Rolling Stone magazine makes "The Case for Obama."

Rolling Stone:

Less than halfway through his first term, Obama has compiled a remarkable track record. As president, he has rewritten America's social contract to make health care accessible for all citizens. He has brought 100,000 troops home from war and forged a once-unthinkable consensus around the endgame for the Bush administration's $3 trillion blunder in Iraq. He has secured sweeping financial reforms that elevate the rights of consumers over Wall Street bankers and give regulators powerful new tools to prevent another collapse. And most important of all, he has achieved all of this while moving boldly to ward off another Great Depression and put the country back on a halting path to recovery.

Along the way, Obama delivered record tax cuts to the middle class and slashed nearly $200 billion in corporate welfare — reinvesting that money to make college more accessible and Medicare more solvent. He single-handedly prevented the collapse of the Big Three automakers — saving more than 1 million jobs — and brought Big Tobacco, at last, under the yoke of federal regulation. Even in the face of congressional intransigence on climate change, he has fought to constrain carbon pollution by executive fiat and to invest $200 billion in clean energy — an initiative bigger than John F. Kennedy's moonshot and one that's on track to double America's capacity to generate renewable energy by the end of Obama's first term.

On the social front, he has improved pay parity for women and hate-crime protections for gays and lesbians. He has brought a measure of sanity to the drug war, reducing the sentencing disparity for crack cocaine while granting states wide latitude to experiment with marijuana laws. And he has installed two young, female justices on the Supreme Court, creating what Brinkley calls "an Obama imprint on the court for generations."

What's even more impressive about Obama's accomplishments, historians say, is the fractious political coalition he had to marshal to victory. "He didn't have the majority that LBJ had," says Goodwin. Indeed, Johnson could count on 68 Democratic senators to pass Medicare, Medicaid and the Voting Rights Act. For his part, Franklin Roosevelt had the backing of 69 Senate Democrats when he passed Social Security in 1935. At its zenith, Obama's governing coalition in the Senate comprised 57 Democrats, a socialist, a Republican turncoat — and Joe Lieberman.

The Republican party, the Teabaggers, and the billionaires that back them, are all gunning for our President. And every time a progressive bitches that change is not happening fast enough, or a Democratic politician says "Barack who?", they gain a little bit more ground.

Am I completely satisfied?  Hell no!  But so what!  I am NEVER completely satisfied!

If I was completely satisfied this blog would not exist.

But I recognize when we are moving forward, and I certainly know that there is probably not another politician in the country who could have made the kind of progress that President Obama has made in such a short period of time.  Go ahead, imagine who ELSE could even have come close to what this man has accomplished.

I am not a child.  I do not believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or a President who can snap his fingers and make all of the country's ills disappear overnight.  I wanted Obama to make progress, and he is doing that.

So if you voted for Obama and now sit at home bitching because things are not happening fast enough for you, well then fuck you!  And if you are planning to skip these mid-term elections because you are no longer inspired, then fuck you twice!

We once had a President, maybe you have heard of him, who said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what YOU can do for your country."  Well my friends what YOU can do for your country is to show the Republicans that the progressives are not a bunch of pussies who always snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.  And that we will NOT abandon the man who has fought every day of his Presidency to do the things that we elected him to do,

Has he done everything EXACTLY the way we had hoped? No.

Has he accomplished more than ANY OTHER President during his first two years in office?  Yes.

Can he continue making that kind of progress if the Republicans take over the Congress? Probably not.

Is there anything we can do to help him to finally do EVERYTHING we wanted him to do? Yes.

We can VOTE!  Because if we do not give HIM what he desperately needs from us, we have no right to be disappointed when he does not give US what we wanted from him!

(Do yourself a favor and click the Rolling Stone link, it may help you to gain a little perspective on this administration.  And you never know, it just might remind you of why you were so anxious to cast your vote in 2008.)

Namaste my friends.