I'm so flippin' proud of this president!
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waiting for this man to be President. He makes mistakes becuse he is human. But he is there for all of us. I live abroad and it is great to have a President that I can be so proud of.
he is worth fighting for (and with)!!! 
Just kidding... He's great and I'm proud too!!!
He rocks 
and rolls 
And he can sing too! 
and having some fun after the crapola he's endured!
American Spring is happening now, and from what I've gathered (scant "news"
the police in NYC aren't even worried about the pretense of appearing as though they're there for any other reason than to shut it down.
The numbers aren't enough, you're right -- we DO need 10 million. But too many of us have can't leave our jobs (and can't afford to get there) in order to participate in a meaningful uprising. I'm not even sure there are that many who are as angry and frightened as some of us. Just trying to get along day to day precludes them from devoting much attention to what's happening. They've got us right where they want us.
We do forget, and then we forget again.
We all thought there was going to be Big Change -- and NOW! I'm not sure how realistic that was, and we didn't factor in the Republicans blocking absolutely every thing that was proposed that might move toward that change. We NEVER could have foreseen Congress being taken over by the Tea Party. So I give Obama some slack regarding things like health care -- he did make some important improvements, and without acquiescing as much as he did (much to our outrage and betrayal), we wouldn't achieved ANYthing. But there are other areas that I'm just baffled by, where he wasn't over a barrel, like extending the Bush policies that allowed warrant-less wiretapping and other Bush -- and new -- violations of our civil rights, not prosecuting the Wall Street thieves, surrounding himself with the likes of Geithner, and I could keep going.
I'm convinced, and have been for some time, that we'll need to fall and completely begin again. I thought that might have been in 2008 after eight years of the most terrifying regime I could have imagined, and was heartened that the rest of America felt the same way. I thought we'd escaped the inevitable. But now, I'm just kind of waiting for it to happen, I think.
You could always resign from Citibank and post your "resignation letter" in the New York Times a la Greg Smith. 
Wouldn't that feel good! But you need to keep your job there until you can get one that will support your soul as well as your family. Just take comfort in the fact that you KNOW what you're doing -- some fellow attorneys, I'd venture to guess, probably don't see anything wrong with what the Citibanks of the world are doing.
Really, I'm pretty much resigned that the system is so corrupt and so insidious and has leached into every aspect of our politics and economy, that there's little we can do but hang on and hope to survive The Fall. 
So until then, I take what feel-good respites come along -- like the OP. 
probably thinking "was I fucking nuts to want this job?"
Even George W -- I gave him a pass after the Read My Lips No New Taxes when he had to come before the American people and say -- I honestly had no idea what we're up against. I imagine it's like that for every President.
But you raise a good point -- WHY don't they know? This shows how much they keep hidden.
I'm driving to work and on the car radio they're leading into what the president said about something, and I went into automatic cringe mode from 8 years of Bush - then Obama started speaking and I was like, "OMG I FORGOT!!!"
