Reply #53: Most of us took a good look at Obama's legislative

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record and drew conclusions about his temperament during the campaign, usually during the primaries.

Enough other Americans did the same, or in any case, felt inspired to support him and Joe Biden.

There were in fact very considerable obstacles to the president's legislative agenda.

When the Left argues that this president is not sufficiently progressive, they ignore the historical reality that the nation is governed from the middle. There have never been any truly progressive administrations. FDR's might be the closest for the sake of argument, but absent the Depression, we have no idea what legislation would have been advanced. Lyndon Johnson, picking up the torch from John Kennedy, did advance the cause of civil rights, but there was very significant resistance to that as well. And I certainly would not call Jimmy Carter a progressive. He was a moderate.

Changes are in the works for Obama's working Cabinet. We'll have to see what happens.