DU May Not Be "The Base", But I Do Have A Question For You All

[WillyT]

Didn't want to make this a poll, just a simple yes or no thing.

I supported Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton and voted for him in the 2008 California Primary. I contributed money and other support to his campaign for President, and voted for him for President in November 2008.

My first vote ever, was for Democrat Jerry Brown for CA Governor in 1974. (Ironically just did that again in 2010.) And I've voted Democrat, and followed politics, my entire life.

Came home for lunch in the 3rd Grade to find my mom sobbing uncontrollably on the couch... the TV news had just announced JFK's shooting death in Dallas. We watched TV continuously for the next four days. Was watching when RFK gave his thanks to California voters for his Primary victory in June of 1968... moments later he was shot in the head... almost two months exactly after Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down.

Watched LBJ tell us he wouldn't run for re-election, watched the Democratic Convention in 1968 turn into a police riot, watched the entire Watergate Hearings, watched the body-bags coming home from Vietnam, watched Richard M. Nixon resign in disgrace...

I don't know how much more "Base" I could be, unless that requires you to hold elective office, or wear funny hats to conventions...

So, the question: Did you vote for Barack Obama for President in 2008, AND... are you disillusioned with him now?

For me... the answer is Yes & Yes !!!

Just curious to how the support is or isn't out in the Greater DU.

:shrug: