I agree completely with George Clooney

[chervilant]

192. Interesting...

Clearly, you are not a social scientist, which is not altogether surprising, given your leap of faith about liberal democrats agreeing with Mr. Clooney. I, on the other hand, remain hopeful that the majority of liberal democrats do not subscribe to the either/or, black/white, with us/against us thinking articulated by Mr. Clooney.

Furthermore, "basic logic" will never be a good substitute for defensible research (something that has become far easier, cheaper, and faster using the internet).

While I acknowledge that I'll likely vote for Mr. Obama in the upcoming election, I refuse to march in lockstep with him. Some of Mr. Obama's decisions have been worthy of criticism--for example, his appointment of Arne Duncan as SecEd, and his rather condescending assertion that veteran teachers who protested this appointment are "resistant to change." I can assure you it is not "change" that motivates me to criticize Duncan, or this administration's egregious policies regarding public education.

Mr. Obama said himself that we should "hold his feet to the fire." And so we should. Deriding or vilifying those of us who criticize some of Mr. Obama's decisions is both disrespectful and disingenuous. Sad that we cannot have this dialogue without such divisiveness and negativity.