That's your opinion, but many people do not share your view. Many people believe he's following through on policies that will benefit the majority. Other ideas have NOT been ignored. Obama has repeatedly asked for republican input on health care, and republicans have gotten many of their ideas inserted into the plan. Yet they all still oppose health care reform. So pubs have not been ignored, they have been listened to respectfully. For example the "death panel" nonsense was a pub idea, to pay for a dr consult when patients wanted to have an end of life discussion with their dr. That was a pub idea, accepted, not ignored, until some idiot somewhere picked it out of the bill and misrepresented it, now it's gone. So blame the right for having an idea accepted by the dems, and then misrepresented and then removed. Just doesn't seem like pubs really want an intelligent discussion.