"History Favors the Drumbeat of Civility and Principled Accomplishment"
We did not give President Obama the votes in Congress he needed to complete his vision and agenda. In-spite of that crippling fact he accomplished enough, thus far, to be rated as among our most important presidents.
There was a tremendous projection upon this man and his presidency: blind hatred and obstructionism from those on the lunatic Right that deserted America's best interests in favor of craven hyper-partisanship. Reality free disappointment from those on the far Left that thought it would be rainbows and unicorns for everyone when President Obama took office.
I support President Obama not because he is Black, nor because he is Irish. I support him because he is a good, decent, principled family man. President Obama is a leader of men who inspires hope in millions and steadily, without fanfare, continues to amass a record of accomplishment in the face of bitter vitriol and unprincipled, baseless opposition.
We elected a president; we did not anoint a king. President Obama will be judged by his record, not by the ankle biting character assassins that are clustered at the far ends of the political spectrum and sprinkled sporadically in between.
President Obama's is not without substantial and substantive accomplishment. Those accomplishments are magnified a hundred fold when judged against the backdrop of historic and unprecedented Republican obstructionism in the House and Senate.
President Obama's critics are without perspective. Their bile and malice is woven out of lies, false outrage, and reality free expectations. History will smile upon President Obama because history favors the steady drumbeat of civility and the principled discipline of achievement over the shrill, raucous, rabble of the bitter, the unbalanced and the unrealistic.
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I can't wait to vote this fall to throw the Republican bums out of office.
All they have managed to do for the last 3½ years is whine about everything President Obama does, while refusing to offer a realistic alternative to any of the problems that is not coupled with repealing "Obamacare".
The GOP is in such disarray in a big way here in Idaho that their state convention in May blew up when their party broke in to 2 distinct factions - the established moderates who wanted to continue to run down the middle and confuse the issues up against the younger tea party newbies who wanted to do something crazy while they can, those members who have only been in their elected state positions for a little more than a year.
You know that when one of their most respected, most conservative leaders of their state party is shouted down at their convention, and then numerous calls for party unity go unheeded, that the situation could not look a whole lot better for the Democrats in this state this fall.
Like a giant tornado, the entire state party was swept up in to the brouhaha, including many of the state's elected officials, who have spent most of their time since May telling the media that everything is patched up between the party leaders.
Except for the continuous stream of letters to the editor by life-long Republicans that are printed each week detailing what huge frauds they think we now have sitting in those state offices, one might get the idea that the entire episode is just water under the bridge.
Not only did the bridge get knocked out, any chances of the Republicans coming together to get along with each other in time to make their re-elections easy has all but vanished.
It was the first time in 60 years that the GOP did not elect a new state party chairman at their convention.
Too bad, so sad.
This, a thousand times. It makes me crazy.
An excellent essay. Thanks mikekohr 
