What do you like about Barack Obama?

[sofa king]

56. He's the most brilliant politician of my lifetime.

I was born during Nixon. I used to be a legislative analyst. The lessons learned during that time have permitted me to make some pretty accurate predictions about what's going to happen in politics. I've learned more from simply observing how President Obama works than from any other President.

He has achieved more against the most stunning and un-American (or rather, entirely American) resistance than any American politician I have seen. I've noticed a change in attitude in this second term as well. Now, the President is simply here to get things done, and he's far better at doing that than Republicans are at stopping him.

Simply having intelligent control over the nation's regulatory processes is going to prove (to boring historians in a boring and non-Apocalyptic future) to be one of the most important events in America's 21st Century history. It's boring and nobody cares about it, but over the past five years the President has worked every single day to reverse the institutionally codified corruption of Shrub and his evil Republican predecessors. There will be no way to easily undo these changes, as Shrub did with Clinton's "midnight regulations."

Furthermore, President Obama's personal behavior is above reproach, and that real-life integrity extends to the behavior of his Administration. Virtually every scandal that has emerged in President Obama's time involves a Republican stay-behind within his Administration--and that includes Benghazi, and just wait until we see who's at the bottom of that one (Hint: Mitt's one of 'em.)!

President Obama is going to be held up by the good people of the United States as a model President. The United States has been truly blessed to have a President as competent and as incorruptible as he is. We'll never get that lucky twice this century, so we'd better enjoy these days.

These are the very best of times.