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In reply to the discussion: Salon: When a party flirts with suicide [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)and when you admit that, you are basically admitting that his 2nd term - his legacy as you put it - will be even less ambitious and more conciliatory than the first. You seem to be saying that the best "legacy" for him is to tack farther to the right, and get some moderate-right legislation with his name on it. My advice would be to actually LEAD on some issues and get a couple major accomplishments instead - things that would get the nation away from the fascists. On this we will have to agree to disagree. You sneer that I will never get a cabinet poistion because I would advise the president to lead on bank reform, health care for everyone, and the environment. I sneer that the president's vast approval from 2008 is gone because his cabinet is stuffed with appeasers like you.