I'm an American currently living in exile in Canada. My partner is from India. We're both struggling to adapt to the challenges of living in a new country. This wasn't how we wanted things to work out, but it's the best option open to us. I had to immigrate here before I could sponsor his immigration. It was expensive, it took a long time, and was difficult to leave my family an friends behind, but I had no choice. I'll forever be grateful to Canada for giving us this opportunity, but I hope one day to return to the States with my partner. Repealing DOMA would be big step towards realizing that dream. In the meantime I'm supporting http://www.immigrationequality.org/ with my donations, and encourage anyone interested in same sex immigration issues to visit their site.

I, too, appreciate you writing this. I think it clarifies and summarizes a lot of what you've been saying in your posts over the last few months. Now, when I hear stuff coming out of Washington that doesn't make sense I've got a lens through which to view it and understand why.

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If we weaken him, we open the doors for far far worse to get back into power, especially at this upcoming midterm election. I say give him some time to get his legs. Don't cut them off from under him just yet. I fear we will really rue the day if we do that. Of course that is what we always do...

I appreciate your sentiment, but I think the point Glenn was making was that it's OK to criticize the president when he's acting the opposite of how he promised to act before he took office. That in and of itself doesn't weaken him. Indeed, I think if he stood up for more of what he claims he believes in, he'd get more support from the people. He was elected (in part, at least) to "be the change" or whatever the slogan was. The fact is that a lot of polls show, for example, that Americans want the Public Option in health care. So I think that holding Obama to his promises would serve to strengthen his standing, not weaken it. And it would ensure that the Republicans stay out of power indefinitely.