Politicians were interviewed by Politico about Obama's presidency for this year. From the interviews Politico put together a list of the 10 worst and best moves of the year.
Ten BEST:
1. Letting Congress take care of the issue on healthcare. It was suppose to be as one worst thing but the healthcare bill is certain to pass. By Obama letting congress have the issue in their hands was a strategic decision.
2. Choosing Hillary Clinton as secretary of State not Vice-president. This serves as a double purpose; it keeps her from serving as an independent in the Democratic Party as the NY senator, and it keeps a former president (Bill Clinton) from wandering in the west wing.
3. Passing stimulation bill and continuing bank bailouts, these two "mega-doses" of taxpayer cash into the economy is the source of holding the economy together.
4.Nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; she is a well qualified jurist and disciplined nominee, and he appealed to the Hispanic's vote for his party.
5.Taking out the pirates was truly the U.S Navy but Obama was the commander who sign off the mission.
6.Sending Republican Utah Governor Jon Huntsman to China, because of his fear that Huntsman will become his 2012 rival but he can be if he is across the globe.
7.Firing the GM CEO Rick Waggoner serves as threat that there are consequences to accepting taxpayer bailouts.
8. Obama's Cairo speech address to the world about the Muslims that "America is not- and never will be- at war with Islam".
9. Wooing the media because he has been on the cover of nearly every magazine in America.
10. Beating up on FOX News; calling out Fox News as "a wing of the Republican Party" warning the media to stay away from the negative coverage.
Ten WORST:
1. Obama stating that the Campbridge cops acted "stupidly" when arresting Henry Louis Gates without knowing the facts.
2.When Obama's advisers predicted that unemployment would top 8% if Congress went along with his push for a $787 billion stimulus package but unemployment reached 9.8%.
3.The Olympics bid that allow critics to argue that the president remains too close to his "Windy City" political base.
4.Obama is everywhere at all time, this can cause Americans to get tired of seeing him everywhere.
5. Obama question McChrystal a general about his political sensibility.
6. Obama campaign against earmarks but then he signed a $410 billion spending measure.
7.Obama seemed incapable of turning up major problems before they hit the paper.
8. Obama campaign to close Guantanamo bay and said it was to close January 2010 but it doesn't seem to be closing. They don't know what to do with the prisoners because the U.S doesn't want them here and allies don't want them either.
9. Ignoring the Dalai Lama gave opportunity to his critics that Obama by appeasing the "Chinese" he is going against human rights.
10. Beating up Fox News for other people was immature because he is falling to the tradition of red v. blue.
People cannot give Obama a break is nearly the end of his first year and they are already giving a report on what Obama has done wrong and what he has done good.
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