Barack Obama

but paid for it with deals that had Democrats rolling their eyes,
referring to him as the 'caver-in-chief' and someone who compromises
too soon

Budget deals, Social Security deals, tax deals to avoid shutdowns,
drilling permits, a mixed environmental record at best,

Lest we forget.

Yet he has accomplished a lot, and has outshone Congressional Republicans
ninety-fold. All their grandstanding and rigidity, and moralizing, and thinly
veiled racism, and investigations that stopped Congress, and stonewalling
that prevented jobs legislation, and efforts to support voter suppression.

They have been small-minded, and Obama has emerged through diligence and
hard work - you really do get the sense the man puts in 18 hour days and
simply has no quit in him - as the grandest mind of his age, at least for now.