The stock market is up the unemployment number is down.
The Affordable Care Act is working pretty well. Ebola will be solved. Because he is on it.
In Foreign affairs? Instead of the US being the chump The President has made the Arabs and the Europeans carry their own water in fighting The ISIL bandits. And in The Ukraine? Mr. Putin is feeling the heat of sanctions and unprecedented Allied unity falling gas and oil prices. President Obama has Opec flooding the market so the recent energy deal with China is costing The Russians big time. Thus Mr. Putin, a recent R-con folk hero, is back at the negotiating table and acting reasonably. And relations with China are going fairly well, as captured in First Lady Michelle Obama's timely and effective trip last spring.
President Obama called the question and rallied the world - at the recent UN General Assembly, with historic moral authority. What figure in US politics could have delivered that speech, which included reading the Gulf states the riot act for playing games and funding religious extremist while benefiting from the international system.
He won two big time elections and a very hard fought primary against the best. And he and First Lady Michelle Obama have rewritten the book on how D's win elections, govern and prevail as leaders and role models on the world stage.
His current stand as Commander in Chief against being suckered into Mid East land war by a media hysteria, fueled by giving the desert bandits shocking publicity, is the greatest profile in political courage since President John F Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then the hawks tried to start WWIII, out of the same type panic. You know somewhere Ted Kennedy is looking down smiling on 'the one' he anointed as the forth brother of his fabled clan.
Gov. Rendell said 'Candidates have to stand up and fight for what they believe' who and what they voted for as a team.' At this point that is just a dream.
Because President Obama is not on the ballot, too many of this crop of mid term candidates, so far, have chosen or 'drifted' back to the centrist type playbook of '10; the coalitions and maneuverings of the '90's and the pre Obama era of the '00's.
Maybe it will work this time.
"Beware the pine-tree's withered branch! Beware the awful avalanche!"