for most politicians, it is up and down. the fact is this president, barack obama, has kept his head above water, especially with the party that elected him. the key is to stake out a direction, a national mission for himself and focus laser like on receiving it. we have the stimulus bill to get out of the recession, the health care plan out of divide congress and that was the first material. since then we've gotten the climate deal with china, recognition of same-sex marriage in the country as well as the courts and it looks like an agreement to keep iran from building nuclear arms. second terms are not supposed to be like this. truman in korea, bill clinton in monica land, w in katrina. well, we'll have to see. maybe just maybe, barack obama will stump the skeptics and history and put tens of millions of us right to have given this patriotic man his chance for