GOP should recognize this Obama success

As we watched the wonderful Sunday night news that Osama Bin Laden’s reign of terror was over, some thoughts coursed through our minds. Above all else, our president of just more than two years, Barack Hussein Obama, tries and can achieve the objectives he has set for the country-no matter how tough. “Yes we can” became yes he did on a project the previous president, George W. Bush, failed to accomplish in his entire two-term, eight-year presidency despite his profession “Mission accomplished.”

The Republicans, who so disparaged everything he has done or tried to do, including the Affordable Health Care Act, must reconsider their appalling anti-Obama position. All the work that he and the Democrats accomplished in their first two years in charge of the nation and Congress succeeded in even more impossible conditions produced by “Party of No” than those set by al-Qaida and militant Muslims.

Despite that relentless and unified opposition, the Republicans’ efforts to block everything Obama and the then majority party presented, the last Congress got much done for the good of the whole country regardless of partisan leanings. The Lilly Ledbetter Law, financial reform and preserving the automobile industry as a viable job producer in the U.S. are examples of the steps they took for all Americans.

There is much more work to accomplish to win the future. Just based on the successes so far, including bin Laden’s end and the other items Obama has managed, the GOP owes their allegiance to the president and the country enough to give the rest of his agenda the possibility to work. Let this be a new beginning in progress for the U.S. We Democrats and Republican can get back to the type of country that we grew up in and love so much.

Jeff Clarkson

Elgin