Was this week Obama's BEST WEEK EVER?

[Lief 🗽]

-Taliban leader is killed in Afghanistan
-The prisoners in North Korea are quickly freed
-Cash for clunkers, an easily understood stimulus program, is working and was extended
-Stock market closed at nearly 9400 (with the NASDAQ like 30 points higher than it was when Obama came into office)
-Today's less bad than expected unemployment numbers
-GOP extremism (through the birther controvery and violent town hall mobs) being exposed

Pretty good way to start off August, all told.

[JSojourner]

Maybe.  But...counting chickens & all....

[Eraserhead]

Nah, but hopefully it'll help turn the tide on a bit of a rough patch.

[Joe Republic]

You forgot that he also got his first SCOTUS nominee confirmed.

[Person Man]

He's on a roll and his Gallup approval ratings are up 6% from his lows and almost back into his normal range of 60-63.

[Meeker]

Probably.

Although approval ratings and other such nonsense aren't really important at this point in a presidency. In fact, I'd be disappointed if they were much higher. The lower numbers show he's trying to actually accomplish things.

[paul718]

I would say so.  Hopefully, there are better ones to come.

[Rowan]

I think being elected president was his best week ever.

[k-onmmunist]

Yes, but that isn't saying much.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Maybe.  But...counting chickens & all....

I don't think that Lief made that observation in order to show that Obama or the Democrats have the next elections in the bag.

That said, I think he had better weeks during the spring.

[DariusNJ]

Maybe. Certainly was a positive week, and he sure needed it. I expect his approvals to go back around 55-60% now.

[Holmes]

I just think that it's silly to say "The jobless claims are lower than they were when I took office!", but they're still piss poor... oh well. Yeah, I guess it was a solid week.

[Nhoj]

It was a pretty good week. Though, he didnt make much ground on health care reform be fore the senate went into recess.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think being elected president was his best week ever.

As his Grandmother died a few days earlier, that twere probably more his most bittersweet week ever...

[Middle-aged Europe]

-Taliban leader is killed in Afghanistan
-The prisoners in North Korea are quickly freed
-Cash for clunkers, an easily understood stimulus program, is working and was extended
-Stock market closed at nearly 9400 (with the NASDAQ like 30 points higher than it was when Obama came into office)
-Today's less bad than expected unemployment numbers
-GOP extremism (through the birther controvery and violent town hall mobs) being exposed

Pretty good way to start off August, all told.

Not to mention that he had his birthday this week...

[You kip if you want to...]

A pretty good week this week, although personally, i'm still a bit tense on health care reform.