SO far, Obama has waded into the messiest inherited mishmash of bad work any President has had to face--except, perhaps, Lincoln--and has continued to stay as balanced and as productive as he could be expected to be. He is pushing forward the things he said he would, and as predicted, it is proving less easy to actually do than it was to describe. But we knew that, and he knew it.

It seems to me more folks would do well to encourage him to do the right thing instead of just finding any old rotten egg they can pull out of their embittered and jaded nightmares to throw at him whenever they feel vituperative.


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