I'm not "judging his Presidency." I'm judging specific action, which can be evaluated.

[Political Heretic]

There are more things this president has done that I disagree with to date than I agree with, and that is very much a shocking surprise for me.

I have to struggle to find news from the White House that I can feel good about. I expected that there would be some things that I would disagree with, but the sheer scope and magnitude of the capitulation to corporate and MIC interests has left me stunned.

All the way through the first hundred days I was critical of a growing number of actions, but if polled I would have said that I approved of the President's job. That approval was mostly based on hope that something would change. But literally every day of this administration gives me something that moves them further and further away from me in terms of values and actions. Policies announced fall dismally short.

Single Payer is left off the table. The administration EPA is tossing out ridiculous environment screwing policy. We are escalating wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and leaving residual bases and forces in Iraq. We're making Bush-era legal arguments against government transparency, and against civil liberties, We're "moving forward" on the biggest federal crime scandal in the history of our government, proving that there is no accountability and no meaning to the concept of "law" when you have enough power.

The Wall Street bailout is a disgrace to working America, designed to reinflate a false bubble for rich people without fixing the fundamental flaws and excesses that will ultimately bring our economy to complete collapse (you can't ask for a bigger warning sign than what we've just experienced, and instead of really doing something about it, we've punted the problem to our children while propping up the very people who are doing the most damage). There is silence on EFCA and push make concessions to Business. Don't Ask Don't Tell is off the Table. So far the highlight of educational policy reform is the failed GOP idea of so-called "merit" pay.

It's not that positive things haven't happened. It's that the sheer contrast between the scale of the positive things that have happened, vs. the extensive number of major issues on which the exact opposite of anything I could support has happened is simply shocking. It's that every morning I get headlines and find more bad news about something this administration is doing that I completely oppose.

A clear policy philosophy is being established by this administration. At this point, if I was asked the job approval question I could not say yes.

That's not a "judgment" on his presidency, as some people like to say. That's an evaluation of actions to date. I'll judge a "presidency" when the presidency is done.

Of course I'm in the small minority of the party / nation / world. So my opinion makes little difference (and consequently shouldn't threaten anyone.)