A Year Of Obama: Top Ten Highs And Lows Of The Last Twelve Months

by Glynnis MacNicol | 12:20 pm, November 3rd, 2009

The Inauguration

Despite the struggling economy the nation was still mostly operating under a happy election euphoria come Inauguration Day. It’s true! D.C. was packed with festive Inauguration goers from across the country. Schools stopped classes to allow students to watch the address (there were stories that when the power went out at one Brooklyn school student were farmed out to local living rooms). Here is Obama’s speech, which I remember as being really good, though honestly at this point the President has given so many speeches I would probably have trouble discerning it from a number of other really good speeches I’ve heard in the interim in a blind hearing test.

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Tacoma Chuck says:

November 3, 2009 at 12:54 pm

We need a change to the Constitution that allows for a referendom on the quality of an administration after the first year.
It would allow a choice. Pick one in each section.
The President is doing a great job, lets keep him……………….___
Oh crap, what have we done. We need a do over………………..___

Congress is doing a great job, Let’s keep them as is…………___
Who elected those morons? Let’s switch party’s in
every district, nationwide. Let’s hold a lottery, any adult
citizen can buy a ticket (max 5 tickets per adult)…………………..___

ImNotBlue says:

November 3, 2009 at 2:23 pm

9 Months… and what has been accomplished. A dead fly, beer, and a failed attack on FNC. A few good speeches, an (admittedly) undeserved award, and some legislation that probably won’t make it to law.

Woo-hoo????

gilrex11 says:

November 3, 2009 at 9:50 pm

what had Bush accomplished by this time in his rookie year.

oneifbyland says:

November 3, 2009 at 11:57 pm

Well Bush let a highly classified Navy Aircraft land in China.

ImNotBlue says:

November 4, 2009 at 12:28 pm

gilrex11 says:
November 3, 2009 at 9:50 pm

what had Bush accomplished by this time in his rookie year.

Well… Bush didn’t have the same kind of situation when he took office, now did he? No wars, no recession, etc. Additionally, by this time, 9-11 had already happened, and we were in Afghanistan… Bush’s approval numbers were way high.

But more importantly… does it matter? I thought Obama was elected to be BETTER than Bush… not to be equal to? Why would you want to compare them, to show how parallel they are? What does that prove?

Sunnyr says:

November 5, 2009 at 2:15 am

Is it 2012 yet?

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