It is possible to still be willing to vote for Obama AND still think he has been a disappointment!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Yes

However, it would probably be more helpful for people IMHO to keep some of those reservations private than air them out quite so publicly. I'm not suggesting that people have to gush over him or act like he's the Messiah or anything like that but it would probably be more helpful for Obama's re-election prospects to spend more time pointing out his successes (even if you don't think that they were perfect, he did get some things accomplished that can be built on later) and attacking the Republicans and, more importantly embrace of the extremist Tea Party ideology than constantly bemoaning what you feel are Obama's betrayals, disappointments, etc. The Republicans didn't talk George W. Bush down when he was running for re-election- even though I'm sure some of them had some misgivings about him- and it's not going to help Obama's re-election prospects to spend a lot of time airing all of our grievances against him and making it seem like a "lesser of two evils" situation (when that is not really even what it is IMHO). It certainly is NOT going to help with GOTV and/or enthusiasm. We've got the more solid, intelligent, and "adult" person on our side-even if we don't agree with him 100% of the time. We need to be proud/thankful for that and make sure people understand that IMHO! At any rate, Congress IMHO is really going to be the key to getting what we want in terms of legislation. Having a completely Republican-controlled Congress and/or WH is NOT going to help advance a more progressive 99%-focused agenda AT ALL!