Barack Obama's farewell address began last night, and by now it may well be over.

And you know, it made me think.

A lot of times over the years, I've made fun of Obama as a

sysified anti-American narcissist, no nothing, whose ignorance of the way life works is

matched only by the titanic arrogance of his delusional self-importance,

which masks an essential weakness and lack of fortitude

that makes him seem less like a powerful world leader and more like a whining,

sniveling little girl, it wasn't invited to her popular friend's birthday party.

Sorry, my mind drifted.

Back to Barack Obama, I've made fun of him a lot over the years as a

gornless leftist buffoon who was being mindlessly cheered on by a group of media and academic

elites who were asked to locate their buttocks with two hands in a flashlight,

quickly asked to be excused, and then ran away.

But now the Obama administration is coming to an end, and as we helplessly weep in gratitude,

I feel it's time to soften our tone a little, time to overlook some of those all-too-human

flaws that sometimes made Obama's presence feel something like a cross between a

herpesor and shingles, and instead we should take a more generous look at some of the accomplishments

for which this administration will be remembered long after it's completely forgotten.

You might not recall it now except for the fact that Obama is constantly reminding you,

but when the president first took office, this country was in the depths of one of the

worst crises since the Great Depression.

The Democrat policy of forcing banks to make home loans to people who couldn't repay

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