Obama is a centrist.  Just because teh right calls him 'the most liberal politician ever/socialist/communist/etc' doesn't mean that's true.  His good....Just look at what McCain has said and done over the last couple months and compare.  McCain is a barking at the moon nitwit.  He'd have had us attack Iran so that a different very conservative politician run the show over there.  Until the Republican party throws off the yoke of the nuts who set policies and run the party, I'll take the centrist Dem any time.

Things I'm unhappy with about Obama:

!) Continuing bush43's DOJ policy on: a) Degence of Marriage Act.  That last court filing where they equated homosexuality with pedophilia is abhorrent, b) the use of National Security to quash investigations and law suits. Prior to bush43, a govt could only censor individual data points, not quash a whole law suit/investigation.

2) they should have let the FDIC take over the bad banks/insurance companies.  Coddling those who caused our current financial mess, Geitner's way, hasn't enlightened those bums one bit.  It's in fact made them even more princely acting like they deserve our largess.  They don't.  Those very same protected upper class should be at home collecting unemployment checks right now.

3) Environmental timidity.  They should allow coal companies to blow up mountains to get at coal.  They shouldn't allow them to dump the remains into valleys & streams, filling them in and effectively killing everything.  Profit and greed should not trump the planet we live on.  We don't have another.

Having said all that....I'm still very thankful to have Obama as President.  His stance on many world issues has been almost perfect.  The US can once again be considered other countries partner, not other countries bully master.  Thank god Karl Rove no longer has any power other than to blather and bullshit at Phaux.