Elizabeth Warren to Obama: Fed nominees should crack down on Big Banks

[JDPriestly]

11. I like Obama too. And I like the ACA. But I too am disappointed.

He really did not tackle the economic crisis as he should have. Republicans would have done even a worse job. But Obama did not propose measures that would have employed people quite directly, did not propose simple answers people could understand, ignored the experience of FDR in the 1930s or erroneously dismissed it as a failure and never rallied the unemployed and disenchanted behind him. The strong Tea Party was the result.

Obama is a great person, but not a skilled negotiator. He has improved, but he is afraid to risk failure, and to be a great president, he would have had to have risked failure more often.

Still, he hasn't started any big wars and that is good although the Russians are creeping up on Turkey, and that is a big problem.