in the scope and impressiveness of his actions.

Others on the panel seemed to say he was wildly socialist and liberal....

It was like seeing Bizarro World on my TV.

he will be reelected by a landslide. I still have hopes of winning this thing. Gorbachev had no plan of freeing Eastern Europe, but he did. For the same reason I think we can pass single payer.

And we think pressure is the way to go.

Too bad you treat us as right-wingers or say we're motivated by hate and/or subtle racism. Perhaps at some point you'll realize that we *do not* want Obama to fail as a liberal and that we want the Dems to stop their right-wing trajectory immediately.

Most of us definitely don't want Obama to fail. Democrats know that Obama's failure will result in the crazies getting back to power. That's acceptable as a horror movie but a Republican president last's at least 4 years and not two hours with popcorn.

Many of us never expected Obama to succeed. He was good as a racist campaigner against the famously racist Clintons, but offered nothing to feed our hopes. Change is good for a young mother/father with a their baby's soiled diapers, but otherwise is crap. Sadly, Obama's missteps are nothing if not highly expected. His siding and funding the banks over Joe and Jane was written on the wall.

... when asked what the impact of the French Revolution: "It's too early to tell."

In any case, it's not my role as a citizen to worry about the Obama administration. It's my role to advocate as forcefully as I know how for the policy that best serves my values and interests -- and those like me. So I guess I take a strong "make him do it" position.

As a consequence, I want policies that don't match my values and interests to FAIL. And I wish to obstruct and destroy policies, and talking points for policies that exhibit lack of win -- like, for example, aggrandizing executive power, giving trillions to the banks with no transparency and no accountability, setting for-profit health insurance in concrete by guaranteeing the insurance companies a market through "health care reform," and so on and so forth. It's not my problem that the Obama administration and the FKDP are exhibiting FAIL in all those areas, and I hardly think that being silent about them will magically transform a FAIL into a win.

NOTE As for raised spirits, mine weren't. For me, the issue of who'd be President was settled in October, after Lehman, so I gave the horse race only cursory attention.