Pat Robertson "Remarkably Pleased" With Obama, Gives Bush C-

In an interview with CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, conservative Pat Robertson said he was "remarkably pleased" with President-elect Barack Obama. Not so for President Bush, who he blames for the economic crisis. On President Bush:

ROBERTSON: Well, it's hard to assess blame, but I -- over the years -- I hate to be critical, I mean I am a Republican, and this is the president of the party that I'm a member of -- but I think we've had some serious goofs along the way. The Katrina matter was terrible. The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible. The hailing (ph) of the economy right now has been terrible.

It hasn't been handled in what I would consider a professional manner.

MALVEAUX: How would you grade the president in light of all of the -- the laundry list that you just listed there?

ROBERTSON: Well you know, history may accord him a higher grade than his contemporaries and I think he's hoping for that, and we are.

But I believe I would look at about a C-minus right now if I were grading him.

On President-elect Obama:

MALVEAUX: Are you looking forward to an Obama administration? A change?

ROBERTSON: I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him. But so help me, he's come in forcefully, intelligently. He's picked a middle of the road cabinet. And so far, if he continues down this course, he has the makings of a great president.

So, I'm very pleased so far.

Video, via Think Progress:

Comments

[mssmith]

12:33 PM on 12/25/2008

Repub4Obam­a wrote:
"If most posters here would stop whining for just a minute and look at the bigger picture please. Obama is accomplish­ing what he set out to do - bring us all together. Yes, that includes people you don't agree with. Boo Hoo. Grow up. What did you want BHO to do - persecute and alienate those that have persecuted and alienated you for the last eight years?"

What a bunch of rubbish. THis is not about wanting to persecute or alienate anyone. It is
not about right and left. It is about Obama giving EVERY indication of being MORE OF THE
FREAKING SAME... yet another Korporate Kandidate lapdog of Wall Street and the
plutocrats­. Though this time, granted, with more melanin pigmentati­on. BFD.

See: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History By James Petras
http://www­.informati­onclearing­house.info­/article21­415.htm

YOU are the freaking "whiner". STOP WHINING about the obvious, undeniable
writing on the wall regarding our (supposed) Great White Hope.

[eraofpeace]

05:14 PM on 12/24/2008

It has begun to dawn on me that many do not want to see change. They prefer a reversal of roles; there should always been an adversary, a battle to fight and revenge to seek.. If the battle tactics of the President-­elect is to skillfully make his very opponents see the error of their ways, and he is sucessful, how much is that worth? Yet all some posters can see is vengeance. Obama's campaign tactics worked for him; he is no fool. Perhaps you should save the bitching after you hear what Rick Warren has to say.

Hatred is a virulent from the left as it is from the right.

[amyeom]

03:33 PM on 12/24/2008

Something smells.

[Agent420]

02:45 PM on 12/24/2008

Huffpo is becoming the Fox News of the Internet.

[Alex02139]

12:47 AM on 12/25/2008

Ditto. Obama cult becoming scary.

[SJBrown]

02:35 PM on 12/24/2008

Pat Robinson projected Obama would win the Presidency but "not in Virginia". I think he realizes "his" Virginia has changed. Maybe he is remarkably pleased and a bit surprised.

[myangeldog1]

01:46 PM on 12/24/2008

Wow....I had to pick myself up off the floor after I read this. My first reaction was....yea­h right. But then it h i t me! WOW again to the fact that Obama is having this kind of effect on the extreme right conservati­ves is remarkable­! We're on our way people....­we're on our way to a more unified country...­.and it's about time!! Come On January 20!!

[arspar183]

01:34 PM on 12/24/2008

Robertson has no cred here. He who said God told him Bush would be President, and God told him that Bush should attack Iraq. Now he gives Bush a C-.
The God I believe in does not make mistakes!
Robertson is a phony

[Repub4Obama]

12:24 PM on 12/24/2008

If most posters here would stop whining for just a minute and look at the bigger picture please. Obama is accomplish­ing what he set out to do - bring us all together. Yes, that includes people you don't agree with. Boo Hoo. Grow up. What did you want BHO to do - persecute and alienate those that have persecuted and alienated you for the last eight years? Well, he's a bigger person that you all are. It is fantastic that Robertson sees great things in Obama. If more conservati­ve, 70+, white televangel­ists reach out to their 50,000,000 viewers and tell them good things about Obama, how is that going to hurt?

The whining I see here is proof positive that I'm glad none of you are in charge of anything as substantia­l as our Country's direction.

[Atmus]

12:48 PM on 12/24/2008

I absolutely agree.

We ALL need to move to a higher level in order for us to succeed.

[myangeldog1]

01:53 PM on 12/24/2008

Right on! Time to work together people.

[garymc8]

11:50 AM on 12/24/2008

When the Catholic church repeatedly demonstrat­ed there ability to move /protect/d­eny the child molestatio­n problem within their church, they lost any/all moral high ground. Pat Robertson has consistent­ly backed the party that does the most damage to America thru their fake conservati­sm, in a country founded around the Freedom Of Religion/S­eparation of Church and State. Pat Robertson lost all moral high ground when he sided with those distinctly UNchristia­n Neocons. Like all republican­s his opinion is irrelevant­. Pat gets an F even when using the bell curve.

[frappe]

12:07 PM on 12/24/2008

...yeah, on that part of the bell-shape­d curve (the far, far right half, of course) that stretches somewhere beyond into infinity,,­,or into areas of ultra-ecle­ctic-anoma­lystic-abs­urdly-ridi­culous-rel­igious-con­servative-­hypocrisy.

[bruster55]

11:23 AM on 12/24/2008

Pat Robertson'­s opinion is worthless.

[hortonhearsawho2]

10:08 AM on 12/24/2008

We've always known how Remarkable Obama is...We made him President.

[myangeldog1]

01:54 PM on 12/24/2008

Yes we did!!

[BPCentrisAmerican]

09:53 AM on 12/24/2008

You think Pat lost money in the stock market?

[ideveloper]

10:30 AM on 12/24/2008

I'd be very surprised if he didn't - apart from treasuries just about every traditiona­l investment portfolio depreciate­d since September.

[d00derman]

11:37 AM on 12/24/2008

Bingo.

[frappe]

09:52 AM on 12/24/2008

What?! Bush a "C-"? Are you serious?

America wishes to correct Pat Robertson. Bush gets an "F-". That's right, an "F minus". Bush not only failed, he descended beyond failure, into areas others have not tread.

Our country hasn't seen a failure of this magnitude since the Great Depression­. But the sad part is that the failure is not limited to just economics. Bush is far, far worse than Hoover. His failure applies across the board on a wide range of policies and issues -- both foreign and domestic. And, most importantl­y, he failed in fulfilling his oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constituti­on of the United States of America.

[hortonhearsawho2]

10:09 AM on 12/24/2008

social promotion.­..

[ideveloper]

10:41 AM on 12/24/2008

I'd say D-----, but only because of the money he put towards AIDS prevention in Africa. And that funny dance he did with the Caribbean band.

[ideveloper]

10:48 AM on 12/24/2008

Or maybe F+

[hf2008]

09:23 AM on 12/24/2008

Sorry for the "spelling" - my typing is inept.

[hf2008]

09:21 AM on 12/24/2008

So even a depicable man such as Pat Robertson has the ability to differenti­ate the competent from the inept.

[doublels]

10:02 AM on 12/24/2008

it kinda scares me that he does like Obama.

[kareemachan]

10:39 AM on 12/24/2008

He'll like him until the next natural dis aster, and then it will be the fault of libe rals, or ga ys, or abortio n righ ts, or...