THE POLITICS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA's TEMPORARY IMMIGRATION POLICY EXCEPTION EXECUTIVE ORDER............

Like in 1948, when President Harry S Truman, who was politically beleaguered when he sought election in his own right, after three years in the White House, effectively campaigning and unexpectedly capturing victory against Republican New York Governor Thomas Dewey, and third and fourth party challenges from the left and right wing of the Democratic Party; much of the key to President Truman's electoral success was based on his running against the Do Nothing Republican 80th Congress and the specifics avoiding Dewey candidacy.  Shift forward sixty four years to 2012, and President Barack Obama faces the same kind of re-election campaign in much the same way.  In his nomination acceptance speech in 1948, Harry Truman dared to call the recalcitrant 80th Congress back into special summer session to enact legislation they said they were for, but had failed to pass for the first year and a half they were in session.  Barack Obama finds himself in a similar situation, with an uncooperative 112th Congress Republican majority House of Representatives, which for its year and a half duration to date, has refused to work with him on proposed legislation and where a minority membership of 47 Republican members in the U.S. Senate, under Senate rules can stall, fillibuster, or kill, proposed legislation; and the certain Republican Presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Romney presently being less than clearly specific about his proposals to address current issues facing the country namely Immigration;  the President finds himself faced wit the probabilty of running a Truman like campaign against the 112th Congress and his presidential challenger Romney.  Therefore, having campaigned for President four years ago pledging to get immigration reform accomplished and having been unsuccessful in getting Congress to act upon passing such legislation, such as the DREAM Act, the President used his Executive authority last Friday to temporarily address the status of youth sixteen years of age and younger, who were illegally brought to the United States by their families from being deported, as a short term response to the problem, until a permanent solution can be enacted.  Governor Romney will not say what he will do should he be elected President about this Executive Order, underscored by his unwillgness five times on Sunday to answer Bob Schieffer's questioning of him about this, on CBS News' 'Face The Nation'; other than to critique it in favor of a permanent solution that will have to be passed by Congress and signed into law, instead.  President Obama's is being accused by Republicans of election year politics in issuing this Executive Order, by a margin of better than two to one, polling being released this week is showing overall, 64% Approve of the President's doing so;  30% Disapprove of the President's issuing of the Order;  and among Independent voters the margin favoring President Obama's Executive Order is a margin of forty percentage points, 66% - 26%.  As for charging politics which lies at the heart of this dispute - partisan politics is currently permeating and polarizing the ability to get anything substantially  done, and that is true on the part of Governor Romney and Congressional Republicans, as much as it is President Obama and Congressional Democrats.  The only answer to this kind of poisonous partisanship is to invoke a bedrock definition of political science and government : the art of Compromise.  Sadly, far too few present day politicians have the ability to value the necessity of Compromise in order to legislate and govern for the greatest Common Good of the entire nation.  Yet presidential election politics may cause it to come somewhat back into favor, as the latest Bloomberg Poll released today has President Obama leading Governor Romney by the largest margin in the last several weeks - 53% - 40%; with a margin of error of 4%, said to be primarily due to the President's Executive Order last Friday  ...........Fr.  Troy