Reply #36: But, but. He didn't never do no promises and [View All]

[Jakes Progress]

he's only had a year and you didn't understand and if you have quotes, they are wrong and if you have tapes then it's all the congress's fault (unless it was a good bill. Then it was all him.)

I think that about sums up the Panglossian side of DU. I worked for, caucused for, and voted for the man. I never thought he would be a great liberal (too many indications in the primaries and election that he stood close to the corporate and religious right types) but I hoped that he would fight for the things he campaigned on. I know you can't get everything, but you should at least fight for the things that are important. Maybe it inexperience and naivete. Maybe it's just an overwhelming desire to blink first at every suggested confrontation. I prefer inept and nervous to deceptive and lying, so I go with those. Either way, I had hoped for a better performer. I still hope for him to gain some form of redemption, but it will take a dramatic turn from the current direction. Without it, we are doomed to one-term of Democratic control of the WH.