Hated by Both the Left and Right
When elected, President Obama gave a speech. In that speech he emphasized that he would not be the President of the Blacks only, he would not be President of the Democrats only, he would not be President of a specific region only, but that he would be the President of all Americans regardless of whether they voted for him or not.
From looking at his presidency so far, I think he has upheld that promise. I think he is a centrist President that seems to lean left only because the right has become so extreme. There are people who refuse to accept him because he is a “democrat” and would be upset whether or not he was “African-American. There are some that are upset that he is a Black man in the White House. The very name implies that only White people should be there.
He took over the Presidency at a time when America and the World was facing a financial crisis that was greater than any such the Great Depression. He bailed out Capitalists and yet the right claims he’s socialist. Had he not done so, America would have seen the greatest economic disaster ever and the unemployment would have been so high that we would never recover.
The left is upset with him because he hasn’t done enough, he hasn’t used his magic wand. They wanted immediate withdrawal from both Iraq and Afghanistan, something that he never promised. He compromised on health care reform and allowed the Republicans to take the “public option” out of it. He hasn’t brought about immigration reform. And there are many other issues that the left hold dear that he hasn’t done. His appointments to the Supreme Court have been centrists. They could easily side with the conservative members of the court on some issues and will side with the liberal members on others.
You can Google the accomplishments of President Obama and you will be surprised on how much he has accomplished. He has worked with Congress to pursue his agenda without getting out his magic wand. He has one that he uses sparingly, the “Executive Order”.
I personally think that he will be re-elected because he has refused to be pulled either left or right and has had to make hard decisions and has shown that he makes the right decisions.
Do I agree with everything he has done? No, I’m a leftist and think he should have used the power of the Executive Order in many cases that he could not get Congress to act.
Allah…I applaud you for the truth of this blog. Of course there will be arguments because so many people wear blinders. That’s sad. People see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe. You can stack up fact upon fact and there will still be criticism. I have seen the same as you have seen. I’m really tired of the neat little stacks to the right and to the left. I just came from another blog where neither Republican nor Democrat were mentioned, yet it was easy for me to see their political leaning.
Great blog!
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Do I agree with everything he has done? No,
Bullshit! I’ve never seen you disagree with anything Obama has done. You have got to be kidding……BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAA :entertained:
I think the President has been acting for all the people of the USA, as he said in his initial speech.
I enjoyed reading your Post.
I think he was pretty naive to think conservatives would work with him. That’s been my biggest pet peeve. I’m with you. If it weren’t for him, things would have been worse. As a liberal, I will admit leftist can be a pain in the ass.