease the Arabs. His choice of cabinet members are not very good. I mean George Mitchell, who is in favor of a 2 state Israel?? and Hillary Clinton??
I (think)I’m with Joseph on this one. I may be the only one to have correctly interpreted what he meant when saying “He has yet to perform.”
Joseph- you didn’t mean it’s too soon to judge, am I right?
Did anybody read the op-ed in the NY Times written by William Kristol where he writes that as an American Jew he believes we all should have much hakoras hatov towards George Bush for being the best president we ever had, as far as Israel and Jews in general are concerned?
kiruvwife: don’t worry, i’m not insulted.$
areivim – correct.
why do you think it’s too early to rate President Obama, the liberal media started rating bush 43 before he came into office and they gave him an F!! At any rate, what you see about obama is what you will get, he started down a certain path and there is no point of return, so we know where he’s headed to and we can therfore rate him. I give him an F.
And about his brilliance, i haven’t seen it yet, if anything all i’ve seen is pure stupidity, starting up with a person like rush limbaugh who has 20 million listeners every day, while obama who was making history once in his life had 1 million people at his inaugaration.
Obama is bad for the USA, just like Jimmy Carter was!!
“Yes, but most presidents don’t appoint political opponents to their cabinets, especially to prominent/ powerful positions like Sec of State. Generally speaking, the vice-president is not a politically powerful position, though it can be a springboard for a future presidential run. In recent years, a presidential candidate’s selection of a running mate has become opportunity to broaden one’s demographic/ political appeal (see John McCain & Sarah Palin). Thus choosing one’s former political rival as a running mate is a practical move that can help a candidate achieve a win that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. There is no similar political advantage to appointing a competitor to a Cabinet position.”
anon, cabinet positions can (and are) often used as bargaining chips in behind the scenes political deals. Clinton was damaging Obama’s chances of becoming president, and she would never quit just to help him out.
obama oppointed clinton and all his competitors for his own good, so that he could at least have a united democratic party. the democrats were divided between hillary and obama, so that’s why.
Obama surrounded himself with a bunch of clowns like joe biden and rahm emanuel, I don’t understand why he chose joe biden (who is convinced he’s so smart and we are all a bunch of dummies)because if by the time joe biden finishes his first term – in four years, he’ll be ready for the nursing home. Joe biden will do a lot of damage to the obama administration. I wonder whether obama won’t dismiss him before the term is over, i have a feeling he will.
Joseph- do we understand each other or what 😉
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