I consider his presidency an overwhelming success. I can understand why somebody who never shared Obama’s goals would vote against his reelection. If you think the tax code already punishes the rich too heavily, that it’s not government’s role to subsidize health insurance for those who can’t obtain it, that the military shouldn’t have to let gays serve openly, and so on, then Obama’s presidency has been a disaster, but you probably didn’t vote for him last time. For anybody who voted for Obama in 2008 and had even the vaguest sense of his platform, the notion that he has fallen short of some plausible performance threshold seems to me unfathomable.
Obama’s résumé of accomplishments is broad and deep, running the gamut from economic to social to foreign policy. The general thrust of his reforms, especially in economic policy, has been a combination of politically radical and ideologically moderate. The combination has confused liberals into thinking of Obamaism as a series of sad half-measures, and conservatives to deem it socialism, but the truth is neither. Obama’s agenda has generally hewed to the consensus of mainstream economists and policy experts. What makes the agenda radical is that, historically, vast realms of policy had been shaped by special interests for their own benefit. Plans to rationalize those things, to write laws that make sense, molder on think-tank shelves for years, even generations. They are often boring. But then Obama, in a frenetic burst of activity, made many of them happen all at once.
A great president would use an Executive Order to go around a quagmired Congress -- probably the worst ever in U.S. history -- to get things done. Thanks for pointing that out.
" “It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.”
— Calvin Coolidge
GEORGE WILL
Energetic in body but indolent in mind, Barack Obama in his frenetic campaigning for a second term is promising to replicate his first term, although simply apologizing would be appropriate. His long campaign’s bilious tone — scurrilities about Mitt Romney as a monster of, at best, callous indifference; adolescent japes about “ Romnesia” — is discordant coming from someone who has favorably compared his achievements to those of “any president” since Lincoln, with the “possible” exceptions of Lincoln, LBJ and FDR. Obama’s oceanic self-esteem — no deficit there — may explain why he seems to smolder with resentment that he must actually ask for a second term."...................
"To all of you who intend to vote for Barack Obama, please do so. I did. For those of you that never will, there is nothing further to say to you. Anyone with a pulse that feels the need to vote for Mitt Romney must lack any behaviors associated with higher brain function. I no longer have any concern about offending you because your continued support for Romney offends me. There is no question based on President Obama's record alone, that historically he will be viewed as visionary. If you still can't accept that he saved our country, and probably the world economy, from collapse, then nothing will convince you now. Ultimately I have become convinced that it is the color of his skin that bothers you the most, except you are too cowardly to admit it. America we are about to define ourselves on the world stage. Make the choice our adversaries want, and they will laugh at our stupidity as we destroy ourselves from within, while they destroy us from outside. Arrogant ignorance, after all, has a price." -Robert Woodruff-
One of the most liberal hacks on the planet calls Obama GREAT!! Stop the presses, IT'S A MIRACLE! 
