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Obama Gets an "F" from Black Agenda Report

Bruce A. Dixon at Black Agenda Report, a progressive "journal of African American political thought and action," has graded the first 100 days of Barack Obama's Presidency on 18 general issues...

  1. Health Care Reform (9 points)
  2. Creating New Jobs and Preserving Old Ones (5 points)
  3. Fully Funding and Preserving Public Education (6 points)
  4. War & Peace (9 points)
  5. Transportation (5 points)
  6. Caribbean and Latin America (4 points)
  7. Obama's Africa Policy; Our Brotherman and the Motherland (5 points)
  8. Wall Street Bailout (6 points)
  9. Debt and Foreclosure Crises (6 points)
  10. Investigating Bush-era Crimes (5 points)
  11. Criminalizing Immigration, Militarizing the Border (5 points)
  12. Broadband For Everyone and a Just and Fair Media (5 points)
  13. Environment (5 points)
  14. Agricultural Policy, and Policy Toward Black Farmers (5 points)
  15. Mass imprisonment (5 points)
  16. Employee Free Choice Act (5 points)
  17. Urban Policy (5 points)
  18. Privatization of Government Agencies and Services (5 points)

Out of 100 possible points, 55 was considered passing.

Obama scored 22.5

This is so far down in the failing scores that the most appropriate letter-grade is probably...

F-

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    by Jacob Freeze on Mon May 04, 2009 at 10:24:32 PM EST
    Even if the failing grade for Obama from Black Agenda Report only represents the sort of immediate judgment that Malcolm Gladwell describes in Blink, it still has the same value he describes there, because no two people are ever going to agree on a specific set of criteria for judging a Presidency.

    To put it another way, Bruce A. Dixon is immersed in the politics of black empowerment in the United States, and he's exactly the sort of person Gladwell had in mind with his argument that snap judgments from experts are often more reliable than a questionable set of apparently "more scientific" criteria