How can liberals be happy with the Obama administration?

I find myself defending him and yet I call him Mr. Republican. It's infuriating to me that the Dodd-Frank financial "reform" was no reform at all and that the health care "reform" was just a big sell out to the insurance companies. I also don't like all the pandering to Republicans, hate the war in Afghanistan, hate the business as usual in Washington. He had a mandate in 2008 to throw out all the Bush Administration nonsense and yet it's just business as usual. I defend him against neocons but I don't like him.