Obama Biggest Single Success So Far

[ruggerson]

We're a month away from the one year mark.

The Obama administration has had successes and failures.

This poll asks you, in your opinion, what is the administration's single biggest success so far, at this early date in his term?

I know it's hard to pick just one, but that's what this poll is seeking.


(There will be a second poll asking about the biggest dissapointment)

[polichick]

1. Getting elected. nt

[saracat]

4. LOL. I was just going to post that!

[G_j]

8. it appears a lot of us think alike on this one.. lol

[ShortnFiery]

13. Yes, and this give away to the insurance cartel is the reason IT won't happen again.

:grr:

[DKRC]

14. Just what I was thinking!

:rofl:

Although, seeing what he's actually doing as a New Democrat isn't putting a smile on my face. :mad:

[OhioChick]

20. True

:rofl:

[FLAprogressive]

24. exactly what I was thinking

[SammyWinstonJack]

53. Heh.

:evilgrin:

[timeforpeace]

56. +1

[Bushknew]

59. +1

[leftstreet]

79. LOL +1

[WillyT]

93. Yep... +1

:shrug:

[G_j]

2. other: winning the election

[LWolf]

3. Winning the election. nt

[QC]

5. Pulling off the greatest bait 'n switch operation in history. n/t

[Vidar]

55. A switcheroo worthy of PT Barnum

[QC]

72. It really was a masterful con, wasn't it? n/t

[Xicano]

77. +10

n/t

[QC]

95. It was definitely audacious. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Convincing the electorate that he was worthy of their vote.

[slackmaster]

7. Other - the Beer Summit

And not puking on the Emperor of Japan.

[HughMoran]

9. You forgot "he hasn't done anything"

no wonder most are answering "other" :eyes:

[ruggerson]

43. I was attempting

to be fair, diplomatic and non-incendiary :)

[HughMoran]

44. I know .

I had to throw the snark in there as people are angry and can't be trusted to vote honestly in any poll here.

[hfojvt]

81. that would be a silly answer. Of course he has done things.

He just hasn't done anything right. (or left)

[Bluebear]

10. 'I know it's hard to pick just one' - yes, the possibilities are overwhelming

:hi:

[ruggerson]

12. I'm being evenhanded

:hi:

[IndianaGreen]

17. 'Change You Can Believe In' has been replaced by 'Success We Can Brag About'

Meanwhile, to us peons living in fly-over country, things are as bad as they were when Bush was President. People are still losing jobs, and state and local communities have to lay off people and cut services for lack of funding.

America is still headed in the wrong direction!

[Bluebear]

25. More like "bullshit you can take a bath in"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7280387&mesg_id=7280836

[jonnyblitz]

27. LOL, I can't even pick JUST one. I guess I better dig up one of

those embellished accomplishment lists they post ad nauseum and go through it.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Different degrees of failure in each of those categories

and it is bound to get worse!

Any news on Obama's glorious peace initiative in the Middle East? How's that success coming along?

[yourout]

15. Getting elected.

[Mari333]

16. huge fail. all the way around. on everything.

[MadBadger]

62. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb

[Mari333]

68. yes, your retort was so intelligent, of course.

typical.
ignore on. another flopdoodle bites the dust.

[Name removed]

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[bigwillq]

75. Do you have anything else to offer

instead of just name calling? :shrug:

[saltpoint]

18. Unrecommended.

[IndianaGreen]

21. Now you force me to rec to cancel your unrec

Isn't this unrec system very silly and should it be done away with?

[saltpoint]

22. If I got to pick what should be done away with in this country I'd pick

FOX News, crisping sleeves, and Wayne Newton.

[IndianaGreen]

32. Hey, that sounds pretty good to me too!

[ruggerson]

23. Good morning, saltpoint!

How are you on this glorious Sunday?

[saltpoint]

26. Pretty good.

We've got coffee and Joni Mitchell filling up the place.

[ruggerson]

30. We;ve got coffee and Little Feat

:)

Old, aren't we?

[saltpoint]

31. Nothing wrong with Little Feat. Anybody says different, you give me

a call. I'll take care it.

[ruggerson]

35. I doubt many under fourty have a clue as to who they are

I miss Lowell George.

(Trivia: who taught Lowell George how to play slide guitar?) :)

[saltpoint]

36. Lowell was splendid, not to mention wildly talented.

I don't know -- Ry Cooder?

[ruggerson]

39. Ms. Bonnie Raitt

[saltpoint]

40. Mm. Well, with a mentor like that no wonder LG knew what he was doing.

If there really are such things as angels I'm not interested in them unless they very strongly resemble Bonnie Raitt.

[ruggerson]

45. I think I told you this once

But I used to see her at a bar called Jacks in Cambridge when I was but a young 'un. She was as incredible then as a complete unknown. Her early stuff still blows me away.

[saltpoint]

50. If her early work blows you away then you are listening to her the

way she ought to be heard.

Indication of a sound mind, ruggerson.

[ruggerson]

54. that very first album

where it was all recorded on some island in about two weeks is a masterpiece.

And of course, Give It Up is still her tour de force. It's one of the greatest albums of all time.

[saltpoint]

57. I've found that I can't separate the caliber of performance on the

first two albums, and that many years later, people invoke Bonnie as a kind of Saint of Moral Necessity. She has some terrific quotations in the early Bay-Area days of ROLLING STONE before they moved to New York, too.

And she's a very progressive soul to boot.

[G_j]

47. LG once said

he would 'crawl around the world on bloody knees for Bonnie', referred to her as the queen of R&R.


just a little OT, couldn't resist.

[saltpoint]

51. Lowell knew she had the vibe, is my guess.

And he was right.

[Goldstein1984]

78. Another rec

Good post--gets to the heart of the matter (disappointment)

[dysfunctional press]

19. playing the left for fools.

[IndianaGreen]

29. Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Worry About the Left

Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Worry About the Left

By Jonathan Weisman

Turn off MSNBC. Tune out Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann. The White House has its liberal wing in hand on health care, says White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

“There are no liberals left to get” in the Senate, Emanuel said in an interview, shrugging off some noise from the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) that a few liberals might bolt over the compromises made with conservative Democrats.

As the White House leans on conservative Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska for the 60th health care vote, Emanuel has made the case that this generation of liberal political figures will not make the mistake of their predecessors. The late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s greatest regret was not cutting a deal with Richard Nixon on universal health care. Former President Bill Clinton has forever rued the day he did not take moderate Republican Sen. John Chafee up on a compromise that could have secured a health care bill early in his presidency.

Liberal senators nearly scuttled the creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program -– S-CHIP –- because Clinton compromised with Republicans and agreed to take the program out of Medicaid and involve private insurers.

“Every time they’ve gotten close to the deal, they’ve passed up the opportunity and chosen to walk away from a particular where they’ve lost the forest for the trees,” Emanuel said.

The comments may not endear the powerful White House chief of staff to liberal activists, furious that Senate Democratic leaders, at Emanuel’s urging, cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman to drop a federally run insurance policy option, then eliminate a Medicare buy-in proposal.

“I don’t think the White House recognizes how much trouble they’re in,” said one former Democratic official this morning. “I think they’re miscalculating what’s happening with progressives and the left. They feel like they’re being taken for granted.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/12/18/rahm-emanuel-dont-worry-about-the-left/

The fault is ours for supporting and voting for people that will tell us to FRAK OFF the moment they get in office. Change must begin with ourselves!

[Toasterlad]

28. Definitely Lifting the Ban on Stem-Cell Research.

I can't think of a single other thing he's done that I'm completely happy with.

I'd LOVE to know who the fuck voted for "gay rights", and just what their idiotic rationale was.

[ruggerson]

33. That's a good choice

For me it's a tie between that and diplomacy.

[Toasterlad]

42. I AM Glad That Diplomacy Is Once Again a Recognized Tool In This Country.

But pretty words are all I ever expect from Obama, so I took it as a given rather than an accomplishment.

[ruggerson]

70. I think you are correct

in that stem cells provided an immediate, concrete result.

[FLAprogressive]

34. probably because of the hate crimes bill which really doesn't do a thing to advance gay rights

[Toasterlad]

38. I Guess That's It.

However, I doubt Obama himself even remembers signing that bill, or gave two shit about it either way. He certainly did absolutely NONE of the heavy lifting to get it to his desk.

[FLAprogressive]

41. they had to hide it in the defense spending bill.....

[IndianaGreen]

46. I agree, the only rose in a field of thorns was lifting the stem cell ban

and even there, one has to wonder whether it was for altruistic motives or to allow Big Pharma to compete with other countries.

[dgibby]

82. That and the Lillie Ledbetter Act. n/t

[Better Believe It]

84. I'll go with stem cell research.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

37. Giving pretty speeches full of vague, or empty, promises and slogans.

As a politician seeking office he's a champ.

[flamingdem]

48. FORGET the diplomacy gains in Latin America after the USA supported the coup thugs nt

[GreenArrow]

61. Or the burst into the closed room Cowboy routine

in Copenhagen.

[rug]

49. That fly.

[Renew Deal]

90. That was pretty cool

:D

[pissedoff01]

52. The Nobel prize for whatever

[Obamanaut]

58. Pulling the wool over so many eyes with the 'audacity of hope.'

Great success with fooling so many

[jgraz]

60. Not being George W. Bush.

Didn't he win a Nobel for that?

[change_notfinetuning]

63. other: Sotomayor on Supreme Court (so far, so good) n/t

[rucky]

64. Stem cell research. n/t

[tammywammy]

65. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay is another people tend to forget about. n/t

[Unvanguard]

66. Probably the stimulus package. Too small economically, but about right politically.

At least, assuming it's too early to say health care reform.

[Greyhound]

67. Other; Preserving the system that fucked the world, while letting the American People

twist in the wind.
:mad::grr:

[Romulox]

71. Other: funneling trillions to Wall Street in direct defiance of the American people. nt

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

73. I thought it was really awesome when he raped and then ate all of those wombats.

That was definitely a success. The wombats didn't stand a chance.

[Dangerman]

74. I can only think of one...

Being a lot smarter than B*sh.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

76. He is unifying the country against the Democratic party.

[readmoreoften]

87. Very true. United We Stand.

This time even Democrats.

[Jamastiene]

89. He has done in 11 months what the Republicans haven't been able to do

in 40 years, at least not to THIS extent.

[Goldstein1984]

80. Other: Bait and Switch

The unrecs are badges of honor

[whistler162]

83. You forgot the expotential increase of polls on DU!

[laughingliberal]

85. Bo? nt

[readmoreoften]

86. Signing the Lily Ledbetter legislation after other people did the hard work?

That's about one of the only *clearly good* things he's done.

[Jamastiene]

88. Other: He proved the forer effect works brilliantly on the elecorate.

He proved PT Barnum right, basically. That seems to be his major accomplishment. Years from now, the word, "bamboozled," will be amended in dictionaries all over the world to "obamboozled."

At this point, he's doing his hero, Reagan, proud.

[Renew Deal]

91. The responses could just as easily be posted at freeperville.

They're just way over the top.

[Renew Deal]

92. He's excelled at the stuff he's had 100% control over.

Diplomacy and Gitmo. The stuff that needs congressional action have been less resounding victories.

[freddie mertz]

94. Diplomacy.nt.