while paying obligatory lip service to the need to keep the Obama administration honest, called for more tolerance of and patience with Obama's policies, including these, and basically accused most of its critics of being defeatist purists and pessimistic downers. Its basic message was "Aw, why you so down on Obama? Me likee him, and you be trying to spoil my worship party!".

I call it Battered Democrat Syndrome. So battered have many Dems been by years out of power and being abused by the GOP, and so desperate were they to get back into power, that once they (or, more accurately, their party) did, they were willing to overlook their savior's many flaws, lest their fantasy melt away and reality come crashing in. It's truly breathtaking how pathetic the blindness is among so many Dems these days as to Obama's flaws, and their desperate refusal to allow any meaningful criticism of their messiah.

What kind of person thinks this way? What kind of person can't distinguish between a platform and a person, or allow that someone in whom they placed all their hopes and dreams is not perfect, and that it's ok to criticize them? How infantilized can one become? Truly pathetic. It's like over half the party got a collective lobotomy when Obama was elected. It's like a Night of the Living Zombiecrats, brought to you by the Intertubez.

And now one of the country's top Obamabots, Ed Schultz, just got his own show on MSNBC.

At least thinking people--of which there are still some on the left--are increasingly not buying the spin or drinking the Kool Aid. He is not god. He is not perfect. He has flaws, some quite serious, having to do with character, judgement and honesty. And most likely maturity. The confident facade is, I believe, hiding a lot of self-doubt and unresolved issues and internal contradictions. This is not a man who is as sure of himself as he lets on. This is a man who overcompensates for his self-doubts, sometimes in pretty awful ways.

Hopefully, he'll learn and grow. And the criticism is specifically intended to bring that about. It's not about hating Obama. It's about putting him on the right track, through some "tough love". And, as we saw during the election, adversity strengthens him. So much for Leave Britney Alone!

Well, I hate it too, but what does that have to do with the price of tea in Starbucks? It is what it is. It wasn't meant to be easy or pleasant. It was meant to be the closest thing envisionable at the time to a political system that benefited the maximum number of people. The fact that The One is holding us to it just proves that the founders got it right--democracy is only as effective as the willingness and ability of its citizens to engage in adversarial politics against whomever they believe isn't doing their job or representing their interests as they should.

So sure I hate it. I also hate exercizing and not eating what I like, but I hate getting fat even more. And I hate living under an oppressive government the most. My parents' families didn't escape Stalin just to live under a milder version of his hell, and if this is what it takes to cut him down a notch and make him do his job, so be it. He's bringing it on, so we have to bring it too. It's the only thing that's going to work (whatever that odious non-entity of a troll that you sadly responded to and who's hardly worth choking and leads a revolutionary movement of exactly one says). At least with Obama, there's a chance that he'll listen, as opposed to McCain. Not because he's virtuous, but because he's a political coward. Make this hurt, and he will listen.