So if I'm looking correctly at the map posted above by JBrase, the president holds a 50% or above approval rating in only 11 states out of 49 polled, and not including D.C. Regardless of what the future holds for November '12, supporters of Obama have to be troubled by this....
Just speaking as an independent (yes, I voted for McCain in the general, but Hillary was my first choice), I don't see how anyone can honestly think the president is doing a good job, or even a mediocre one. It's getting down now where a huge remainder of his supporters are doing so based solely on party ID as the majority of voters have been against nearly everything he's tried to accomplish.
He's actually gotten a lot done, even if it is half assed (blame congress, not Obama). He is certainly not a good president because he doesn't lead well. But at the same time he hasn't made any big blunders. If things remain the way they are, he will end up somewhere in the middle of Presidents in terms of job performance.
Now if you think that he shouldn't have done health care reform or financial reform, then that's a different thing. If you wanted these things done, you can't deny that he did it.
Obama has indeed gotten a lot of his fascist agenda pushed through.
Whether you consider that a good thing or not depends on whether you approve of fascism or not.
I kinda approve of the health care bill. That means I kinda support fascism, right Libertas?
I think that he supports the idea that a healthy economic system succeeds by bleeding everyone else to support some "right people" whose enrichment and indulgence is understood to be the definitive good irrespective of the hardships imposed upon everyone else and whose mystical virtues (really, crude exercise of economic power) are not to be challenged.
Is that you describe Obama's fascist "healthcare reform"?
President Obama's healthcare reform is anything but fascist. I refer instead to tycoons and executives who act as if everyone else is either livestock or vermin. Such an attitude is fascism in its crudest form.
So empowering them even more helps? To fix that Obama will then have to have more government contr... regulations.
He's talking about how no government intervention could lead to abusive business practices, which in affect would be like a corporate dictatorship.
