If Obama loses in 2012, does that help your cause any?

[JoePhilly]

I think this is a very important question.

I hear many democrats who are not just calling for more action by Obama on their preferred issue. They are demanding that Obama "fix it" ... immediately.

Wake up. He is the President, not God.

We have three equal branches of government. Obama controls only one of them. And sure, he can take some unilateral action ... and we hated with Bush did exactly that.

He's been in office for 9 months. And apparently, some of us think he should have cleaned up each of our individually preferred messes by now.

If you voted for Obama based on your preferred single mess ... then (GASP)you may not get everything you wanted in the next year or so.

But you will certainly get more movement in your direction than the current GOP would ever consider.

I don't suggest blind party loyalty ... or blind loyalty to Obama ... and certainly no stop to criticism of Obama ... that is healthy.

But I'm hearing way too many Democrats act like single issue right wingers ... "clean up my preferred mess this instant, or incur my wrath!!!"

Obama can't change the direction of the country alone, and not in 9 months, even with help from Congress.

And if we don't work to help him succeed, we will all be whining about the new mean evil GOP President in 2012. And I'm sure he or she will spend a great deal of time worrying about your preferred mess.