Obama's confidence-rating: High, steady

I'm one of those who thinks Obama will be a good President. I hope he'll be able to calm some of the partisan divisions in the country and help to bring about some decent healing race dialogues. HOWEVER. He isn't President yet, and it seems premature to evaluate his performance as President (in essence what this poll is doing) before he's in office. Might we possibly wait until April or May before throwing this kind of story out for comment?

Obama has high ratings because he occupies the territory between the left and the right. In historical terms, moderation always wins. Center Left or Center Right are both areas of complimentary solutions. ...........

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/29/governing-from-center-left-or-center-right/

I hope he'll be able to be a good President. For the sake of this country, I hope he'll be a great President. I can't understand people who wish him ill, presumably just to win a pissing contest. Do they really hate their country so much they are willing to wish bad things on a President, and as a result their country, simply because they personally don't care for him? Scary.

Interesting with his CHANGE and CHANGE NOW --CHANGING-

I agree with Op109.

We should all give Obama a chance to prove himself.

Judgement of his performance should come after he has been doing the job awhile as it is impossible to tell what will happen in the future.

One good sign - the stock market rocketed upwards by 620 points after Obama appointed Geithner for Treasury Secretary. It would appear that Obama is doing something right to inspire the markets in such a positive way.

I just came out with a poll yesterday too. It said 65% feel barack is unfit to be president. 35% think he is fit.

When will americans stop believing in these fake polls?? You are being manipulated

President-elect Obama has done more for this country and it's image by getting elected than Bush, Cheney and the Republican party did in all of the last eight years.

For the last two decades, the Republicans have steadily purged themselves of all moderates, of anyone who did not toe the party line, of anyone who did not support the party leaders with every fiber of their being. Under leaders like DeLay and a dozen other of the top far-right powerbrokers, apostasy was ruthlessly punished. Moderates were primaried out, the religiously or socially tolerant were excoriated, the legislatively balanced were forced from their positions -- all in service to a supposed permanent ideological governance, one that valued ideological purity over all else. Over knowledge, over experience, over common sense, over the very fabric of the law -- the ideology of hard-right conservatism trumped it all. Toe the line, and you were granted jobs in the administration, or positions of leadership in Iraq, or plum committee assignments. Voice disapproval -- you were nothing. You woke up the next morning to a White House Press Secretary declaring that you were a disgruntled brat, one with emotional or mental impairments that were responsible for your pitiable desertion.

After twenty years of purging, all the Republicans have left is that hard-right extreme. They shoved everyone else out willingly: it seems hardly surprising that now, faced with the fruits of it all, they are finding that all constituencies of the nation that they sought to condemn, belittle or purge are no longer interested in supporting them now.

As far as I'm concerned the last thirty years have proven modern conservatism to be not just ill conceived, but paranoid, divisive, willfully incompetent, obtusely premised, and in sum utterly valueless to the nation -- a waste of political oxygen. Something to be burned at the stake, and the ashes scattered, never to be heard from again.

But I expect they will, in the next years, at least try to retool their party into one that at least pretends to be more tolerant of, well, anyone not fully immersed in the notion that Ayn Rand and James Dobson rule the universe. The coming bloodshed between the two factions -- conservative true believers who can look at the last eight years and see absolutely nothing worth doing differently, nothing but a smashing but sadly misunderstood success, versus those that truly wish to temper the party in an effort to regain at least some semblance of their former power -- will, no doubt, be a glorious thing to behold.

A few years ago, Republican strategists were crowing about a new "permanent Republican majority". As of 2009, Republicans are a regional party (the South) with a narrowly defined ideology and abysmal support among the next generations of voters.

And all it took was, you know, Republicans screwing up on every conceivable level, dragging the nation into botched war efforts, corruption in the Department of Justice, and the possible collapse of our entire financial system.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDc_EEDKaQ
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Go Barack !

"Perhaps it is the alacrity with which President-elect Barack Obama has set about assembling a Cabinet and army of advisers - an economic team named this week, defense coming next week.

Or perhaps it is the expertise of the nominees..."

Or perhaps it is the wall-to-wall adulation the in-the-tank media has been broadcasting.....

What is wrong with you media people? Have you no shame?

Inky only knows one word; so boring; why not "change" Inky. Show your intelligence and creativity.
Change will occur on Jan. 20.

If a majority of Americans voted for him, it would make sense that an even larger majority would have confidence in his ability to be a good president. It's rather like buying a new device of some kind online and then being asked, before it arrives at your home, whether you think it is what you wanted or not. To give a real answer, you have to wait to see if you actually receive what you thought you were buying. It's the same in this case: Before anyone can really give an honest answer to this poll, they have to see Obama do more than talk and posture. Essentially, he's still in campaign mode. He's not made a single decision that really affects anyone yet.

"I just came out with a poll yesterday too. It said 65% feel barack is unfit to be president. 35% think he is fit."

Can you give us a source? Or is this something you dreamt? Go on wishing!

Mort, Inky is obviously a pug. Pugs do not need logic; Pugs do not need facts; Pugs do not need numbers; Pugs do not need science….all they need is faith. This would be why we have never seen more than one sentence from his posts. I used to think like that when I was his age too (used to be a pug back then too for that matter)……have all of these “smart” answers but no facts to back them up. Once I did my homework on subjects, I quickly changed parties and ate crow pie for a while. If I had a nickel for every Inky reply that the SWAMP has blocked of mine......

Yes, go Baravk.
But mindless cheerleading, absent relevant critiquevdoes NOONE any good,
Listen to Nov 25th Amy Good,an, please.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/25/stephen
_pimpare_on_a_peoples_history

I'm really surprised that his rating is so high. He's already changed his position on several key issues. In fact he's calling for quite a few things that President Bush and Sen. John McCain were backing. And look at his Cabinet looks a lot like Clinton redux. So much for change. The people who voted for him have been hoodwinked again.