Let's Try It This Way...Under What Instances, Is It Okay To Praise The President On DU ???

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

79. I did once too.

For the creation of a marine preserve near Hawaii, iirc.

But W still rates as the all-time worst President ever in my books.

As to Obama, I think he gets 'underpraised' for the good things he does do, because many of the positive things are done 'under the radar', via executive orders and regulations that tend not to hit the media. His more problematic actions (which are all basically continuations or expansions of Republican policy, such as drones and domestic spying) lend themselves more to 'if it bleeds it leads' media attention.

So basically, I criticize admin policies that are too far to the right, or are the 'political sausage' of Dem left ideas and RW lunacy, and praise when we actually get unalloyed actual Dem policy. (Which, as noted above, basically has to be done by executive branch powers only, since anything legislative is going to include RW poison pills if it even passes at all.)