"If the election were held today, a lot of people would be very surprised."

[chervilant]

62. Really, freshwest?

They've got Democrats who despise Obama and the Democratic Party and don't want to hear one good thing because they can't stand to lose their red hot sense of victimhood, so they won't vote.

Blind allegiance predicated by party affiliation epitomizes the kind of 'patriotism' Samuel Johnson called 'the last refuge of a scoundrel.' We can ill afford such arrogance within our own ranks, even as we struggle to expose false patriotism among the rank and file Republicans.

Dismissing the concerns of *all* of Obama's critics is both demeaning and disingenuous, and it will not help us regain our footing in these perilous times.

(BTW, as much as I criticize Obama's adjuration that 'we must move forward, and stop dwelling in the past' (a trite justification for avoiding the prosecution of the Bush war criminals); or the fact that Obama appointed a Confederacy of Dunces to key posts in his administration--including Arne Duncan as SecEd--I doubt sincerely that I deserve to be characterized as one of the alleged 'Democrats who despise Obama and can't stand to lose their red hot sense of victimhood'!)