Barack Obama

If so, it describes my lifelong position in general. That's why I can gleefully support someone whose governance happens to be somewhat less radical than my own beliefs, because it won't do anyone a bit of good to hold our noses when we don't get everything we want in total, immediately if not sooner. So long as someone can push the nation in the correct direction, leftward of any particular present, I'll have their back.

After all, that's how you eat an elephant - one chunk at a time.

Another point: Listening to President Obama at any stage of development, trying to gauge his true heart, I've always felt him not only to be a man of character and honor, but quite possibly more leftward than it's currently possible to govern just now. I mean, comparing the electorate to a horse in a race (as opposed to a real race horse), you can kick it in the ribs only so hard and so long before it drops dead under you and you still won't wind up any closer to the finish (goal) line.

Now it's time for me to control myself and resume limiting my summer online time in order to do justice to other pressing matters. I've decided to give myself Saturday evenings or perhaps Sunday mornings to swing by and try to keep up on the reading; but it appears the only way to control my overt participation will be to unplug the keyboard after I log on, or at least after I respond to one thread only. Otherwise I'll continue over-indulging myself at the expense of other obligations. Let's hope that effort at self control will work. Sometimes I have to set up roadblocks which can't actually stop me but might slow me down enough for embarrassment to finish the job.