Do you think Barack Obama did a good job as president?

Hi Penny4urThoughts and welcome to my lot. I don't know who is to blame for this war but it wasn't started by Obama. He has tried to bring the soliders home but all the politicians have their hands in the kitty. It is just plain that anyone and everyone is to blame for this. But if you read the bible you will know that this is all Gods plans. It is all going to happen according to Gods will. I voted for Obama and I will vote for him again. I don't want a new person in there that don't have a clue as to what they are doing. This all started many many years ago from loaning money to other countries. We are going to stay in debt as long as we keep loaning money to every one and not keep the money here in the USA/

He's by far the worst president we've ever had.He hasn't done much of anything right.He's embarrassed our country in front of foreign dignitaries over and over.The biggest campaign promise he's kept was getting his daughter's a dog.Everything that he's done wrong is because of Bush.It's been 3 yrs.now.When is Obama going to do something right and stop blaming others. Everyone wants to talk about how bad Bush was.Well,he wouldn't have gotten re-elected if he was that bad.Everything fell apart the last 2 yrs.when we got a Democratic majority in Congress. At this point,it really doesn't matter who we elect.As long as we have career politicians in office,we're only going to get worse.

You had me at "Ron Paul"...lol. The man is one of the very very very few (if not the only) intellectually honest and ideologically consistent members of Congress. You are right in listening to him. He predicted and warned of the 2008 economic crash years before it happened and it happened exactly as and why he said it would. He is also one of the only two people (the other is Gary Johnson) in either of the two main parties I could see myself voting for in 2012. But the sad fact is there is a steeply entrenched ideology in the republican party that he is a "fringe" candidate and couldn't win a general election if he were nominated. I would contend that the exact opposite is true...he is probably the only one who could win in the general election against Barak Obama.

Penny if you have been listening you will realize that President Obama is getting us out of these wars as fast as possible. He understands that war is not the answer unless someone attacks and he is trying to make sure that terrorist are never in a position to attack us again. Ron Paul is okay but he will not get a mass aof people behind him. The reason the President has had a hard time is because he is black and deep down there are many who cant stand that so everything he has tried to do they will fight against Obama is doing a good job and in his second term I believe he will start imposing more of the majority of Americans want like a more balanced economy.

It is not easy to clean all these dirts and messes left by previous adminstration, present president is trying to clean them up in a period of his first term, soldiers in Iraq are scheduled to withdraw fully by the end of the year 2012. while combat troop in Afghanistan will begin its first phase of withdrawal in July, 2012. The drawn down of U.S forces in Afghanistan will be gradual to give time for kaizai government's security forces enough time to take over their own country security in a systematic manner. So far the promises he make during the campaign is in motion and in slow progress, so i will say he at least is trying to make good on his campaign pledges, even though it may not turn out he is doing a perfect job and the actual war situation on the ground do not come out as he wishes, it may pose difficulty for him to end them immediately, but it is better than his predecessor. I know he is trying hard to deal with very difficult set of problems he inherited since he was elected into office of president. The series of issues are in a level of a monumental scale, it will not be easy to be a president in this moment of U.S history.

I see both sides of the coin here - the "he sucks" and the "he inherited it all" stuff. The way I see it, Obama took over what Bush messed up and then messed it up further. Did he inherit a mess? Damn right. Bush really screwed America up in many areas: doubling Clinton's spending, getting us into wars, falling asleep at the wheel when the economy was going into the crapper. So there used to be a legitimate claim by Obama and his faithful, that Bush caused the mess and it would take time to get us out. But that's long, long gone now. Obama has increased Bush's spending exponentially. The government takes in over 2 trillion in taxes, but his plan for a "healthy" economy is to spend nearly 4 trillion! Nearly double what they take in! I hear some tell it on myLot that people take the federal government and what it does for granted. I hear people say that we want and need these big government programs. But I call BS on that! During the Bush years, we were spending trillions less and were fine with the scope of federal government. We didn't need more government to help America. During the Clinton years, we were spending trillions less and were just fine with the scope of federal government. During the Reagan years, we were spending billions less than the Clinton years and were just fine with the scope of federal government. And on and on! So it's BS to assert that we need this large of a federal government. It just it. It amounts to people wanting to carry Obama's water without seeming as if they're carrying it. They're proponents of big, controlling government. And that's fine. Just be honest with it and stop the political spin. The entire nation is dizzy. I'm not okay with a large, big-spending government. And for that reason, Obama and his trillions in spending and increased government is a bad thing and he is doing an incredibly bad job as president, if only because he's attempted to spend his way out of crisis to no avail yet still refuses to admit that and actually wants to spend more. Wow. You can't make this stuff up! Good speaker - check Charismatic - check The all-important Vanilla Ice appeal - check Intelligent (relevant) - check Uberpartisan while feigning a desire for "compromise" - check A good leader for America - FAIL

No, I don't, but I really didn't expect him to. I have always been very good at spotting people like him. I never believed his promises and sure enough he has kept few if any of them. Not only has he not kept the promises he made, but he has taken us down some very poor roads that will be hard to recover from. Some of his high level appointees couldn't even take care of their own lives in the same areas that they were appointed to in the government.

I honestly don't vote. I just see it as the people running for office will say what they can, to get votes. Now I do not believe Obama has done such a bad job, but I think people are targeting him for other reasons and idk why. He has tried to do what he can, and we should applaud him for at least that. Every president has his pack of people who disapprove of his actions, and I do not think that will ever change. Politics is just that... politics.

Yes Barak Obama did a good job as president because he is a very good and innocent president. And all peoples like them. They have not only fans from US but also Fans from many countries of the world. President has done many good works and also increases US economy as they have before. So there are many great works which are done by president.

No I never believed that Obama would do anything that he promised. I didn't vote for him and have always referred to him as "Crock" Obama because I think he is full of well you get the picture. He used the race card to get into the Presidency and was proclaimed the "first black president" even though he is biracial because his mother is white then after he had not been in office long, he passed some awful legislature that allows for euthanasia of a baby that is being aborted. The baby can be placed on a table and left alone to die if the mother so chooses. He then sent more troops overseas including my brother who spent a year in Iraq followed by a year in Korea after promising to bring troops home. Just recently, he went over the heads of the House and Senate and sent troops to Libya for which a lawsuit is pending against him. Bush can not be blamed for these things. Obama is the one that did them not Bush.

its a very complicated situation, i think that President Obama took over some unfinished work in Iraq, he cant just call the troupes and let thing like that the after war is harder than the war itself, i am not pro or against no one, I am trying to see what is happening, and so far we can see that benladen is no longer one of our problem. slowly there is a change even if its hard to see. i think and being confident that President Obama did some good job, don't forget he has to deal with a lot of things after President Bush, other thing is that he cant just decide things and take actions they have to be approved by many people its a republic he doesn't rule by himself don't forget that.

he is still in position.You can evaluate Obama's performance as president by the present situation in the US and how the economy affected the lives of millions of people. His new strategies in addressing the economic problem had very little effects but at least he tried his best to remedy the situation. Listening to politicians words is not enough as a criteria in choosing your leader. Know what has he done already. That could be one of your criteria in choosing. :-)