Going back to Obama's giving himself B+ for his job:-| :
Here is a more factual look at Obama's job performance in the first year.
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speaking of Obama's criticizing America not living up to her ideals - probably his ideals include someone like Ayers who bombed American civilians and whose wife was convicted of planning a bombing that killed a police officer...this is the people Obama shares American values with...and he will criticize America for mistakes??..*-)

on a separate subject, let me make a prediction here:
next year unemployment will drop to about 8.5% toward the end of 2010, and people will forget about the "evil obama" and will embrace "obama the savior" again.
his popularity will go up to 55-57% and you will have to bitch about something else .

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I would not mind if it happens, the opposite - I will be glad...BUT WHAT makes you think it will happen besides trying to irritate the hell out of the people with the conservative views here? (ch)

just my charts
sorry.. but this is the only thing that i believe.. you may say it's my religion ;-)
people were making fun of me when i was shorting OIL, people made fun of me now for longing $. Everyone keeps screaming about the fundamentals, the "printing of money" blah blah blah..
But all i see is charts.. and they don't lie.

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did you predict the financial crisis too?
let me ask you about the repeal of Glass-Steagall...what was the reasoning behind it? what what role do you think it (the repeal) had played in the precipitation of the financial crisis, if any?

Svetlana, i did see a huge asset bubble coming up, of course RE bubble - only a blind would not see .
I recommended all my friends to dump all financial stocks they held before it collapsed.
I did not realize the extend of the collapse it would cause. If i did i would be set for life . I was short financials (short C at 52 such a thing of beauty ) at the right time, but exited too soon - i was WAY too optimistic .
On G-S act. Basically it created a bunch of these "too big to fail" monsters. A complete failure of oversight added to the problem.
I am WAY to lazy to post a complete analysis here, i am sure smarter people have done it before.

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more factual look from Carl Rove..
the bastion of integrity himself
Есть что опровергнуть? Или так, только лишь бы прокричать в пустоту?

look at that, fresh off the press:
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Unemployment declined in 36 U.S.
states in November, with Kentucky and Connecticut posting the
biggest declines from a month earlier.

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<font color="black" size="2">WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of newly laid off workers filing claimsfor unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week as the recoveryof the nation's battered labor market proceeds in fits and starts.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of new joblessclaims rose to 480,000 last week, up 7,000 from the previous week. Thatwas a worse performance than the decline to 465,000 that economists hadexpected.