Is it just me, or do many of the objections to the Obama Administration

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61. A mixture

Early outrage was over some of his appointments, starting with Rahm and Rich Warren. Those were actual acts on his part to which people objected. Then there were things that he basically "gave up on". Public option, Gitmo, torture, etc. Those are in a gray area. They aren't things he did, so much as didn't do, or couldn't depending upon ones point of view. Then there are the things he continued, keeping on Gates and excuting the SOFA for example, keeping up the spying. Again, kinda a gray area where on can say it is either an action, or a lack of action.

Longer term, he chose to ramp up the war in Afghanistan, that's an action. Libya was an attempt at an action that got side tracked. Backing candidates like Specter and Lincoln were actions/choices. Comments like "professional left" and "sanctimonious" and "drug adled" were actions/choices. Negotiating the TPP in secret is an action. His dogged pursuit of whisleblowers is an action.

But yes, there are also "premptive" complaints, especially currently, about things that have not yet come to fruition. In some cases one may be complaining about a negotiating tactic instead of an actual action/choice. And we've seen some of that in the past, especially over gay rights, where one can make the case that the primary basis of the complaints was due to impatients. Some continue to defend his record on prosecution of Wall Street based upon the concept that his second term isn't over yet. So the criticism isn't pure by any stretch, but neither is it totally baseless.