Barack Obama has not changed...

[Drunken Irishman]

I have to laugh at the posts in GDP now. Many are now rallying around Pres. Obama because of his new populist rhetoric.

As if this is a new and improved Obama.

Not true. This is the same guy I fell in love with on the campaign trail.

They think he's changed? They just haven't been paying attention.

[Fire1]

1. So true. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

2. I think a lot of people projected their ideals and desires on him.

When he did not act according to those ideals and desires, they got angry and turned on him. One of the biggest ways they did that was over his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. They cried "betrayal" when in fact, he did exactly what he said he would do during the campaign when he was asked about it. But they did not hear him; they only heard what they wanted to hear, which in this case, was pulled wholly from thin air.

[JeffR]

4. I'm not sure thin air is exactly where it was pulled from

but your point is otherwise very well taken. I have a slightly different theory about where this and other misconceptions are being pulled from.;)

[SeattleGirl]

8. Well, I was just being nice.

:)

[TicketyBoo]

7. I know that he campaigned

on ratcheting up the war in Afghanistan. It is my belief that the war which he has expanded is not the same war we faced during the campaign, and it was my hope that he would change his mind and bring the troops home instead. However, then he would have been attacked as a "flip-flopper."

Let's face it, when you're the Prez, you get it from all sides.

Anything he's done that I would have rather had him do something else (Timothy Geithner comes to mind as well as the Afghanistan issue), I have just shrugged my shoulders and thought to myself, "He's my President. I voted for him, and he has access to a lot more information than I do. I trust him to make these decisions."

It's my belief that it's counterproductive to blast the President over everything you don't like. He's only a man, and he can never please everyone all the time. It gets down to Ricky Nelson: "You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."

[HopeOverFear]

3. That's right. nm

[goclark]

5. There is a real different tone there today

They are just waiting for their next talking points to arrive from their buddies who shall remain nameless.

[quiet.american]

6. Yep. nt