It's hard to know what he is, really.  He's increased our troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, dropped drones on innocent civilians from afar, killing, sickening and maiming tons of them,  his "Operation New Dawn" policy in Iraq is modeled on that of our policy in El Salvador in the 1980's, during the Reagan years, his healthcare bill that was recently passed is a big scam in more ways than one, and the fact that Obama allowed abortion rights to get thrown under the bus to get that thing passed is equally, if not more disgraceful.

Obama doesn't have to gumption to pointedly tell Israel to get their troops and settlers the hell out of West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and allow the Palestinians to create their own independent, sovereign nation-state in those territories alongside israel,  he allowed BP to run amok in the Gulf, by permitting a deep-water (100 miles offshore) oil-drilling job, which, in turn, created the biggest oil gusher in our environmental history.  This horrific oil gusher not only took the lives of 11 oil rig workers, but destroyed the ecosystems that sustain other forms of life and inflicted long-lasting, if not permanent damage to the Gulf itself.  The lives, health, livelihoods, welfare and well-being of thousands, if not millions of Gulf-area residents were totally destroyed, besides.

The fact that Obama allowed BP to cover up their tracks and keep on managing this whole mess is equally, if not more disgraceful.

Back to the healthcare "reform" bill that was passed;  That's a warmed-over, 20 year old GOP-written body of legislature that bails out the insurance companies, but not the people.  The fact that protection for people with pre-existing conditions won't kick in until 2014 (4 years from now), is really disgraceful, and there are no cost controls, either.  People will experience sharp hikes in premiums, co-payments and deductibles, and many people who've already bought healthcare insurance prior to the passage and enactment of this body of legislature will be forced to ratchet down what they've already got in the way of healthcare.  The fact that it's illegal not to buy healthcare is ludicrous and dangerous on the face of it.  Moreover, it won't improve the quality of healthcare in this country, either.  I'm no less supportive of healthcare reform here in the United states either.  We need it.  However, imho, this healthcare "reform" bill has far too much wrong with it to be feasible, and, the idea that it can be "tweaked" for improvements is a bunch of BS.

What Obama and the Democrats in Congress could've and should've done, imho, was to do away with this GOP bill entirely, gone back to the drawing board, really put their heads together and constructed and implemented a genuine healthcare reform bill that entailed Single Payer with Universal healthcare/Medicare for ALL  Americans.  Instead, they took the easy way out and signed a toxic, warmed-over POS Republican-written "healthcare reform bill" into law after passing it.  The fact that abortion rights were thrown  under the bus to get this healthcare "reform" bill passed and enacted is equally, if not more disgraceful.

I didn't vote for Obama, because I saw all this coming when he voted for the FISA Bill and the continued funding for our war in Iraq, promised to escalate and extend and expand our war in Afghanistan, and when he took the exact same positions as John McCain during our pre-POTUS Election Foreign policy debate.

I also might add that what Obama and Geitner did to Elizabeth Warren is equally repulsive, although she kind of did it to herself, too;  Instead of making her the head of the Financial Reform agency that the Obama Administration supposedly created, he's had her report to him and Geithner.  If Elizabeth Warren is as smart and tough as people are making her out to be, she'd tell Obama and Geithner to go straight to hell and not accept anything less than what she's qualified for.  Too bad she allowed herself to be shoved into that corner.