Have you been more pleased, or, more disappointed with the Obama Administration?

[Divine Discontent]

So, how has his Administration done this year? Pleased overall with the comments and decisions coming down from President Obama to Rahm, the cabinet, even to spokesman Gibbs?

It's been long enough to make an informed opinion. Everyone has the right to one. What is yours?

Do you find yourself more pleased or letdown with how the White House has been doing these past 8 months?

*and if you find yourself equally pleased and disappointed, give him the benefit of the doubt.

[Divine Discontent]

1. there is no wrong answer - please vote! no one can say he's done all bad, or all good - just asking

YOUR opinion.

Thanks!





***Single-Payer was the plan - Public-Option is the compromise***

[Forkboy]

2. Neither.

He's been pretty much exactly what I expected. No surprises good or bad so far.

[Divine Discontent]

4. I love seeing baby godzilla! thanks for your input Forkboy!

[Demit]

3. I'm pleased he's president instead of Mr McMoldypants.

I'm disappointed at what he's done with his mandate so far. Still have hope for the long game, however.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I like President Obama's style, his smile,

I appreciate his speeches -- it's pleasant to listen to a president who has such command of the language -- but since he's as much of a centrist as I feared he would be, I'm somewhat disappointed in his administration. I had hoped maybe he would be a stealth progressive, but that doesn't appear to be the case, at least so far.

He's far superior to his predecessor, however, and it would have been a nightmare if McCain/Palin had been elected.

Your poll doens't provide an option I can vote on.

[Divine Discontent]

6. That's ok, your post is far better than an inconsequential 'other' vote

great way to describe him, I feel as you do! he's much better to have as president than what our main alternative was! (shudder...., and to think of Palin being president possibly is horrifying, truly!)

[Blue_In_AK]

7. You don't know the half of it.

Sarah Palin is one scary b****, and she just won't go away. At least we here in Alaska don't have to deal with her as governor anymore. In fact, no one that I know of up here has seen her in weeks. It's so refreshing. Now if we just could get her to stop "writing" stuff -- or, more accurately, get her ghostwriter to stop writing stuff. Someone somewhere is pulling her strings, and it bothers me quite a bit.

[Divine Discontent]

9. yes, she's another stealth candidate (like W), that they'd love to put in power to control with

sneaky-smart people like Cheney and how you use one's own opinion to get them to do what you want by twisting the logic, and use their words in a different manner to get them to go along with a plan. She would be SO easy (and you would know better than I) to do this with based on her COUGH performance COUGH over the past year and couple weeks since she was hoisted upon us all!

[On the Road]

8. This is Really Hard One

I voted "disappointed", but not by much.

[Divine Discontent]

11. me, too. I did so because of the repeated probs at justice, and because the WH seems to care too

much about what the Repubs will compromise with. We're the majority and they hate him - ignore the bastards! The WH has done several very good things, but for now, I'm slightly more disappointed overall.


Here's to hoping for the full public option - they better not try and stick us with 'cost cutting reforms and promises by industry to change'.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. Guess that depends

Compared to the Chimp who illegally occupied the White House for 8 years, Obama is certainly an improvement.

Compared to the 21st Century FDR that we NEED to clean up the Chimp shit, he's been a disappointment, so far. Surrounded himself with too many of the wrong people.

[Divine Discontent]

14. last sentence - golden.

someone called Rahm his 'best friend' - I said that's not good, Rahm seems like everything that Obama portrays he's not!

[Lilith Velkor]

12. Neither.

I fully expected Clinton-style triangulation from this administration, so it doesn't disappoint me, but I'm certainly not pleased with it.

What exasperates me is that this triangulation is unnecessary. The economic collapse was a golden opportunity to crush the Republicans so thoroughly that they wouldn't be back for a generation or more, but this administration chose to cling to its bipartisan campaign rhetoric and ignore that the landscape has changed drastically in the past year.

I fear that this tendency will enable them to come back sooner - in 8 or 12 years - to finish destroying the country.

[Divine Discontent]

15. all of us are in awe, well, most of us - at how they were at their lowest, and our leaders

didn't destroy their movement with sweeping reforms and ignored their obstructionism and overtly racist, homophobic, anti-women, criminal ways - and held B*sh officials accountable for torture and lying. But I guess that's not what we're getting. I expected centrism (was hoping for a stealth progressive, I guess not), so no disappointment there.

[fadedrose]

13. More often, displeased with some Democrats (mostly in MI)

I was disappointed in Sen. Levin today. He's entitled to his opinion, but did he have to have a press conference today??? We're working on health. Besides, after that Joe Wilson thing, the President needed a ceasefire.

Then, the idiot woman, my governor, Jennifer Granholm, who states in a Detroit station interview that Rick Wagner, former CEO of General Motors, was her friend, a great CEO, was asked to step down by President Obama because he was "a scapegoat."

Our President needs some real friends...God only knows what these DLC'ers have in mind

[Laelth]

16. It's close at the moment. But I remain more pleased than disappointed.

Just barely.

:dem:

-Laelth