it's kinda funny from this end of it...

Amazingly I remember watching the last few democrats trotted out for the presidential election and watching them flail as there were ad hominem attacks, or attacks at seeming strengths, or attacks at the core of what this candidate was about. Reagan would blithely say "Morning in America" and the electorate ate that up like it were pablum...ah the reich wing would surely love for those days to return. The "others" knew their place, the poor would complain but hey...they're only the poor right?

We would collectively shake our heads here on the left at Dukakis looking so woeful in the tank, Mondale, bless his heart, trying to win an election against our senile grampa by using the terms like "Taxes will have to be raised", Gore being misquoted about inventing the internet, and in the day and age of 'support our troops' John Kerry being swift boated by chicken hawks. Heck even, Bill Clinton who won election twice gave us cringe worthy moments. For a Rhodes Scholar he sure let the little head rule the bigger one didn't he.

As it was appearing that perhaps the democrats were about to become the permanent court jester or pretty much, the loyal opposition, along comes a man that says things aren't right...has a bold vision and a chanceto strike while the reich wing is reeling from three decades of horrid decision making. That man is Barack Hussein Obama.

While BHO has not done everything that we would have hoped, the things he has done in less than two and a half years in office is astounding. Compared to the previous administration he's a damned miracle worker. He got health care passed for Americans. The GOP has clamored since the days of Nixon they want health care, when they get it, the GOP complains that it's socialism. President Obama has also repealed DADT, also fought the DOMA and took out the most wanted man in the world...all while hearing things like he's not an American, he's taking our country away, he's a socialist...and I laugh. I watch the reich get as uncomfortable with Obama as I have been for 30 years with Reagan and the Bush Boys.

The discomfort comes from the fact the reich and even some progbaggers that claim they're on the left knows this great man, great president is of all things not one to be messed with. He IS the extension of Wilson, FDR, he is the fulfilling hope of Kennedy, he is the child of the great society that LBJ had passed. So as that proverbial pendulum swings back to the left, my reich wing pals, sit down and enjoy the ride. Am I a cheerleader for Obama, hey if that makes you happy, sure. have I drank the kool aid? Okay. Just rest assured that Obama is going nowhere and when President Weiner or Maddow takes over in '16 enjoy that ride too.