‘We Wanted a Do-Nothing President’

Here’s a letter from a Newsweek reader on the week’s previous Anna Quindlen column about Obama’s change challenge.

Anna Quindlen asserts that, to help move the president's liberal agenda along, Americans "should start acting more like the voters who elected him." I suspect it's a mistake to equate the reasons many independents voted for President Obama—his youth, his family, his freshness after eight years of GOP governance—with strong support for his policies.
Calvin l. White Ooltewah, Tenn.

Mr. White seems to be saying, “Yeah, we elected him but we didn’t really want him to do anything.”