It's time to get over Obama.

[frazzled]

71. I have only one thing to say

He is the freaking President of the United States of America for three more years. You can look past him all you want and dream about the mythological populist heroes who you think can solve the world's problems in a heartbeat ... but he will still be the President of the United States of America for three more years, the real one.

And nobody else is.

You only hurt progressive and Democratic ideals by dismissing the elected Democratic leader, the person that the preponderance of people in this country elected, twice. You may think that "real" Democratic ideals lie elsewhere. But you're wrong: in the December 2013 Pew Research Poll, only 8% of "liberal Democrats" disapproved of the president. 90% approve, and 54% of approve strongly.

So you're in the extreme minority of liberal Democrats. And it's fine if you ignore him. But history will not. I heard a panel discussion on Charlie Rose a couple of months ago, with several presidential historians on it, and their prediction is that he will stack up very favorably among the postwar presidents ... if only for turning the country around from the Great Recession and passing the first health care legislation ever. The rest, as they said, would be icing on the cake.

So while it's fine if you ignore him, it won't change the fact that he will be the President of the United States of America, for three full years. And you're not. And neither is anyone else. You'll just have to live with it.

That is all. It would be futile for me to try to disabuse you of any other of your notions. You're welcome to believe in whatever you want. But not everybody has to agree with you.