Reply #13: My rec. showed up "+1", at 2:52 p.m.

[Divernan]

I also feel I am too old for this crap! I was recently asked to help with the campaign of a local progressive Dem at the county level, and said yes. I look at it as beginning the long process of reclaiming traditional Democratic principles, starting at the ground level. I don't know the guy personally, but my progressive Democratic family doc & her husband do, and they say he is an honest and trustworthy man.

Well, that will make quite a change from the last politician I campaigned for.

I've campaigned and voted for every Dem. presidential candidate since JFK. There have been some dark and discouraging times along the way - McGovern, Dukakis, etc., but I have never been anywhere near as discouraged as I have been by Obama's actions in office. And while other Democratic candidates may have lost, they never betrayed the party.