Just in time of the midterm elections, Rollingstone makes the case for our current president:

But if the passions of Obama's base have been deflated by the compromises he made to secure historic gains like the Recovery Act, health care reform and Wall Street regulation, that gloom cannot obscure the essential point: This president has delivered more sweeping, progressive change in 20 months than the previous two Democratic administrations did in 12 years. "When you look at what will last in history," historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Rolling Stone, "Obama has more notches on the presidential belt."
There's a real reason why the right has flooded this election with crazy money and crazy candidates. It's in a state of panic. What we on the left see as minor changes, they see as monuments of change. What we see as huts, they see as pyramids.