Just Like Bush

I'm so tired of the handwringing super pures out there that I blew up at a friend this week and  called yet another missive she forwarded to me "crap." But I stand by it anyway, because it is.
Here's why:

So if things go the way I think they'll go, by later this year Obama, Pelosi, and Reid will have passed a historic stimulus bill, the Lily Ledbetter Act, healthcare reform, college loan reform, financial reform, repeal of DADT, and Obama will have withdrawn from Iraq.¹ Not bad for 18 months of work. And who knows? There's even a chance that Obama's Afghanistan escalation will work. If it does, what president since LBJ will have accomplished more in his first term?
¹Except for the pesky "residual force," of course. Still, once the combat forces are gone, it's hard to see a scenario in which they're ever sent back in.

Oh, wait. They're not perfect. They could have, should have, would have (if Nader, Feingold, FDR were in charge) because, dammit, we say so.
I'm not against criticising Obama. There's plenty there. But to then turn the criticism into a conclusion that he's "just like Bush" is our own version of teabagging.