"History Favors the Drumbeat of Civility and Principled Accomplishment" [View all]

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.