About half of Americans & a significant majority of Democrats are happy with the President's performance, while the other half of Americans, including nearly 1 in 6 Democrats (mostly liberals), are dissatisfied with his performance.
The President's supporters, like deaniac83 feel his accomplishments are huge & historic and that the ungrateful liberals need to be thankful for all his hard work, historic achievements, excellent leadership, etc. and be glad that he's not McCain or Bush. In particular, they want liberals to stop criticizing his performance & decisions.
The President's liberal detractors like the "professional left" are dissatisfied with the compromised & meager nature of the progress and are not convinced that it is historic. Instead, they view it as mostly beneficial to large corporations while average citizens have gained back only a tiny fraction - if any - of their standard of living & the liberties lost during the Republican years.
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