“That’s why pope & catholic clergy don’t get married, so they don’t get distracted by the families”
They celibacy rule does not apply to all Catholic clergy, and it was instituted not because of possible distractions but because the clergy wanted to pass on inheritances to their children.
“After Obama is gone, anyone would be a good president.”
Objectively, Obama is the most successful President in domestic policy since Lyndon Johnson and the most successful President on foreign policy since the first Bush.
Domestic accomplishments:
1) Great recession ended without a depression.
2) Most Americans now have access to health insurance.
3) Budget deficit declines every year.
4) Unemployment lower than at any time since the crash of 2008.
5) Natural gas production at an all time high.
6) US now the #1 oil producer in the world.
7) Stock market at all time record highs.
Foreign policy accomplishmeents:
1) Bin Laden dead.
2) Almost all other top Al Qaeda leaders dead.
3) Ghadafi dead.
4) Greek debt crisis contained.
5) Strategic arms treaty with Russia.
6) Free trade agreement with Columbia.
7) Free trade agreement with Panama.
8) Free trade agreement with South Korea.
9) Iran faces most draconian sanctions in peacetime any country has ever faced.
10) US-Israel military cooperation at highest level in history.
11) US funds Israel’s development of Iron Dome.
12) US out of Iraq in accordance with agreement Bush signed with Al-Maliki.
13) US *not* in Syria.
14) Republic of the Philippines invites US Navy back. (It had kicked us out under the first Bush.)
I could add a few more but you get the picture.