Reply #6: This is comes the closest to expressing my opinion of anything I have read lately [View All]

[TayTay]

I don't think President Obama is either a failure or a success at this early stage in his Presidency. I think he is a work in progress. I admire him for a great deal of what he is doing while having doubts about him at the same time.

The quality of the discussions online seem to devolve into "I like him" or "I don't like him" camps. This is too shallow for me. I overall like the President, but have some serious doubts about things he has done. There are times when I just want to retire from the debate rather than have to choose among camps I don't fully belong in. The intensity of debate doesn't seem to be over policy, it seems to be over which camp one is associated with and whether or not someone has kept faith with that, not with the issues as they arise. I don't want to play that kind of purity game because it is something of no value.