I'm standing by my President
For all the things he could have done or said differently or better, all the coulda-shoulda-wouldas...if you look (at least at this moment in time) at how they are playing out, I contend he is managing to keep a lid on outcomes that were likely under a lesser President (granting the dynamism of all these scenarios):
1) Ukraine - still a lid on the ultimate violence ... sanctions freezing out Russia with Europe on board
2) Gaza / Israel conflict - at least sporadic timeouts
3) Ferguson - turnaround in 24 hours.
He is being hit with unprecedented instability this summer, and though it's been a gauntlet of fire, whatever part he has played is, at least for the time being, leading to calm and resolution. AT LEAST FOR THE TME BEING!
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In a volatile time like this, this is exactly who we need: someone who actually thinks before he acts, someone who can put things into a large context, someone who thinks long-term, beyond the next news cycle.
He plays a long game, as a President should. The news has been downright frightening of late: but it's so reassuring to know that we have a man like Obama in the White House.
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What a pleasant surprise! 
When I saw him make his statement yesterday about Ferguson, I was lukewarm on it. Wanted more passion. But when the turnaround happened in Ferguson last night, I can only attribute it in part to his leadership.
With people like John McCain and Lindsay Graham running off half-cocked all the time, trying to instigate and bait him, there he stands, firm hand on the rudder, unprovoked and sticking to his principles. Cheney and others try to paint him as ineffectual and a wimp in foreign policy. I don't see it that way. I see that he is a man of peace, 1st, but will strike where necessary - namely where humanitarian needs, or real threats of violence on American, are at risk.
He is one of my role models in life.
And every day I am thankful that he was elected and RE-elected.
Without any funny business in the polls!!!
No president can please everyone (as Lincoln so wisely observed), but I think
President Obama has done one helluva job!!
But that's from shit-talkers talking out their asses.
Is he supposed to don sackcloth and ashes after every social upheaval?
There was a leader who literally did the sackcloth and ashes bit after ordering an atrocity, or turning a blind eye to the atrocities of others. He really laid it on; self-flagellation, fasting, praying for weeks at a time. The leader was Ivan the Terrible, and it didn't work out very well for the people he ruled.
Let's have a measured, reasoned, level-headed leader who makes the right decision at the right time. That leader is Barack Obama.
Perfect? No. Light-years better than any schlub the republicans could forward? Hell-to-the-yeah!
...is having to do all these things while constantly being bombarded and undermined by the press 24/7, not going to name names here
