Your first paragraph was spot on. I more or less was talking about these social issues that we have going on in the country like gay marriage and all. The economy is up for debate and a big one at that. but that was perfect and that's exactly how I see it... does this mean we give Obama a pass on everything? no, but I would like to use some common sense and historical background with some of these issues to decide whether or not Obama is not doing ANYTHING or he's being careful, notice during these first six months he's tried to stay away from issues like torture, gay marriage, immigration, etc... not because they're not important but because they distract from the bigger problem and that's the economy.
The Global Warming reference you made was PERFECT and a great way to sum up Obama's presidency thus far, when things are going good he won't receive credit because people don't realize that if he did nothing it might have been worse, but we will never know that. lol, I'm gonna have to use that now:-)