How do you feel about Obama's performance so far as president-elect?

[Onlooker]

Poll question: How do you feel about Obama's performance so far as president-elect?

[terrya]

I'm pleased.

[FrenchieCat]

1. I'm just in need of some Bully Pulpit is all........

[lamp_shade]

2. Thrilled.

[lamp_shade]

36. 'nuther l'il kick.

[glowing]

3. I wish we'd see more of him.. not just pics of his security detail driving thru the streets of

Chicago.. People need to see him and hear him. People are getting a little scared about the upcoming holidays and the cold season setting in.

[DesertFlower]

4. thrilled. nt

[Tempest]

5. What's to be thrilled about?

I'm still waiting to hear about the change he promised us.

[TZ]

7. Do you really think that its not gonna be different from the last 8 years

Seriously? Okay I have a bridge to sell you...
BTW, I prefer having EXPERIENCED people in office..something ALSO lacking in the last eight years.

[Tempest]

9. McSame would have been different than the last 8 years

And do you seriously believe there is no one experienced outside of the Clinton/Bush cabal?

Clinton as Secretary of State? Where's her experience, other than voting for the Iraq war and for supporting Bush's Africa militarization plans?

[TZ]

21. Why the FUCK do you put Clinton and Bush in the same breath?

Are you a complete moron? They are nothing alike.
You know I'm not a big Hillary or Bill fan myself but they are smart and they are competant and if Obama (who is smarter than most here, I bet) they can do the job I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt.
Jeezus you clinton haters are fucking ridiculous.

[Tempest]

25. Hillary Clinton is part of the rightwing arm of the Democratic party

As a Liberal, of course I'm not going to be happy with her pick.

And I noticed you gave no examples of her experience which would help as SoS.


Funny how DU has turned into "us vs. them" by the rabid Obama supporters.

Some of us are expressing our disapproval of Obama's choices and we're getting cruxified for it.

Well, FUCK YOU!


I'm no fan of Hillary, but I'm no Clinton hater either. I'm still defending Bill Clinton's administration to my conservative friends.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

28. Excellent point and one I argue about with my child all the time.

Do we really want a bunch of people eliminated from consideration just because they happened to have served in the Clinton administration? (Or even a superbly qualified person who happened to serve in a Republican administration - oh, wait . . . . )

[Sebastian Doyle]

49. It's not the last 8 years, it's the last 28 years!

True, the last 8 were so blatantly horrible that only the most brain dead FAUX noize fans couldn't see it. But this didn't start on 1/20/2001 or even 12/12/2000. This started the day Reagan took office, and it escalated the day that two Republicans named Al From and Will Marshall decided they were going to bring down the Democratic party by infiltration, and called their group of moles the "Democratic Leadership Council".

[Shiver]

10. I know!

It's been TWO AND A HALF WEEKS already! Where's the money flowing into my pockets? Why do I still have to pay bills? Where's my flying car? I tried breathing underwater last night, and I STILL CAN'T!

It's almost as if he's not president yet....

Define change for me. Right now. What did you expect to happen so soon? Did you not listen to the victory speech?

[Tempest]

13. He's already had the opportunity to show us change

And all we got is Clinton and Bush retreads.

He's even backed down from his pledge to remove troops by 2010. Now he's talking about 2011 or 2012 or whenever.

[Shiver]

14. I hear nothing but more whining

Do you want inexperienced, non-Washington people being part of the administration? That hasn't worked too well in the past. Carter tried it and failed, even with a Democratic congress.

Do you want people who know how to get things done? Can't get them without looking through the last few administrations. We've had word of a few Cabinet picks, many of them still mere speculation. Give him some time before you declare this all for nothing. Who's to say Clinton people can't get the job done?

It's been TWO WEEKS. Have some goddamn patience. Rome wasn't built in a day - after the downward spiral of the last eight years, it's gonna take some time.

[Tempest]

16. So there are no non-Clinton or Bush officials who are experienced?

Where's Paul Krugman?

Or Dennis Kucinich?

Why are Obama's picks all coming from the rightwing side of the party?


And Goddamn right there will be whining.

Unless you want the mindless admiration we've seen from conservatives over the last 8 years.

[HughMoran]

20. Whining at -60 days - you're going to be a real joy to have around!!

:eyes:

In fact, I'm putting you on ignore - I don't need creepy negative pants people like you pissing in my Corn Flakes.

[Tempest]

27. Oh boo hoo

Just do it already and stop responding to my posts.

Goddamn kool-aid drinkers are no better than the fawning Bush supporters.

[TZ]

24. His picks are centrist

The party is centrist majority. BTW, Dennis Kucinich is NOT respected or liked by memebers of HIS OWN party (he has a cosistant power ranking of in the 100-200's in congress vs another progressive like Chris Van Hollen who is in the top 20 and has been here far less time)
Liberals make up 17% of the country. Tell me why Obama governing from the minority would be anything but political suicide. Wait I forgot anyone who's not as progressive as YOU is worthless right?
Goddamnit but left wing nuts sure sound like right wing nuts sometimes.

[democrat2thecore]

41. That speech in Denver at the DLC - was that Kucinich or Obama?

Whoever gave that lofty speech full of lofty progressive rhetoric shows no resemblance to the man making these picks. Sorry to sway from the personality cult that seems to have many enforcers here. This is about POLICY. So far - no "real and fundamental change."

[HughMoran]

18. After all, he's been President for...

Oh, that's right, he isn't President for 2 months - doh!!!

Some people are psychotic fools.

[Tempest]

19. So the choices he's making today are not an indication of how he'll govern?

Talk about your psychotic fools.

[HughMoran]

22. Bye

You're a curmudgeon and I don't want to read your bitterness any more.

:hi:

[Tempest]

26. You won't be missed

Jackasses like you are a dime a dozen.

[TZ]

23. Tell me who you think should serve?

Clones of Dennis Kucinich? Cindy Sheehan?

[ecstatic]

6. I would still support him if he ate a baby on live TV

well... maybe not after that, but someone would have to prove to me with DNA testing that it was really him.

[T Wolf]

8. Competence but not inspiration yet. It all depends on what he ACCOMPLISHES.

The fact that every one of his selections is thus far representative of the right wing of the party does not give this old liberal much hope that he will do more than slightly retard the destruction wreaked by the pukes, with Democratic complicity.

He has not even thrown a bone to the left. I guess we should just go away until the next election. he certainly is listening more to McCain and JoeLie than Dennis Kucinich or Bernie Sanders or Russ Feingold.

[Tempest]

11. Amen, brother

I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I'm not as enthusiastic about his administration as I was on November 5th.

[az chela]

12. I would have preferred that the Clintons would not have been

PICKED

[mvd]

15. Good job

I'd like to see a couple progressives in the cabinet - will wait and see on that. And after the last 8 years, what a difference!

[HughMoran]

17. I lol'd when I read the last choice

Imagine that old curmudgeon selecting a cabinet now with P* blabbing on and on mindlessly on TV :puke:

[Forkboy]

29. This is like asking how I feel about a baseball team on Opening Day.

:shrug:

[mvd]

31. Hi Forkboy

I agree - he's made an early impression (and I don't mind some Clinton people in the cabinet - they are the experienced ones,) but it's way too early to make a final judgment. The people he has chosen can definitely get things done. Kucinich would be great for Labor, and maybe RFJ Jr. for Interior. There is room for the liberal wing. All I ask is that he listen to progressives like he says he will listen to Republicans.

[Forkboy]

33. I haven't seen any surprises so far.

He's been doing what I expected for over a year. I suspect the left wing will get a bone or two, the right wing will get a bone or two, and the middle will get the main feast. I'm not crazy about it, but it's what I expected, so to turn around and say Obama has let me down wouldn't be fair. I would have had to be up in the first place, and he never raised my lefty expectations. It's why he was my next to last pick in the primaries.

But I'm willing to give him time to actually do something before getting up in his grill. :)

[mvd]

35. With 58 seats at least, it wouldn't be impossible to confirm lefties

Note that not one Repuke has been named yet, either. So more reason to wait and see. Obama is considering people with skill, and that's already a nice change.

[rasputin1952]

30. So far, so good...but nothing really matters until 20 Jan 08...

I want to see bush arrested right after the inauguration...but alas, I dream...:hi:

[kwenu]

32. I voted for the guy that I trust to make the right decisions. He won and I still trust him.

[Tempest]

34. Trust, but verify

The verification process is hard to stomach about now for some of us.

[kwenu]

39. He's the President-elect not the Soviet empire. What have you been smoking?

[Lumpsum]

37. Hillary has the potential to destroy Obama's presidency.

Plain and simple. And when it happens, all you pro-DLC'ers will come crawling back here with even more excuses.

[kwenu]

40. Obama's choice. He gets to make the call. Let's give him a chance.

[Lumpsum]

43. No shit it's his choice.

Stop with that weak argument. A simple 20 minute crash course into Clinton, and all the scumbags who endorse her as SoS, will tell you all you need to know about why she's a terrible choice for ANY role outside of the Senate.

The only positive outcome of her as SoS? It not only scares TRUE liberals, but it scares the shit of the right too.

[Godhumor]

45. Care to define TRUE liberals?

I'm curious to know what the litmus test happens to be.

[kwenu]

46. Wow! Conservative republican logic has poisoned you.

You're the same ilk just on a different side. Foaming at the mouth statements and defining who is "TRUE" and who isn't? The evil empire has taught you well. What's next? You're either for us or against us? Yuck.

[Zynx]

38. Not thrilled, but pleased.

[frogmarch]

42. Thrilled, and I'm sure I'll be

just as thrilled with his performance as president. :thumbsup:

[quakerboy]

44. What about it?

When I hear something other than "an unnamed aide said," then we can talk about what he does. Till then... what is there to talk about?

[Skittles]

47. good job so far

[bigwillq]

48. Puzzled

by the DLC choices and the Clintonesque-feel but reserving judgement until I see the team in action. It's put up or shut up time. I really don't care who's in all these high-level places as long as work gets down to change this country.

[Upton]

50. His choice of Hillary

is IMO, a poor decision.... His forgiving of Lieberman's transgressions, a disappointment. I hope things get better from here.