Here’s your chance to grade the President — A. B. C, D, or F — just like a professor! How well do you think he has handled ten major policy areas during his first year in office?

Take the poll yourself and when you submit your grading of how he is handling the top issues, a second page will come up showing you the current results of how America is voting. Right now, he has mostly failing grades.

This is very telling, because this in NOT a Fox News poll. It is being conducted by CBS and most of the respondents are CBS viewers or readers!

First, it’s hard to believe that CBS is actually doing this. Second, they’re brave, and honest enough to actualy show the ongoing polling results.

Here is your chance. Everyone should get a shot at this. The poll takes all of fifteen seconds and only that long if you take time to look at his current stats.

Grade Obama’s First Year in Office

Note: The poll has been running since January 19, and who knows when it may get pulled, so we’ll archive the current tallies here:

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The Economy

A:
2.66%
B:
3.35%
C:
5.23%
D:
18.95%
F:
69.81%

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Foreign Policy

A:
4.22%
B:
3.47%
C:
8.23%
D:
23.65%
F:
60.43%

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Health Care

A:
2.98%
B:
2.48%
C:
3.37%
D:
9.32%
F:
81.85%

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Afghanistan

A:
4.17%
B:
14.50%
C:
27.97%
D:
23.15%
F:
30.21%

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Iraq

A:
4.13%
B:
10.19%
C:
26.92%
D:
24.34%
F:
34.42%

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Threat of Terrorism

A:
4.04%
B:
4.02%
C:
9.08%
D:
21.86%
F:
61.00%

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Energy and the Environment

A:
3.47%
B:
4.33%
C:
12.41%
D:
21.83%
F:
57.96%

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Social Issues

A:
3.97%
B:
4.10%
C:
12.57%
D:
21.02%
F:
58.34%

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Bipartisanship

A:
3.97%
B:
2.55%
C:
4.36%
D:
9.82%
F:
79.30%

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Obama’s Overall Job as President

A:
3.30%
B:
3.30%
C:
4.30%
D:
25.49%
F:
63.62%

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And lest you think that CBS has lost its pro-Obama bias, here’s the news story headline just below the poll — Poll: Obama Ends First Year with 50% Approval Rating

Attention Brits! You have 14 days to stop this sneak attack. I don’t recall hearing anything about this and don’t believe that anyone advocating it would stand a Snowflake in Hell’s chance of being elected to any local council let alone Parliament (UK or EU). We have 14 days to stop it. Write, Telephone and Email your MP, EMP, Local Council and the Leaders of the Political Parties that we have not seen this on ANY Election Manifesto and please inform us when Democracy was terminated in the United Kingdom.

Al Gore’s Great Climate Scam has been stopped dead by the Climategate hack (and the weather). It’s up to us to stop the next generation being the Vassals of a Corrupt Superstate.

The first clue is an unremarkable news item on ANSAmed — MED UNION: JORDANIAN MASADEH APPOINTED AS SECRETARY:

BRUSSELS, JANUARY 12 – Ahmad Khalaf Masadeh, Jordanian ambassador to Brussels, has today been appointed as secretary general of the Mediterranean Union. The decision, report diplomatic sources, has just been made by acclamation during the meeting of high-ranking officials of the Mediterranean Union underway in the Belgian capital. A statement will be circulated tomorrow amongst the 42 Foreign ministers of the countries which make up the Mediterranean Union, with any comments to be made within 15 days. With the exception of surprise opposition, today’s appointment will be definitively approved by a process of tacit consent. “Today we have made history,” commented Masadeh, present at the meeting. The appointment of the secretary general, whose HQ will be in Barcelona, will allow for the preparation of a second Mediterranean Union summit, scheduled for June in the Catalan city, in the framework of Spanish presidency of the European Union.

Translation: If the people don’t find out and stop us, we can get away with this.

You MUST read this from EuropeNews! — Here comes EuroMed: 14 days left to protest!:

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, also known as EuroMed, has been pretty much under the radar for 15 years. When it caused some public discussion in 2007, it was renamed “Union for the Mediterranean”, and quietly permitted to proceed. Not much was heard of it, but now EuropeNews has the scoop: It is being established now – and we have a window of merely 14 days to protest it.

The news is tucked away in this discreet ANSAmed news item….

It is remarkable that an ambassador of a non-democratic nation has been appointed to head the Union. Now, it should not be assumed that the European Union, run by a non-elected Commission and having a non-elected President, should care too much about such details.

But since the 16 non-EU states of the Mediterranean Union does include decent democracies (Israel, Croatia) as well as more dubious ones (Albania, Bosnia, Turkey), it would seem appropriate to appoint a representative from a democratic country to head the Union….

There we have it – full stealth mode. Unless someone protests loudly, this will proceed. Now, in order to field a reasonable protest, one needs to know what goes on, and politicians in democracies need to know if they have public support for the protest or not. Since neither of these are the case, no protests can be expected, and the project will continue.

Further, ‘making history’ through ‘tacit consent’ is not an honorable way to run things in a democracy. Either you have democracy, Rule by the People, where all major decisions are based on public, not tacit, consent. Alternatively, you should give up the pretense of democracy and declare EU to be the Oligarchy it truly is. That would at least be honest….

Crusading journalist Pamela Geller spells out the danger in an interview reported in FrontPage Magazine:

FP: Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.

I would like to talk to you today about a mass Muslim immigration plan that is going into the works in Europe and not too many people know about it. Can you enlighten us please?

Geller: Thanks, Jamie.

The disastrous and suicidal pact called the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership is in the process of going into effect, with little fanfare or examination. It boggles the mind that such a consequential and seismic cultural shift could be mandated and put into play without so much as a murmur from the mainstream media….

The goal of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation is to create a new Greater European Union encompassing both Europe and North Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea becoming a domestic Eurabian sea. The goal is to establish a “comprehensive political partnership,” including a “free trade area and economic integration”; “considerably more money for the partners” (that is, more European money flowing into North Africa); and “cultural partnership” — that is, importation of Islamic culture into post-Christian Europe….

….this agenda is being pushed at the highest levels of the European Union. The official EuroMed Partnership website says it’s an initiative of “the EU and its southern neighbors.” And it’s huge in scope. Recently in Brussels there was a summit meeting of trade ministers from 43 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean. And it’s being done secretly because the European governing elites know the people of Europe wouldn’t go along if they knew what was happening….

Americans need to take heed and block this disaster as well. Barack Obama is trying to accomplish the same destruction of national identity in the United States.

Obama is plunging the United States deeper into debt with China through reckless spending. He is preventing us from ending our dependence on foreign oil by opposing offshore drilling, ostensibly on environmental grounds.

Now he is using $2 billion of your taxpayer dollars to support Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras in drilling for oil off the shores of Rio De Janeiro. The funding will take the form of loan guarantees from the US Export-Import Bank.

FOXNews notes the discrepancy:

Some see a contradiction in an executive branch agency … facilitating abroad the very kind of energy exploration Obama opposes domestically.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday he wasn’t prepared to address the issue.

“I have not seen the story,” he said. “I’d have to take a look.”

But former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a vocal proponent of offshore drilling, had plenty to say.

“So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than $2 billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation’s state-owned oil company, Petrobas, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources?” she asked….

And here’s the kicker. Where do you think all this newly developed oil will be going? To China. Plans were finalized last May, according to this article in China Daily:

Petrobras to increase oil exports to China
2009-05-20

A long-term export agreement was also signed Tuesday between Petrobras and UNIPEC ASIA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), Asia’s largest refiner by output.

It provides that Petrobras export 150,000 barrels of oil per day to China starting from 2009 and 200,000 barrels of oil per day from 2010 to 2019….

Apart from the agreement, Petrobras and Sinopec signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which the two sides would cooperate in several areas such as exploration, refining, petrochemicals and the supply of related goods and services, said Petrobras.

Sinopec announced in February that it has signed a contract with Petrobras to import 3 million to 5 million tons of crude oil from the latter from February 2009 to January 2010 at market price.

Also in February, Sinopec and CDB signed an MOU with Petrobras regarding cooperation in the fields of oil and finance.

According to the memorandum, the annual trade volume between Sinopec and Petrobras will be raised from 3 million tons in 2008 to between 10 million to 12.5 million tons before the end of 2010. Their future oil trading volume will reach 30 million tons.

It gets even worse, as far as the Obama “smell test” goes. According to Bloomberg, Obama puppet-master George Soros bought a hefty stake in Petrobras before the announcement:

Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund’s largest holding.

As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 percent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management LLC, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

It is becoming abundantly clear that Obama is focused on a (likely Marxist) new world order, and does not have the best interests of the United States at heart. His gaze is fixed firmly into the future post-American world:

(October 18th, 2008) Although the mainstream media have been careful to mask Obama’s real agenda, it is clear that the Zakaria model is the way that he sees the world. If elected president, we could expect him to disarm the citizens, move our sovereign nation increasingly under the control of the United Nations, and “spread the wealth around” by diluting our hard-earned way of life to help bring up the third world.

The liberal press fawned over candidate Obama, a man with no relevant experience.  He’s an ameteur, they suddenly realize now.  And it is coming from all sides.

The leading liberal rag, the New York Times, notes his foreign policy failures in an article stingingly titled Diplomacy 101:

We were thrilled when President Obama decided to plunge fully into the Middle East peace effort. He appointed a skilled special envoy, George Mitchell…. Nine months later, the president’s promising peace initiative has unraveled.

Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board….

The leading liberal mag, Newsweek, also notes Obama’s inadequacies:

Is Obama Keeping His Promises?

….The thinking inside the new administration, according to a former State Department official, was that George W. Bush had botched things and the new team, guided by Obama’s pro-engagement approach, could fix them.

Well, not only are things not getting fixed, they may be getting more broken. What was justly considered Bush’s mess in all these places is rapidly becoming Obama’s mess. In the Mideast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have outmaneuvered Obama, forcing him to retreat publicly from a call to freeze settlements. Iran has so completely spurned Obama that the president’s careful and patient call for diplomacy and avoidance of sanctions is beginning to look like appeasement. And in Afghanistan, while a decision on troop deployments appears imminent, the public display of mixed signals by senior military and U.S. officials over many months has created a dangerous power vacuum, further undermining America’s already low credibility….

Writing at the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan refers to Obama as, “An icon of a White House that is coming to seem amateurish.”

Democratic sympathizer and opinion journalist Elizabeth Drew writes at Politico:

A critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man. Most significant, these doubters now find themselves with a new reluctance to defend Obama at a phase of his presidency when he needs defenders more urgently than ever…. …embarrassment gives these people a new reason … to conclude that he wasn’t the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought….

OUCH!!!

Then there is Leslie Gelb, the primo liberal spokesperson as president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. Writing for the Daily Beast, he calls the Obama presidency “Amateur Hour at the White House.”

….the … limited value per day of presidential effort suggests a disturbing amateurishness in managing America’s power.

Gelb goes on to describe Obama as “clumsy” and “fumbling.”

WHEW!!!

Well, now that the leading liberal journalists and opinion-shapers have finally seen the light, perhaps it will be considered allowable for the lock-step Obama-sycophant press to describe his clay feet.  However ideologically liberal, journalists are still basically sharks at heart, and now there is blood in the water.  We shall see.

Related:

Hot Air — Obama’s an ameteur

Commentary Magazine — Obama’s Amateur-Hour Road Show

A disarmament crusade is not merely “naïve,” it’s a waste of valuable diplomatic energy, chided French President Nicolas Sarkozy following Brother O’s praise for the United Nations Security Council’s resolution calling for a world without nuclear weapons.

“We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions,” Sarkozy said.

American newspapers saw fit to blackout Sarkozy’s mockery of their president’s “naïveté regarding the realities of nuclear technology.” 

Brother O lauded the agreement as a major step in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and beginning multilateral disarmament:

“We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.”

Sarkozy saw fit to address Brother O’s obvious myopia and point out the glaring difference between the forest and the trees:  

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons . . . but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite. Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.

[W]hat good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state [Israel] off the map.”

Sarkozy concluded his derisive remarks with a call for sanctions:

“If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons.”

Although America’s newspapers chose not to inform the American people of the clash between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy, at least they have been spared from listening to another racism/right-wing conspiracy screed from former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

Go “hope and change”! Go ahead and stab our allies (with troops in Afghanistan) in the back!

Pres BO made a bad decision. He reversed Pres Bush’s decision to put missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic.

What’s wrong with this decision? First, we are exposing Poland and others to Russian expansionism. Second, there is no evidence that we got anything from Russia, such as more support in shutting down Iran’s nuclear program. Third, there are may Dems who don’t get it either. Read Bipartisan Senate concern over Obama decision on missile defense. Fourth, it looks like Putin manhandled BO — Russia’s Putin says U.S. shield decision positive.

We agree with today’s WSJ editorial:

“The European switcheroo continues Mr. Obama’s trend of courting adversaries while smacking allies.

His Administration has sought warmer ties with Iran, Burma, North Korea, Russia and even Venezuela.

But it has picked trade fights with Canada and Mexico, sat on trade treaties with Colombia and South Korea, battled Israel over West Bank settlements, ignored Japan in deciding to talk with North Korea, and sanctioned Honduras for its sin of resisting the encroachments of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.”

We agree with the National Review:

“President Obama knows how to put a smile on faces in Tehran and Moscow: This morning, he announced the abandonment of plans to develop a small missile-defense system in Eastern Europe.”

We like this from Bill Katz:

“Have you noticed that only four groups have benefited from Obama’s foreign policy? They are Russians, North Koreans, Latin American reds, and Iranian mullahs.

Think about it.”

We agree with The Economist from the UK:

“MAYBE some jam tomorrow, but none today.

That is the American message to its most stalwart allies in the ex-communist world as Barack Obama’s administration shelves plans to deploy ten interceptor rockets in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic.’

The timing of the announcement is poor, coming on September 17th, the anniversary of the Soviet attack on Poland in 1939.’

In a country highly tuned to symbolic snubs, it matters that nobody in Washington seemed to know or care about that.”

Ironically, Pres BO is going to need countries like Poland and the Czech Republic to help us in Afghanistan. Wonder what the Poles or Czechs will say when “hope and change” calls for more support in Afghanistan?

Again, we don’t get BO’s foreign policy. We don’t get why “hope and change” is so eager to talk to Iran and North Korea but won’t release The Merida Plan funds because of investigations over “human rights violations” by the Mexican military.

We don’t understand why “hope and change” hugs Chavez and declares a diplomatic war against Honduras. It’s BO’s world and the bad guys are the only ones cheering these days!

Sooner or later, the “chickens of appeasement and beating up our allies” will come home to roost!

It is entirely in keeping with his communist heritage, philosophy and preferences that this despicable, destructive, miserable excuse for a non-President who today uses the alias Barack Obama, should side with Chavez and Castro against tiny Honduras.

Many other Latin-American countries have been manipulated, pressured and subverted by the OAS, the Leftist press, and two-faced American diplomats into allowing communists to take over, with disastrous consequences for their people and the region.

Honduras had the foresight and singular courage to get rid of Zelaya and his thugs before they had time to become irretrievably entrenched. It was a wise move, and entirely legal – not a coup.

I have heard from American military personnel serving in Venezuela about friends in the Venezuelan military that have simply disappeared. Chavez is quietly murdering regime opponents while he nationalizes businesses and consolidates power. Similar things are happening in Bolivia and doubtless in Equador.

But this is no surprise. It is doctrine for communist leaders to murder their opponents as soon as is practicable. Only then can they engage in the kind of unchallenged power grabs we have seen, for example, in Venezuela.

Surprisingly though, there are no Washington Post exposés, no breathless reporting from Anderson Cooper’s 360, no interviews with regime victims on Larry King Live. Somehow all those storied “investigative journalists” in the U.S. media keep missing the scoops. Instead, they lambast Honduras for resorting to what can only be described as a last-ditch effort at survival.

And our hapless “President” who last week wouldn’t touch Iran’s brutal oppression, suddenly finds the voice to demand “Justice” for Honduras’s thug, Zelaya?

Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media has posted a great article on the AIM website describing how Hondurans feel about their betrayal by America. A worthwhile read.

In the meantime, this might be the time to call and/or write your Senator/Congressman and ask them to defy our anti-American President and his Leftist press lapdogs by showing support for this Democratic ally that is trying to save itself from the despots.

Love and popularity are good for the ego but bad for national security! The Pres BO tour is over and he got nothing. Yes, he got of love and adulation. Unfortunately, he came back with zero troops and not much support for his economic policies.

Charles Krauthammer wrote a column that should be read by everyone, and specially the “yes we can” screamers. Check it out — It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President:

Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas.

With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.

And what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own country?

He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan to match the surge of 17,000 Americans.

He was rudely rebuffed.

He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe.

He got nothing.

France will take 1 prisoner from GITMO. The Euros will send translators to Afghanistan. And North Korea fired a missile a few minutes before Pres BO gave a speech on nuclear weapons. Is this love?

I would rather have a president that everybody hates. At least, he will defend my family and keep our country safe!

P.S. Just curious. The Somali pirates have been operating in the open seas for quite sometime. They did not attack a US-flag ship during the Bush years. They attacked a US-flag ship in the first 75 days of the Obama years.

Is that a coincidence?

We are watching a big bully beat up a helpless country. Frankly, the bully will continue until someone stands up to him. Bullies are bullies, whether they are the schoolyard punk or a fellow named Putin.

Pres. Bush should call for a ceasefire and exhaust all diplomatic options, including kicking Russia out of the G-8.

If Putin keeps going then we need to defend Georgia, along with any other country who can see the big picture. This is tragically a war getting out of control. (Russia Broadens Attack on Georgia)

Bottom line: We can’t allow bullies to push little countries around. It will have consequences on a lot of other small countries that can’t defend themselves!

By the way, have you seen any marches condemning the Russian massacre in Georgia? Where is the international outrage? Where are the students in Paris or Mexico City marching in front of the Russian Embassy?

Bush must stand up to Putin. I think that he will.

I agree with Scott Johnson:

“It’s time for a bold response like the Berlin Airlift.”

In 1948, Truman went against conventional wisdom and saved Berlin.

Again, send a message that the US will not allow a bully to push around a little country!

Is George Bush on a quixotic adventure in the Middle East? Are we damaging the positions of Israel and Jordan? Ruth King of Family Security Matters weighs in:

….I was willing to put on my rosy eyeglasses when President Bush sought to bring defeat and democracy to Iraq because he fought a legitimate war against a monster whose ambitions were deadly. I set aside all other political considerations when confronted with national security and the war against international jihad. He was the only one in a sea of congressional and media appeasers willing to stay the course. I even confess to being slightly soothed by the assurances of those who had friends in high places in the administration that the “Road Map” calling for two states in “Palestine” was just talk and buying time to keep the Arab gutter from exploding while we conducted the war…..

Where is the coherence in this “peace process? How does it advance our strategy in what is properly called World War Four? Harming democratic Israel and an ostensibly stable and relatively pro-western Jordan is not policy. It harms those nations irreparably, paving the way for Arab massacres and weakens bulwarks of defense against growing militant Islam.

It makes all the tough talk about “the war on terror” more like tilting swords at windmills than real policy.

Ms. King provides some historical background to put the danger in perspective. If you have the time, this is an article worth reading.