Americans: How much do you approve of the Obama administration?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I'm not an American so really I guess my opinion has little weight to the questions posed in the OP.

However I do have a lot of American friends, mostly democrats, and their general consensus is one of dissapointment, that the hype of Obama's first administration and the lead up to his election just seemed to vanish. I think a lot of them mention 'broken promises', or that, in the grand scheme of things, he's not that much different from a more moderate republican. The NSA scandal I think sealed the deal with a lot of them on that opinion.



EDIT:

However in a slight link to the UK, I think the more authoritarian stance that the US has taken over security and censorship has definitely begun to creep in over here. The Conservative administration here is beginning to scale back the rights of people very subtely, evidenced in the de facto banning of pornography without government consent. School education has now been effectively privatised and let open to any sort of private interest that wants to invest in a school. Not necessarily a bad thing (and this was started by the previous NL government of course through acadamies), but the lack of oversight and seeming unwillingess to set universal criteria for basic education (in secondary, how long before primary education?) means a widening gap is starting to show between the haves and have nots.