Barack Obama Forum Approval Rating (July 2015)

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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.

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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.

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

Oh really, obamaisdabest?