Obama Gives Himself a ‘Solid B-Plus’

JEFF ZELENY
NY Times
Monday, Dec 14th, 2009

So what grade does President Obama give himself after nearly a year in office?

“A good solid B-plus,” he said, answering a question from Oprah Winfrey during a television special that aired on Sunday evening.

Mr. Obama said that he inherited the biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he ticked through a list of items that he called accomplishments: stabilizing the economy, withdrawing troops from Iraq, settling on the “best possible plan” in Afghanistan, improving America’s image around the world and finding international consensus on disabling nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea.

And, he said, the goal of overhauling health care is moving closer to reality.

So what would make the year better?

“If I get health care signed, we tip into A-minus,” Mr. Obama said.

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