An Apology for being critical of President Obama

I have been Hard on Barack Obama. Compared him obliquely to Carter in competence, Nixon in vindictiveness and a host of past world leaders who were not to be emulated for the good of the nation. These last several months it is becoming clear to me that I have been wrong about him. He's not what I thought, he is just mediocre as a president. Mediocre in excellence. Mediocre in competence. He isn't Nixon or Carter... He's Gerald Ford.

Obama may resemble Gerald Ford more than any other president. Like Ford, Obama follows a fiscally disastrous and controversial president, yet largely continues that president’s military and spending policies. Like Ford, Obama seems like a placeholder between the liberalism of the past and the financial reckoning to come, when a president with genuine courage and charisma will have to set the ship straight.

This whole sequester event has demonstrated that President Obama is a C student in a job that required an A student to fill it. We didn't get to see his grades. Now we have a few more years to keep him from breaking any more china bulling around the shop.

I'll back off being so critical of him. He really doesn't know what he's doing and criticizing the struggling guy at the bottom of the class isn't fair. From now on I'll just post the grade (most of which will be C's, D's and F's) he deserves as he wanders on and off golf courses the next few years.

Obama isn't what's wrong with America. Obama IS America.

Mediocre.