Obama Gets an "F" from Black Agenda Report
Bruce A. Dixon at Black Agenda Report, a progressive "journal of African American political thought and action," has graded the first 100 days of Barack Obama's Presidency on 18 general issues...
- Health Care Reform (9 points)
- Creating New Jobs and Preserving Old Ones (5 points)
- Fully Funding and Preserving Public Education (6 points)
- War & Peace (9 points)
- Transportation (5 points)
- Caribbean and Latin America (4 points)
- Obama's Africa Policy; Our Brotherman and the Motherland (5 points)
- Wall Street Bailout (6 points)
- Debt and Foreclosure Crises (6 points)
- Investigating Bush-era Crimes (5 points)
- Criminalizing Immigration, Militarizing the Border (5 points)
- Broadband For Everyone and a Just and Fair Media (5 points)
- Environment (5 points)
- Agricultural Policy, and Policy Toward Black Farmers (5 points)
- Mass imprisonment (5 points)
- Employee Free Choice Act (5 points)
- Urban Policy (5 points)
- Privatization of Government Agencies and Services (5 points)
Obama scored 22.5
This is so far down in the failing scores that the most appropriate letter-grade is probably...
F-
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