I will never, ever fucking ever understand supporting everything a president says and does.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

43. I don't agree with everything Obama says or does

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but I believe that you can be critical of somebody and their ideas- some of which are never all that likely to become law anyway- without treating them like, I don't know, an "enemy" on par with the other side. Republicans hate President Obama (any Democrat, really) and have launched a total (political) war of annihilation against him and when you are dealing with an opposition like that, it's not hard to want to "circle the wagons" and defend our Democratic President from them, even if sometimes it seems like you're defending questionable policy ideas too- because you don't want to give the other side any more ammunition. I suppose that it's probably not a good habit to get caught up in but OTOH it's been so hard to get and keep Democrats in the WH and Congress during the past 30 years, so it's really hard for me to want to spend a bunch of time carping from the sidelines about all of their shortcomings (and occasional bad ideas) when they do hold the WH and/or Congress. I would prefer to focus more on the positive things they are trying to accomplish.