Barack Obama is Not That Hard to Understand | Mother Jones

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I can't wait for the future, when we put away the Birther BS and the angry progressive BS, which in the end kind of sound the same, and look back at this time as consider ourselves so very, very lucky we had this man in office instead of Palin.

And if you think McCain would have survived under this kind of pressure, you're nuts. I think even he would agree if his most honest, quiet moments.

I could hand out a laundry list of things that definitely would NOT have happened in a GOP presidency, but you have your own angry list, part truth, part fiction, of how you've been disappointed.

I read Andrew Sullivan's conservative defense of Obama, and - given its bias - agree with the premise if not quite the details.

I have a bias too.

Frankly, if I had secessionist nitwits from Palin to Perry questioning my patriotism, much less my status as a citizen, I wouldn't have been able to keep my cool. If I had every abortion clinic bomber cheering for me to die and for the right to carry guns to national parks and to shut the whole country down because they can't handle the color of my skin, I'd have given their fondest dreams a reality and built those damn FEMA camps they have wet dreams about.

Which is why I'm not president. I would not allow these "Christians" to abuse my wife, mock my children, hell, insult my dog the way this guy has.

I would have, literally, grabbed the nearest FOXNews git and choked them out. Or at least have spent WAY too much time fantasizing about it.

So, temperament alone, after the Age of Bush, I give the man credit. It doesn't hurt that he genuinely seems to give a damn about this country to boot. Seriously, he doesn't care what you think. It shows. And he'll get to smirk quietly in his dotage as all his work pays off over the decades.

That said, I'll thank him now. And hope he gets a second term where he really, genuinely can ignore the traitors. By that I mean the writers who fill the bookshelves with them standing in front of waving American flags with titles about how America is finished.

Seriously, they have had the reins of power for much of the past three decades. If America has failed, I place the blame at their feet.