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In reply to the discussion: Candidate Barack Obama pledged to raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hour by 2011. [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)There were quite a few other crises needing immediate attention when Obama took office. As I recall, Dubya left behind the worst financial, political, economic, social and foreign policy messes since the Great Depression and WWII.
You can please some people all of the time and some people none of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Based on your post, you are a likely candidate for the second group.
It also takes a supportive Congress to accomplish things, which Obama didn't even have even during the VERY brief time he had Dem majorities in BOTH Houses. Given the totally relentless opposition and obstructionism (not to mention overt racism) he has encountered from a well-funded GOP, he has managed some amazing accomplishments.
Do I wish he had pushed for a more progressive agenda earlier and harder? Yes. Period.
But it is always easier to carp and complain from the outside, when one is not literally "in the trenches" every single day. As he is.