Reply #11: Posters on DU who "think he sucks" are actually rare. There are some, though, who

[Atticus]

are disappointed in his relatively meager progress in areas where he made campaign promises or, at least, created expectations,

And, there are also plenty of his cheerleaders who are keeping their heads in a perpetually methane-rich environment.

I support Obama, but I do not support all that he has done nor all that he has neglected. That doesn't mean I think he sucks. It means he is more like "politics as usual" than he lead us to believe he would be. There have been great moments, when I thought "THAT's what I voted for!" But, their have also been moments when I asked myself "How's this different than Bush?"

If the Democratic base ever stops being liberal, the Democratic Party will have ceased to have a reason to exist. That base, of which I am one, is being taken for granted AGAIN. Before Obama, the Democrats were on the verge of losing their loyal African-American members because THEY had been taken for granted. And, labor has been virtually abandoned as a player to be listened to and respected.

If the drift---some would say stampede---toward competing with the GOP for the leavings of corporate America does not stop soon, a proposal to merge the two parties will have few left to oppose it.