Reply #3: There's a thread where there were several defenses of Clinton and DADT as

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"the best deal/compromise he could get at the time".

I wonder if President Obama will get that same consideration as things play out?

To your original question, yes, I do notice that.

And I have a strong suspicion that those who fall over themselves trying to be the first to label his every action a failure or a disaster, no matter which side of the political spectrum they're on, will end up more often than not like the Coyote to the President's Roadrunner.

For all the shrieking that's gone on here for the past several months over various issues, we have today:

A Congressional repeal of DADT
Unemployment benefits extended where they were previously killed by Congressional Republicans
Middle-class tax relief
A TEMPORARY extension of upper-income tax cuts versus the PERMANENT cuts that the next Congress would have tried to shove down our throats and must now campaign to the American people to justify
Republicans being exposed on 9/11 Responders, DREAM, and START as the heartless obstructionists they are

...for starters.