I'm with you on that, TRK.

Thank you, Richard.

I can understand how a person could think I’m biased towards Obama, but I’ve trained myself to follow fact rather than emotion. If you think assessing Obama is hard, my woman is undoubtedly one of the greatest jazz singers in the world today - former Det. Serpico told me that she had him sitting in his car crying like a baby - try telling a singer of that caliber, and with that much talent that you don’t like the way she’s doing a song. So assessing Obama is child’s play. She's pouting as we speak, because she doesn't understand that the truest expression of my love is to make sure that she can ALWAYS come to me for truth. She can't depend on anyone else for that, because they're so star struck that they're going to tell her what she wants to hear.

So being Black aside - although it should be taken into account since it’s making Obama's job twice as hard - I’d be willing to bet my home that he’s going to be remembered as one of our great presidents. Just getting Osama Bin Laden alone would have put Bush, with all of his shortcomings, on Mt. Rushmore, but if you’ll notice, the fact that he was brought to justice by Obama is hardly mentioned by the GOP. One would never know what a huge national effort we mounted to go after that guy. In large part, that very effort is what helped to put us in the economic mess that we’re currently in today. Bush spent over a trillion dollars on that misadventure.

In addition, the GOP has made a tremendous effort in insuring that the nation is always focused on what Obama HASN’T done, and absolutely NEVER mentions the fact that he all but singlehandedly save the world from plunging into a second Great Depression. Under George Bush the nation was hemorrhaging over 800,000 jobs a month:

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Forbes Magazine: Economically, Could Obama Be America’s Best President?
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"Firstly, let’s review just how bad things were in 2009. In 2000 America was completing the longest bull market in history. But by the end of President Bush’s tenure the country had witnessed 2 stock market crashes, and the DJIA had fallen 58%. This was the second worst market decline in history (exceeded only by the Great Depression), hence the term "Great Recession" was born.

"In 2000, at the end of Clinton’s administration, the Consumer Confidence Index was at a record high 140. By January, 2009 this index had fallen to an historic low of 25.3. Comparatively, when Reagan took office at the end of the economically weak Carter years the Confidence Index was still at 74.4! Today this measure of how people feel about the country is still nowhere near 2000 levels, but it is almost 3 times better than 4 years ago.

"Significantly, in 2000 America had a budget surplus. By 2009 surpluses were long gone and the country was racking up historic deficits as taxes were cut while simultaneously outlays for defense skyrocketed to cover costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, banks were on the edge of failing due to unregulated real estate speculation and massive derivative losses.

"Today the Congressional Budget Office is reporting a $200B decrease in the deficit almost entirely due to increased revenue from a growing economy and higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans. The deficit is now only 4% of the GDP, down from over 10% at the end of Bush’s administration – and projections are for it to be only 2% by 2015 (before Obama leaves office). America’s "debt problem" seems largely solved, and almost all due to growth rather than austerity.

"We can largely thank a fairer tax code, improved regulation and consistent SEC enforcement. Also, major strides in health care reform – something no other President has accomplished – has given American’s more faith in their future, and an increased willingness to invest."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2013/05/16/economically-could-obama-be-americas-best-president/

And let’s not forget that President Obama has had to drag America uphill while the entire Republic Party, which includes congress, and state officials, are hanging onto his ankles and determined to obstruct any effort to put money into the hands of poor and middle-class Americans - and that includes our veterans and active military personnel. The reason for that is because if they allow the American people to get their hands on disposable funds, they might start buying goods and services, and that will stimulate job growth, and the resulting tax revenue will improve the deficit, undermining the corpo-Republican agenda of keeping America miserable, angry, and divided.

For that reason, in spite of the fact that the nation’s infrastructure is falling apart, the Republican congress is refusing to spend any money to improve our condition. In Colorado alone, 176 dams are on a restricted safety list (http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_24080336/dams-break-at-rocky-mo...).

But in spite of all the Republican obstruction, Obama has managed to accomplish the following:

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A List of Obama Accomplishments

http://pleasecutthecrap.com/what-has-obama-done-since-january-20-2009/

So, yes, while I admittedly have a bias for this president, my assessment of him is based on cold, hard, facts. And the fact is, ironically, the Republican Party’s complete irresponsibility is all but assuring that history is going hail Obama as one of our greatest presidents, and frown upon the current Republican Party as petty, meanspirited, irresponsible, and in fact, the domestic enemy of the United States.