I was not particularly a fan of the adulation
yet the "sabotage him at all costs" mentality disturbed me as well
I was not particularly a fan of the adulation
yet the "sabotage him at all costs" mentality disturbed me as well
I was not particularly a fan of the adulation
yet the "sabotage him at all costs" mentality disturbed me as well
I don't dislike him because he was black. The only thing that bothered me about him being black was that everybody else cared that he was.
I hated that he got elected, in part, on an anti-war message and proceeded to expand it. You could argue that it was necessary, particularly the surge in Afganistan. I tend to side with Ron Paul on the middle east and feel we need to let them do their own thing. I feel like they're a people that need to be ruled, and not democratically. Similar to Russia, which needs to have a strong leader that rules with an iron fist to be their best.
I didn't like the expansion of state welfare. I'm not wholly opposed to it, but I feel it needs to apply to everybody at this point. Expanding the scope just makes those who don't fall under it resentful. I don't want to go into this further now, though.
The government has more reach now than it ever did. The big one is the Patriot Act. He had multiple opportunities to put an end to it, but he didn't. It's only expanded in his time in office. The other thing stuck in my craw, going with the previous paragraph, was mandating healthcare. It was already effectively required, but he allowed it to be a penalized offense. WIth everybody suddenly needing healthcare, the market exploded and costs went with it. Personally, I went from paying under $200/mo to over $600/mo and my coverage and costs get worse and worse every year.
The more he did, the more it seemed we felt it. This is a far different country now than it was when he took office, and I don't believe it was for the better.