Barack Obama Forum Approval Rating (July 2015)

[Brewer]

Without TPP I'd strongly approve, but I approve nonetheless.

[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.

You are literally everything wrong with Independents

Right, because being part of the idiotic football team mentality of either party is so much better. Whatever.

[SATW]

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

[Mr. Illini]

Strongly approve

[SNJ1985]

Strongly disapprove.

[The Dowager Mod]

I'm still waiting for that Socialist paradise the Republicans promised me if he was elected.
Disapprove.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I like him and generally approve, but I don't think he deserves as much praise as some people think he does. He's done good things, but he hasn't really had many direct accomplishments these last few years. To a large extent, though, I don't think it's fair to hold that against him, but he gets attributed for things (like gay marriage) he didn't have a ton to do with. Like with Republicans that praise Reagan for "winning the Cold War" Obama just sort of happened to be the one around when it finally happened.

[PJ]

Lean disapprove, but I'm tempted to lower the bar for him given that he's so much better than the vast majority of presidents.

[SWE]

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

Different people can dislike something for vastly different reasons. Shocking, I know.

[Mr. Smith]

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

Different people can dislike something for vastly different reasons. Shocking, I know.

Doesn't make it any less entertaining.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Approve, obviously.

[Clark Kent]

Mediocre on everything. His social and economic policies have some merit to them, but are too liberal overall. I also agree with his foreign policy for the most part, but he's been too weak.

[Xing]

Overall, approve, though I definitely don't agree with everything he's done. His promise to end gridlock was probably made with the best of intentions, but it was naive. No one in their right mind can blame him alone for the gridlock, and when Republicans in congress do just that, they're proving nothing other than their own hypocrisy. It's like building a brick wall in front of a car and then blaming the car for the fact that it's not moving forward. Obama made many attempts to compromise, only to have feces thrown at him. And people wonder why he signed an executive order for immigration last year. If I were him, I probably would've given up on working with Republicans in mid-2009, and would've probably signed dozens of executive orders by this point, lol. He's done some irresponsible things, particularly with regards to privacy, and I'm no fan of the TPP, but I challenge people who criticize his economic policy or health care plan to suggest alternatives that would actually have more success.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Meh. I don't viscerally hate him like I used to. In fact, he makes me smile pretty often these days. But to suggest he's actually been in control of anything for, like, the past five years, is laughable... which makes it pretty difficult to judge his performance. He has been at the mercy of events for better or for worse. Now that the economy seems to be doing better, I'm being a bit less harsh than I once was, but it doesn't have anything to do with him.

[RFayette]

Strongly disapprove.

[ElectionsGuy]

Strongly disapprove.

[Maxwell]

TPP and Cuba has moved me to a narrow Approve, and I think I will miss his Presidency as soon as he goes.

[Njall]

Approve

[Phony Moderate]

I really don't get why people feel so strongly about him either way.

[The Other Castro]

Lean Approve.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I really don't get why people feel so strongly about him either way.

Oh really, obamaisdabest?

[Rockefeller GOP]

Mildly disapprove.

[Sumner 1868]

Disapprove.

[YaBoyNY]

Approve.

[Rooney]

President Obama is one bad socialist. He has fought his socialistic tendencies the entire presidency. Thus, I strongly approve of his handling of the presidency.