Unemployment is at 9.5%

Obama doing a good job on the economy or it's really not his fault since it's beyond his control?

It's probably just like Bush's job on domestic terrorism post-9/11 ... Imagine how bad it would be if we did nothing!

Still too early.

Actually, the bigger question on my mind is when will a foreign nation come and put a stop to the violence occurring on our city streets. Is this the price freedom, that we can't manage to police ourselves?

OH, the conditions allowed in the name of Freedom.

Given the mess he was handed by the cut-taxes, don't regulate the markets crowd, I think this is the best we can expect. A stimulus can't turn things around overnight. It took the fiscal conservatives/anti-regulators a long time to get us in this mess, so it isn't going to be solved easily.

:I can practically hear your wheezy little giggle as you write these words, relishing in others economic misfortune because it gives you the chance to criticize our president who has been in office for less than 200 days now."

Actually, I'm saddened that so many have to suffer while the government does nothing to help. And I don't wheeze while I giggle.

The foolish $700B+ "stimulus" legislation has already crapped out: these figures are far worse than the ones the White House warned us about if we DIDN'T pass the bill- but it was passed, and still unemployment soars?

Instead of creating jobs, interest rates were bumped up, the dollar slid... while there are little actual economic benefits from this spending. Much of this is due to the fact that Obama's anti-business agenda has mortified almost every machine of job-and-growth creation in the country. The Democrats just HAD to insist on tax-n-spend, rather than a tax holiday for, say, six months... can you imagine how things would be doing with a $700B tax cut instead?

And the One couldn't deliver the type of "temporary, targeted, and timely" bill that he promised for weeks, either. Irregardless of his beautified image, in reality Obama lacks the the political stature to control Pelosi and Reid... who hit the trough hard, while bickering like siblings.

The lack of GOP co-conspirators exposed Obama politically... this legislation now looks to be a HUGE gamble. And when all this pork-n-welfare fails to generate any real economic gains... the Democrats could face a bloodbath in 2010.

One could make the argument that Obama knows his legacy will be in tatters by 2012, and could care less how much damage his radical programs do to the economy. He's therefore ramming-through as much of his far-left agenda as he can before the day comes when people cringe at the mere mention of his name-

Sure seems like it.