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And the best to you, too, kpete, for posting this.

Yes,the man will leave the White House and Country in a much better shape than he received it. And,it was done with out the help of Boner or Mitch the Turd.

1. Pretty much anyone could have improved it over where we were in 2008, and
2. We have taken another giant step toward corporate rule, due to his appeasement and complicity with the republicans

1. But I still don't want to know what a President McCain might have done had he been elected in 2008 instead of Obama.

2. Yes, but I think we're a little more energized thanks to the events of the last 10 days. I feel like fighting and winning some more, and I don't think the corporations and their political enablers can beat us.

... would not have done so

no...

not "anyone"

What winger bullshit

Maybe a Democrat - but this country would have been far worse off had McCain won in 2008.

Sorry for overdoing it. But when I voted for him, and when Olbermann called the election for him, and when he took office with huge majorities in congress, I was expecting this, and a lot more. Things like wall streeters in jail, disengagement in the middle east, severe cutbacks in the Pentagon budget, healthcare without crooked, bloodsucking insurance executives, and some sort of major commitment to fixing the roads and public schools. Instead I got just another corporate politician. And guess what. A lot of others were disappointed. That explains the 2010 train wreck. A lot of people figured out that the president's for wall street first, and the rest of us when convenient

But I think America is more than marginally better than it was in 2008.

if you can't acknowledge where gains were made. Your worldview is a little too bleak. You will not last.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty happy today.

THANKS, OBAMA!

cranky-crank.

....while McSame and Palin would be spending long periods of time alone at Camp David.

of "Forward!"

There is an acronym created by a noted DUer.....POSUCS. Recently, the brilliant mind who created that acronym felt the need to self censor, and used "UCS." That is unfortunate. one should say what one means clearly and plainly.

And his last sentence is an important one.

Sometimes making the country a better place involves positive actions like ACA, Dodd-Frank, immigration executive orders, appointing liberal justices, etc.

Sometimes it is not doing stupid, immoral stuff like invading countries or slashing taxes for the rich. Governing as a decent moral person, as Democrats more often do, often unleashes positive forces that make the country a better place even if a particular president is nor directly responsible.

Yeah, give me what the Rude Pundit is having.

I'd gladly buy Rude a drink.

Or indeed several!

And have never denied the good he's done.

Today, he was the best President I've ever seen.

electing Obama as our President. Despite Republican intense efforts to discredit him, he has risen above their rhetoric and proven to be the guy we voted for. Thanks for the great post, kpete.

I don't deny we're in a better place than we were in 2008. Anyone who does is lying to themselves. We would not be where we are today under McCain.

I remember being told just 10 years ago that what I wanted wasn't realistic. Well, those people were wrong and then some.

It's a good day to be a Democrat. I don't give a damn what the naysayers have to say about my joy!

I'm celebrating with you!

Being better than Doofus Dubya? It would be hard to not be better.

Drone wars and bank coddling are really big deals that are not helping Main Street.

What happened today is awesome but let's remember Obama was against it till recently. Also he still hasn't evolved a whole lot on pot.

And it's the same old cover - using social liberalism to cover for being in the tank for Wall Street and myriad other less than liberal stances and actions - like the TPP.

Obama, despite his stated 'evolving', got this done by being low-key and flying under the radar.

This is what he wanted from the start, I am certain of it. Do I have proof? No. Is it possible I'm looking at him too optimistically? Sure. With that in mind, I still think I'm right.

He is one of those 'anonymous heroes' he spoke of, working behind the scenes.

This is his win.
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hand on your wallet." as your last paragraph puts forth.

I love the gains we are making for social justice but worry that it will be all for naught when the corporations rule the world.

The TPP is a giant step in the direction of global corporatism where there is no room for democracy (dare I say the f-word?).
And without democracy, no more social justice. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026912876

So keep up the fight for social justice but don't forget the conspiracy of the big corporations to rule the world.

You said it so much better than I would have.

This week, our democracy gave us hope. Some very old shackles were finally broken after years of struggle. The president has had his role in this, and for his part he deserves our praise. But let us celebrate the heroes of stonewall, the leaders of the gay pride movement, and our neighbors with whom we make community and a home for all, standing love against hate for years and years. The celebration welcomes all, even those who come late. They are here now...and that's what counts today.

Is Obama perfect? No. But I think History will be far kinder to his legacy than the present is.

I think he's arguably the best President of my lifetime, and that goes back to LBJ.

Will be seen as monumetous. I toast President Obama today.

Today is a great day to be an American and we owe much gratitude to the President for changing the trajectory of the country. Thank you Mr President.

Through the Tpp is a good thing then! He's a bastard, When you grand children are homeless and starving in this nation then you'll remember and curse the traitor called President Obama.

Citizens United, women's reproductive rights are under siege in several Republican-controlled states and race relations and the general perception of black Americans have been set back decades by all of the racist propaganda that's been trotted out by the right wing media since Obama took office.

I'm genuinely happy about what happened yesterday. However, when you take the sum of everything that's happened in the past seven years, the US is only marginally better off as a whole if it's better off at all.

When full women's rights are restored, along with
voting rights and free and fair elections, then we
can talk ....

Always gets it.

I want the baton hand-off to go to a runner who knows what remains unfinished. Someone that we can trust will grab that baton firmly and run like this is the moment they have been training so hard for. They are only focused on the finish line and it's the promise land. I want someone who is willing to carry all of us across that finish line with them. And that all the cards are on the table. I don't want to see someone who's goal is just to be in the winners circle.

Whom ever it may be.

Black people, not so much.