President Barack Obama is an interesting man to say the least. The 44th U.S. president is adored by liberals, hated by conservatives and brings mixed feelings to moderates. He is the true epitome of a polarizing politician. He has certainly pushed controversial legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act and the 2009 economic stimulus package.

Obama has met his fair share of criticism for his political actions. Conservatives have criticized his handling of the economy, saying we’ve had an exceptionally slow economic recovery since the Great Recession. They also criticize his take on foreign policy, accusing the president of being weak. Even some liberals have been critical of the president, like Dr. Cornell West, who called the president a “war criminal” for his use of drones.

While some of the criticisms of Obama are legitimate, there is one thing about this president we can all admire — his character.

Obama has the kind of noble, respectable personality from which other politicians can learn a thing or two.

Obama was giving a speech on immigration reform last November, when an activist heckled, “You have the power to stop deportations.”

The president could have  let Secret Service toss out the heckler but instead  Obama chose the high road and demanded the heckler be allowed to stay.

“What I’m proposing is the harder path, which is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you want to achieve, but it won’t be as easy as just shouting it out,” the president said,  assuring that he in fact did not have the power to stop deportations.

This is how a leader should handle himself.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reacted differently to a former Navy Seal and current law student who heckled the Republican governor at a town hall meeting. “After you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in a courtroom, your rear-end going to get thrown in jail, idiot,” Christie told the heckler as he was being escorted out of the building.

That is not the only place we can subtly observe the president’s candor, just look at how he copes with Senators and Representatives.

Last year’s Congress, the 113th, was literally the least productive in history and many Americans found themselves wondering how Congress was so useless. Perhaps it was because a good portion of Congress would rather shut down the federal government than allow a law that gives healthcare access to millions of people to take effect, because it came from the Oval Office.

Saying that there are members of Congress who purposefully oppose President Obama isn’t without base, by the way. They have even admitted it. Kentucky  Senator Mitch McConnell in a 2010 speech at the Heritage Foundation said that it should be “the top political priority to deny President Obama a second term.”

Dealing with this sort of opposition would take a person of strong moral center.

So if Republicans and Democrats can agree on only one thing, let it be that you can still show respect to the President as a person, even if you dislike him as a president.

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