Carter had lower unemployment rates!

I actually think Obama is closer to Herbert Hoover. Standing around with his thumb up his ass while Rome burns.

I rather liked how Bill Maher summed things up. The problem with politics today is that the Republicans have no brains, and the Democrats have no balls.

Fighting can be very counterproductive.  It always appeases the base sensibilities of people who like to be entertained, sure, but rarely is there substantive result within the confines of something serious like our government where consensus must be reached for there to be success.  These trying times, I believe, demand the type of president that we have.  Sure we can look into history through rose colored goggles of what we thought FDR and Truman were, but making such a judgement warrants a closer examination of both the realities of THOSE times, and how unprecedented THESE times are.  You can always pick and choose similarities to your liking, but you're not going to find a presidency in history where the circumstances are identical to the current one.  Obama isn't perfect, but he's far from a failure.  And, might I add, he's also going to get handily elected to a second term.

by allowing his political strategists to purposely schedule the long-awaited jobs plan speech on the same night as the Republican debate.

And all it really has done is to give free publicity to the organizers of the debate. Most of America didn't even know that there was going to be a debate on that night. Now, there will certainly be mroe people watching it since the President himself has put it in the public news.