Reply #2: Obama has to show his stripes in the current budget battle with congress & the 2012 budget battle

[peacebird]

IF he stands up against the GOP desire to cut more taxes on the rich (Ryan says top rate to drop) while balancing the budget on the backs of the elderly and the poor, then I would consider working for his re-election.

IF he abandons Dem principals and agrees to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly and poor (accepting the GOP/Koch agenda) then I will not work to re-elect him.

As a point of note: we donated more than we could afford last Pres election cycle to Dems, AND worked on the ground for them. We are very disappointed, but realize that Repub rule would be worse (thanks TeaParty, Ryan, Walker, etc for making THAT so crystal clear) so we WILL vote dem.

But we WISH the dem we voted for was really a DEM not a freaking corporatist DLCer like Obama and Hillary....