Obama, being in his last year of his first term, is being critiqued unmercifully by Republicans and Democrats. This happens to all presidents but author Andrew Sullivan believes that the critisims are wrong. The far right believe that Obama is a socialist and is trying to change the way America handles things. The far left believe that Obama is "a hapless fool of Wall Street a continuation of Bush in civil liberties, and a cloistered elitist unable to grasp the populist moment that is his historic opportunity." Sullivan believes that even though he has not agreed with everything Obama has done during his time in office, Obama has delivered in a way that the "unhinged right" and the "purist left" have not absorbed or been able to understand.
1. They will always get attacked by his partisan opponents and feistier members of his base.
2. They think he`s attempting a "fundamental transformation" of the American way of life.
3. America was in a recession.
4. They feel as if Obama has done nothing but make the recession worse.
5. Obama caused a lot of government job loss.
6. It was viewed as increasing the deficit instead of decreasing it.
7. Majority of Obama`s senate members are republican and he cant really get anything to pass if he`s democrat and majority of his senate members are republican.
8. He generally shows his accomplishments and not generally talks about them.
9. Sullivan says Obama has a moderate-liberal response to problems.
10. He says that Obama has waged a war based on a reading of executive power & he has made a lot of promises since 2008 that he has not kept.
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