Liberal Values Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Overall Obama is doing a great job and I never expected to agree with him on everything. I do find it annoying after the big primary battle that the decisions I disagree with the most are cases of Obama doing what Hillary Clinton would have done and I expected Obama to be different: the individual mandate, weakness on civil liberties, and going into Libya without Congressional approval.

[Above is my current Facebook status which has led to quite a discussion, along with a couple of de-friendings (plus several likes) . The statement that “overall Obama is doing a great job” received some objections. On the other extreme,  one person defriended me because of seeing any criticism of Obama at all as leading to President Palin. As I responded to her, no president should be above criticism. The fact that there can be much worse is no reason not to point out that there are areas of disagreement. On the other hand, I have no use for those who not only have disagreements with Obama but go from there to claim that he is as bad as Bush or as bad as GOP options for 2012.]