I might own an arsenal of firearms and I might think giving money to beggars is wrong (a la Plato: you are building an economy for begging), but I’m also a(n aspiring) musician and living in Seattle; this affords me access to some of the most liberal folks in the United States.

There has been an alarming trend I have noticed where the most liberal folks I know (especially the radically liberals) are abandoning President Obama.  The reason seems to be that he just isn’t liberal enough.  I admit that for a Democrat he is pretty flexible around the middle.  Truth be told that’s probably a good thing.  Unfortunately there is this trend.

That wouldn’t be so terrible but on the flip side the conservatives (especially Republicans and Tea Baggers) don’t like him because he’s still black liberal.

I can’t say with certainty what history will have to say about the Obama administration, but I would like to make an appeal for re-measuring your valuation of this current president, President Obama.  Consider the depression/recession as it was inherited, consider the two wars (again as they were inherited), and consider the stupidity of both parties in both houses (Tea Baggers not withstanding) waging a partisan war largely measured in willy-wagging and posturizing rhetoric.  Sitting at the head of this you have one human, Barack Obama, our President.

Isn’t it about time we made this more fair measure of his progress?