"The erosion comes mostly among Democrats, a record 20 percent of whom disapprove."

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25. The Republican House is a fact, the filibuster is a fact, the system is set up for owners

That's a fact, too. When states with less than a million people get the same number of Senators as states with 20-30 million people, you know the people in their totality are going to be terribly under-represented. Our beloved founders were bent on frustrating change as much as anything and they were awesomely successful.

Obama spent too much time waiting for the Republicans to be reasonable, that's a fact, too. But he did something any fair-minded person should respect: He won. He beat THEM. Walking a fine line was part of it, it will be part of it for any Democrat. Our party, at its best, is about taking what the powerful have not productively earned and don't deserve and returning it to those less powerful so that the greater good is served. That is a much tougher assignment than giving rich people more money and manipulating popular emotion, which is what the other side does (with the help of the MSM). Can we have some basic recognition of that here?

I have no problem with your post; Obama has been overly cautious at times. Many times, for my tastes. But he has also kept the barbarians away from the hand controls for eight years when all is said and done. "Better late than never," is a far sight better than, "Never," which is where we'd still be without him on any number of fronts.