Final Notes on Obama’s 2009 « Whatever

if Obama were on fire, the GOP would call fire departments a socialist plot. The folks losing it on the left, on the other hand, are being a bit petulant about both the actual human they elected to be president, and the practical constraints on his agenda. The man has monolithic, unified opposition in the Washington GOP, a fractious and fragile base in the diffuse Washington Democrats, and was handed two expensive, unpopular wars, a profoundly degraded political environment at home and abroad, and a national and global economy which were dual scorching pillars of oh shit we’re all going to die. That the man got anything substantive done, much less had what is objectively a politically remarkable first year, is impressive.

via Final Notes on Obama’s 2009 « Whatever.

I normally avoid talking politics here, mostly because it tends to attract the loonies and trolls like the plague (and who really cares what I think, anyway?) — but John Scalzi waded in, and honestly, it deserves a “what he said”, because if I were to write about this stuff, this is what I would have written. Only not as well.

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