What Did Obama Do?

A very intelligent post. But do you really think that presiding over the passage of a national health care reform bill that defied the efforts of presidents since Theodore Roosevelt is not a success? Do you really think that finding and killing the head of Al-Qaeda and mastermind of 9/11 wasn’t a success? Do you really think that negotiating the successful ratification of a START treaty with Russia after repeated efforts by Republican to block it wasn’t a success? Do you really think that appointing two members of the Supreme Court and winning their successful confirmation by the Senate wasn’t a success? Do you really think that the repeal of don’t ask don’t tell in the face of determined Republican opposition wasn’t a success? Do you really think that helping the Libyan revels to defeat Gaddaffy without a single American boot on the ground or a single American casualty wasn’t a success? Do you really think that being elected (by a healthy majority of voters) as the first African-American president in history wasn’t a success? If you deny that any of this was a success, you have a different concept of success than I do.

-- comment to "Lincoln as Founder of Republican Party" thread

Useful to have a nice summary to address those on both sides of the political divide who make as if Obama is some total loser.