K&R if you feel President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Re-elected!!!

[liberalhistorian]

12. Although I definitely totally agree with you about the

thread, I also believe that people have the right to speak their minds and opinion and that this shouldn't just be one big circle jerk. It should be a DISCUSSION, even when, and maybe especially if, there's such disagreement.

Personally, the sentiment of that OP and its followers drives me batshit crazy. He's done a lot more than people think, but people expect him to be pure and perfect and just wave his magic wand and everything will be exactly as they want it. They're as bad as the RW base demanding every single thing be done exactly as they want or else. You CANNOT have everything you want in politics, you just cannot. It isn't possible. Not in a democracy. Yes, I will agree that Obama has been quite frustrating at times, but I'll still take him in a heartbeat over any of the GOP candidates and shudder to think of what might happen with even one month of a presidency of any of the candidates. They make Obama look like Che Guevara.

And, being a sort-of oldtimer (not quite fifty, but getting close) I have just one word for those screaming for Obama's blood and demanding a primary challenge: 1980. I'll say it again: 1980. A major reason Carter lost (besides his ineffectiveness in many ways) was precisely due to the primary challenges against him as well as the independent candidate John Anderson. The primary challenges seriously and severely weakened him, seriously divided the already-weakened party and weakened in further, infuriated many within the party which caused them to leave, and caused rifts and divisions, some of which have not healed and have carried over to this day. And what was especially infuriating was that there was little to no chance of any primary challenger prevailing and those who challenged KNEW it. And they wouldn't have been able to wave a magic wand and make everything happen at once, either. We cannot go down that same path this time.