On a scale of 0 to 100, what is your approval rating of Obama?

[Ardent15]

Mine is around 70.

[timeforpeace]

1. 110.

[Greenpeach]

29. 100% if that really is the highest possible...

...or if it could be more, then as high as it could possibly go.

[jdp349]

53. Just for the sake of clarity

I am to understand that you have absolutely no criticism of the Obama administration, as in you would change absolutely nothing, no room for improvement?

[Nye Bevan]

76. So you're completely fine with Obama's opposition to gay marriage

and the fact that he has not suspended DADT, even though he could do this with the stroke of a pen?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I would say about 75...room for improvement. n/t

[eilen]

3. I would put his grade at 67.

Passing, but barely.

[LaydeeBug]

4. I'm like a 79 and counting upward...

cheerfully waited for the actions to align with the rhetoric.

[AlinPA]

5. 90. (-10 for trying to be bipartisan with the republicans who won't reciprocate)

[UrbScotty]

6. 83.1415926536

Geithner, Emanuel, and not doing more on GLBT sooner - those are what I perceive to be his biggest faults.

Overall, though, I think he's doing pretty good, considering the mess he's had to clean up. I'm especially proud of him when it comes to foreign policy.

[Robb]

8. I have to disagree strongly.

Giving Obama any more than 83.1415926535 is utter cheerleading. :D

[UrbScotty]

12. +83.1415926537

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[begin_within]

13. Pi in the sky.

[fishbulb703]

66. 80, B-

[femmocrat]

7. It has gone up this week.

It was at about a 65, probably an 80 now. I think he's "showing improvement".

[Blasphemer]

42. That's about how I feel too

I had him wavering from C- to C+ (70 - 77) for awhile. I'd give him an 80 now.

[sea_dream]

9. 92

Good grade with room to improve.

[baldguy]

10. 60

HCR should've been long done with. DADT should've been history. Criminal investigations into the Bush Regime should've been in full swing. The withdrawal from Iraq should've been well under way. Gitmo should've been closed a long time ago. The banksters should've been tossed in prison.

And a smart guy like Obama should've realized a long time ago that bipartisanship is a crock.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

11. Three in our house...72...75...79

[Quixote1818]

14. I would give him about an 83 nt

[DJ13]

15. 50

He blew it by not getting consumer targeted concessions from the banks to get more bailouts (I know the first was under Bush) which would have meant lower interest rates than we have now and would have averted a good portion of the consumer slowdown in spending that has led to mass layoffs.

HCR he caved on the most important cost containment being debated (PO), so that score is low as well.

All in all on economics a 40, on HCR a 40, on international relations a 70.

[Darkhawk32]

16. 70 is about right, OP n/t

[Th1onein]

17. ditto

eom

[jmowreader]

18. I'll give him an 85

[G_j]

19. how many points do you loose for ignoring the high crimes

of Bush and Cheney?

I'll disqualify myself from the poll.

[Hawkeye-X]

20. 50.01% approval for me.

Just barely over the majority of the family.

My son doesn't care as long as he has his green peas toy.

[Lil Missy]

21. 90 (this week)

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. 70 here as well

Good kickoff this week, but we lost a year. Regulate Wall Street ala 1935 and I will be happy. :)

[scarletwoman]

23. Interesting. Six minutes after you first posted your OP you changed your rating from 55 to 70.

I saw your post as soon as it went up, so I saw that you originally posted 55. I must admit that I'm curious as to why you changed it.

[Ardent15]

34. I realized 55 was too low.

I thought it was in the middle, but then I thought..."that's not even a passing grade."

[scarletwoman]

40. Thank you for replying.

I've found this thread interesting. I appreciate your honesty.

sw

[unkachuck]

24. as of....

....January 30, 2010, I would give the Prez a solid: 11.375

....he could have delivered much more substance than he has....I hope that he will....

[hatesthegop]

25. 81.375

Would have been 99% if he called out Alito to stand and explain himself the other night.

[defendandprotect]

26. Considering Dems were elected in '06 to end the war . . .

the increasing of troops in Afghanistan --

the bailout of corrupt capitalism without any remedy to re-regulate and stop this

from happening again --

the new bail out for Frannie and Freddie Mae still to come --

the effort to keep single payer and now even Public Option out of Health Care Reform --

the effort to provide $$ for the failing insurance companies who needed $40 million and

90 million more customers -- or was it the other way around?

I'd say about 25 at the moment!

[BlueJazz]

27. 67.3333

[cliffordu]

28. I give him a 70 before yesterday,

85 and rising after that.

[Cronus Protagonist]

30. 60 out of context.... 100 when one remembers the previous occupant.

After all, he was elected, unlike the last one.

[Mojambo]

31. I think upper 50's low 60's. n/t

[Ian David]

32. I'd say around 75% or so.

For comparison's sake:

Nixon: 55%
Ford: 50%
Carter 80%
Reagan 40%
Bush I: 45%
Clinton: 65%
Bush II: 10%

[LeftishBrit]

57. My long-distance ratings are remarkably similar to yours-

except that I would give Reagan a far lower score.

[democrank]

33. See reply #19

[grantcart]

35. 94

[and-justice-for-all]

36. 75

[Spirochete]

37. I'd give him a 70 as well

If he does more practicing what he preaches, that will go up.

[Vidar]

38. 20 or 30.

[Skittles]

39. I'll say 70

I am expecting RESULTS to push it higher

[JI7]

41. 99.9999999999

[Tiggeroshii]

43. 40

which is about 40 points higher than i would give bush. but still. not good...

[Fuzz]

44. Low 70's.

[Swede]

45. 80

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Personally,

I like him quite a bit, but I'm keeping an eye on him. I'd give him about an 80 at this point. Even though we're still struggling with so much, he's certainly improved the tone.

[opihimoimoi]

47. 89.09

[yurbud]

48. 65, middle D, for being slightly better than Bush. Come to think of it...

Bush got his pharma friendly Medicare D through Congress, and Obama is jammed up on his equally corporate compliant health care reform through.

[lib2DaBone]

49. Nice Try...

[Robb]

68. ...

[KittyWampus]

50. 78

[western mass]

51. words: 90. actions: 20

[Frank Booth]

52. If this is an academic grade type scale, then 72.

[Hawkowl]

54. 55

I'd rank him at the bottom of all Democratic Presidents in the last 100 years. But, with his latest aggressive stance towards rethuglicans he could pull himself up past Clinton.

If he'd just push a public option thru, he'd be right behind FDR and I'd give him a 90. Other improvements would be to radically draw down troops in Afghanistan; indict a few high ranking Bushco officials; indict a few Wall Street CEO's (e.g; Blankfein and Dimon); and completely turn over his team of economic neocon losers (i.e; Geithner, Summers, etc); cut "defense" (War and pillage) spending by 1/3 for starters.

[Raine]

55. About 70

a week ago it would've been about 30 but he's really impressed me and made me believe again in the last few days. :thumbsup: I'm hoping he keeps on and I can put the rating higher and higher. :-)

[inchhigh]

56. +2

Because he's given a couple of nice speaches. His actions suck but I keep hoping he'll go back and listen to one of his speaches.

[CreekDog]

74. i feel sorry for anybody who works for you

You probably rate then a 2 even when they put in 80 hours/week for you.

Sad.

As disappointed as I am from time to time, he deserves far better than a 2.

:wtf:

[madokie]

58. close to 200

actually about a 98 for me, I know there has to be something about him that I don't like, maybe his build, nope can't be that cause I'm built just like him. Hair maybe but nope mines going grey too but I just know there has to be something about him that won't wash though ;-)

[shotten99]

59. 85 give or take

[rug]

60. What does this add up to?

2010
January 1, 2010 - An airstrike by international forces in the southern Afghan province of Helmand killed seven civilians, two Taliban and wounded another civilian, an Afghan official said Friday.<228> Five civilians killed in an IED attack.<229>
January 4, 2010 - School Children Killed in Coalition Raid in Afghanistan. A preliminary United Nations investigation has found that eight students were among 10 Afghan civilians killed in Kunar province on Sunday.<230>
January 12, 2010 - A protest of about 2,000 people in Helmand province's Garmsir district turned violent as demonstrators fought with security forces, leaving nine civilians including 8 protesters dead, according to the top official in the province, Abdullah Barak.Protesters claiming that international troops destroyed copies of the Quran.<231>
January 15, 2010 - At least five Afghan civilians were wounded when a combined force of Afghan troops and US Marines opened fire on a crowd at the gate to a military base in Helmand, Afghanistan's most volatile province, Nato said today.The incident, which took place on Wednesday but was not reported until Friday, was the second demonstration to turn violent in two days in Helmand's Garmsir district, suggesting mounting civil unrest in a part of the country where US Marines under Nato command made major advances last year.<232>
January 17, 2010 - NATO forces in southern Afghanistan killed one civilian on Sunday after he approached their convoy in a vehicle, while a US soldier was killed in a clash with suspected Taliban in the eastern region, the military said.The incident happened when the civilian vehicle approached the convoy in Garmsir district in Helmand province Sunday morning, the alliance said in a statement."The vehicle had no headlights, and was travelling at a high rate of speed at the time of the incident," it said. "After firing three to five rounds into the grill of the vehicle, it stopped.<233>
January 21 - 2010 - Angry Afghan villagers took to the streets on Thursday claiming that civilians were killed in a raid by Afghan and NATO troops but the international force said the dead were insurgents.NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it killed four insurgents including a 15-year-old boy in an operation in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province on Wednesday night.<234>
January 23, 2010 - Protest turns violent southwest of Kabul, leaving 2 wounded.Militants hiding among demonstrators fired on police Saturday, sparking a gunbattle in the middle of a protest over the deaths of four men in a NATO-Afghan raid, officials said. At least two people were wounded.NATO and Afghan police have said the four killed late Wednesday were insurgents, but villagers in the Qara Bagh district in Ghazni province insist they were civilians.<235>
January 28, 2010 - An imam at a mosque on the eastern outskirts of Kabul tucked his 7-year-old son into the back seat of his car and set out for work a little before 8 on Thursday morning, for a journey he made about the same time almost every day.But this time, he was shot to death when he crossed paths with a NATO convoy about a mile from an American base that has repeatedly been struck by suicide bombers.<236>
January 30, 2010 - NATO-led forces opened fire on a vehicle in the southern province of Ghazni on Friday, killing two Afghan civilians and wounding another.<237>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)#2010

[TexasProgresive]

61. If 93 is an A I give him 92 for a B+ Few can get an A

[RZM]

62. 75-78 range

Exactly what I expected

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

63. 50 Mediocre. A politics-as-usual centrist, with his main focus on re-election.

[blondeatlast]

64. 92. nt

[avaistheone1]

65. 60

He is doing too much of the same stuff Bush did, or would do if Bush were still in office.

Today's example of letting John Yoo off the hook is a good example of what turns me off about Obama's administration.

[taught_me_patience]

67. 60 - D - Barely passing.

[rollin74]

69. 85

he's doing pretty well considering the condition of the country when he took office

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

70. No room for negatives? Frankly, until he shows some effort to uphold the

Constitution by prosecuting the previous administration from crimes against humanity, stops domestic spying, not pursue the previous admins cases re DOMA & domestic spying, get rid of DADT, throw the hucksters out of his administration (...ie Rahm, Tim, Arne and all corporate asslickers), I can't even begin to rate him. I haven't even mentioned the bloody awful wars! In SOTU, he stated all combat troops will be out of Iraq by August. Read my writing...COMBAT TROOPS. There are combat troops who have had their status renamed, so that they can remain in Iraq. The last estimate was that somewhere between 30,000-50,000 would remain there.

Words are sure purty but Actions Are What Matters.

His first official action as Pres-elect was to hire Rahm, and in that moment, I knew we were royally fucked.

I will give him this, with his eloquence and charisma, he is a hard man to resist and very hard not to fall under his spell. Even when I am pissed as all hell at him and I see a photo of him, it makes me smile. I CANNOT Hate Him as I loathed Shrub, But this charisma is dangerous and it lulls people and makes them enablers. He is the lover they want, the father they need, the son they never had, the buddy they want to practice a full court press with. And these unrealistic attachments, the cult of personality, will allow him to get away with a great deal more than any other politician.

I certainly hope that he has changed after SOTU and the dressing down of the Repukes, but once again, those were only Words.

[rox63]

71. I'd give him an 85

A solid B.

[Geek_Girl]

72. 35

nt

[LWolf]

73. Zero. Until he fires Duncan, puts an educator in, and

drops the weapons of public education destruction, he'll never rate any higher with this teacher.

[quiller4]

75. 90-95. n/t

[Nye Bevan]

77. 75

Question for the 99.9999 / 100 / 110 brigade- I guess gay rights are not a big issue for you?

[ThomWV]

78. 50~55%

[La Lioness Priyanka]

79. 95 percent for personality, and 75 for policy

[Tesha]

80. 15. I didn't expect much, but I did at least expect...

...that he would 1) mostly execute on his campaign promises and
2) actually *LEAD* the Democratic Party rather than waste his time
trying to get Republicans to like him.

Tesha

[RiverStone]

81. 100 for smarts and patience --- 50 for too much capitulation in year 1

I expect he will get tougher in year 2. He has too!

[Mudoria]

82. 65 I guess

He's great at rhetoric but seems short of actually trying to push something through. Most of what I've observed is he has a general idea and then let's Congressional Democrats come up with the details, which they muck up as they usually do. I'd much rather see him state what his plan is and then tell the Democratic leadership to push his plan through.

[Mari333]

83. 20

and that is being generous.