Response to Krautheimer in WaPo, " Bad Luck? Bad Faith?"
When you consider that our current president has faced multiple calamities all in less than 1 term, and not spread out over the 2.5 decades of your examples, I agree with the President. He has faced extraordinary challenges. You didn't even include in your examples the diastrous effects of tax-cuts we couldn't afford, and wars, unpaid for. Couple that with a party whose leader announces his mission is to make this President a one-term President, and I think there is a very good argument that, whatever good-intentions the other party has are on hold until this President is out of office, and unable to claim any of the credit for anything well done. It became clear what was happening when the republicans refused to even come to the table to talk about healthcare reform. It is time for this Congress to stop holding the American people and our economy hostage to the extreme right. We see what is happening. We know that moderate republicans, including Speaker Boehner, have no control. We are under attack from an extreme ideology of racism and religion. I haven't voted for a Democrat for President since my first-time vote for Jimmy Carter! But, I will be voting for President Obama in 2012!
(I didn't follow this up promptly, but I beloieve this was written in response to accusations that President Obama is a whiner in the face of ordinary circumstances. And I don't believe that is true.)
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