Since Halloween, my opinion of the Obama Administration has:

[Divine Discontent]

Poll question: Since Halloween, my opinion of the Obama Administration has:

[rpannier]

1. Unchanged

I wasn't expecting a whole lot of real substantive change with regard to Wall Street or Health Care
He's pretty much doing what he said he would in Afghanistan and with Gitmo
I learned over the years to keep my expectations at a minimum once they're elected.

[Divine Discontent]

2. thanks for your simple & very well-measured response.

[rpannier]

4. Something I find interesting and annoying is

how we've become an example of the 24 second cycle of news.

Someone sees an article about something the Administration is reported to be doing and people just fly off the handle...
"Oh, I'm so finished with this administration."
"I'll never vote for him in 2012!"
"This is change?"

Then someone posts something we like about the Administration and then it turns the other way
"Greatest President in my lifetime."
"Oh, this is so great. I knew he'd be the best."

And sometime it's some of the same people posting both positions.

There's things this administration does/has done/will do that irritate me and things I like.
8-10 months is still very early to gauge if Obama will be a one-term or two-term President (or if he'll follow Palin's example and quit half way through -- :sarcasm: )
The majority of people are more patient then we realize -- Look at that high rate of re-elections.
They tend to hold negative views of the politicians sitting in office.

[Divine Discontent]

16. and I mock whoever unrec'd a very proper & non-biased set of choices to a perfectly worded question.

[gleaner]

3. I chose "fallen"....

I was beginning to have my doubts about what Obama is doing, but after October the doubts solidified. I would give anything to be wrong, but I have a pretty sinking feeling about the way the country is headed.

[Jamastiene]

6. I chose fallen too.

I wasn't for him in the primaries, reluctantly voted for him in the general (even though this was the first one I ever actually wanted to sit out), disagreed with him vehemently on civil rights issues and disagreed on his insistence on believing he can "reach across the aisle" to Republicans, then started to believe in him for the first time.

Then, he let the public option go to shit and then didn't offer any objection to that Stupid/Stupak bullshit amendment to HCR.

Now, this.

That little tiny tad bit of hope I had just turned to dust. People with my beliefs are CLEARLY not welcomed on the bus, only under it.

Now, where am I going to scrape together enough change to fucking pay the forced insurance company bill I will be receiving or the fine if I don't? Nothing like punishing the poor for being poor.

Hi ho hi ho, off to war we go. I wish I wasn't too old to join. I'd join just to get a checkup and a job.

:(

[gleaner]

14. I'm sorry this has turned out so badly ....

for you. It has been like a gradual slide which is gaining momentum so fast I can hardly take it in. He acts more Republican than many who are Republican and those are the policies he is supporting, as best as I can see.

I'm glad you're not really going to war though. I would rather have you here as a wise and eloquent voice. We're going to need to hear from you. Thank you for answering my post, and I wish you the best of luck. I know we are all going to need that.

[old mark]

5. I approved then, and I still do-I think he is doing better than I ever expected

considering the slime he has to work with in congress and the hole we all were in when he started, plus the total resistance to everything positive by the GOP.

I think he has done extremely well, and over the next year that will become more apparant even to some of the haters here.

Some people here would still hate him if he had fixed all our problems in the first week.


mark

[Tippy]

12. I agree 100%..... Mark....

[spiritual_gunfighter]

7. Fallen

I will readily admit I was a bit duped in the campaign and that was from my own naivety, next time I will read the fine print.

[IndianaGreen]

8. Where have all our hopes gone?

[LatteLibertine]

9. What

has gone on with Wall Street, health care and the war, caused me to choose "fallen".

I haven't given up on President Obama yet and I am seriously skeptical about Washington changing. I'm feeling we're going to remain a country of crony capitalism and corporatism where the rich get richer and the rest of us get screwed.

[Vidar]

10. Fallen badly.

[Divine Discontent]

11. I'm pleased to see thoughtful responses to some people's votes. And WOW, what an extremely

split viewpoint DU holds - about half still pleased, and half having fallen views based on the past 35 days of announcements & decisions by the WH.

Thanks for voting.

:kick:

[QuickDraw McGraw]

13. I voted fallen.

I am VERY disappointed about the troop increase for Afghanistan. We should be leaving, not increasing our presence, and redirecting the resources to domestic issues.

[Divine Discontent]

15. Welcome to Democratic Underground - where expansion of warfare, instead of using the funds

on social programs should be very much an issue. Glad to see you feel that way!

:hi:

[ClassWarrior]

17. Other: Stayed the Same: Know That We Still Need to Fight for Our Values, but...

...We Actually Have a Chance of Succeeding Under This Administration.

NGU.