Has Obama Let Us Down?

As an Obama supporter, I have been finding myself growing weary of constantly defending him. I have been asking myself if he is the right guy for the job. Having read some of his books, I can tell you that his philosophy seems to be genuine. I believe that he is trying as hard as anyone to be bi-partisan and that he really does want to make the changes that his supporters want. He is just hitting some snags midway through his term such as a falling level of public support and a midterm election approaching that appears to be going to the other party.
His support is falling due in part to the length of time that it is taking for the economic recovery to take hold. People are growing tired of waiting for results. You have to remember that we knew that as painful as it was, the recovering economy was going to need time to heal. It took time to get to where we are now and will probably take even longer to get back to the way things were before. Results will not be instant and change doesn’t happen overnight or even over a couple of years. We need to bear with it and have faith that Obama is doing a good job, regardless of the way it may look right now. He has, after all, fulfilled more of the campaign promises he made during his campaign than most of the elected ever do, and this is the change that we elected him for.
Obama has accomplished some great things as our President such as getting a credit card bill passed that protects consumers from predatory lending, signing into law the “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act” which expands a worker’s right to sue their employer over pay discrimination claims, passing the SCHIP expansion that expands health care benefits to cover 4 million more low-income children (Bush vetoed a similar bill), and among other things, passing the health care overhaul bill (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that expands insurance coverage and protects people from having their insurance dropped because they are sick. He has also put policies in place that make government more transparent by banning lobbyist’s gifts and that restrict the hiring of lobbyists. He has also made it policy to publish the White House visitor logs and other records.
I do admit that it is still to be seen how all this plays out over the next few years, but I for one am going to stick it out knowing that these are some of the things that I wanted to be accomplished. A little support goes a long way. You just need to take a look back, try to visualize your thoughts at the time of the last election, and know what is right. Just because the media is making this into more than it is, doesn’t mean that we have to give up. Obama has not let me down.