President Obama is having a pretty good run.

Corporate profits continue to rise, the stock market is through the roof, unemployment is dropping like a stone, more Americans have health insurance, we’re no longer at war in Iraq and Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden is dead.

Not bad for a Kenyan Socialist Muslim Dictator.

Is there any way we can waive the two-term limit? Because the last thing we’d want is another Bush in the White House to plunge us into a couple of more wars and another Great Recession.

To watch Faux News and listen to the shrill lying from the right side of the talk-radio dial, you’d think Obama is the worst president since Martin Van Buren, or at least George W. Bush. If a Martian landed in Fargo tomorrow and turned on conservative talk-radio, the poor little fellow would jump back in his spaceship and skedaddle back to Mars faster than Rush Limbaugh goes through wives. All the Martian would hear is scandal, joblessness, despair, economic disaster and an impending revolution.

One little problem: None of it’s true.

Truth is, America is doing pretty damn well right now in the sixth year of Obama’s presidency.

Let’s paraphrase the question conservatives swoon over because their guy, the liberal-spending government-growing Ronald Reagan, asked it during a presidential campaign: Are you better off today than you were six years ago? Most Americans would say “yes.”

How about you?

See, here’s the deal: Despite the-sky-is-falling malarkey from conservatives, Obama helped put the sky back where it belongs in the U.S. – way high up in the air. The sky fell during the last years of the George W. Bush administration and for awhile after Obama took the baton, but since then has been rising steadily.

The unemployment rate hit 10 percent in the early months of Obama’s presidency, but this month was measured at 5.8 percent.

The stock market, at about 6,500 in March 2009, eclipsed 18,000 for the first time in history this month.

U.S. corporate profits have risen for 12 straight quarters, growing steadily since the beginning of 2012.

Osama Bin Laden, who eluded capture or death during the final seven years of Bush’s administration, is dead. Killed during Obama’s presidency. Hated longtime dictators Moammar Gaddafi of Libya and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt were also overthrown, and Gaddafi was killed. No American lives were lost in Bin Laden’s death or the tumult surrounding Libya and Egypt.

The United States is no longer involved in ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war on terror in those nations cost America more than 5,000 lives and an estimated $5 trillion.

Obama’s signature legislation, the Affordable Care Act, has reduced the percentage of uninsured Americans from 18 percent to about 13 percent. In the latest open enrollment period from Nov. 15 to Dec. 19, 6.4 million enrolled in the ObamaCare marketplace. That includes 1.9 million new signups and 4.5 million renewals. Far more Americans have health insurance today than before Obama signed the ACA into law in 2010.

That’s not a bad resume for a popular president, much less one who is apparently as reviled and distrusted as this one.

How have we reached this point?

Branding, plain and simple. Republicans and their media have branded Obama a failed president, a dictator, a Muslim, a socialist better than Disney has branded “Frozen.” Conservatives have controlled the message from Day One of Obama’s presidency and progressives have sat idly by wringing their hands.

It’s not that conservatives have marketed themselves well (impossible, since they’ve had nothing to market), but they have pounded home the propaganda that the Affordable Care Act will “bankrupt this country,” that it was “forced down our throats” and that Obama signing executive orders makes him “a dictator” and is “the worst president since Jimmy Carter.” And that’s just a handful of the talking points.

Credit to them, it’s worked.

But it’s not truthful. The truth is, Americans are better off today than they were six years ago and Obama deserves some of the credit.

Now, about waiving that constitutional term limit ….

(Mike McFeely is a talk-show host on 790 KFGO-AM in Fargo-Moorhead. He can be heard from 2-5 p.m. weekdays. Follow him on Twitter @MikeMcFeelyKFGO.)