"Why We Need President Obama -- A Critical Moment"

Deepak's piece points out the partisan nature of past politics from the bully pulpit and how President Obama has changed politics into a "humane" and a "non-ideological governance" while trying to reverse what had taken decades of Republican indoctrination to build the right-wing frenzy making taxes cut on the rich a sin, "blatant favoritism toward Christian groups" a fad, packing the DOJ office with Jerry Falwell's law school graduates a prerequisite, and more rubbish ideological partisanship that has damaged the way our country is governed.

President Obama in the last two and half years has faced the most fierce opposition than any past president has faced. Being a Black man sure has not helped advance our big tent agenda. However, with all the racist vile and a non stop condescending attitude he has been dealt with (case in point, the debt ceiling posturing), he has tried on many occasions to reach out consistently without showing despair while he has gotten fierce push backs that would make any leader lose it and punch back hard. However, President Obama is not just any leader. He is an exceptional leader who is not hot headed, reactionary or emotionally driven who understands politics requires talking to people who not only he agrees with but also those that he disagrees with because our system requires it to get anything done. In fact, at times playing wimpy to pull many last minute hair raiser victories is also astute political maneuvers our President has played to get things through against the fierce opposition of the right and the easily destructed and impatient left who nonetheless would say his victories are defeat.

If ever there was a time to stand behind the captain, this is it. Not because pluralism and free expression are wrong. They aren't and never will be. But like Churchill calling upon a coalition cabinet in the depth of the war years, it's paramount that we see the greater danger for what it is. Attention was drawn to the cover of a recent issue of the Economist, which showed a tall President Obama towering over a squabbling handful of pygmy Republican rivals for the presidency. The headline read, "He Could Still Lose." We need to remember that if that were to happen, it wouldn't be because President Obama made too many mistakes or failed to pass a sufficiently liberal agenda. The reason would be that all of us forgot the 30-year reign of reactionary administrations (minus the Clinton years) and the power of debased politics to keep coming back, again and again.