Since I'm disappointed in all the cynics and skeptics I know or have met who think Obama is just another cog in the conspiracy to keep the people down and won't make any changes for the better - I've decided to keep an Obama scorecard. For every positive change he makes in the world he get's a point. For every chance he misses to make things better or screws up really big, he gets a minus point. Here's where he stands today, even before going into office.
3 points.
He gets 1 point for this: Excerpt from the
Frank Rich article in the New York Times. I think this is worth 4 points, but people who think the NYT and Frank Rich are just part of the conspiracy machine would argue, I'll accept just one point. Read the whole article. It's pretty amazing.
"Even the North Carolina county where Palin expressed her delight at being in the “real America” went for Obama by more than 18 percentage points. The actual real America is everywhere. It is the America that has been in shell shock since the aftermath of 9/11, when our government wielded a brutal attack by terrorists as a club to ratchet up our fears, betray our deepest constitutional values and turn Americans against one another in the name of “patriotism.” What we started to remember the morning after Election Day was what we had forgotten over the past eight years, as our abusive relationship with the Bush administration and its press enablers dragged on: That’s not who we are. So even as we celebrated our first black president, we looked around and rediscovered the nation that had elected him. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” Obama said in February, and indeed millions of such Americans were here all along, waiting for a leader. This was the week that they reclaimed their country."
1 point for this:
Arab Bloggers Size up Obama in the IHT. 99% positive. The whole world is welcoming Obama as president so international (the long) healing (process) can begin. One point.
1 point for this: Obama will probably do an immediate reversal of some Bush enactments, for example close down Guantanamo.
Okay, so these points have not exactly been worked for but let's call them "benefit of the doubt" points. When he takes office the real count will begin.
