( CNN ) -- `` Take our country back . '' Almost as soon as Barack Obama became president four years ago , we began hearing that phrase , as if black folks had stolen the White House . Each time I see one of those `` Take Our Country Back '' signs on someone 's lawn , I want to knock on the door and ask , `` from whom ? '' From whom are you trying to take this country back ? But I do n't , because I already know the answer . It 's the same answer to the question of why so many people still do n't believe that President Obama was born in the United States . Or why they continue to question his faith or why Donald Trump feels comfortable insulting the office by promising his pocket change in exchange for Obama 's college transcripts , as if the president is a stripper desperate for singles . He and his kind are so pathetic . They do n't just disagree with him . They disrespect him , because in their minds , he 's not supposed to be there . He got a handout . He 's not a real American . Something about him ai n't ... quite ... right . Opinion : Obama 's victory wo n't transform America . So when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize , his critics spent more time discrediting the importance of the award than congratulating him for winning it . When unemployment fell under 8 % , they accused the Obama administration of fixing the numbers . When the president opted to campaign instead of surveying the damage caused by Hurricane Isaac sooner , he was called selfish . When Obama left the campaign trail to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy , former FEMA Director Michael Brown criticized him for responding too quickly . Nothing he did was good enough for them . But on Tuesday , it was good enough for the majority of real Americans . We watched then-congressman Pete Hoekstra call the stimulus package a failure and then show up for a groundbreaking ceremony for a manufacturing plant made possible by the stimulus . We saw Texas Gov . Rick Perry call the stimulus a waste during debates while quietly using stimulus money to balance his state 's budget . Rep. Paul Ryan , the supposed numbers man of the Republican Party , repeatedly called the stimulus a wasteful spending spree , and then we found out he wrote letters asking for stimulus money in his district ( PDF ) , because according to him , it would `` stimulate the local and area economy by creating new jobs . '' It was hard for real Americans to take criticism of the Recovery Act seriously when those doing the criticizing were busy talking out of both sides of their anti-Obama mouths . And that 's exactly what we 've watched for much of four years : the president 's critics being more focused on making him look like a failure than on helping the country succeed . Some call it politics . I call it unpatriotic . Either way , despite the disrespect and the disregard and the attempts to suppress votes or intimidate voters , despite the misguided cry of `` take our country back , '' Obama was re-elected because the majority of the American people saw the truth . You remember when Ryan stood up in front of nation during the Republican National Convention and blamed the president for a plant closing in Janesville , Wisconsin ? Yeah , turns out the closure was planned before Obama even took office . The people in Janesville knew the truth , which is probably why more than 60 % of the county it 's in voted for Obama . Opinion : Five things Obama must do . There is no need to take this country back , because it has n't gone anywhere ... except forward ... toward a more perfect union where the `` All-American look '' is getting a little bit harder to define . That may make a lot of people uncomfortable , but personal discomfort is n't a good enough reason to slight 25 consecutive months of job growth , resurgent house prices and corporations seeing record profit . Every president since Theodore Roosevelt has talked about reforming health care , and Obama is the one who got it done -- yet his critics say he 's done nothing since he 's been in office . Now , of course , there is still a lot of work ahead . We have a deficit to address , a fiscal cliff that is threatening millions of jobs and a GDP that is limping . And the administration is going to make mistakes . Every administration does . But now that this election is finally over , maybe more Republicans will be willing to take a page from the book of New Jersey Gov . Chris Christie and give Obama some credit for the things he 's done right . We can still challenge the president 's ideas without asking for his papers or spitting on our highest office . When I think about where this country was four years ago -- with us losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month , engulfed in two wars and disliked by many of our allies -- I believe Obama has done a lot that 's right . And from the looks of his resounding re-election , the majority of real Americans feel the same way . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson .
LZ Granderson : Some critics do n't just disagree with him ; they hate him . Nothing Obama has ever done was good enough for them , Granderson says . But on Obama , it was good enough for voters , he says . No one wants to take this country back , because it has n't been good , says Obama .