Stepping back from the War On Terror, charges of socialism, throwing transparency under the bus, more spending than you can comprehend, tax cheats galore, picking a fight with Rush Limbaugh and never-waste-a-crisis fear-mongering.
All things considered, my halftime verdict is that, as yet another administration pick withdraws, it is still amateur hour as President Obama continues to lurch to the left and hopes he can drag the country with him.
President Obama does deserve credit for the progress he has made on keeping his 511 campaign promises:
Bill Adair, the Editor of PolitiFact and the Washington Bureau Chief for the St. Petersburg Times, writes that President Obama has accomplished the easy ones:
Obama's popularity remains high. But today's Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index rating of +6, is Obama's lowest rating to date.
The BBC gives Obama high marks for boldness but, like me, worries about the deficit spending.
In the following video, CBS News' Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer gives Obama credit for being remarkably ambitious, but cautions that we do not yet know whether Obama's big government spending will work:
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