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In two years, I think it's possible that he's already surpassed Carter in the "Worst President Ever" category.

GORDON wrote:Carter also signed away the Panama Canal.... I can see Obama doing something like that.

Carter's gas pump lines were due to price fixing by the government... also doesn't seem so far fetched for Obama.

Leisher wrote:Obama's homeowner bailout is failing.

A major reason so many have fallen out of the program is the Obama administration initially pressured banks to sign up borrowers without insisting first on proof of their income. When banks later moved to collect the information, many troubled homeowners were disqualified or dropped out.

Consumer advocates had high hopes for Obama's program when it began. But they have since grown disenchanted.

"The foreclosure-prevention program has had minimal impact," said John Taylor, chief executive of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a consumer group. "It's sad that they didn't put the same amount of resources into helping families avoid foreclosure as they did helping banks."

There's only one reason the administration would pressure banks to do that.

Malcolm wrote:

There's only one reason the administration would pressure banks to do that.

I can think of a few.

"Everyone who favors repeal is welcome to come talk to these people and tell them why we should go back to . . . the way things were," he said. "But you're going to need to explain why they and tens of millions of Americans should have their rights taken away."

Leisher wrote:The "transparency" continues.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.

GORDON wrote:Obama: "NASA, I want you to <s>take America to the stars</s> make Muslim nations feel less bad for being so backward."

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....muslims

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

That entire article is filled with sadness.

“After a partisan minority blocked this critical aid to our nation’s families three separate times, the Senate has moved forward on restoring benefits to the 2.5 million Americans whose livelihood has been held hostage by obstruction and game-playing over the past weeks,” said President Obama in a statement after the Senate vote.