Assessing Obama

I have long thought it is pretty obvious there is no perfect candidate for office, and, being that they are politicians and generally were lawyers, this is not hard to understand. So why nit-pick every stumble and thing that goes wrong, and every lie they necessarily have to commit? It is better to ignore all that as noise and look at what the cliché calls the "big picture." As such Obama has done fine, especially when he has had to deal with Republicans in congress who have to respond to idiots like the Tea Party or lose closed primary elections. The economy is OK, as is the stock market. Inflation is nil and so are interest rates (which do hurt fixed income people but encourage investment and help the young starters-out. The country is essentially at peace, if such a think in the modern world is possible, with only a couple of inherited contests being wound down, although in some cases I think they will never end, I see no particular way to end them so it's hare to judge Obama for not doing so.