Time magazine’s grade for Obama’s presidency thus far: A-; Update: Old?
posted at 10:37 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Reading this is like watching an unassisted triple play in baseball. You see it, you pause to make sure you’ve seen what you think you’ve seen, and then you marvel at the sheer odds of it having happened. Would a big name at a big magazine like Mark Halperin really sign off on something so absurd, and so fawning in its absurdity, as to be instantly destined for infamy in the blogosphere? Of course not. The odds against it are a million to one. And yet.
This is a magic moment, my friends.
Instantly comfortable and highly skilled at the hardest job in the world — proving his supporters’ contention that all the traits that made him a great candidate would serve him well in the White House: even temper, cool demeanor, boldness under pressure, shrewd facility for managing personnel, unfailing instincts about when to delegate and when to engage.
There are only two more sentences after that but I can’t go on. And a good thing too: Tom Maguire and Ace got to this first and used up all the best one-liners. Follow the links for a few of the many, many reasons why a guy might not deserve an A- if his major accomplishment to date is passing a gigantic stimulus bill that was designed to cap unemployment at, um, eight percent. Exit quotation from Maguire: “I shudder to think what a B+ would have looked like.”
Update: In a sweet stroke of irony, Time was also the magazine that reported earlier today on how unhappy the White House is with its press coverage. Anyone want to make a prediction about how Halperin will backtrack from this tomorrow? I’d say it’s 50/50 between a humiliating climbdown on tomorrow’s “Morning Joe” and a sheepish “upon further review” featurette published on Time.com. Internet-only for that, of course.
Update: Perspective from the Freepers.
Update: I don’t how or why Halperin’s piece started circulating on blogs yesterday but it looks like the grade was actually part of Time’s “First 100 Days” package. I was fooled by the date on the upper right, which I thought was the date of publication but actually turns out to be today’s date. No idea why he would have earned an A- by May either, but it was more defensible at the time than it was before the long slide towards 10 percent unemployment and the ObamaCare meltdown. Sorry for the error.
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Any reasonable person would think so.
This world is mad
CWforFreedom on October 9, 2009 at 6:33 AM
Sadly O’s actions will cost far more lives and freedoms into the future than one can even imagine.
CWforFreedom on October 9, 2009 at 6:34 AM
Time is nothing more than pure propaganda for the communists.
dogsoldier on October 9, 2009 at 6:36 AM
I can’t wait until everyone wakes up and HotAir is going to explode! What a )$&*&^(^$ joke!
Can you imagine when they woke him up this morning. Mr. President the Taliban is still killing our troops, terrorists continue to build bombs in Denver to blow up New York and oh yeah, you just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 6:41 AM
Can we be assured that CNN will fact check this story????
turbeda on October 9, 2009 at 6:43 AM
let me see:
lying 101 A+
Economics 101 F
Foreign Relations D-
Military command F
I think that it is really a fail
maggieo on October 9, 2009 at 6:46 AM
This is so bizarre. The press sucks up to him, the Nobel Prize people give him an award..and yet look at what is actually going on in the world.
There is no peace, or prosperity, or even calm.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:49 AM
That time gives Obama an A- for his Presidency tells you that the people at Time are left wing idiots.
The the Nobel Peace Prize people gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize tells you that they are left wing idiots.
We are going to see what will be the disastrous consequences of the Obama Presidency soon enough.
Phil Byler on October 9, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Re maggieo on October 9, 2009 at 6:46 AM:
Why the D- instead of an F in Foreign Relations?
Phil Byler on October 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM
What has that idiot done to deserve getting the Nobel Peace prize?
His actions are likely to bring chaos into the world….not peace…. his inaction is causing distress amongst the military in Afghanistan. His non-actions have given Iran the green light, and his support of Zeleya is disgusting.
maggieo on October 9, 2009 at 6:54 AM
He gets a D- because of all of the screw ups and the dithering. He gets a D- because he turned his back on the Iranian people and has supported the illegitimate regime of Dinnerjacket…. I could go on from there but there are just too many reasons. In fact the score should be an F.
maggieo on October 9, 2009 at 6:56 AM
Lets Review
He cut funding to the DC charter schools programming, forcing hundreds of poor, minority children into run-down, violence-ridden public schools in order to placate the teachers’ unions.
He’s pushing through a massive socialistic health care plan that will ruin the private insurance industry in this country.
He wants to levy a massive energy tax on all Americans so he can enrich his friends through a massive carbon credit trading scheme.
He’s restoring funding to ACORN (and giving them money intended for homeland security) to their criminal enterprise afloat.
He cut off funding to a human right watchdog organization in Iran to provide cover for a regime that hangs homosexuals and sentence pro-democracy demonstrators to death (when they’re not busy gunning them down in the streets).
He’s in the process of ceding a big chunk of Afghanistan over to the Taliban so they can once again have a place to call their own where they can beat the living daylights out of women in the streets.
A-minus??? Are you kidding me???
B+, maybe.
Bruce in NH on October 9, 2009 at 7:01 AM
LOL, ok it’s 7:00 am and I just turned on Morning Joe just to see if they had this douche on the show and what is the first thing I hear?
Joe saying “…people who like the President hate me right now…”
Mika: “No that’s not true, they just disagree.”
Joe: “…people who like Rush Limbaugh hate me right now.”
Mika: “OK that’s true *cackle*”
And on the ticker at the bottom of the screen it reads, “New jobless claims fall to 521,000, this is the lowest it’s been since January”. The White House couldn’t spin it any better.
I like Joe Scarborough but I can’t watch this show. It’s like bizarro world.
Daemonocracy on October 9, 2009 at 7:05 AM
Time is part of the Government Run Media, so the surprise in these grades are?
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 7:06 AM
It’s so much more an assault on freedom that an assault on insurers. Just like the car dealers, the insurers who have donated to the “right” people will do great.
Beto Ochoa on October 9, 2009 at 7:06 AM
Remember, TIME is the same magazine that once named a certain A. Hitler their Man of the Year.
I wonder how the writer of the Time article was able to type with his head buried so far up Obama’s rear end? Someone needs to contact the Guinness Book of World Records.
bradley11 on October 9, 2009 at 7:07 AM
OH, and before I could change the channel, apparently Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA…KILL ME.
I guess that A- won’t need backtracking huh?
Daemonocracy on October 9, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Women generally are the power behind the Democrats. Who said women were logical.
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 7:08 AM
I guess this means that the tax payers are going to have to pony up the bucks needed to widen the doors at the White House, so that Dear Leader’s will be able to walk through them with that over inflated ego of his.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on October 9, 2009 at 7:08 AM
So, Time give Obama an A- for his actions to date as President.
Question, what kind of grade would Stalin of given Obama as President and turning us intro a Communist country? A+
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 7:14 AM
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Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 7:14 AM
The filthy lying coward won the Nobel Peace Prize. The deadline for nominations was one week after the rat bastard traitor took office. Please, somebody, explain to me what the bastard did in that week (or since then for that matter) to justify getting this recognition?
highhopes on October 9, 2009 at 7:15 AM
On Morning Joe, this morning, except for Mika (has she had some work done?), the consensus seems to be that this isn’t a good thing for Obama–in short, it creates too many expectations. Even Chuck Todd is predicting that Obama will try to get out from underneath this in some way, though I suppose he’ll figure out a way to pocket the $1M.
I’m wondering whether these fricking Europeans are trying to back Obama into to further neutering the country.
BuckeyeSam on October 9, 2009 at 7:15 AM
Have the pundits picked up on the irony of awarding a peace prize to the rat bastard traitor in the midst of discussing sending more troops into Afghanistan?
highhopes on October 9, 2009 at 7:16 AM
BINGO!!!!!
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 7:24 AM
We’re still occupying 2 muslim countries and dropping bombs on a third… but everything’s different now. Hence the prize!
Chuck Schick on October 9, 2009 at 7:24 AM
Beer summit and ending the white house war on flies, rarely has their been a more deserving candidate.
Oh, he also picked a dog. Moon shot is coming up.
koolbrease on October 9, 2009 at 7:28 AM
The illustrious Jimmah Cahtuh was a previous winner. Seems Nobel has a real knack for picking the best… /dripping with sarc
Crusader Rabbit on October 9, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Wow, an A- for a presidency that has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond expanding our national debt to unsustainable levels, and a Nobel Peace Prize just for breathing air.
Talk about Affirmative Action on steroids.
AZCoyote on October 9, 2009 at 7:36 AM
those noble actions deserve the prize….
cmsinaz on October 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM
the man was in office 2 weeks when the applications were due….it’s truly sad that they hate W that much to give this POS a prize…but hey he’s up there with Yassar now so I guess it is warranted….
cmsinaz on October 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM
I know your tempted, but don’t throw away that copy of Time Magazine. Some day it will be valuable. When the Green police make it illegal to buy toilet paper you’ll be glad you have that copy of Time (though the glossy paper could be a problem).
Ordinary American on October 9, 2009 at 7:59 AM
TIME, don’t forget, has featured the Obamas on 26 (!) of its covers so far…
Track-A-'Crat on October 9, 2009 at 8:05 AM
As for the Nobel Peace Prize, it is important to realize that the “logical” thought processes of liberals differ significantly from conservatives.
When you realize that Obama is joining the ranks of such illustrious names as Jimmy Carter and Al Gore who were also awarded the “prize”, it is perhaps easier to understand how this could happen.
Another illustration that may make this easier to comprehend — I have a female Golden Retriever who is the beta female to end all beta females. Whenever she meets another dog her first reaction is to drop to the ground, roll over on her back and expose her throat to the other dog. In dog language that means, “I come in peace. I’m not looking for trouble. I surrender and submit to your authority.” One could easily argue that by these actions she is promoting “peace” (to date no dog has ripped her throat out).
Viewed through the window of the above illustration, can you think of anyone who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than the One?
Ordinary American on October 9, 2009 at 8:10 AM
When he holds his dead up like that,,, just kinda reminds me of someone else who did that same thing.
http://www.psywarrior.com/mussolini2.jpg
and here,
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mussolini.jpg
and here,
http://elcampeador.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mussolini.jpg
JellyToast on October 9, 2009 at 8:13 AM
My proof reading just stinks!!
JellyToast on October 9, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Why can’t this smarty pants from Harvard get a plan to turn this economy around. This will only add to his arrogance and his ignorance. He is so stupid he is dangerous. The Nobel peace committee knows that the more you stir sh*t the more it stinks.
bluegrass on October 9, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Yet another example of the problems with the education system…everyone grades on a curve.
Yellowdog12 on October 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Much like the public school system. The grading reflects the main worry of today’s teachers. Keep the students esteem up even if he’s failed.
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Musta used “inner city” grading policies.
Alden Pyle on October 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM
I can only imagine what he’d have to do to get a B.
TimBuk3 on October 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Who gives a rat’s backside what that left wing, sewer trap magazines thinks?
rplat on October 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM
All the kids on the “short bus” got a fake “A” grade of some kind.
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM
The Apocolypse has officially begun. Either that or I’m standing on the ceiling in my upside down universe….
adamsmith on October 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Time has a red cover for a reason.
chicken thief on October 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM
General McChrystal: Where are my troops, Mr. President???
As in Van Jones? By the way, has Tim Geithner any aides yet?
He delegated ObamaCare to Pelosi and Reid, then he “engaged” them in a speech before a joint session of Congress, and it’s still mass chaos, four months later.
He’s “Man of the Year”, whistling with his head held high, sinking into quicksand he never saw.
Steve Z on October 9, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Good illustration–I have a male Golden Retriever that does the same thing, which I call “Omega Dog”. Although he’d probably high-tail it out of there if he met a Doberman or a pit bull.
The problem with Obama is that, on the international scene, he can’t tell the Golden Retrievers from the Dobermans, and will likely get his throat ripped out as he contemplates his glory on high.
Steve Z on October 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM
The A- for Time Magazine and the Nobel Peace Prize should come as no surprise. The State run media has been Barry’s willing accomplice since his election campaign. They have ignored his gaffes like visiting 57 states and not being able to speak Austrian (I don’t think he can speak German either but I bet he can speak Arabic since he studied Islam and the Koran in Indonesia and who knows where else). The press willingly covers the sycophant town hall meetings that The One attends as well as his Potemkin Village moments such as the pro socialized medicine doctors in white coats in the Rose Garden or the handpicked adoring troops all with the same brand of camera during his “courageous “visit to Iraq. Taken individually, these things may not mean much to some people and nothing to the Obama Kool-Aid drinkers. But together, this string of sickening propaganda and fawning by the media take this country to the point where perception does become reality and in the end is the Nobel Prize.
The real reason the America-hating committee awarded The One The Prize is to “honor” him for running around the world trashing and apologizing for the American people and our “arrogant” nation. He also received the award for coddling America’s enemies while distancing himself and our nation from our trusted allies. He also received the award for his efforts to systematically destroy our nation from the inside out. He is getting the award for his attempts to dismantle our system of government, destroy capitalism, and weaken our defenses to make us vulnerable from internal and external threats. Putting all that aside, the number one reason for the committee selecting Barry was his premeditated assault to weaken the U.S. Dollar to a point that it will no longer be the world standard currency – especially if OPEC decides to go off the dollar in favor of a basket of “world currencies” which would be an unmitigated disaster with our dependence on foreign oil and the lack of readily available miracle “green” alternatives. The sickening part about this move is that neither Obama, Geitner, nor the Treasury Department is doing anything so shore up the dollar or fight for the dollar. So now Obama gets to go back to Scandinavia and pick up an award in Norway after losing the Olympics in Denmark. In many ways, with his lack of accomplishments, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize may be an even bigger embarrassment for Barry.
By the way, anyone can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. When Clinton was whoring for the award, Rush Limbaugh joked how even he was nominated for the prize. Now that Barry has won it, perhaps there is hope for these two nominees. At least Rush should have a shot at it!
globalmagnetic on October 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM
We’ve gone down a bunny hole in the universe.
There is no other explanation.
PoodleSkirt on October 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM
since we can’t see the old-old grades, then we just have to recycle the “old” grades. there are no new grades yet, ed. Didn’t you see the SNL skit last week, he hasn’t handed in any assignments.
ted c on October 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM
IT’S A MADHOUSE!!!!!
Percy_Peabody on October 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Never trust the Norweigans… ;-P
JohnBG on October 9, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Uh…the beer summit was clearly damage control. It’s not a legal entry on the “got’er done” side of the list.
BobMbx on October 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Not at all. All of this, and all of you too, is just a part of an incredibly lucid dream I’m having.
I know that in few hours, I’ll awake, get up and get dressed as I have done for many years. Only this morning, I’ll drive over to the high school, and cast my vote for Palin.
You guys can’t scare me. I know it’s just a dream…just a dream…..
BobMbx on October 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM
I saw him throw the first pitch at the all star game…. the cy young award is being bestowed on him tomorrow.
Ray V. on October 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM
if all the evils foist upon us and others by Bozo were not enough, he also is working hard to ruin one of our favorite sports: Fishing.
http://fish.shimano.com/publish/content/global_fish/en/us/index/articles/feds_to_60_million.html
They plan to put all fishing under direct White House control:
Bozo is out to systematically dismantle every aspect of our culture.
dogsoldier on October 10, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I like Joe Scarborough but I can’t watch this show. It’s like bizarro world.
Daemonocracy on October 9, 2009 at 7:05 AM
You LIKE Joe? I can’t manage that. Lord knows I’ve tried. No volume. No picture. No volume and no picture worked best but I still can’t stand a conservative who who aims his sharpest barbs at members of the right wing. MSNBC needs one of the bloggers around here in such a position. I nominate seven percent, progressoverpeace, right4life..
I am holding my breath.
IlikedAUH2O on October 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I think Time confused Obama’s Ebay grade with his job performance as President.
Left Coast Right Mind on October 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM
H/T Drudgereport:
Glad to know he has his priorities straight!
Chris_Balsz on October 10, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Time magazine is a bit too slippery to use for regular toilet paper, however its fine in the guest bathroom…I give it a B+
JohnD9207 on October 10, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I’ve seen this liberal ‘PC’ grading scheme before: it’s just pass/fail.
If you hand your assignment in, you get a “+”.
If you DON’T complete your assignment, you get a “-”.
The MSM just misunderstood and thought that the article ‘a’ was part of the grade. They get a ‘-’, too.
landlines on October 11, 2009 at 12:20 AM
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