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Readers Give President a Performance Evaluation

Obama Performance

Analyst
Treasury
Wed May 13, 2009 9:24 AM

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I can't see anyone rating Obama when he came into office with a host of problems, which consists of bad decisions that were already made by the previous President. He can't clean up this mess overnight, but yet there are so many quick to judge him and they probably say anything when the previous president has been messing for 8 years.

Re: Obama Performance

IT Specialist
DOD
Wed May 13, 2009 12:13 PM
I think you need to keep in mind that Bush only spent 350Billion of the TARP money. Obama could have said we are going down the wrong path. Instead, he spent the other 350 Bilion and added another 800 Billion in Stimulus. Congress added the 410 billion omnumbus bill and is now working on Obamas 3.5 trillion dollar budget bill. You also need to keep in mind that it was Bush and Republicans warning the Democrats that if the housing regulations were not fix, it would lead to economic problems. The Democrats blocked needed reforms and certainly bare a degree of responsibility for the mess we are in. Whatever Bush did or didn't do does not justify the amount of money being printed and spent by this administration. The bill will come due in a few years.

Polling results

Director
Dept of Navy
Wed May 13, 2009 9:25 AM

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Appears the results of this poll is split down the political lines.....democrats and republicans.

Go figure!!!

And why are we doing this at 100 days? Is this a take off the first gulf war? !00 days to liberate Kuwait?

OBAMA OPINION

RETIRED
RETIRED BOP
Wed May 13, 2009 9:25 AM

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Full time Federal employmentgives your readers the luxury option of kicking back and viewing unemployment and this recession with Conservative and ambivalent eyes. They have steady incomes and are keeping food on their tables and the mortgage paid. But the country has been in a mess for quite some time. Federal workers only see it thru their 401 K's. The smart ones just transferred everything to the G or F Funds and left them there. I give Obama credit for trying hard. Defintitely more of a concerted effort than his predecessor who's claim to fame was IRAQ. Remember, this just did not happen over night. And it will take years to undo this mess. Fed workers, Just be thankful you have a good job and quit being so critical!!!

Re: OBAMA OPINION

Federal Worker
DoD
Wed May 13, 2009 1:29 PM
You forget, i'm a taxpayer also. I have every right to be critical of the behaviour and spending habits of this administration. Go back to your Kool-aid.

Re: OBAMA OPINION

Federal Employee
CBP
Wed May 13, 2009 3:27 PM
DoD worker, not all who has a wait and see approach to this administrations decisions drink kool aid. Why is it that if someone expresses a desire to see the outcome of the President's decisions they are belittled (i.e., "go back to your kool aid")?

It was people just like you who was bascially destroyed anyone who expressed a negative opinion of GW during his first TERM (not 100 days) in office. Look at what happened to the Dixie Chicks, just because a member of that group said she was embarrased to be from the same state as GW. Their career was blown out of the water. But now you people have no qualms making judgement after this President has been in office a little over 100 days.

Re: OBAMA OPINION

Federal Worker
DoD
Wed May 13, 2009 3:43 PM
Federal Employee
CBP

I'm an Indie. The response was to the original poster who basically said that I have a federal job so I need to shut up and color. I guess your political bias allows you to be blinded also. Too bad you are caught up in the political spin cycle. Me? I criticize them all when I disagree with them -- Obama, Bush, Clinton......gasp, even my local politicians. I like to think of myself as the equal opportunity AH. Don't forget the sugar.

President's performance rating

Electronics Engineer
Army
Wed May 13, 2009 9:33 AM

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What a surprise. Your readers' evaluation of President Obama's performance almost exactly mirrors your readers' voting in the election. Had this been a formal poll the difference between pre- and post election percentages would be well within the statistical margin of error.

The poll's main showing is that your respondents aren't prepared to change their opinions based on performance, but cling to their preferences regardless of actual results. Put another way, your respondents select the results they evaluate and ignore anything that conflicts with their preconceived beliefs. It's not surprising, but it's also a waste of time.

Survey

Retired manager
USPS
Wed May 13, 2009 9:33 AM

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I find it interesting that the national polls almost unanimously give Obama well over 50% approval ratings so far. Since we've just passed the 100 day mark, I would be surprised if the percentage remains that high for 4 years. The point is, most Americans are pleased with what he's done so far.

I've come to the conclusion that Fedsmith.com either has a slightly conservative bias or that the readership leans in that direction - and that's okay as long as folks understand that your survey results are slightly out of step with other surveys asking the same question.

Re: Survey

Reformed Conservative
DFAS
Wed May 13, 2009 1:23 PM
Fedsmith readers skew way right, but I'm not convinced they're representative of Federal employees in general. Anybody can access, and comment on, Fedsmith--I don't think the nuttier wingnuts here are in fact Federal employees. It defies probability that the 20-odd (very odd) per cent of the population that still identifies with the Republican party would produce so many Federal employees.

even split

it specialist
USGS
Wed May 13, 2009 9:35 AM

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Lots of polarized people answered this survey, as is usually the case in a non scientific survey.
Slightly more than half voted for mccain and slightly more than half don't like obama.
To get more insight you should have added questions about the previous administration.
How many voted for Bush in 2004?
How many think that was a mistake?

I'd bet you get the same distribution.
Generally people who scream socialist and call names at obama, voted for Bush and won't accept that his 8 years
put this country in the shape it is in now.

This survey made clear to me who reads this web page and not much else. I wonder what the same surveys on FOX and MSNBC would result in.

Re: even split

Federal Worker
DoD
Wed May 13, 2009 1:34 PM
Please, your political bias is showing.........

Re: even split

it spec
usgs
Thu May 14, 2009 9:38 AM
My bias is obvious, there was no attempt to hide it, and in that way my response was not any different from the entirely polarized survey response. The survey is meaningless. This is of course due to it's voluntary nature sampling readers to a website that trends conservative.

How many articles/links on how to fire a Fed, Feds are overpaid, etc does it take to make that clear? I just wonder if this site should be called, Smallergovernmentwithmorecontractorsbutdonttouchmyretifement.com

Just say No

Acountant, Retired GS 14
DOE, Albuquerque
Wed May 13, 2009 9:37 AM

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This site is full of conservatives, mostly white male professionals, so of course they don't approve of Obama. Loook at how they voted. Toyally out of wack with the USA.The party of No. No health care change, keep Iraqu at war forever, no choice, no gay marriage, no stimulus, no global warming, no science, no evolution, no female equality, no EEO, no birth control .

The result: the party has no minorities, no Control of any region except the confederacy, No republicans in the white house. No control of the House, No control of the senate. and a party made up of 21% of the country There are not enough white male confedreates to control anything. Grow up or or go the way of the whigs, and federalists

Re: Just say No

Consumer safety inspector
USDA
Wed May 13, 2009 11:26 AM
I think this guy must've attended publik skool to !

Re: Just say No

Federal Worker
DoD
Wed May 13, 2009 2:04 PM
Acountant, Retired GS 14
DOE, Albuquerque

I am a conservative, white male professional (not sure why the initial poster felt it neccessary to use race). I do not agree with the policies of BHO; not because I'm conservative, white or a professional, but because I believe his policies are ill conceived and will be disasterous to this country.

Re: Just say No

QAR Retired
DCMA
Wed May 27, 2009 10:58 AM
Talk about NO BRAINS!! Where do you come off knocking that the site is full of conservatives and how do you know that their is so many white professionals? You should thank God that there is still some folks who "are totally out of whack"(corrected spelling) with the rest of the idiots in the United States who were no taken in by the BS of this phony President who is Kenyan. As more and more people are hearing their head pop out of that dark spot you can tell yourself only 1340 days left until the corrections of 2012 and we flush the biggest turd down the toilet of history.
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