I still like Obama and think he is trying to distinguish between what can be done without sacrificing his chances for the election, which right now are good, but...

The main negative for Obama is the huge amount of plain antagonistic and irrimitable hatred on the part of his detractors, not based on anything he has done but based on who he is. I've never seen people so willing to lie and repeat the lies of others about him.

I think he also is an intellectual thinker, which is not common among recent Presidents. Americans almost always interpret that as 'weak'.

On the other hand, the willingness that Obama and the current administration show to maintain or conform to the actions and policies laid down by the previous administration have given me pause, but the political jokes running as real men for the Reps gives me far greater pause. There are only two reasonable folks on the Right, Romney and Huntsman, and they are not high in the Rep polls.