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We don't normally publish the feedback from our Reader Surveys online, out of respect for the privacy of respondents (name and city are included in this section), but between the record amount or responses to our survey on President Obama and the passion with which our readers responded, we wanted to share them with our online readers.

We've included some of our favorite answers without any identifying information.

For Catholics, the greatest success of the Obama administration has been:

The passage of healthcare reform.

Fighting for extended unemployment benefits.

Getting out of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Including more minorities and women in cabinet positions.

A greater emphasis on providing for the needs of the poor.

Concern for the working class and trying to boost economic employment.

His leadership in international matters and helping bring about the demise of corrupt and tyrannical Mideast leaders.

The death of Osama Bin Laden.

Keeping the recession from becoming a depression.

National Security. He has kept the country safe. He has employed smart foreign policy and has not been reckless like the last president. The world respects us more today.

Ending don’t ask, don’t tell.

The most important issue for Catholics that the Obama administration has failed to appropriately address is:

Respect for all human life.

Helping the poor, homeless, and disabled.

The drastic rise in poor children and loss of services to all of our children. We have cut our investments in education, positioning ourselves to lose future jobs to other nations.

Military spending.

Education. Education for the 21st century is the key in helping to reduce poverty as a world problem.  We need education for a global economy and learning how to listen to one another in our shrinking world.

Capital punishment.

The inequality of opportunity in the country.

Abortion and rights for medical workers conscience.

Making the tax code more beneficial to the vast majority of Americans.

Protecting human life from conception to natural death, and the continued protection of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Improving access to assistance for single moms to reduce the need for abortions.

The easy answer is to say "abortion," but I actually believe Obama and the Democrats have, overall, failed to address the issue of subsidiarity. Health care reform, for example, ought to be dealt with at the state level, not the federal level.

Care for the poor, the widowed, the orphan--a great many of whom were made that way through war. Obama has not been strong enough to hack away at the military-industrial complex.

Economic justice--using the tax code to close loopholes, providing incentives for companies to pay a living wage, and reducing how rich the super-rich in our country are.

Immigration reform.

The massive accumulation of society's wealth in the top 1% of the population.

All of them. He has not appropriately addressed any issues important to Catholics or any American since Day One of his Presidency.

Stopping the war in Afghanistan.

No matter who wins the next election, the top priority for the president should be:

Rebuilding national unity.

Finding a way to decrease the gap in income between the wealthiest and the poor.

Stopping the wars and reining in the military, so we can help build a better world and a better country.

Representing all the people, not just the wealthy and not just the poor.

Showing respect for all Americans, and an ability to work with both parties.

Creating jobs

Outlawing abortion.

To stop the outsourcing of American jobs.

Global warming

Looking out for those of us who live paycheck to paycheck.

National defense including securing the borders

Nuclear weapons, especially in North Korea and Iran.

To restore the government to one of the people, by the people and for the people by outlawing lobbying, corporate political funding, and revolving door relationships between government and industry.