While I haven't liked every move Obama has made lately -- I've made several posts strongly against some of them -- I've seen the reasoning behind those decisions. There is no point in having high-minded ideals, if you get kicked to the curb before getting elected to implement them. A loser who sticks to every one of his principles is still a loser. There may be honor in that, but no honor that helps a working single mom gas up her car and feed the baby.

These are the things we recognized when Bill Clinton was President, and the country was doing well. Nobody was holding up Bill as a paragon of virtue -- they just said, "It's hard to argue with the results he's getting." Bill was more famous for his waffling than IHOP.

Earlier in this election, I was happy to see the vigorous support for Obama... But I was also a bit disturbed at the sort of posts I saw. People seemed to think that he was going to cure Cancer, end world hunger, singlehandedly create a brotherhood among all people of the world, and show up on their doorstep to take out the trash. Even as he talked about working together to solve our problems, so many seemed to expect him to solve their problems.

So, while I'm not happy with all of Obama's recent decisions, I *am* glad to see that a group I'll call the "Spoiled Brattian Contingent" has come down to Earth and realized that their problems aren't going to be dismissed by a wave of Obama's hand. I think the veggie issues Obama is serving them now might help them to be better supporters, even while they're screaming for cookies.

(And, although some of those folks try to claim that moving toward the center is not a good strategy, I'm noticing that Obama is much closer to getting elected than they are.)