As a Republican are you hard on President Obama more out of spite then his actual job performance?

Ha ha, I enjoy observing the conservative responses. It's just supporting the fact that they're still pissed about his election. Obama's doing great so far, I don't know where people are getting this "Worst president next to Carter" thing. Let's see what he's done right so far:

-Reversed restrictions on stem cell research.

-Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspended taxes on these benefits.

-Raised the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009.

-Appointed at least one Republican to the cabinet. (Lol, you guys should be thankful).

-Increased funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.

-Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes.

-Invested in public transportation.

-Invested in all types of alternative energy.

-Created new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud.

-Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees.

-Increased funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

-Support increased funding for the NEA. (National Endowment for the Arts).

-Established special crime programs for the New Orleans area. (Which btw, George Bush and John McCain were celebrating John's birthday during/after Katrina).

-Appointed the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.

-Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners.

-Expanded loan programs for small businesses.

-Increased funding to expand community based prevention programs.

-Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq.

-Gave a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration.

-Increased funding for national parks and forests.

Wow, that's a few accomplishements.

Now, notice how all of the conservatives are complaining about the health care reform. Seriously? Maybe 1 out of every 100 conservative YahooAnswer member actually read the reform. Yet, 98 out of every 100 of them are complaining about it. The main reason that we NEED a health care reform, is because nearly 46 million Americans are uninsured. Under this reform, you WON'T be denied heath care due to pre-existing conditions, and people contempt with the insurance they currently have WILL NOT be disturbed. So what's the problem? Hundreds of billions of dollars that can be saved have aready been identified in our corrupt health care system...

Change is just what we need...

Not at all and I didn't vote for him because I just don't like the direction that he wants to take the country socialism doesn't work and this is what the founding fathers were trying to get away from. When Bush was president unemployment was at an all time low and the stock market at an all time high and businesses were thriving. It was the wars that were making him so unpopular people wanted out they were tired of it. In 2007 when the Democrats took over everything went down hill and is still going down hill nothing is looking up. I would like to see Obama do a great job but so far that has not happened. No it's not out of spite at all. What I would like to see him do is lower taxes and spending and do a lot more listening rather than talking. I would like to see him leave health care alone because in doing what he is doing with it leads to socialism. Medicine is a great way to get a foot in the door to socialism. Abortion is another thorn in the side. Killing babies is stupid but here we are trying to save the lives of people who want to defend our freedom and are willing to die for our freedom and theirs. I think Bush was on the right track there and Obama is on the wrong track not only there but all around. We have had two terrorist attacks on our own soil since Obama became president. Well I think I've said enough. I could say more but I'll leave it at that.

Out of spite??? No, that was the democrats reaction towards Bush. Obama is drawing ire now from more than the republicans. There are at least 39 key democrats not real happy with him and independents are shifting back to the republicans. Thats a lot 'spite' from outside the party.

As a former Democrat I do not feel comfortable go over to the Republicans but I will vote for them

if I think it is a way to stop the Obama Administration from taking over the political scene

So far the Democrats have ruined the Democrat party for me and my wife

Sure they can bully their way into the law and get elected but what they (the current Democrats*) are

doing or not doing is what is making the *SILENT majority* slowly go away from the current

administration~~Obama is smart enough to know he will most likely end up a one term president if the

current actions keep on getting more and more troublesome

Time will tell but I cannot any longer support the Democratic Party or this administration

Not everyone is a blind follower to any politician~Democrat or Republican

There you go...call anything even slightly to the right of a Clinton and call it far right and claim Clinton is a moderate.

Try being honest. Clinton was handed a growing economy. He also had the benefit of the dot-com bubble. He ruined both. He left the economy damaged with a false surplus, damaged military and intelligence communities, the country attacked multiple times and a major attack planned directly due to his incompetence. Bush repaired the Clinton disaster or at least most of it. The democraps in control of Congress, and the nations purse strings, engineered and completed the current economic disaster we're in now.

As Obama was part of that corrupt Congress, he didn't inherit it, he gave birth to it.

Bush was criticized and called names from day one, not because he was supposedly a bad president but because he wasn't a Democrat, because he had morals and he wasn't a scum lawyer.

Obama is criticized because he lied to us and played to our fears. Despite the left's lies, Bush did not lie to us. He echoed the same things most of Congress told us about Iraq. He assumed, wrongly so, that the Democrats who had access to security meetings were actually telling the truth.

Now, you Democrats need to grow up and quite lying like spoiled welfare brats. Obama was chosen because he was black and far left wing. He was opposed by someone equally corrupt but a woman. All to play the race or gender card to counter ANY criticism. Fact is he is not experienced, he is corrupt, he is a liar, he is a bigot, and he is now the WORST president ever.

Keep drinking the koolaid.

I usually vote republican but call myself a conservative or Jeffersonian liberal. I have zero spite for the man, because I knew what he was and I warned all my friends about him. I must admit i am pretty pissed at anyone that voted for him who is not a statist. Obama is a statist so if you are a statist then we just disagree on what works and you have a right to be wrong as does Obama. If your not a statist then I'm pissed off at you if you didn't educate yourself enough to not vote for Obama.

So which are you a statist or ignorant. If your ignorant then make us a promise, don't vote next time I don't think the country will survive 3-7 more years of these craziness.

Simple, I can't stand his job performance despite what you think. Spite? How old do you think I am that I'm going to bash out of spite, you do realize our country is at stake and this isn't something out of the entertainment world like the left likes to view him. As for Clinton those numbers were the approval ratings of the democrats, not republican and I'm glad you think he did such a great job with the economy when he used our social security money to give us such great economy and then things went sour before he was able to put it back in.

I look at a President's performance on the job. And Obama's is miserable. He may well go down in history as the worst President and take the title away from Carter.

The republicans had a lousy record to run on, all they could do was name-call and spread fear with words like Muslim, socialist, liar and any other derogatory thing they could hang on Mr. Obama. Shame on adults for acting that way when this country needs us all to come together and make her strong again. There is no reason now to say the president is lying about anything. It is a slow process to recovery. I support him until all is in order again because I know that is his goal.

This is a bit of a ridiculous question... of course the far right are going to hate a liberal/democrat president, and i guarantee that MOST of the left will hate the republican/conservative people... it's just human nature. That's why Washington didn't want there to be parties, because now people don't vote for the good people, they vote for people in their party.

Be an independent... and start thinking for yourself. Not all democrats are good, not all are bad, and the same goes for republicans.

And honestly... If you like freedom and see the direction this country is going, you won't like obama. Our healthcare is screwed up... but the government can't run the post office, the railroad, or ANY business. Capitalism > Socialism. If you don't want to be in a capitalist country (not necessarily addressing you here) then you can go to France or some other socialist country... why change the U.S.? We're not broken.

Theres no level of partisan hatred that equals Obama's incompetence.

Just ask the Independents who are abandoning the boy president in droves!