Do you still support Barack Obama?

[kentuck]

and under what conditions will you continue to support him?

[polichick]

1. Sure, until there's someone more progressive and less corporate to vote for...

...but I think it's critical to constantly hold him accountable to Democratic principles and to the people.

[el_bryanto]

9. yeah this makes a lot of sense to me.

Obama was always a middle of the roader - better than McCain by a long shot, but problemattic in a lot of ways.

Bryant

[Kahuna]

2. ...

:patriot:

[NJmaverick]

3. Hell yes! he has been doing an excellent job

[Deep13]

4. In what way?

I'll be voting for his party in November and supporting some of them finacially, but it won't be time to support POTUS for another two years.

[Marr]

5. I support him in the same way I support my drug addicted brother.

I regularly hope he stops doing what he's doing, because he could be a great help if he wanted to be. Maybe I'll get one of those Hope© posters.

[Change Happens]

6. YES YES YES, 100% support him and all his policies!

[3324SS]

7. If Obama Does not change DRAMATICALLY By 2011

Then NO I will not support him...right now I want a Progressive to run against him in the Primary.

[onehandle]

8. Palin 2012!

Why not the worst?

[3324SS]

13. Palin and Dobbs 2012!

The Faux Watching Mouth Breathers are going to get their wish if Obama does not get it together really soon!

[MindandSoul]

10. Yes, 100%. But I am happier with his leadership when he shows his strength and intelligence

to oppose the Republicans and to fight toward his vision.

Bi-partisanship is a pie in the sky! It's time for him to realize it in move on to the reality of leading our country AWAY from the status quo government!

[Orsino]

11. Missing option:

Yes, because he's the closest thing to a progressive that we're going to get in the White House for the foreseeable future.

[polichick]

16. I don't think that's true - it's all in the way "progressive" is sold. nt

[Orsino]

21. I'd love a President Kucinich, too.

I've setttled for a pragmatic conservative who is accomplishing much more, and have been moderately pleased--and often disappointed and angered.

[polichick]

24. I think we'd do better to sell progressive candidates using a populist approach...

There's a lot to packaging when you're talking about Americans - unfortunately.

Republicans have been conning them into voting against themselves - we need to sell them into voting for themselves.

Kucinich is too well-known an entity - people automatically think of him as "far-left" or "liberal" or "woo-woo" etc. Obama did well because he was seen as shiny and new - we just need a less corporate, more progressive, shiny new candidate next time.

[closeupready]

12. No, but I'm still holding out that there is a chance he will change,

and become more progressive. I don't think it likely at all, but I have to give him the benefit of the doubt, for now.

[Nite Owl]

14. I supported him and helped

get him elected but now that he is President it's up to him to show that he supports us, the people. I'm not seeing that so unless there is a turn around I won't be able to support him next time around. It's up to him right now not me.

[mulsh]

15. Yes, I support Mr. Obama 100%. He doesn't support my views

100% and I have no problem with that. I want single payer, universal health care in this country, that is probably not going to happen in my lifetime. I want all troops pulled out of foreign soil and shipped stateside, that will never happen. I want all sorts of stuff that I know isn't going to happen.

Most of all I want people in government who believe that good governance is a worthwhile pursuit. I believe Mr Obama and most of the members of his administration fit that bill. I believe that he and his administration are working to repair the damage that misguided conservatism brought out government. For proof just go to the White zHouse web site and look up the first ten or so executive orders that were issued by this administration.

[spoony]

27. How do you support someone 100% when you disagree with him on those things?

I'm honestly asking this, because the way I think of support is that the % I support someone is the same % I agree with what they're doing, or not doing. In that way, I frankly don't support anyone 100% and have trouble grasping how anyone can.

[Ohio Joe]

17. Yes, I do

I selected 100%, only because it is the nearest one to my true feelings.

[Iggo]

18. With both hands.

Know'm say'n?

[uponit7771]

19. The attempts to splinter the dem base via the tubes is obvious

[t0dd]

20. no. nt

[Ozymanithrax]

22. None of the above.

I never supported him 100%. The support I have for the PResdient isn't wavering.

[Maru Kitteh]

23. Not just yes but HELL YES.

I haven't forgotten the previous eight years so easily.

[tallahasseedem]

25. I do...

but I'm telling you, he's really wearing me down.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I'm a teacher

I support him as much as the air traffic controllers supported Reagan.

[Swamp Rat]

28. Yes, because I have no other choice.

Well, if I do not receive healthcare, after a decade of having no healthcare at all, then I will work to unseat him.

He has 3 years to make sure ALL Americans are insured.

[AllentownJake]

29. At this point it is bring on a primary challenger in 2012 nt

[donco6]

30. I don't support his stands on certain issues that are very important to me.

I don't know how that translates to "support Obama."

[old mark]

31. Certainly. He is not my "ideal", but he is a lot better than most other dems

and any republican since Lincoln. He is not a progressive in my eyes, but he is activly and rabidly hated by the really right, which gives him a lot of points in my book. He is obviously
a decent man and has the interests of the country at heart, which is a hell of a lot after 8 years of w and his criminals in office.

mark

[gleaner]

32. I chose "no he lost me" ,,,,

Because he well and truly did. Look at what Grayson did with little time to do it in and without the clout the White House with a mandate would have carried back in July or August of last year on Health Care. Obama blew it with all those resources. He lied and lied and underwrote the Bush torture policies and the suspension of Habeas Corpus with a binding supreme court decision. He keeps funneling money to the big banking chains and does not seem to support meaningful regulation there while people's credit is abused and their houses foreclosed. In a burst of short sighted idiocy he adopted cutting spending which has already been slashed to the bone instead of taxing the rich, causing more misery for the people who supported his election.

He sent a huge number of troops to Afghanistan and widened the war to include Pakistan and Yemen. The troops are still in Iraq and so far no binding time line for their removal has been adhered to. I also notice that he is giving aid to the government of Iran. This would be the government which engaged in election fraud and killed its own people when they went out to protest. Iran has been right on the tipping point of rejecting the old government and choosing a more democratic system. This will probably help to kill that, because these funds are not going to the protesters. They are going to the entrenched and system which has been in power since Carter was trying to free the hostages.

To say it plainly, the only thing Obama could do at this point to make me happy is to resign and let someone able and competent assume office. I am going to be looking for another Democratic candidate in the 2012 primary for sure. I want to do everything I can to keep Obama a one term president. He is nothing more than a stalking horse for the Republican agenda.

I notice that you have framed your poll so that there is only one "yes" option and several "no" options which is a way of splitting the no votes and making it look like the yes votes are in a large majority. That is manipulative. I think a straight up no or yes with the responders stating their own qualifications would have been more meaningful, and certainly more fair.

[Urban Prairie]

33. Yes, I support our Democratic POTUS.

Clinton did a lot of things during his two terms of office, that I disapproved of, for example, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and NAFTA, but I did not vote for BOOSH to indirectly exact my revenge on him by not voting for his VP Gore. Obama deals with many Blue Dogs in Congress who nip at his heels, while the GOP uses liberal/progressive dissatisfaction at Obama's action or inaction on issues that they are are passionate about, as a tool to magnify them into anger and unhappiness with EVERYTHING he and his administration does or doesn't do. It is still too early in his term, and I will wait another year before I might begin to think that another democratic candidate would be a better party option in '12.

For example witness Boehner stating that "we" (meaning all US voters), do not want a government "takeover" of healthCARE, when it is primarily our concern about health INSURANCE coverage, HCR missing a public option, and single payer.