Two Years Later and More Work Still To Do

On this day two years ago I was standing in the freezing cold at the National Mall with 2 million other people watching Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United State of America. You can read some of my Inaugural Blogging here, here and here.  It was a proud day and I'm still proud as can be that Barack Obama is our president.

Two years after President Obama's inauguration he still enjoys moderately high approval ratings. His current approvals are higher than Reagan's and Clinton's at the same point in their first term.  According to the latest polls from CNN, Gallup, and ABC his approvals are 50% or higher each time.  Any suggestions that his numbers are low or that he is unpopular are not supported by any facet of reality.  It's also worthwhile to point out that Obama's approvals have been steady since November 2009.  But polls change on a dime and aren't worth the paper they are printed on.  They capture a screen shot of a moment in time that ends the second the poll is taken.  Yet they are still very accurate to gauge mood, sentiment and trends.  Below is a trend line that is as average as any president's since WWII.



It's been two years full of great accomplishments, setbacks, promises kept and promises broken, but a two years as good as any president could hope for.