Barack Obama Forum Approval Rating (July 2015)

[RR1997]

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My opinion:
Approve

[Classic Conservative]

My Opinion:
Disapproval

[H. Ross Peron]

Approve

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Lean disapproval. He has his good moments and his bad moments.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I've strongly approved since he trolled Republicans at the State of the Union. Or possibly opening Cuba up.

[TNF]

Strongly disapprove.

[Türkisblau]

Strongly disapprove.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Disapprove

[Zioneer]

Less approve of Obama himself, more highly disapprove of his partisan opponents.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Disapprove

[Mr. Smith]

Lean approve.

[OSR stands with Israel]

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My opinion:
Approve

Disapprove

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Strongly disapprove.

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Although he is overly cautious in terms of foreign policy (even conservative, in many respects), he is far better than any President of the United States has any rights to be.

[Murica!]

Strongly disapprove.

[RR1997]

Can the people who voted "dissaprove" please explain to me why they dissaprove of Obama's performance as president?

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Can people who voted"dissaprove" please explain why they dissaprove of Obama's performance as president?

He came into office promising hope and change in Washington, yet he's only contributed to the existence of the most gridlocked congresses in the history of this nation. His stimulus plan has resulted in a sluggish recovery that has left underemployment in double digits (it was in single digits during parts of '07), has left wages stagnant, and has kept labor force participation anemically low. His health care plan was rammed through with unconventional legislative maneuvers and he's refused time and time again to make sensible changes to it. He dragged his feet in terms of getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. He frequently holds up attempts at congressional compromise because he's addicted to a life of clean debt ceiling raises, despite the fact that the one time he gave in, we got the 2011 budget control act, which wasn't and isn't a bad act. Furthermore, he effectively allowed HRC to break the rules by using private email (It has come out that his aids probably knew), and on one occasion he even told the justice department to disregard a law (when he told them to stop defending DOMA. I didn't support DOMA, but that doesn't change the fact that upholding all the laws, even the ones you hate, is the president's job.).

McCain and Romney wouldn't have been better, but this nation can do a lot better than Obama.

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Can the people who voted "dissaprove" please explain to me why they dissaprove of Obama's performance as president?

The one time he ever seemed to really fight for anything in his life was for fast track, and TPP will screw workers and the environment. He's opened large areas to drilling, did nothing about the abuses on Wall Street,, expanded the NSA, had us support some Al Qaeda allies in Syria. His handling of the 2011 fiscal ceiling showed he's a joke President.

[JonathanSwift]

Strongly disapprove.

[SATW]

Foreign Policy: Strongly Disapprove
Social Policy: slightly approve (LGBT rights)
Economic Policy: Mildly Disapprove

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The issues with the Obama administration are undeniable. Domestically, the agenda started out wildly optimistic and unprepared (see: the ongoing saga of Gitmo). Successes were poorly telegraphed to the public (the stimulus is a prime example of a broadly successful program that the administration completely lost the message on). Although I do believe that Obama has unleashed an uncorrupted progressive agenda that really wipes the floor with any President since FDR, his successes have come at the price of a reactionary wave that has largely captured most statehouses and the HoR. This wave has led to a hyper-right-wing attack on the state level upon unions (the increasing spread of right-to-work), welfare recipients and public schools; and the national Democratic party's failures have largely ceded various areas of the country to reactionaries. The right-wing grip on the HoR has led to numerous international humiliations: the governmental shutdown, the austere sequesteration and numerous flirtations with default. America wants to be proud model democracy: how does it help the international democracy movement to see the most prominent democracy on earth crippled and moribund?

Which neatly segues into my major complaint with the Obama admin: a conservativ and wholly tired foreign policy. Although I do give him credit in many areas, the fact is the Pentagon still behaves live it has since 1945. Exceptionalists still ruin all international attempts at progress. Nuclear disarmament is going backwards. The "surges" into the Middle Eastern quagmires were largely failures and the dithering into the Sunni-Shia proxy war is becoming ever more a mess. Numerous terrible regimes are still propped up for reasons of increasingly nebulous Realpolitik. And the wholly pointless encirclement of China and Russia still continued. Who knows what the consequences in that respect will be?

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That said strongly approve, top five president.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Approve (D). It's quite entertaining to see the libertarians and the commies teaming up in this thread.

He came into office promising hope and change in Washington, yet he's only contributed to the existence of the most gridlocked congresses in the history of this nation.

In 2009, the Republican Congressional Caucus held a meeting in which they literally decided to vote against the president on every issue, no matter what. I'm not sure what Obama was supposed to accomplish with that.

His stimulus plan has resulted in a sluggish recovery that has left underemployment in double digits (it was in single digits during parts of '07), has left wages stagnant, and has kept labor force participation anemically low.

What do you think he should have done differently? Certainly the Republican economic plan ("Deregulate everything!", "Also, cut taxes for rich people!") would only have made things worse. It's also not fair to blame Obama for everything that has gone wrong with the economy in the last seven years considering a) he inherited a problem that took far longer to create than he had time to fix it; and b) for most of his presidency, Congress has refused to lift a finger to help. If FDR couldn't end the Great Depression in 12 years with a compliant Congress, I'm not sure how Obama was supposed to end the Great Recession in 8 years with a combative Congress.

His health care plan was rammed through with unconventional legislative maneuvers

Um, no. He spent most of 2009 trying to bring Republican Congressman on board by scrapping his more ambitious proposals (as history shows, a useless endeavor).

and he's refused time and time again to make sensible changes to it.

Actually, Obama has been quite open making "sensible changes" to the law: the problem is that the Republican Congress has never been able to decide what it is they want him to change. He even suspended part of the law at John Boehner's request in 2014. What did the GOP do then? They sued him.

He dragged his feet in terms of getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fair enough, though as usual the GOP has accused him of going too fast on this.

He frequently holds up attempts at congressional compromise because he's addicted to a life of clean debt ceiling raises, despite the fact that the one time he gave in, we got the 2011 budget control act, which wasn't and isn't a bad act.

Well, Ted Cruz certainly liked it.

Furthermore, he effectively allowed HRC to break the rules by using private email (It has come out that his aids probably knew),

Frankly, I doubt this would be an issue were Clinton not a presidential candidate. The people (or at least the politicians) talking about this aren't really concerned about following the law, they just want dirt on their political opponents and are disappointed by the lack of real scandals.

and on one occasion he even told the justice department to disregard a law (when he told them to stop defending DOMA. I didn't support DOMA, but that doesn't change the fact that upholding all the laws, even the ones you hate, is the president's job.).

Enforcing the law and defending the law in court are not the same things. If a law clearly violates the Constitution (as the Supreme Court later verified), the president should not waste taxpayer dollars trying to pretend it doesn't.

McCain and Romney wouldn't have been better, but this nation can do a lot better than Obama.

We also could have done a lot worse.

[TDAS04]

Easily approve. 

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Can people who voted"dissaprove" please explain why they dissaprove of Obama's performance as president?

He came into office promising hope and change in Washington, yet he's only contributed to the existence of the most gridlocked congresses in the history of this nation. His stimulus plan has resulted in a sluggish recovery that has left underemployment in double digits (it was in single digits during parts of '07), has left wages stagnant, and has kept labor force participation anemically low. His health care plan was rammed through with unconventional legislative maneuvers and he's refused time and time again to make sensible changes to it. He dragged his feet in terms of getting us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. He frequently holds up attempts at congressional compromise because he's addicted to a life of clean debt ceiling raises, despite the fact that the one time he gave in, we got the 2011 budget control act, which wasn't and isn't a bad act. Furthermore, he effectively allowed HRC to break the rules by using private email (It has come out that his aids probably knew), and on one occasion he even told the justice department to disregard a law (when he told them to stop defending DOMA. I didn't support DOMA, but that doesn't change the fact that upholding all the laws, even the ones you hate, is the president's job.).

McCain and Romney wouldn't have been better, but this nation can do a lot better than Obama.

You are literally everything wrong with Independents