It's clear to me that the first African-American POTUS is a catalytic president.

[Union Scribe]

68. Just a few things

It seems like it'd take nothing short of a dissertation to tackle all the errors in your thinking in this thread, but there are some things I feel need said:

1. It is not the president's job to create problems that we have to solve. He's not a fucking math teacher. How on earth that's a praise-worthy trait in a political leader is unimaginable.

2. By your definition, every person on the planet is a "reactionary" and therefore a conservative. And if you're looking for countering arguments with lies and character assassination as symptoms of political extemism, I'd point you to most any thread about Greenwald, Kucinich, Snowden, Miranda, etc.

3. Whenever the left reminds people that Obama had a majority at one point, we are Demsplained to about how the numbers were misleading and how nothing progressive could have been done. So you're going to have to make up your mind. If we didn't have a majority which could do anything, you're wrong on that point. If we did, then Obama wasted the chance to do some important work.

4. You're really going to have to do better than the old 'they never loved him' and the somehow even lamer 'hater' notion. That shit is for 11 year-olds fighting on Twitter. For almost all of us now disappointed in Obama it has been a painful progression from hopefulness to incredulity to a final realization that this wasn't the man we thought he was. He apparently is the man a lot of you thought he was, which is sad, or you adapted yourselves to not mind him not being that man.

5. Taken as a percent of the things he could have accomplished, or at least fought for, the few things he has done properly are a bitterly small harvest.

6. You end your OP and continue to expound in later replies about how the president is essentially powerless if he wants to live. You're going to have to accept that a lot of us don't buy that conspiracy illuminati-sounding bullcrap. But even if we did, as you apparently do, the very last word that would enter one's mind about such a leader is "brave." Brave? To believe in ideals that he's not willing to fight for because he's scared? That's the opposite of brave. Thank God I don't buy that, because it would make the President's shortcomings even more profoundly disappointing. I don't buy that he's under the thumb of some nebulous ring of shadow government leaders. No I take him at his word when he admitted to Univision that he's more like a 1980s moderate Republican. I wish he'd told us that in 2008.