Reply #33: Few if any expect or even hope for perfection

[TheKentuckian]

There is A LOT of room between dismal failure and perfection, its not a light switch. See after perfect we can say we have excellent, then we can have great, after that good fits pretty well, I figure there's room for something like average, mediocre, or acceptable, then there's that area where you aren't up to par but haven't utterly failed like a D in school.

You're painting a picture of straight A's and the man is getting heat for not going from 98 or 99 percent to 100 and if that's what you perceive then there is going to be disagreement.

Folks aren't getting 90 or 95 percent of what they want, they aren't getting 80-85 percent, and to be honest on some issues people aren't getting almost anywhere near the target and might be closer to zero than one hundred.

Just because you're sitting pretty at 90-95% on target doesn't mean everyone else is. If you pay attention to people's complaints and positions on issues then you'd at least reconsider your framing of this perfection meme. You know he isn't close to what even you might agree would be strongly effective attempts at solutions to very vexing problems much less anywhere in shouting distance to the "perfect" answers.

There are things that simply must be dealt with in relatively effective ways or there will be dire consequences to our civil liberties, equality, the environment, our energy independence, and most certainly our financial security and humane distribution of resources.

Any old solutions won't do and none are likely to be perfect so it is reasonable to expect and to demand the most effective policies to deal with the destructive issues we must deal with.

It means little to have Obama carved in granite if we don't really tackle the problems that are dragging down our people and our way of life but rather just rack up empty "wins" and keep the poll numbers above water for eight years.