Obama after 1 1/2 years in office.

I would definitely vote for Barack Obama again in the next 4 years. A lot of people have to realize something also. Obama has to deal with the mess that Bush made on top of other things. Our world was already messed up before he was in office and people are expecting him to pull a magic wand out of his behind and just presto-chango everything just like it didnt happen. He's dealing with a lot of pressure and a lot of people do not give him credit for the things that he has done. Majority of the people arent pass the fact that he is also a black president that wants everyone to work together. That includes whites and black the rich and the poor. Even if he doesnt make it in office I hope someone does think like him in the next term.

I disagree with President Obama at an ideological level. Everything else is just everything else, like the smears, the bickering, and questions of experience, etc etc... I do not believe America is best suited with a "fundamental change" and wealth redistribution and more social policies than the out-of-control policies we already have. I'm not 100% for the "free market," either. I want a careful balance of freedoms and only the most necessary regulations that ensure able people make their own way in life while only the truly needy are subsidized on any level. It's just not in me to support a politician like Obama. But it doesn't stop there. I don't support the other side's platform, with their "progressive" vision of big government (just not as big as liberal progressive) and a more by-the-bible America. I hope Obama doesn't serve 2 terms. I don't think we could take it. But I also don't see another option out there for President that would be any better in the long term. Someone has to step up with some common sense solutions and not all of this "change, change, change" BS that we the taxpayers suffer over.

Yes, I helped elect him and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. As it stands now I absolutely will vote for him again in 2012. I'm not of the opinion that he's "screwed up so much" and what I can't fathom is the idea of ANY of the current breed of high profile Republicans in the White House. That isn't to say I haven't been disappointed in President Obama in some ways but I guess I've reached the point through all the years I've been interested in politics where I realize we always set our expectations too high. Nobody is going to please anybody totally on everything 100% of the time! That having been said, I've still found myself somewhat hopeful that a Democratic candidate will actually turn out to be as liberal has he campaigned on being but I know deep inside that's not about to happen as long as the right wing media and the special interest lobbyists are around. The very tone and the direction this discussion has taken is a good indication of what's wrong in this country today. You ask a very good question in a very respectful way yet several of those who responded couldn't resist the temptation to insult the intelligence of those of us who disagree with them. I know both sides are guilty of this but what does it really accomplish other than dividing us further? I think it's only common sense that we didn't get into the mess we're in overnight and that it usually takes much longer to clean a mess up than it takes to make it. I'm also aware that the President, regardless of his or hopefully eventually party, can't do it all alone, some cooperation from the opposition party in Congress is necessary. Our more successful Presidents - Reagan and Clinton are the two most recent - have had that to some degree. President Obama has NOT, I'd hope that's something we can agree on. Annie

Has he even been a president yet? I think his motto ought to be "I'm not a president, but I play one on TV". Didn't vote for him-wouldn't vote for him. I just changed my political affiliation to Libertarian from Democrat. Those folks have gone crazy!

I did help him get into office, and I WOULD vote for him again. If you look at the FACTS of what he walked into, the country was totally screwed well before he came into office. It is going to take years if not decades to fix the mess that was created over the last 10 years. REMEMBER: It took Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton 6 YEARS to fix the mess left from the Reagan recession, and that wasn't even in the same league as this repression. I am sure that McCain is happy he lost, who really wants to lead the country when you can't do anything to fix it.

I'm disappointed in President Obama in many ways, but he's still preferable to anyone that the Republicants could possibly put on the table. The move is to keep him in office through 2016 and use that time to push Congress in a more progressive direction in order to generate a more progressive slate of Democratic candidates to succeed him.

I voted for him and I will vote for him again. I disagree with the general consensus that we need to get rid of incumbents who are mostly Democrats. I think we need more people in the congress willing to consider the proposals and support the good ones. Since the Republicans just shoot down everything as Democrat because they are terrified something good will get passed and credited to the opposition, that means more Dems and more independents need to be put in this November Case in Point: the Republicans just got rid of the Disclosure Act. It wount even come to a debate. So, big money can now decide elections. BUT as soon as that money turns out to be Democrat money, they will have a problem and it will come bak to bite them. Frankly, I hope enough will come back and bite them between now and Nov that we can get more support for President Obama who has doen the best he cn with this Republican obstructioism blocking him every step of the way.

I did not trust Obama from the first minute he appeared on the presidential campaign trail. Too many unanswered questions, smoke screens covering every aspect of his life which I thoroughly researched. So no way in hell did I even consider for one moment to vote for this puppet my only question is who is pulling his strings and financing all the cover up? Obama is a glib speaker when using the teleprompter but does not have the necessary intelligence to speak without a script. I am really worried what will be left of our once great nation if this nefarious phony and his crew of hand picked tax evaders,crooks and socialist sycophants are left to govern for the rest of his term. As for voting for another 4 years of treachery I very seriously doubt the mental capacity of anyone who does vote for him again after getting a sample of how much he is determined to bring the USA to it's knees.

I voted for Ron Paul, because I had more confidence in him. The changes he proposed were more radical, but it made more sense then your typical repubocrat. And next election the people will elect another repubocrat. And things will continue the same as they ever was ~ same as they ever was ~ same as they ever was ~ same as they ever was ~

I didn't vote for Obama and he has done nothing that persuades me to vote for his in the next presidential election.