Soldiering On

I'm content, today, to allow Nicholas D. Kristof to speak for me, in his column from yesterday's New York Times. I think he has it right when he writes of the "President as Pinata." We have been treating all our presidents badly in our recent history. And I'm sure it goes back much further than I'm accounting for. There's always discontent from the other side. It's sad, I think, that in the case of our current president, the discontent from both sides is vitriolic. Much that he has managed to accomplish gets discounted in the rage that he has failed to accomplish everything he promised, and everything we expected of him that he did not promise. Despite which, the man soldiers on.