Reply #70: I'm one of Obama's biggest "cheer leaders" around here to be sure

[Proud Liberal Dem]

and I've defended him on a lot of things and I freely admit that he has disappointed me on some of the things that you mentioned too. However, after the last horrific eight years, I'm so relieved just to have a Democratic administration back in charge in the WH that I'm willing to tolerate/overlook some of the disappointments at the moment. Everything has been bent out of shape so much by Bushco that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress are having to spend most of their time just preventing further harm and getting things back on a more responsible course (with the Republicans, their lapdog mediawhores, and "teabaggers" constantly yapping and nipping at their heels no less). Even if President Obama's administration isn't a perfectly progressive administration, even if he hasn't totally reversed every last one of Bushco's most egregious anti-terror policies, and even if he doesn't prosecute a single person from the previous (mis-)administration, President Obama's long-term trajectory/vision is what is most important to me and on that score, I believe that he is pushing the country in the right direction. We may not all agree on the speed or the strategy (which is fine, of course) but I refuse to believe that he has some kind of secret love for Republicans and/or their policies or- even worse- that he just wants *excuses* to compromise away more progressive policies/initiatives in order to, I guess, get the Republicans to love him more (which I'm sure he's not naive enough to believe is even possible). :shrug: