Thursday, January 21, 2010
Presidential Politics / Woods Vanderbilt Eggheads Grade the President
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM
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Up in the Ivory Tower at Vanderbilt, they're willing to cut Barack Obama slack after his first year as president. The university's presidential experts give their analysis here, and none offers any real criticism.
Presidential historian Thomas Alan Schwartz gives Obama an "incomplete" on foreign policy:
The key to assessing the Obama record will be whether his policy of multilateralism and international engagement, in particular his attempts to encourage the cooperation of Russia and China, as well as his decision to attempt a military "surge" in Afghanistan, begin to yield tangible results.Political scientist John Geer says Obama's lowered public approval rating isn't unusual for year one of presidency. He suggests Republicans will nominate a nutjob for president in 2012 and all but predicts Obama's reelection:
History suggests that the party out of power selects a candidate who is more extreme and that can give an advantage to the incumbent.
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Well, we have seen this one before:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/hitler-finds-out-scott-br_n_429843.html
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on January 21, 2010 at 5:46 PM
