Liberals Turning On Obama

A number of liberals are becoming harshly critical of President Obama, despite their earlier support:

The president won’t be able to ignore the simmering discontent within his own party much longer, the congressman [Alcee L. Hastings, angry that the president has not repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” for gays in the military] said, not on this military policy or on a range of other issues on which the president appears to be charting a course that veers away from his political base.

Evidence of this has been abundant in the health care debate, where a core group of Democrats reacted angrily to signs that the White House was getting ready to abandon a public insurance plan as part of its health care bill. But anxiety is growing in other areas, too. Environmentalists dislike the watering down of climate change legislation in the House. Anti-war activists are unhappy with the president’s escalation in Afghanistan. This list goes on.

The Washington Post notes the phenomenon among liberals in the media.

I ask you readers of this blog who originally supported the candidacy of Barack Obama, are you OK with his escalating the war in Afghanistan, his dependence on private insurance companies for health care reform, his continuation of many terrorism-related policies of the Bush administration, and his willingness to compromise on climate legislation?

I ask you readers of this blog who originally opposed his candidacy, do his policies on these issues make you think better of him?

(I am not asking if either side supports him and would vote for him or not. I’m trying to get at relative degrees of satisfaction or dissatisfaction.)