Reply #247: The idea that Obama critics are all or even mostly disgruntled Hillary supporters

[hulka38]

is way off the mark. I was an avid supporter of Obama throughout the primaries and during his senate run and have the t shirts to prove it. It turned for me with abysmal cabinet appointments and that kabuki health care reform fiasco. I know I'm not alone. I have no doubt that former Obama primary supporters comprise a large part of his current critics on DU.
Also, if you'll listen to what is being said here, people are every bit as unhappy with the Democratic Party as they are with Obama. It isn't about singling him out and then saying if we can just, as you said, "get rid of our President in 2012" everything will be hunky dory. There's a genuine sense that we are being manipulated by the party, that it may not be acting in our best interests and it took a powerful mandate and control of the legislative and executive branches to expose that reality. Obama is taking the majority of the heat because he's the leader of the party, he presented himself as something he's not and he's the President.
Disagree on whether the criticisms of party or party leader are warranted but I think this is a pretty accurate assessment of where we are on DU generally.