Regardless of what you think about Obama, a vast majority of the party still loves him...

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45. Welcome to DU, walkingman!

Glad you're here! I agree! I wish he was more progressive. Hell, I wish all our Dems were more progressive. But you dance with what there is.

I posted here awhile back about one of my favorite lines from a movie - in this case, "The Competition," which came out in 1980 and starred Amy Irving, Richard Dreyfuss, and the late Lee Remick. Irving and Dreyfuss were young (at the time much younger) finalists in this big-ass international piano competition. He'd come close the year before but she was new to it. Her teacher and mentor was the gorgeous and luminous Lee Remick. Toward the end (spoiler alert) she wins, but is not celebrating because she's afraid it marks the end of the love affair that started between her character and Richard Dreyfuss's character. The party was in the other room and she's back behind closed doors, moping in solitary. Lee Remick finds her and scolds - "it's going to take at least another 100 years for Mother Nature to evolve the kind of man you have in mind. In the meantime, GET OUT THERE AND DANCE WITH WHAT THERE IS!!!!"

I've just never been able to put that quote out of my mind. It was so astoundingly relevant and full of wisdom!