Reply #239: Not everyone here is an "arm chair quarterback". Many of us are life-long activists. [View All]

[David Zephyr]

I liked your over all optimism, but the back-handed, and thinly-veiled gripe about those of us who want President Obama to keep the campaign promises he made as Candidate Obama was a truly cheap shot. I hope it made you feel better. I truly do.

Having spent over 40 years in street activism from civil rights and the Vietnam War to fighting for reproductive rights, GLBT rights, marching locally and in D.C., I find your "arm chair" comment insulting and not just to myself, but to a large number of us here at the DU whose lives, whose actions, whose sweat and sacrifice for progressive causes can be measured more than how many strokes we've made at a keyboard on blogs.

You don't need to defend Obama by attacking his greatest ally: the activist Left who actually stand for something more than just electing politicians.

The "strong conclusion" that you have come to "after 8 years" is a conclusion you should have understood eight years ago: real progressives have standards and expectations and we "won't be happy" until social/economic/environmental justice is achieved globally.

If you are content with the status quo, then why are you even here? Think about that question, because there's someone to the right of you who thinks you are a whiner, too.