Reply #67: You can certainly be pro-Democratic party and anti-any one of its office holders or leaders,

[amandabeech]

including the current President.

Democrats have roundly criticized their Presidents for years. I guess you don't remember why LBJ didn't run for a second term of his own.

How about all the carping about Carter--Sen. Kennedy actually ran against Carter in the primaries in 1980, and many people think that Kennedy's run doomed Carter. That's the ultimate carp.

The dissatisfaction about Clinton was serious, too. In fact some of us carping about Obama's policy toward the banksters were also critical of Clinton's policies toward business, including some of the same appointees that Obama has, like Larry Summers, and before him, Bob Rubin.

We're not Republicans. We're not all authoritarian personalities. We're Democrats acting like Democrats, for crying out loud.

If you want to purge those of us who think that the President is going the wrong way (or is being pushed there by his advisers)on one or more issues, then go ahead, destroy the spirit of the First Amendment and be done with it.