Reply #27: Yeah, that's fair.

[Dr Morbius]

But I was thinking about the fourteen months it took him to come up with a recommendation to fix NCLB, and every year we fail to fix NCLB is another year of education wasted. And of course there's so much more to do!

You know, I respect and admire the guy and I admit, I couldn't do the job as well (not something I believed under Clinton or either Bush). Maybe he has pulled off a minor miracle here and it's wrong of me to complain it took too long. But the bar - the bar the President has to clear - isn't set by me or the rest of the American people or even history. The bar is set by the demands of the era; if America needs the President to solve a dozen problems at once, then that's the bar the President has to clear. President Obama came to office amid a flurry of crises: two wars, both off the budget; unregulated markets and an economy in the crapper; spiraling healthcare costs, and of course he has to undo all the harm Bush did during his two terms (like NCLB). It's not fair to expect the President to handle all of it all at once, and solve everything.

But that's what we need him to do.

I expect he's equal to it. In many ways, he's a remarkable fellow.