What should have Obama done?

We all know that insight is 20/20 and today, this ever-recurring lesson fully applies to President Obama. When he took office lat January 2009, Barack Obama did everything he could to be nice to the Republicans, by not going after the Bush-Cheney tandem for their ruinous and

uncalled for war in Iraq and the war crimes perpetrated in the process, agreed to place Tim Geithner and Larry Summer at the helm of the nation's financial and economic leadership, and kept digging a deeper hole into the hopeless Afghan war.

In response to these presidential “gifts,” the opposition party could only say “No,” “No” and “No.” Its obstructionist tactics worked perfectly because today, middle America doesn't understand why the President failed to pull a herd of rabbits out of his hat twenty month into his administration. The moral of that sad story is that when you believe in something, have a solid majority (which Obama had) you plow away and do what it takes to advance your agenda. There is hardly any room for compromise. There will be plenty of time to worry about the other side if you fail, and of course, successful leaders never consider that.