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I don't mean to be too mean-spirited towards Bacasper, but I just wanted to give my opinion on what seems like an internet user's form of Tourette's Syndrome.

(I'm sure he'll be here soon enough to give me the proper psychological definition of that malady so as to dispel any misunderstanding.)

[bacasper]

[caniff]

[daskalos]

[The Happy Warrior]

[Leon]

[bacasper]

[Leon]

[mises]

[Enrico Palazzo]

[Nowhere Man]

[daskalos]

Ohmygod, presidents not living up to campaign promises. Really? That's your gripe? Are you a teenager?

This all reminds of current gay rights activists who excoriate Clinton for Don't Ask Don't Tell. He campaigned on a promise (foolishly, as it turned out) to lift the ban on gays in the military. I remember it clearly because I was in the military at that time. I remember how Dole and others made that promise the defining issue of Clinton's first month's in office. I remember how every "sensible" person at the time lamented that the President had to waste his time and capital on this issue, and I wondered how history would look at that take - that he was wasting his time just to help homos. I remember how he was told by Dems and Repubs in Congress that he had no chance of accomplishing this feat, because they would pass a law over-riding any executive order he issued. And I recall, as a gay serviceman, how the eventual compromise of DADT made things MUCH MUCH BETTER for gays in the military. Yes, it was only a closet with a window, but since the US presidency doesn't come with dictatorial powers, he did the best he could to live to that promise. And I was there, and it was better than it was before.

And that's how presidents make things better. Since they are not dictators, they work with their party, not all of whom support his plans, to make things incrementally better. Because these days the Dems are like the GOP, who march lockstep behind their Furher. Despite the GOP's efforts in recent decades to claim this title, the Dems are really the Big Tent Party, which means there's a lot of diverging opinion in it.

Obama didn't cave on the public option because he's pro-insurance company. He caved because HIS OWN party wouldn't have passed HCR that included a public option. He saw a partial victory as better than a total defeat. Because he's not a teenager. He's smarter than anyone on this message board.

The alternative to this is system of incremental change is outright armed revolution. But since most liberals eschew the 2nd Amendment, that's a losing proposition, don't you think?

Ohmygod, a candidate got into office and learned it would take him awhile to accomplish some things. Be thankful for the time it takes to effect change. Elsewise, the Bush years would have been much uglier.

[The Happy Warrior]

I love it. We believe Obama is inadequate, so we're teenagers.

[bacasper]