Reply #170: Well said and I am a 60 year old liberal.

[A Simple Game]

Why does anyone think we would waste our time bashing people we all agree are not worth our time? We don't want to fix the Republicans, we have given up hope for them.

We want to fix the Democrats and Democratic Party. I especially want to advance the Liberal agenda.

I am not a Democrat, never have been. I am a liberal from the same era as you and the OP.

My concern is with politicians that know what needs to be done and will make the world a better place, but refuse to even work toward those ends, not even slightly. I am as critical of Obama as anyone here, and I feel he deserves it. Why, well because I believe he is a smart person, but he seems increasingly to be a lazy person and to have no ideals he is unwilling to compromise away.

Now my time in this world is drawing short, and my ideals for this world are far from being in place. I do think my patience is shorter with Obama than it has been with any other President, including the last one from which I had no expectations of advancing my ideals.

Obama was not my first choice in 2008, he was not even my second. I wanted Gore to run again, he is not as liberal as I would hope for, but he was by far the smartest person in the field. He, other than Dennis Kucinich, was the only one with enough integrity to try wholeheartedly for what he knew was right. I liked Kucinich but knew he was unelectable. Very few third party candidates are electable either, hence the reason I am stuck voting for Democrats most of the time. I do remember a time when there were Democrats worthy of my vote, I can even remember when a Republican was worthy of my vote, that's how old I am.