Barack Obama

some degree. Other times we might not quite understand where he's going, at least not at first; though most of us have been amazed and pleased at the eventual outcome. You'd not be abandoning your own beliefs by putting your shoulder to the wheel and helping move the country leftward in a realistic manner that recognizes where it is at the moment. The race doesn't always go to the swift. I personally consider myself to the left of Kucinich and Wellstone, surely. But it has no adverse effect on my respect and wish to help what Grantcart has called 'process Democrats', those with the responsibility for executing the popular will. At this point you and I are not really in the majority, although I suspect some of our leaders are more sympathetic than practicality allows them to show. So far President Obama has proved remarkably effective against the stonewallers; I honor and appreciate his efforts and service to the nation as a whole. No one, absolutely no one, could've done any better or even come close. Moreover, he's clearly a man of compassion, something of which the GOP knows nothing.

Please don't make the mistake of letting a nascent third party woo you away. That would be a grievous tactical error. We stick together or we're all sunk. Working together, we'll get a lot closer to achieving things on that list; if we die before it's possible to finish, then it's up to the next generation to continue.