Yikes! I've never been part of a crucifixion before!

Let's look back at your opening post on this thread Bucco. You were valiantly trying to defend George Bush for his lack of activity as President, then by comparison, using the statements and actions of Obama to condemn him.

I submitted that this was flawed for at least the following reasons:

1) Bush will never be defended in the future, and should not be now, for the things he did not do. With the exception of one action, the self-serving, (and for Dad too), tragic invasion of Iraq, which may be one of the greatest mistakes ever made by a US President, Bush will be historically judged an ineffective, rather clueless, inactive President. The irreverent historians already liken him to Roman emperor Nero. I think it's time you stopped trying to defend the indefensible. I'm not interested in attacking Bush, I'd dearly love to forget about the whole tragic period, move on and focus on actions with possibilities for rebuilding our country.

2) nothing you can say about Bush compares to, or reflects on President Obama. It's a different time, with different problems. Even similar problems, like Iran, have take on entirely different characteristics and complexity. We need to withhold judgement and refrain from attacking every single statement and action just because it's different from what someone else said or did.

3) your 'rant' was full of references to the "Promises". Again, don't be duped by the media types and extremists who want to stamp every statement a 'promise' and then indict the President for every action which does not turn out to be you precise definition of that 'promise'. The point I made above and felt was the most important was the reference to the nature of the Executive branch of the government, as provided by the Constitution. We should never be so naive to think the President has the power to make his 'promises' come true. That's why Presidential statements are NOT promises, but efforts to focus attention, rally support and influence the approval of measures which will improve our nation. Since you keep demanding to know anything the President has accomplished, just take yesterday's action for example. By sheer force of will and a campaign of insistence and persistence, the President is securing a rather large escrow account from BP to repay the government (taxpayer) and individual victims. This is an aggressive, and I think unique action, and in the country's best interest. I don't think many Presidents would have had the nerve or to pull this off before the offending company simply declared bankruptcy and left us holding the bag. Think about it. The President has absolutely no power or authority over an entity like BP, yet we are able to get some initially impressive concessions.

4) you, and others even more riled up, should be reconsider judging lots of things wrong, just because there are lots of things being said and done. There is so much nit picking about every statement, innuendo, possible action, contemplated action and real action, that it's easy to think that pile of nits signifies that everything is wrong and we're headed for disaster. I'm just thankful that we have an active, engaged President who continues to work hard knowing full well that mountains of criticism await.

To summarize, I respect your statement above conceding that you will allow history to judge the President overall. The Health Care law still has you twirling, but I submit I am just as correct as you when I say this is a major positive step, an enormous improvement over our present health care delivery system. Why continue to attack and insist it will destroy us, when this total negative speculation is just the same knee-jerk reaction which has accompanied virtually everything done by the federal government since 1789? Let's let history judge this new program too.

If you've read my other posts, you would know why I think a number of other actions and efforts by President Obama are positive steps. Despite the blanket indictments by those in this forum who sneeringly ridicule "liberals" for never citing reasons for their positions on the issues, I've spent lots of time on that. I don't think I need to keep repeating myself. But I do think this post is important because it is so easy to forget how difficult the job of the Chief Executive is, and how easy it is to rush to judgement.