Reply #7: Can't wait to watch it online in town today!

[cilla4progress]

(Limited bandwidth at home.)

After seeing Obama "in person" at the Univ. Wash. campus rally for Patty Murray last week, it confirmed my sense of him as a man full of humility, and energized / authentic in his sincerity about his progressive agenda. Man - he has to repeat himself ad infinitum; if we just LISTEN to him, we can hear the consistency with which he adheres to progressive values. Then there's the POLITICS he has to deal with. As he said in his call to bloggers yesterday, he's president, not king. What kind of a genius doesn't get this???

And believe me, I've had my share of criticism of him on his lack of agressiveness about, for example, the public option. I still maintain he could have gone to the mat for this, without jeopardizing final legislation. I say this as someone who is struggling with finding a decent individual health insurance policy for my daughter and self - no employer-paid insurance -- plus laid off / unemployed for a year! I have to believe Obama when he says -- as he did at the rally -- that he learned something from the lack of grownup participation by the republicans in congress over the last 2 years. I have to hope and expect he will do it differently from this point forward.