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In this short video clip, I give you the range of the Left's positions for the general election of 2012. Some of us will vote for Mr. Obama because we believe in the man as Captain Jack Aubrey believed in Nelson, and others will be casting a vote for the lesser of "two weevils." The dilemma we face is how we will think of the man and how we will portray him to our compatriots on both sides of the aisle between now and the day of the vote.
If we claim Obama makes our hearts glow, are we being mere enthusiasts? If we jump on the recently crowded bandwagon that proclaims disgust with the president's decision to preserve banks and Wall Street at the beginning of his administration, do we feed the Right Wing's Obama-bashing campaign and fuel the GOP's divide-and-conquer agenda? I hear trusted pundits cheer for the President's feisty new persona and I read praise for his recent program of executive orders, but the criticisms from his own base are more apparent, too. It's one thing to cringe at the manic silliness of Perry hugging a bottle of maple syrup or Koch-head Cain sneering at us through his campaign strategist's tobacco fug and decide that these candidates lack presidential gravitas; it's another to appreciate character when we see it for ourselves.
