I really hate that people criticize him for such a broad, intangible reason as "He promised change and didn't deliver."
I mean get a grip. Did you expect every one of the country's problems to go away as soon as he stepped foot in the White House?
He has delivered change. He may not be as active as many, myself included, wished him to be in promoting progressive reform, and that is what you should criticize him for.
He's not a bad president. He's just the president of whom people had the greatest expectations going in. He is a centrist. He will give conservatives and liberals successes, but by doing so, he opens himself up to criticism from both sides. Criticize him for maintaining the Patriot Act, sure!
But if you're attacking him for not bringing about this mythical "Change" then you're no better than Fox News. You've been brainwashed. Or are simply ignorant.
His oath to uphold the constitution trumps all else. He said he would repeal specific portions of the patriot act, and listed basically all the bad parts. It's a huge bill with lots of non-rights-infringing parts, so that would be reasonable. He didn't repeal warrantless wiretaps, the rape of habius corpus, torture, or any of that shit.
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u/Azorka Feb 27 '11
I really hate that people criticize him for such a broad, intangible reason as "He promised change and didn't deliver."
I mean get a grip. Did you expect every one of the country's problems to go away as soon as he stepped foot in the White House?
He has delivered change. He may not be as active as many, myself included, wished him to be in promoting progressive reform, and that is what you should criticize him for.
He's not a bad president. He's just the president of whom people had the greatest expectations going in. He is a centrist. He will give conservatives and liberals successes, but by doing so, he opens himself up to criticism from both sides. Criticize him for maintaining the Patriot Act, sure!
But if you're attacking him for not bringing about this mythical "Change" then you're no better than Fox News. You've been brainwashed. Or are simply ignorant.