Professor Paul Krugman gives the President an A-; says he's the most consequential since...

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129. Considering he is the first African-American President...

he has governed very carefully, as a centrist, because of that. This has been rather disappointing to many progressives who would far prefer Senator Warren's agenda (which indeed would be EXCELLENT for the American people). Still we have to be honest here. The Republicans actually colluded on Obama's inauguration night in 2009 to refuse to cooperate with him in any way. I call that despicable treason.

When you think about where this nation actually WAS at the beginning of 2009 when Obama first took office, and the genius of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the 'stimulus,' I have to give him an A- as well. He did a darned good job pulling us out of the fire and it is too bad most Americans are so shallow and easily swayed that they forget that. Because that one thing earned him the A- right there.

And, again being honest, I dislike Obama's drone policy, and his extension of much of the neocon foreign policy agenda. I really hate the NSA and all the power he's let them get, and I feel very uncomfortable with him keeping the sweeping powers Bush had instead of putting some of them back in Congress, where this nation's founders wisely put them in the first place.

I'm also not a big fan of the Affordable Care Act either. Even though the Dems were in majority in both houses of Congress and we had Obama in the White House, and every thinking person in this country knew that simply expanding Medicare coverage to all Americans was the way to go, instead we got a giant welfare program for insurance companies and still have rationed healthcare.

Those things aside, Obama's done a good job. He got us out of Iraq, though he's now been tricked into sending in 'advisors' to 'help' Iraq out of the situation our invasion got them into. He got Bin Laden. That counts for something.

He has been FAR better than McCain OR Romney would have been, and until the pendulum swings far enough back left so we can get a Warren in the White House, even an Establishment Democrat like Clinton would be OK. But just OK.

You hear that, Sen. Warren?

Sen. Warren?