Really Grading Pres. Obama

While I didn’t watch it, President Obama was given the opportunity by Oprah Winfrey, during the White House Christmas special, to give himself a grade. He gave himself a “B+”.

The President explained:

“Good, solid B-plus, we have inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We stabilized the economy, and prevented possibilities of a Great Depression or a significant financial meltdown. The economy is growing again. We are on our way out of Iraq. I think we’ve got the best possible plan for Afghanistan. We have reset our image around the world.”

Ok. Well, I’m not sure about all that. So I decided we should give him a real report card that is much more extensive:

Subject	Grade	Reason
Economy	D+	Where are the jobs?
Spending	F	We can't spend our way into prosperity
Health Care	D	D for "Disaster"
Iraq	A-	Continuing to move in right direction
Afghanistan	B	The surge is good; don't like all the hedging he's doing
Judges	B	Didn't like Sotomayor, but certainly qualified
Personnel	D	All the nominee tax problems and weird czars
Education	A-	Standing up to unions, promoting charter schools
Environment	D	Unintended consequences of "cap & trade" would be dire
Leadership	C-	At times quite divisive, doesn't stand up for freedom abroad
Average	C-	Now that's a little more realistic… the presidency is graded on a tough curve. You don't get points just for effort.