Your anti-Obama memes are wearing thin.

[zipplewrath]

11. Black and white

Excuse the obvious pun, but what you are arguing and arguing against, is the concept that he is either black or white. Either he's done "all he could" or he "hasn't done enough". The problem is that this is a tad bit of a false dichotomy. He can be "both" depending upon ones standards.

When I got out of high school and went to a high powered college, a professor once explained that it was tough teaching there because all of his students had been in the top 10% of their class in high school. Now, 90% weren't. 90% were always going to be out of the top 10%. Obama took a job where the expectations are very high. The competition is very tough. You'll be compared to folks like Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and LBJ, not to mention the folks like Jefferson, JFK, Truman, Eisenhower, etc. And in some sense you are up against the LEGENDS of these folks, less than the reality.

None the less, this is the job. This is the standard that many candidates establish when running for the job. Being in the top 50% isn't seen as being successful. Heck, being in something less than the top 5 can be seen as failing."To those who much is given, much is expected". You can set the standards low, and anyone with a D after their name will be successful, or you can set them so high no one will every meet them. The entire argument around here really tends to be about which end of the spectrum one believes should be used as the metric.

He's missed alot of opportunities to do better, heck to do things upon which he campaigned. Alternately, he's been presented with an usually combative congress. Some will suggest that was as much of his own making as anything. No discussion is going to come to a black or white conclusion. Everyone has facts on their side.

But as I keep saying, in many cases the problem is that one can make a 100 gallons of really great punch. Drop one turd in the thing and no one is going to drink it. Obama has dropped alot of turds in the rather large bowl. His supporters want to focus on the punch. It's hard for me too not see the turds floating on top.