Reply #11: Sure seems that way. I don't go for the Happy-Happy-Glad-Glad routine all the time,

[MADem]

but some of the objections are vicious and vitriolic (as one of the admins said a while back, "echoing the tone and substance of our opponents" or words to that effect). They're not only objections to his policy, they're assaults on the man's character. And they're also assumptions that because he hasn't done it YET, that he won't do it at all.

A lot of the hard stuff? He'll wait till his second term--that's what I think. That means we have four years of listening to a litany of complaints for those who aren't getting what they want, when they want it. And when people want it now, they don't want to be told that their issue isn't The Most Important Thing, and that they must wait. No one likes that--it's part of the anger. A lot of people thought Obama would answer every prayer, and that he only said some things to get elected. The fact of the matter is, he's closer to Clinton (Bill, who's more conservative than Hill) than Kucinich.

I think health care will come across the finish line well before the war, deployed servicemembers, and the Equality efforts. And I don't think health care will be the all-encompassing effort that people are hoping for.

I wasn't an early Obama fan, not by a long shot. I objected to some of his tactics during the primaries. However, what's done is done, the horse has left the barn. I'm not going to keep whining that I didn't get everything I wanted in a candidate--because it's not going to do any good, and all it does is provide the GOP with a place to point out the cracks in our Party wall. I'm going to continue to encourage him to head in the direction I'd like him to go, but I'm not going to call him names when he doesn't move fast enough to suit me. I'm going to support him, because it's obvious he's trying, and working hard, and he's a damn sight better than any realistic alternative.