Matt Damon Blasts Obama: “One-Term President With Balls” Would Be Better

[Zorra]

268. Well, I kind of hope that poll is accurate, and then again, I kind of don't.

The good news is that the President will be re-elected handily. The bad news is, it seems the more extreme liberal Democrats no longer have a voice, or place, in the Democratic Party.

The opinions of those who I would characterize as the more liberal Democrats at DU and at other Democratic/progressive websites seem to conflict with the data in poll, but this could easily mean that we are the liberal extreme in the Democratic party, and that extreme liberal Democrats are more likely to share information on the internet than less liberal, moderate, or conservative Democrats are.

And it is possible that majority of the Democrats that I associate with and speak with about this issue are part of the liberal extreme also. (And it is true that two of my closest Dem/lib old friends, lifetime Democrats, both told me within the last year that they believe that the President is doing a good job).

These 2 factors seem may be the reason that I am perceiving that progressive Dems generally are not satisfied with the President's performance thus far, and this may mean that our concerns are not even worth acknowledging due to the fact that we are so small a voting minority in the Democratic Party. The support we gave in 2008 above and beyond voting is not at all necessary for the President's reelection in 2012, and, anyway, it is a given that the majority of us will vote for Obama because we universally detest republicans.

So it seems, if the poll you posted is an accurate reflection of the Dem electorate, that the possibility of the President not getting the same support from Democrats in 2012 as he did in 2008 is minimal, and that it's just the extreme liberal Dem choir that is expressing dissatisfaction with the President's performance.

I'm actually kind of glad to know this, so, thanks, I guess. I don't believe that I can ever possibly tolerate another republican in the WH after Bush and not leave the country in disgust.

Still, this leaves an enormous future dilemma for those of us that wish to have a much more progressive, democratically oriented non-corporatist Democratic party and government, especially if the President continues to govern in what extreme liberal Dems perceive as too conservative a manner.

But this apparently does not present a problem for a Democratic party that has shifted much further to the right, and abandoned traditional liberals still here on the anti-corporatist extreme left.

Apparently, OWS is not the only group that has been forced out of their tent by the 1%.

I've been a liberal Democrat all of my life. It appears that I am now homeless.

Ouch.