How would you evaluate Barack Obama as the president?

I cannot speak well to his ability to enact policy. His main political opposition, in particular Mitch McConnell, promised to block any efforts Obama made, and very much lived up to the promise. read more

President Obama is a class act. While his legislative agenda was crippled by a do-nothing obstructionist Republican Congress, he still managed to active some progress as president, as outlines in his farewell address on Jan. 10. read more

As for Illinois, the state has been run by Democrats and Republicans over the years -- and Barack Obama came to that state rather late in his life. As for the most corrupt, I think, by indictments and scandals per capita, Palin's and Ted Steven's state has got Illinois beat by a mile. read more