I've pulled in my horns for the past year or so.

[progressivebydesign]

9. I appreciate the concession.

I do wish that people would understand that we will never, in our lifetime, have the type of far-left president that some people dream of. It won't happen... but damn, there is a good chance that we will get a far right President.. a tea bagger, if you will.

But what will happen, unless the liberals do what we always do and implode from within over our own personal interests, is elect a series of progressive(er) politicians, so that it can change, even if it's incremental.

There are simply not enough extremely far left voters out there. Most voters are either slightly to the right or left of Center. I would never ever dream of screwing the rest of my American neighbors with some political purity, that says the candidate has to be exactly what I believe, or I sit it out.. or I vote for someone that is basically a vote for the GOP, on principle. I know what's at stake, and I don't expect any President to be exactly what I want. The issues that matter to me are most likely determined by someone in Congress, or a State Senator....

i was here and had to suffered the fools that said on DU that Gore was no different than Bush. Thousands of deaths in Iraq, later, and the collapse of many industries in America, we know that to be untrue.

A vote for President Obama may not be the end all, be all for some people, but a non-vote or vote for a third party is a vote for Citizens United, the Supreme Court, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, et al. I'm not willing to screw things up for my kids and their kids. I'm not willing to stand on principal and let a republican appoint one more Supreme Court Justice. No way.