Obama: measurements that best define his success (or failure)?

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14. I think those are bad measures

1. the economy fell into a hole created by Republicans, we are still slowly climbing out of it

2. what is so great about working full time? Personally, I think I would be better off if I didn't have to. That's why millions of people play powerball, so they can win enough money to tell their boss "take this job and shove it"

3. I never trusted median as a measure. For example, if a person is making 1/2 of the median wage and the median goes up by 4% in real terms, that doesn't necessarily do a thing for him/her. Their wage does not necessarily follow the median. A rising median does not life all boats, it only means those in the 45th to 55th percentiles are moving up.


I judge the President more on effort than results. Is he, for example, fighting for the bottom 60%. Trying to pass proposals that will benefit us? Is he fighting RightWing talking points, or is he spreading them?

In both of those, I judge him to be an absolute failure. Not because of results, but because of effort.

This Republican house will not even pass a rightwing jobs bill, much less anything progressive, but it would be better if Obama at least proposed a progressive jobs bill and failed to pass it than proposing a rightwing jobs bill and succeeding in passing it.