Poll question: How much respect do you have for Barack Obama?

[undeterred]

Poll question: Poll question: How much respect do you have for Barack Obama?

I am not asking whether you are voting for him or not; that is irrelevant. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you respect him as a leader of our party?

[democrattotheend]

1. Which is which?

Is 10 the highest amount of respect and 1 the lowest? The order in the poll makes it confusing.

[undeterred]

3. 1 is the lowest respect 10 the highest

[Catherina]

2. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, I give him a 10. n/t

[gateley]

4. As a late-to-the camp

and somewhat soft Obama supporter, I find I'm respecting him more and more as time goes on.

[bdamomma]

13. me too, somewhat soft Obama supporter, I saw yesterday

or last nite on the crawl, that most Edwards supporters were contributing to Obama more than to Hillary.

[gateley]

18. I AM becoming more of a strong supporter,

now that I'm actually paying attention to him! I would be very comfortable with him in the WH. :hi:

[NJSecularist]

5. Who are the people who gave Obama a 1? Pathetic. n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. I don't think ANYONE - short of Roosevelt can be a 10 - or a 1 either.

People here are waaay too worshipful or waaay too hateful to give either of those scores.

[Bluebear]

7. "How much do you like me? Check one: 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__"

[damntexdem]

9. 1

Well, you did say to "check one."

;-)

[Bluebear]

10. :))

[shaniqua6392]

11. 5

I am waiting for the poll that asks if we want Obama or Clinton to be my BFF...Check yes or no! :crazy:

[Bluebear]

12. LOL

"What would you do for Obama/Clinton"

Check

__ Give up your cell phone

__ Kiss with mouth closed

__ Kiss with mouth open

etc etc etc

[shaniqua6392]

15. That depends on who I am kissing.

Do I have to kiss one of them? I would never kiss a politician. Yuck. Not even one of ours. Oh....and I will never give up my cell phone!!

[undeterred]

16. I gave him a 9

I'm saving myself.

[apocalypsehow]

8. 10.

n/t.

[andym]

14. I have respect for both Barack and Hillary.

[grasswire]

17. in what scenario is he the leader of the party?

I don't think even a POTUS is necessarily the leader of the party.

Would you say that Bush is the leader of the Republican Party? No.

So your basic construct is wrong. No man who has people pushing him forward is the LEADER.

The Democratic Party has three current leaders. Gore, Carter and Dean.

[undeterred]

19. I didn't say THE leader; I said A leader

I think when you are when of two presidential nominees left in your party's race then its easy to make a case that you are a leader of that political party.

[Cheap_Trick]

20. mine goes to 11

sorry, couldn't resist the Spinal Tap reference:)

[depakid]

21. I gave him a 5

Higher than I would have before his economic speech.

The reason? He lost a LOT of respect when, rather than showing leadership and rallying the troops- he criticized the filibuster of Alito- an unethical man proven to have lied under oath during his previous confirmation as a federal judge- and one of the most extreme jurists to be considered for the Court in its history.

He also supported limiting Americans rights to hold corporations accountable in class action lawsuits.

These two acts coming from someone who's taught constitutional law aren't worthy of much respect- and I think any honest and objective person would agree with that.