I endorse this message wholeheartedly. As I do this comment from commenter think123:
President Obama’s in a second term will be less fitful than his first. The agenda that Obama ran on was totally upended by the economic crisis of late 2008. That was the game changer. Remember the DOW dropped 6000 points. Most all the biggest banks and brokers were dead. The insurance company that insured a lot of the risk, AIG, was insolvent. President Bush declared an economic “emergency”. So let’s get real. Obama focused rightly on the financial fires. By no fault of his own, the Obama agenda was reset by crisis not design. A tough way to come to the White House. Administer TARP, design a recovery program, save the auto industry. None of that was in the works during the 2007-08 campaign.
Even so, we got the Credit Card Act, Healthcare Reform, Dodd-Frank, with the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, lots of less heralded initiatives like a big new push for exports that’s paying off. We’re just now regaining financial equilibrium. The DOW recovered. Up from 6000 to 12000. We’re adding jobs instead of losing them. The GDP is positive instead of negative. If this was baseball instead of politics, the numbers would speak over all else.
On foreign policy, the campaign promises – to disengage from Iraq, go after Al-Qaeda in Pakistan were met. Obama adroitly managed a number of tricky foreign challenges from pirates, bin Laden, to Libya. Each time passing the test of leadership.
Not sure what people were expecting. Obama is perfect for the times. Smart, cool, collected. A calm poised presence in a great national storm. That alone, is worth re-election. We can never tell exactly what a president will decide. That’s why character does count. A good solid character. A good family man. Father and husband.
No President in modern history has encountered the kind of mindless opposition heaped upon Obama. White politicians demanding our first black president produce his birth certificate. The leader of the Senate vowing defeat of Obama was goal one. A joint session marred by a Republican yelling liar. The Rupert Murdoch hack news propaganda campaign. Obama hates white people, but likes communists. That’s been Murdoch’s Glenn Beck message for most of this first term. Murdock using all of his resources in America to defame and defeat Obama.
Obama is a good Christian man. It’s up to us voters to shield him from the barbarians at the gate.