Originally Posted by crockett

Are you sure you chose the right word there?

gal·va·nizeVerb/ˈgalvəˌnīz/
1. Shock or excite (someone), typically into taking action: "his voice galvanized them into action".

I will admit I'm not 100% happy with Obama's presidency but to think the Republican party wouldn't have put him under siege regardless of what how he preformed is kind of funny. However to say he shocked or excited people into action is a good thing I'd assume..unless you mean the whole tea party thing but over all I see them much the same as the Religious Right morons as I pretty much think they are interchangeable with one another just banded under a new name but the same hate.

It's all the Republican party does, when they are not in power. They don't attempt to work with the other party they instead constantly attack and never offer up any solutions. Their solution is "vote for us" then what do they do?

Look at Bill Clinton, regardless of if you like him or not you can not argue that that man did not get stuff done. What did the Republicans do the entire time he was in office? They tried to get him and hounded him with every thing under the sun and spent countless tax dollars on a sex scandal. Not to mention did everything possible to fight anything he tried to do.

How exactly did that help the country?

Now I voted for Obama, not because I expected "change" or for him to fix the economy because I'm smart enough to know that no one is going to fix the mess in Washington with out the country as a whole being galvanized. At this point that hasn't happened so Washington will do what it does, regardless of who is in power.

The reason I voted for Obama is because I was tired of Bush's so called war on terror and IMO Obama has done what he said he would in that regard so I'm pretty happy with him there.

He said he would pull troops out of Iraq.. He did

He said he would focus the war on terror to Afgan where it should have always been. He did.

He said he would get Bin Ladden. Although, I really didn't expect this but he did it.

We are at war even though many choose to forget it and as such I voted for a president whom I thought would put us back on track in that war. So far Obama has done more than I expected in that regard.

As for economy & healthcare I really didn't expect much out of him for that because that takes congress, the senate, big business & the tax payers to work together and I know that will never happen.