The American Pundit

They must be joking. Are they aware that April Fool’s Day is actually, as its name suggests, in April? There’s no possible way you can objectively look at the Obama Administration and give it an A-, as I’m sure even his strongest supporters would tell you.

He promised to close Gitmo. Done? Nope.

He promised to pull out of Iraq. Done? Nope.

He promised to create or save millions of jobs. Done? Nope.

He promised to overhaul the health care system. Done? Hell no.

He promised to implement a strategy to fix the situation in Afghanistan. Done? Heeeeeellllll nooooo.

He promised to keep lobbyists out of areas of the government they lobbied for. Done? Nope.

He promised to bring about a new era of transparency, including posting bill before signing them. Done? Nope.

He promised to cut federal spending and reduce the deficit. Done? He’s tripled the deficit.

And the list goes on and on. Even Saturday Night Live now jokes about him having accomplished jack. It’s becoming more and more common for Jon Stewart to mock Obama’s many failures. We get a story on a regular basis about liberals who say he’s doing almost nothing to fight strongly for their causes. He’s been a disaster, even for liberal activists.

Then we get to independents who supported the moderate policies he preached but didn’t live up to. And the human rights activists who were betrayed on issues such as Gitmo and Tibet. Never mind the few Republicans who crossed over and held their noses.

And yet here’s Time magazine insisting that he’d one a heckuva job. Unemployment reaching double digits, the deficit tripled, the situation in Afghanistan getting worse, the health care system in the same shape it was before, lobbyists all over the administration, and promise after promised broken. Mark Halperin must be living under a rock in Guam.

Instantly comfortable and highly skilled at the hardest job in the world — proving his supporters’ contention that all the traits that made him a great candidate would serve him well in the White House.

Even his own supporters don’t believe that anymore. We can pull up clips of Air America hosts calling him a damn liar and fascist. Highly skilled? The man can’t even deliver the Olympic games for Chicago after personally showing up on the IOC’s doorstep. Highly-skilled my ass.

A handful of public missteps (particularly on his international trips and on torture issues) and a failure to ameliorate the partisan divide are the only true blemishes so far.

Now Halperin’s just trying to screw with us. A few public missteps? Like driving the economy further into the ground, utterly failing to live up to his promises in Afghanistan, doing nothing he promised liberals he would do, doing nothing he promised independents and conservatives he would do, and tripling the deficit he promised to cut? Those are a few public missteps?

Thank God he didn’t have many public missteps, then. And thank God he didn’t do a B- job. We’d all be living in caves, fighting each other for the last scraps of food and drops of water on earth.

More: Hot Air, Ace of Spades HQ.