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I don't really think attitude is that important. Obama has been a mixed bag on employment - the stimulus was obviously necessary to avoid a massive recession, but the final size was too small. Most economists thought something in the $1.2 trillion range was necessary, but it wound up being smaller than $800 billion. Obviously, we can debate back and forth how much of this was Obama's fault and how much was the systemic problem of an ineffective Congress.
However, he has lately proven slow to move to deal with the issue of unemployment. His current proposals are, once again, a modest grab bag of good ideas, mediocre ideas, and politically feasible but mostly useless ideas (tax expenditures). I know a lot of people have been banging this drum for a year, but the single most effective thing Obama could do to improve the jobs situation is to give money to the states in order to ensure that they can balance their budgets without cutting services, and by extension, losing thousands of jobs.
I think the "green economy" stuff is a good idea - I mean, even if it isn't all that effective, it can't hurt - but he's playing things way too conservative in my opinion. (That's small 'c' conservative, as in cautious.) I hope whatever measures pass are extremely effective.
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