If President Obama want's the job as President, it's his......

[midnight]

There is nobody who is going to run against him with a progressive agenda... Those who are running against him are not as conservative.... Plus he is operating as a War time President...

[CakeGrrl]

1. Why no Progressive challenger?

Isn't it their moral imperative to stop 'Bush's third term' (according to some on this forum)?

How can they let this go unchecked?

[July16th-20th]

4. During my brief time here,

I'd say that some on this forum are.....a bit skewed

[Lasher]

6. Same reason there was no real progressive choice in the 2008 Presidential Primary.

Hillary's positions on the issues are remarkably similar to Obama's, and of course Edwards flamed out. Nobody else even got a single delegate.

[Nay]

15. And they didn't even let Kucinich join the debates, even tho he's a Dem and was running.

[elocs]

8. Maybe a progressive challenger does not want to devote a year of their life

and put themselves millions of dollar in debt just to satisfy the fantasies of the far left, tilting at windmills.

Obama will be the nominee and he would quickly crush any primary challenger. Welcome to the real world.

[somone]

2. His corporate performance review went well

and his contract is being renewed

[Palmer Eldritch]

7. I know he's got my vote!

;)

[Lasher]

3. Apostrophe police, sir.

Just a warning ticket this time, taking into account your proper usage of the word "it's".

[FormerDittoHead]

9. Slow down officer! What about "want's"? n/t

[Lasher]

21. Thence the warning ticket.

"Want's" was a transgression but "it's" was correct. Proper apostrophe usage in the later case justified leniency. Just doing my job, sir.

[polmaven]

14. Actually, the OP will probably not

understand the need here....I do find apostrophes are among the most abused pieces of our written language. What is the fine for apostrohe abuse, anyway?

[Lasher]

22. I don't know the penalty, m'am.

All I can do is refer the case to Grammar Court.

[FormerDittoHead]

23. It's for your health! You might start getting contractions when you don't want them! n/t

[BeFree]

5. He is as good as we'll get

Smart people will concentrate on congress.

[tularetom]

10. My opinion of Obama is on the same trajectory as my opinion of Clinton was

High hopes followed by rapid disillusionment.

By the end of Clinton's second term, my only reason for still supporting him was that all the loonies hated him.

I suspect it'll be very similar with Obama.

[BeFree]

13. Yeah

Clinton had a republican congress, too.

The 'loonies' are a gang, in that they gang up and unite, because they are too stupid to stand on their own.

Progressives, for the most part, stand alone and quarrel amongst themselves hardly ever ganging up.

The old saying from the progressive era @the 1st great depression, @1930, is true even today:
"I am not a member of an organized party. I am a democrat."

How we ever got this far is a miracle!!

[MineralMan]

18. I suspect that you'd feel the same about anyone capable

of being elected to the Presidency. Reality bites!

[tularetom]

19. Well, I didn't feel the same about Bush

And although one could argue about his "capability" of being elected to the presidency, he was president.

Buy you're right. I shouldn't get my hopes up. I've been voting in national elections since 1964, so I ought to know better by now.

[MineralMan]

20. There have been a few really strongl progressives who have run.

All have lost in the past 50 years. We have an electorate that is far from unified on any particular principles. That electorate rejects any Presidential candidate who is too far to the left or the right.I give you Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, and George McGovern. It has been and will be impossible to be elected to that office if you are very far from center politically.

That is the reality of the United States of America. To ignore reality is a symptom of something or another.

[libmom74]

11. We'll see. If he signs legislation

cutting Medicare and SSI I would not count on it. The whole War Time President thing isn't a positive either when a majority of the nation wants the wars ended.

[Marr]

12. I expect they'll be smart enough to do their cuts in such a way that

they can be explained as something else, and the actual pain delayed until after the elections. You know-- just enough so those who want to believe can continue doing so.

[Nay]

16. The "wartime president" thing also doesn't work when it's a Dem president. Funny how

all the pubs stop worshiping the prez when he's a DEM in a war.

[Safetykitten]

17. And oddly, he will be giving the keys to the WH to a republican.