Reply #71: I remember things differently

[Proud Liberal Dem]

He obviously ran as a progressive as compared to McCain but he expressed some clearly enunciated views during the campaign that have largely been reflected in his governance. I don't know if most Americans feel like they were "conned" but I suspect that a lot of people are more upset and hurting because of the rotten economy that he inherited from Bush II than they are about, say, the lack of a public option in HCR or escalation in Afghanistan. A lot of progressives seem to be upset at him because he apparently hasn't taken a strong enough stand and/or enough action on their particular issue of concern or feel slighted by the administration in some way or another. The real reason(s) I suspect that most of the public is upset at Obama (although he STILL has a higher approval rating than Reagan did at this point in his Presidency- AND with a worse economy- and still has a very high approval rating among Democrats) is because of the economic situation, and, more importantly, the Republican/Fox News/Teabagger "axis of evil" misleading a lot of naive and gullible people into believing somehow that Obama is a Muslim, that Muslims are bad/evil/scary people and that the American public needs THEM to protect them from Bin Laden's brigades infiltrating our towns and cities and building mosques, and, most importantly, feigning hysterical outrage over bailouts that they themselves initiated at the urgent insistence of Bush II (without any strings attached) and the national debt for which they are entirely responsible for causing. :banghead:

Out of curiosity, what exactly are the "vast majority of Americans" saying he lied about exactly???? :shrug: