As much as I bash Obama, he is the only thing standing between us...
...and the abyss of RW insanity. I may bitch about him sucking up to the Banksters at times, but the alternative is much, much worse. This is not an election between Left and Right, it is an election between sanity and insanity.
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Ginsburg is turning 80 this year, Breyer is 73(?)....and more interestingly, both Scalia and Kennedy are in their mid-70s now as well. If ONE conservative justice retires and Obama appoints his successor.....the LIBERALS WILL HAVE A MAJORITY ON THE SUPREME COURT.
HOWEVER, if Romney is elected, the conservative seats will remain in conservative hands while Ginsburg and Breyer will be replaced with another Scalia and Alito, and conservatives will solidify their majority to 7-2 (and it will remain that way for decades).
That alone is enough reason for me to vote for President Obama.
...you have 31, and you're asking if he/she is a Democrat and should be posting here??? 
Yes, we CAN disagree with Pres. Obama on various issues and still be Democrats. And we can have differences with him and each other, and still unite against repugnant-cons.
English is my native language; I believe I was perfectly clear.
This is not the CPSU, we're not a monolithic party. We have differences of opinion. I'm a liberal of the flaming variety, I cut my teeth on the McGovern campaign. Not everyone (and that includes Pres. Obama) is going to have the same opinion on every issue that I have--or you have--or robinlynne has. My differences of opinion with Pres. Obama exist, my differences with repuglicans are orders of magnitude greater. There is nothing in robinlynne's post, or her lengthy history, from which to infer that she is a troll, or anything but a loyal Democratic believer. Don't accuse people of being trolls just because they state that they have a difference of opinion with someone.
For many decades I have lived in a very progressive pocket of a red state that has slowly gone purple/blue. I have been sheltered from the outright racism that has been an underlying boiling point for so many Americans.
I am ashamed & stunned at the bigotry. Ashamed for them & their bigotry & ashamed, also, for me, to some level, for not seeing the scope of this insidious disease & how pervasive it is in our culture, even today.
I am so thankful to live in a pocket that is more liberal, but I realize that I must be aware & offer help in areas where liberalism isn't so prevalent.
A few weeks ago there was a thread - not clear on the details, but I think it discussed a recent Bill Maher show where Bill & a guest discussed how the status quo machine would pick up on an Obama loss as "See, a black man just couldn't cut it."
I am soooooo NOT Obama's biggest fan. but this talking point will affect ALL minorities, not just blacks. (on edit: For decades)
I don't have words to express my hatred of the status quo/right wing machine that controls this country & it's dialog. And as inadequate as I see the Democratic Party's response to the extreme right wing shift, I will, once again, vote for the lesser of two evils. 
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Before Dennis Miller became a total fuckhead, he had a surprisingly, righteous rant on one of his HBO shows about bigotry. He said (paraphrased), "It's stupid to hate someone for the color of their skin, when if you take 5 minutes and just talk to them, you will find plenty of VALID reasons to hate them."
Sort of a misanthropes way of looking at humanity, but I can relate. 
That's enough to get me to the polls. 
