Obama and his Critics, both Liberal and Conservative

[alfreda89]

Repeating something I posted over at Facebook --

Here's a Newsweek magazine article worth reading -- about President Obama and what he's been doing the past three years. I knew about a lot of this, but I have not seen it laid out so simply and cleanly, by a conservative who voted for Obama and then screamed about presidential actions for the first two years.

Turns out Obama has been playing the long game -- and has done or started almost everything he promised. He just hasn't done it as a liberal crusader, because that's not who he is. He's an adult, acting with generous, capable adult calm. That's why I voted for him. We need an adult at the helm.

From Newsweek magazine, reprinted on the author's blog. Not the New York Times. Not Fox News. So it's safe to go read it, whichever side of the political wars you claim.

Go on. I double dare you! {grin}

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

We love him in Britain, we really do. We see him as someone trying to do good things in the face of real, mean opposition, and we are cheering him on.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Overall, I am proud to have him represent us. I just hope we can give him four more years to finish everything he can, and turn around the excesses of the Bush years.

[morfin.livejournal.com]

Ok, maybe I should be a little less hard on him for not standing up the right-wing as much. But I still think he has a bad record on individual liberties by signing such things as the indefinite suspension bill.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not happy about that, either. But I have a pretty good idea of what the Republicans would do if turned loose in office -- bringing back torture would be only the start of it -- and so he's still my horse in the race.

I'll let him do something steady and sneaky and get rid of that later, if he can. If not, it will be a blot on his administration. I'll continue to oppose it, and sign petitions against it. But as you know, with the type of senators we get from down here, there's not a lot we can do to legislatively pressure him on it.

His having the generals say "Get rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was brilliant maneuvering of the right. Let's see what else he can pull off.