President Obama's Gallup approval rating amongst liberal Democrats for April 2nd-8th is 87%.

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89. you need to realize that you are just wrong.

"But no genuinely progressive person could think all the compromises and all the rightward tacks were actually a GOOD thing"

many genuinely progressive people live in the real world where government is about compromise and accomplishing what you can AND ABOUT what people who are not progressives get from their representatives, to fill their needs.

we are not a genuinely progressive country. we are a purple country, which is the country that obama is the president of. most of us accept that there are other people who have power, who want things done, and who have interesting in both change and resistance to change.
many genuine progressives, iow, live here in america, among the fools and the greedy, the racists and the holy, the poor and the rich. we hold dear the values of patience and acceptance. and we hold dear those who fight the good fight, and move things in the right direction.

some of us genuine progressives are
PROUD AS HELL OF OUR PRESIDENT