Reply #22: I expect to see forward motion from the 20/20 lens of hindsight.

[patriotvoice]

It's difficult to see measurable progress (a) when you're in the thick of it, and (b) when progress has only just begun. Ostensibly, many of the 'public' things Obama has done haven't been overtly 'progressive', or necessarily what you signed up for. Fine. But do understand that most of politics occurs behind doors, outside public view. It's only after history is written that we see, and can appreciate, the progress (or the slide). For example, it took less than 10 years, but we put a man on the moon. There was bitching and whining that enough wasn't being done then, too. But it got done. Shoulders back. Chin up. Move forward. Do your part.