You inspired me to donate money to a Presidential campaign, something I'd never done before. You inspired me to knock on doors for you, something I'd never done before.
You got elected and I was ecstatic. I cried, I was comfortable that our nation was ready to be healed and you were the man to do it.
Then, came the dis-illusionments:
- You backed off on war-crimes prosecutions. If you weren't a Constitutional scholar, I could mark that up to simple ignorance, but, of course, that's not the case;
- You appointed the representatives of the very institutions that caused our financial crisis as your advisers. Sure, you're a lawyer, not an economist, but how could you not have been suspicious of these crooks (given your street creds)?
- You went with the advise of your new, multi-millionaire banker buddy/advisers rather than listen to the REAL people telling you that middle-American needed the money for JOBS;
- Then you decide to send an additional 30,000 troops to defend us from a nation with zero international reach because there are 100 members of Al Quaeda still living there (the cost of which would pay for health care in THIS country for 10 years);
- And, as the Commander-in-Chief you order Guantanamo closed and troops withdrawn from Iraq and the Generals under your command decide that's too soon for them (I was in the service, when the commander gives an order, it WILL be obeyed);
- Now, you haven't so much as nudged, much less elbowed, Congress about the Public Option and Health Care Reform. Instead, it appears you are willing to depend on the "leadership" of Harry Reid"?. I'd depend on the "leadership" of Lilly, my housecat, first.
Sorry Sir, you HAVE done SOME good things in your first year. But, as it relates to the populace of this nation, I'll give you a firm C-.