Barack Obama

step on your toes. As I surely will, given the untold number of times I must have ruffled everyone's feathers w/o realizing it.

I'm terribly fond of Russ Feingold too, even though I hold out zero hope for his presidential chances. But he would make a fine one indeed, were it possible. I take his newsletter, as well as Bernie's and yes, Grayson's. Another person who impresses me favorably is Al Franken. I knew he has a genius IQ, but from what I hear, he's surprisingly a policy wonk.

While I actually do hold negative feelings about the attitude of some within the party who oppose President Obama's policies, my main concern for the purposes of this discussion is its possible misplacement. We're a mite touchy about questioning President Obama in this room, dedicated as it is to support of his policies.

And I doubt we'd mind so much if it weren't for the regular - indeed, increasing - malodorous dumps from persons of questionable character. I say 'questionable character' because when they knowingly barge in uninvited and unwanted to dump here while they have the rest of the website and internet to vent, that says more than enough about their ethics; more likely, lack of same. Specifically, I DON'T MEAN YOU! I couldn't necessarily say that every last one of us in this group march in absolute lockstep with the WH. What we do zealously is stand in solidarity on the principle that we have an invioable (sp?) right to a room to celebrate President Obama's accomplishments in peace, absent the rabid vitriol that permeates other places. We deserve that much, and so does the President.