It's Been A Year

Okay so the big deal in Washington D.C. this month is that President Barack Obama has been in office for a full year. The media, like they have done throughout all of 2009, has been all over the guy with analysis, opinions, etc. He campaigned with promises to fix the economy and improve conditions in the Middle East by withdrawing troops from Iraq and escalating things in Afghanistan in a renewed effort to catch Osama Bin Laden. The media, after just one year, seems to writing his presidency off as a failure because we are still in a recession, two wars are still being waged to stalemates, and on the whole we seem no further along than this time last year. Is it fair to make a judgment (positive or negative) on the man's presidency just 1/4 of the way through it? If he is failing, how much can we blame on him?