There are a couple areas in which I am definitely paranoid about what the right has been doing in this country. Don't mess with voting rights, that's the cornerstone of democracy. Stop pressing the feeder bar on white and southern resentment and armed revolt, that's scary stuff. But I think most of my really extreme rants are bipartisan: get big money out of politics; break the corporate-government-military iron triangle.
I'm not spinning my feelings about Obama. On some policies (women's issues, gay rights after a hesitant start) I think he's been solid. On other policies (surveillance, financial reform) I feel betrayed. As to the politics, I think he was too slow in realizing the GOP wasn't sincere and he should have cut them out earlier, although he did learn when the chips were down and that showed that he learns. As to his leadership of the Democratic party and his effort to help other Dems, don't get me started -- he's been awful. And as to the man in general I think he's been an excellent representative of America to the world and I am personally proud of him as our president. So it's all a mixed bag, just as it was with Clinton and Carter, and just as I'm sure it will be with Hillary if she wins.
