President Barack Obama personally intervened to change party platform on God, Jerusalem

[Jakes Progress]

51. I'm the choir.

The reagan-democratic party that has taken over the party that I worked for for 40 years has left me cold. But we've been left. The centrists have it. The work to be done must be done locally and long before primaries and nationals. Aid the real Democrats and ignore the pretenders.

But the assholery of the republican party as it currently exists would make our job harder. So let the DLC stay in office until we can take them from within. We fooled ourselves into thinking that the electorate could think - would think. I spent thirty years teaching those who didn't think they wanted to learn. We need to educate those who think they already know it all.

I'm not working like I did in '08. But I knew Obama was not progressive, was a fraud in liberal clothing.

But pick honest battles. From what I've seen, Obama wasn't pandering. He believes. You have to get it into your head that many do. Being self-righteously indignant that others don't believe what you do is just mental masturbation - feels good, but doesn't really matter. Pissing off liberals who take the teachings of Christianity seriously (unlike the right that don't seem to have ever read or heard anything about it at all) is making enemies of allies. Warren was right. Instead of jumping up and down on the believers, we should use the words of their own books to show them how bad republicans are.