Obama voters: How do you feel about Obama's performace thus far?

[GLPman]

For those of who voted for Obama in 2008, are you satisfied or disappointed with how Obama's time in the White House has gone so far? Has he fulfilled your expectations or not met them? Keep in mind that this poll is NOT asking whether your approve or disapprove of Obama.

[anvi]

Disappointed.  I've said it elsewhere, but the three most important bills of his presidency, the stimulus, financial regulation and health care bills were on balance not well-crafted.  He let the 111th Congress write most of those bills, which was also indicative of a lack of legislative experience, and thus leadership, of his own.  In a time of national crisis, that's not good. 

But when I weigh that against the good stuff he has helped get done, and for ridding this world of OBL, the disappointment is mild.  The disappointment is also qualified by what a difficult period this country is in and how hard it would be to tackle for any first-term president, as well as by a still-surviving gratitude that he won.  A McCain presidency would have been, in my view, worse, for one thing.  And, I'll just say it, the election of this country's first black president, one with Arabic and African names, mind you, at a time when the country was thrown into a deep sense of anxiety on top of it all, was quite an historical milestone for the U.S., and I'm glad to have seen it. 

[King]

Disappointed, but I expected it.  Obama made 3 terms worth of promises about what he was going to do in the next four years.

Obama, like Dubya before him IMO, didn't go at his agenda in the right order.  Healthcare reform was tossed out too halphazardly, just like W's second term was dead on arrival with his immediately defeated immigration plan.

There are so many little bills and reforms the Democrats could have passed in 2009-10 that would have only built their popular support and would have made HCR much easier to handle.

[Badger]

Other. Disappointed insofar as how short of expectations he's made, but I sanely blame the majority of this on a near lockstep far right GOP Senate caucus that shamelessly abuses the traditional restraint of fillabusters and holds to stop "socialism" in its tracks.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Disappointed, but as a president he's still at least okay and I'll support him in 2012 for mostly pragmatic reasons.

[Paul Kemp]

Too early to tell.

[The Mikado]

Meh.

[bloombergforpresident]

Disappointed because he has not controlled unemployment and I think he went for healthcare at the wrong time. He's losing middle-class suburban America because of his handling of the economy. I give him high marks on foreign policy, but domestically- not much.

[memphis]

He's done the best anybody could. He was handed the worst economy in decades and has faced the most rabid, irrational opposition in just as long. He needs to be more aggressive in negotiations with the GOP and in defending his policies (particularly healthcare reform and the budget fiasco). It also wouldn't hurt to mention the fact that he killed Osama bin Laden.

[exopolitician]

Somewhat satisfied. He's an average President with his equal share of successes and failures. Although, criticism for this President has probably been the most critical and unfair that ive ever seen. It's kinda unfortunate.

[pbrower2a]

I dislike the economic results, but for that Republicans have huge culpability.

It's going to be a while before America can have a boom that solves all apparent problems. 

[Smash255]

Satisfied.  I think he could have done more, and pushed harder at times, but considering the GOP's filibuster anything and everything approach to the Senate, what was within reach or realistic for Obama to accomplish isn't that far beyond what he has done.

[Napoleon]

Disappointed, but as a president he's still at least okay and I'll support him in 2012 for mostly pragmatic reasons.

[opebo]

We're doomed, he's slowing down our destruction ever so slightly.  To expect more would be to hope for too much.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Satisfied.  I think he could have done more, and pushed harder at times, but considering the GOP's filibuster anything and everything approach to the Senate, what was within reach or realistic for Obama to accomplish isn't that far beyond what he has done.

[Eraserhead]

Option 2.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Meh. Moderate hero on most issues but he did get a few gay rights bills passed.