Arkady
President
"Still no press conference on Libya"
Obama spoke to the press about it from the Rose Garden the day after the event.
"Still no budget"
We have a budget every single year. This is one of those crazy talking points that only makes sense if you're fully entombed in the right-wing echo chamber.
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"Still no bipartisan leadership"
Obama has bent over backwards trying to get bipartisan buy-in. Just to take one example, when Olympia Snowe suggested that if Obama were to take the public option off the table he could get Republican votes, that's just what Obama did, despite it infuriating the left and undermining the efforts of the Democratic majority of both houses of Congress. Even though the Democrats had the votes to push healthcare through without a single Republican vote, that's how insanely dedicated to bipartisanship Obama was. Snowe, effectively, spit in his face. Even after he gave her EXACTLY what she'd asked for, she still voted against it, just like every other Republican, out of pure, unadulterated partisanship.
That's just one example. Obama has also been unusually reluctant to use vetoes and unusually reluctant to use executive orders (check his rate of use on either against modern historical averages). That's because he's downright desperate to govern by consensus. When there's a standoff, he doesn't call the Republican bluff the way Clinton did (with two government shutdowns). He does anything he can to reach a bargain.... even to the extent of extending the fiscally disastrous Bush tax cuts, which would have expired without Obama's cooperation in extending them. Or look at the debt-ceiling standoff. Just about any other president in history would have called the opposition party's bluff on that one, when they took the economy hostage and started making demands in exchange for what had always before been a routine "housekeeping" vote to make good on debt we'd already taken on. But Obama was so dedicated to bipartisanship that he offered them a compromise that give them VASTLY more in the way of spending cuts than he asked for in the way of revenue increases. And, again, they spit in his face, because bipartisanship is as repulsive to them as it is alluring ot Obama.
"Still no transparency"
I'll give you that one. Obama promised greater transparency but is arguably more opaque even than Bush. So, I can't strike that point down, other than to suggest that if you think Romney will be any better, you're smoking something mind-altering. Romney has already one-upped every other modern presidential campaign in opacity, by refusing the customary tax disclosures.
"Still no agenda..."
What you mean is "still no agenda that I like." There's been quite an agenda. Obama's first term has been one of the most ambitious on record, including ending a war and passing healthcare reform, along with a major stimulus bill. He has big plans for his second term, too (including serious jobs programs). You may not like his agenda, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
