Diary of a disenfranchised Democrat

Note: this was originally published some time ago, I think in President Obama’s first term. I think the way I felt during President Clinton’s first term and the way people were thinking about Biden is similar so I am republishing it here.

Ok, I published this a few years ago but with the pundits hopping all over themselves to write President Obama’s most recent obituary, I thought we could use a laugh. Oh, how the 1990s were just an era of wonderful bipartisanship and hope…

There’s been a lot of talk about how President Obama is in trouble with his base. The narrative goes something like this: liberals are disappointed with Barack Obama’s performance. Maybe he has been too timid, too hands-off, too much of a law professor when what we neehttp://www.alysonchadwick.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?post_id=688&action=grunion_form_builder&TB_iframe=true&width=768&id=add_formded was a scrappy street fighter, willing to go toe-to-toe with an obstructionist Congress and the wiley John Boehner and Eric “Dr. No” Cantor. Neither Bill or Hillary Clinton would have put up with this malarky. No, sir.

My friend, Chris Rugaber (you know the AP business writer, if you don’t read his stuff, you should start), sent me this piece: When did liberals become so unreasonable? The idea being, that liberals are never happy with anything. I dug through my personal papers and the following represent excerpts from my journal.

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