DU has improved so much! It seems to me that when things are really dire--when W was pResident, now

[raccoon]

when Trump is --gag--president elect, DU has so many good posts. And links to great articles.

OTOH, during Obama's admin, until the election, DU got sort of....boring.

[bigtree]

1. we don't really know how to deal with winning

...how to influence and reward those who share our interests. How to criticize and still maintain them as effective allies.

[kentuck]

2. Obama probably saved us from a second "great depression"?

But, in the process, strengthened the corporate and banking interests of this nation. He saved us from a horrible economic collapse, but in the process, made the corporate interests much stronger.

He, like many Democrats, believed in the power of money over the power of ideas and they have been proven wrong.

That is how I think history will record the Obama years?

[bigtree]

3. power of money over the power of ideas?

...I don't agree that this was his 'belief.'

Pres. Obama did not have the power to effectively legislate every one of his 'beliefs' without compromise and qualification. That's a consequence of our democratic system of governance, not some ambition of his.

[Initech]

4. To quote Bill Maher:

"Actually, now I do!"

[Aristus]

5. During the first six years or so of Barack Obama's Presidency, there were too many DU-ers

of the "He didn't give me my unicorns and rainbows" ilk.

Now under Trump, I suppose, their complaints will start to seem a little quaint...