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WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama, in remarks aired late Sunday, awarded himself a B plus for his first 11 months in office, stressing in an interview with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey that there was still much to be done.

“A good solid B plus,” Obama said during an hour-long, intimate soft-focus ABC network Christmas at the White House special, when Winfrey asked what grade he would give himself.

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Explaining why he wouldn’t give himself top marks, the president said his administration had “inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt” which they were still working on.

He had earned good points for helping to stabilize the economy, setting a path out of Iraq and restoring America’s international image, but the job was not yet finished.

“B plus because of the things that are undone. Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed, we tip into A minus,” Obama said, his hair visibly grayer than when he took office on January 20.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nightowl358/ Nightowl358

    B+? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkman6ft6_inla/ blkman6ft6_inla

    i would give him a D plus he hasnt done any damn thing but smack his gums you cant trus anything that comes out of mouth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nefertiti313/ Nefertiti313

    For a president who inherited a cesspool of economic, political and social challenges, Barack Obama gets an A+ from me. He has the burden of digging through the filth and manure left behind by an administration that failed to proactively respond to a country that was sinking deeper and deeper into the dark abyss of an economic tsunami fueled by the sub-prime mortgage fallout, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, domestic & foreign policy, health care, unemployment, illegal immigration, etc. The ignorant legacy of the Bush Administration is to blame for bringing America to its knees; Obama is systematically and with precise methodology creating a Plan-of-Action designed to resurrect America, restoring it back to the great and powerful nation that it once was. President Obama was confronted with a national emergency paralleled in scope and magnitude to that confronted by only FDR. He has a huge task facing him, and he needs the support of the American citizenry.

    With unemployment at an all-time high of 10%, national morale is understandably down. American citizens of are overwhelmed with anxiety about how to feed their children and how to keep a roof over their heads, but I believe that we can trust in the strong, transformative and restorative leadership of Barack Obama to lead, guide and direct this country back to a full recovery!

    President Obama is NOT the “MAGIC NEGRO”. He needs time to tackle these critical issues that threaten us from at home and abroad, and he needs time to bring America back into a semblance of balance and restored prosperity. I believe that at the end of the day, President Barack Obama will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders this nation has ever had. Rome was not build in a day. HE NEEDS TIME…

    I’m just saying

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    B+??? are you kidding me? But what can I expect from him….he’s always been great at TALKING…Im not saying he was going to come in and everyone was going to get rich..But he’s still so very lukewarm…and in this day and age, we want to know where he stands…He needs to jump to HOT or be real and just go COLD like the other losers before him

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nmryda/ nmryda

    F**k all the ignorant haters, Obama’s the man! Like Nefertiti313 said, A+ all around from me too!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nightowl358/ Nightowl358

    God, can people take their lips off his dick for just second?

    But hey, he’s got a convenient scapegoat. Whenever he f**ks up or fails, he and his lackies can just point the finger at the previous Administration.

    He is a good talker though. . . .thanks to that teleprompter.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tlcole15/ tlcole15

    People r not looking at the mess President Obama walk into,give the man a break.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrlosa/ mrlosa

    califemme23 I agree with you! So far in his first year he didn’t do the things he said he was going to do. Instead of pulling troops out he is throwing 30,000 more troops into afghan. Health care pretty much just went into the trash today. So much for the public option. How the hell does he get a noble peace prize, for what? That is just as dumb as 3 six mafia getting a Grammy and an Emmy for what there music is garbage. I know he had a lot on his shoulders when he came into office, but he is not fixing it hes adding to the BS. The rate he is going now, ain’t sh*t going to change. He needs to grow a set of balls and make his own decisions, Bush’s ass didn’t have no problem with that!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Bee3ntertained/ Bee3ntertained

    yea more like a d-

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    A solid B+…

    B for what, bulls#!t? Naw, B for Blame, as in blame Bush for everything. To hear him read his TelePromter (since he can’t give a speech on his own), everything from the ejection of man from the Garden of Eden to today is Bushs’ fault! I sincerely hope all you azz-kissing knee-grows who voted for this egotistical dumbazz are happy. DAMN! Those must be some other mans’ daughters he’s raising ’cause he has no nuts whatsoever!!!

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