Reply #9: I think it is tougher because of Obama

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with Bush in charge we always knew what to do, and what to think. What to think was "Bush sucks!!!" and what to do was to rail at the M$M for enabling him and to rail at Congress for not standing up to him and to rail at the FReepers for being ignorant sheeple.

Now we do not have that kneejerk option anymore. We used to know what we were against - the Bush administration. We were never sure what we were for (except the negative of stopping the Bush administration).

Some progressives though, are still in attack mode. The Naderites still believe there is not a dime's worth of difference and are determined to expose the President's lack of clothing and lies and prevarications. So it's tough for an honest progressive. You don't want to kneejerk defend the President, right or wrong, but you don't want to get played by the RWNM either.

The Naderites have it easy though, because they can stay in attack mode and tell themselves they are superior to the PINO (progressive in name only) sheeple who blindly support their President or their party. Even if the glass is 75% full, there is always a 25% to rail about and claim it is terrible, awful, no good, very bad policy.

Probably we should all move to Australia.