It's time to get over Obama.

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86. The DREAM Act failed in the senate by a few measly votes,

once in 2009 and twice in 2010. Obama fought for that legislation. But now it's dead because voters failed to send Democrats to congress to support the president.

Obama has forcefully raised important issues over and over again, from LGBT equality and climate change, to income inequality and the broken health care system. In each and every case, where congress has failed to act he's taken action. From ordering federal agencies to extend benefits to same sex partners of federal employees, to ordering a de facto increase in the minimum wage for businesses that contract with the federal government.

His judicial appointees, including Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan, have already proven to be reliable voices for the people and will continue to be so for many years.

Obama's negotiations with almost unprecedented and hostile opposition in the house succeeded in passing the first major tax increase on the wealthy in almost a generation -- finally breaking the back of the Grover Norquist "tax pledge" Republicans.

His Justice Department has aggressively challenged attacks on voting rights in states all across the country where they've been under assault by GOP state houses. They've had some losses but many successes.

Secretary of the Interior Sarah Jewell was a winner of the National Audubon Society's Rachel Carson Award, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was a winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, and the commission on the BP Horizon oil spill included Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances Bieneke.

Barack Obama re-negotiated the lapsed START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia and initiated a major multinational Nuclear Security Summit. The State Department under Secretary Clinton rebuilt relationships around the world and focused on universal human issues with compassion and goodwill, while at the same time providing steady and skillful leadership of US foreign policy through extremely challenging times of change.

The list of reasons why Barack Obama is on the right side of history goes on and on.