This was written for Yes We Can! Long Island, a progressive, advocacy organization that was founded during the presidential campaign of 2008. Must of the excitement has diminished in the past year, so this was an attempt to bring back some perspective to President Obama's time in office.
This was first posted on yeswecanli.org on Sunday.
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Much has been recently discussed of President Obama’s – also sometimes referred to as Superman – failures and the Democratic Party’s poor approval throughout the nation. We have heard this repeated over and over again on the news and printed in our papers, repeated so many times it has become the reality that we all have accepted – the Democrats are poised to lose many seats in congress in the midterm elections. The funny thing though is this isn’t actually true. The people do not view Obama’s Presidency as a failure; they do not view the Democrats as poorly as past congresses; and it is far from a certainty that the Democrats will do poorly in the midterms.
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