I'm an Obama supporter because the alternative is not an option....

[highplainsdem]

28. The four alternatives we saw debating in SC tonight definitely aren't acceptable options.

I haven't supported everything President Obama has done. For that matter, I'd've preferred Hillary Clinton as our nominee in 2008.

But he deserves re-election.

The alternatives are horrifying.

And if we can give him a House and Senate more agreeable to progressive goals than the Tea Party-sabotaged Congress he's dealing with now, I think we'll be much happier with the legislation he signs.

He isn't an ideal candidate. But I've been voting since 1972 and first worked for a presidential campaign in 1968, and I've never seen an ideal candidate.

I've seen plenty of nightmarish candidates on the Republican side, though. Whoever finally turns out to be the Republican nominee this year, the country -- and the planet -- will be better off if President Obama is re-elected.