Well, I don't hate Obama. I am unhappy with him for some of his policies. I can list his policies I'm unhappy with. I am intelligent enough to not throw around factually incorrect words like muslim, socialist, America-hater. Every complaint I have about Obama is based on facts, not perceptions taught to me by Fox and Rush.
- He was not forceful enough in creating a public option in the Affordable Healthcare Act. The act that we got is too weak and doesn't do enough to reverse spiking healthcare costs. While he could not make the few Democrat hold outs vote the right way when the Senate had a super majority, he should have been more forceful with them because solidarity was needed when the minority party has been the most obstructionist political group in the entire history of the United States.
- Closing Guantanamo. I can't blame him completely. He did sign an Executive Order to close it. It was Congress who stopped him. However, Guantanamo is a military base with military prisoners. Obama is Commander In Chief and he should have told Congress "too bad, it's my decision, go fuck yourselves"
- Allowed a deal to continue the Bush tax cuts that have hurt our economy so much.
- Despite campaigning as a moderate liberal, he has mostly been a right of center President. The American right has proven over the last 20 years to be one of the most harmful political groups in our nation's history and being right of center when he should be liberal only exacerbates that problem.
- He should ask Eric Holder for his resignation and hasn't. I can't blame Obama for Fast and Furious as I doubt he had more than a cursory knowledge. But someone's head has to roll for the poor implementation, and Holder is the man.
I'm sure I have a few more that just aren't coming to mind. He's also done some good things such as the auto bailout that saved hundreds of thousands of jobs, the stimulus that saved the economy, realizing after Deepwater Horizon that regulation is a good thing and requiring environmental review. Not giving in to political pressure and instead denying the pipeline pending environmental review when he could have thrown causion to the wind and been a reckless retard like the GOP.
Basically, it's been that the more liberal things that Obama has done have been good, the more conservative ones have been bad. It is unfortunate that he's had to deal with a opposing political party that has only been surpassed by the confederacy in harmfulness to our nation's prosperity.