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The Choice for President: a Simple Survey.

Should President Obama be kept, retrained or fired? A simple survey.

We have a choice in November. We need to look at the job that President Obama has done and decide what it is we want or should do.

Consider you are a manager and your decisions affect yourself and many others in your business. There is an employee that was assigned a series of tasks he agreed to and wanted to tackle, and those tasks were to be completed based upon his own comments within a 4-year period. You also provided the employee all the resources possible, and a group that would 100% support his efforts in the first two years. The second 2 years his support would be reduced by one-half.  His performance will directly affect your ability to progress in this enterprise.

It is review time. The tasks as set out are mixed, some are completed, some are in progress, some are still not close to implementation, and some have not been considered.  What do you do:

A.) Do you keep him on the payroll because he did a great job?,

B.) Do you decide he needs more retraining and hope for the best?,

C.) Do you give him a pink slip for failing?

 

Choose one in the comments and tell us why you made the choice.  Stay on topic, please.

R mc allister October 10, 2012 at 08:12 pm
Keep him on the job as most of the incompleted items were stalled by the children in .Congress who no longer seem to have the best interests of the country at heart!
Randy McKenney October 10, 2012 at 08:40 pm
My goodness Ron,
How do expect people to answer accurately if you leave out important information. For example: Half of the other managers in the company will do anything they can to work against him so that he fails. Half the people in the company don't like him because he is the first minority in that position, also a third of the people in the company think he is an illegal immigrant who is lying about being a citizen.
tchjjal October 10, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Sure...if the blame on Bush doesn't stick, put it on Congress!
Emily October 11, 2012 at 09:35 am
C Pink slip for failing. It is not him that failed though, it is his entire ideology that failed.
Daniel K. Kehoe October 11, 2012 at 11:39 am
I vote for C), and then I vote for C), and then I vote for C).
tchjjal October 11, 2012 at 12:45 pm
I wish you people would stop using the race card! That is inexcusable! Obama was elected by an overwhelming majority. So....your logic falls through that it is because he is a minority. It's not about people not liking him. That is ridiculous. The reasons are quite clear that people don't want him back in: His policies have failed and we're heading towards a financial cliff!!!!!!!!
Cari October 11, 2012 at 02:00 pm
Randy: How about as soon as he was elected he shut Republicans out and went behind closed doors with his party to push his agenda and would not listen to any ideas from the Republican party. His lack of leadership and arrogance has created the big divide in Washington. It had nothing to do with being a minority. Dems and liberals just use that excuse when all else fails in defending Obama's poor leadership skills or lack thereof.
David Ramadei October 11, 2012 at 03:52 pm
@ tchjjal: How do you figure that race wasn't involved in his election? Why do you think everyone is trying to scramble women onto the selection panels now? The electoral process in this country is abysmal.
Obama has not done anything for the people in America that ACTUALLY need things. Where have any benefits for the real middle class, the ones that are working to put their kids through school, and are trying to do the right things? I don't want a handout, and I don't want to pay an additional tax on my phone bill so that he can hand out free phones to Welfare recipients. Give me the opportunities that the Uppers and Lowers are being given. Stop taking 40% of my wages. Let me decide what is important to me and my family.
Spiff October 11, 2012 at 04:52 pm
C for Epic Failure!
Except for knee-jerk kool aide drinkin' liberals, everyone needs to be questioning this guy's ability to understand the issues and do his job, especially after that horrible first-debate performance where Romney demonstrated that Obama is clearly an amateur! We need to fix this country, and Obama has shown that he is in way over his head. It is time to give someone else a chance. If Romney can't fix it in four years, then we can elect someone else, but we need to give someone else a chance to try.
tchjjal October 11, 2012 at 05:23 pm
David Ramadei - What are you talking about? You can't say that "race" is involved in Obama not being popular right now...He was elected in 2008. I also wouldn't classify women as a race...it is more of a gender!
michelle October 11, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Romney can't even count ! His system helped me learn to spell in college.
To do a better job than what our president did, have Bush replace the money he cost the u.s. when his illegal war was waged with the budget of the social security funding, . Or before Romeny can be sworn in have him finance a loan for Mass to compensate for his lack of common sense in spending everything on the big dig.( Mass still has decades to pay for a sink hole which cannot be touched for at least 5 years ) A well orated misleading statement sounds well planned out, until it's deception is found. How many get rooked into scams made with false truths?
Ben Rodriguez October 12, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Well said Randy. The President isn't just a CEO position. Our government is a system of checks and balances. If things don't get done after the President keeps pushing them to do so, perhaps the focus of the article should be on the Tea Party, focused on obstruction, not governing.
Ben Rodriguez October 12, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Your premises are way off and let the GOP off the hook for obstruction. First, the President has gotten much done in four years. He got the country out of the nose dive (my 401K isn't losing thousands by the week like 4 years ago) passed health reform, passed law approving tax incentives for vets and more. Government is checks and balances. Tea Party Republicans publicly state obstruction is more important than governing. Who killed the jobs bill about a month ago? Republicans in Congress scuttled it for ear it would benefit people and make Pres. Obama look good. Criticize the Pres. but tell the whole story.
Ben Rodriguez October 12, 2012 at 12:50 pm
By the way guys. Romney, while Governor, ran up the state debt quite a bit before he left. He "cut taxes" while in reality transferred taxes to "fees" so hunting/fishing/drivers and other license fees were raised to compensate.
R Eleveld October 12, 2012 at 06:21 pm
Randy, race is not an argument, unless, you truly think he was elected because he WAS black and not because his ideas in 2008 were more compelling. You can't argue it two ways.
Ben, PBO controlled congress. He blocked and ignored the Republicans in his first 2 years. That is not a sign of leadership [A person that can bring various people together for a common goal]. PBO basically reaped what he had sown.
R Eleveld October 12, 2012 at 06:29 pm
@Ben, sounds like what Malloy has done, giving hundreds of millions to billionaires. Now we find out he is saddling the next generation with his gifts to those that do not need them and bonding it out. Please!
Let's see what Obama has done, railed against capitalists and Wall Street at every opportunity, and yes your retirement accounts are up. Congrats! Realize the market looks at the economy 6 to 12 months in ADVANCE, a leading economic indicator and the sum of the opinions in monetary form of hundreds of millions of people like you choosing to have funds invested or have funds sit in bonds or cash. Is it a bet on PBO or RR? Interesting question.

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