Obama's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

[Elmore Furth]

Here is a list, month-by-month, of President Obama's very bad year's events.

Barack Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year got off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start.

There he was, on New Year's Day, on vacation with his family in Hawaii, stuck on a secure phone with counterterrorism officials, trying to figure out what screw-ups had allowed a would-be terrorist to board a Christmas Day flight with explosives in his underwear.

Things only got worse for Obama when he returned to Washington in between a pair of epic winter storms.

From the start, 2010 delivered a string of setbacks that built up to an electoral shellacking come November, to use the president's own word.

Obama's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

[frazzled]

1. Except for Health Care, 2 Liberal Justices, GM profits, DADT repeal ...

Food Bill, START Treaty (hopefully), growth in economy, etc. etc. etc.

And what they've got is ... um, Tea Party dead-enders.

[impik]

4. Wall Street reform, ending the war in Iraq

[totodeinhere]

8. Ending the war in Iraq? Come on, we still have 50,000 troops there. n/t

[ProSense]

2. "Michelle Obama's five-day trip to...Spain with daughter Sasha touched off a mini-firestorm "

AP plays RW shill.

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In one of the year's biggest upsets, Joe Miller, backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express, defeated GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, adding her to a column of incumbents pushed aside. Murkowski conceded a week after the Aug. 24 primary as the ballot count went against her. She later set about a long-shot campaign to win as a write-in candidate in November.

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What the hell does that have to do with President Obama?

[liberal N proud]

3. And the M$M will make sure he has another bad year in 2011

Keep it up and we will have a President Palin. Keep it up.

[Aramchek]

5. take this trash to the dump, pal

[Phx_Dem]

6. For someone who supposedly had a bad year, he sure did get alot of huge

bills passed. I'd say it turned out to be a pretty good year for most Americans considering the high unemployment.

[WI_DEM]

7. except for the democratic setback in November, Obama had an impressive array of accomplishements

in 2010 and may get one more withe the START ratification.

[phoenixriz]

9. It's such a shame

that our President has only accomplished 85& of the goals he set out for his first term and still keeps a smile on his face.

Extracts: With this weekend’s decisive Senate repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy …. can anyone seriously doubt Barack Obama’s patient willingness to play the long game? Or his remarkable success in doing so?

In less than two years in office — often against the odds and the smart money’s predictions at any given moment — Obama has managed to achieve a landmark overhaul of the nation’s health insurance system; the most sweeping change in the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression; the stabilization of the domestic auto industry; and the repeal of a once well-intended policy that even the military itself had come to see as unnecessary and unfair