.. about the ranty part.. It is one of the reasons I do not actually listen to 92.1 that much anymore. I can stand stephanie Miller in the mornings, mainly because she is funny... but when it gets serious--it gets irritating really fast.
Personally.. I trust Obama over the long run more than I trust most of his followers.. he has a slow, patient style that gets a lot done, but it doesn't "react" particularly quickly... and that seems to lead to a lot more annoying screaming than anything else. If you look a the bigger picture--he's gotten more constructive things accomplished in the last 2 years than Bush did in the previous 8.. and he's laid the groundwork for changes that will make reversals a lot harder... For example--on DADT--when it is changed--there will be no possibility of repeal... just like with the health insurance reform--yes.. it isn't perfect--but it's a big step and the long hashing out does make it more likely that people wont' really want to go through the process of nuking it to go back to a worse status quo... so.. this is why I am watching and waiting..
As for DOMA--that is a longer term project.. unfortunately.. I think it is a generational thing. In about 15 years--the baby-boomer generation (the earliest ones like my parents) will start to fade away and that will signal the real end overall of opposition.. they are the last big cohort of people where there is even perhaps a majority of people opposed to gay marriage--after them, the war is lost..
Personally.. I'm just waiting for 2012 and to watch the Republicans nominate someone like Palin and then watch the party implode for good... then maybe the process of rebuilding a serious conservative-middle party (something like the current Tories in the UK) can happen.. This will be good... and then we can go about blowing up the democrats so we can get something more like a "liberal democratic" party==liberal-tarian type group...
Personally.. I trust Obama over the long run more than I trust most of his followers.. he has a slow, patient style that gets a lot done, but it doesn't "react" particularly quickly... and that seems to lead to a lot more annoying screaming than anything else. If you look a the bigger picture--he's gotten more constructive things accomplished in the last 2 years than Bush did in the previous 8.. and he's laid the groundwork for changes that will make reversals a lot harder... For example--on DADT--when it is changed--there will be no possibility of repeal... just like with the health insurance reform--yes.. it isn't perfect--but it's a big step and the long hashing out does make it more likely that people wont' really want to go through the process of nuking it to go back to a worse status quo... so.. this is why I am watching and waiting..
As for DOMA--that is a longer term project.. unfortunately.. I think it is a generational thing. In about 15 years--the baby-boomer generation (the earliest ones like my parents) will start to fade away and that will signal the real end overall of opposition.. they are the last big cohort of people where there is even perhaps a majority of people opposed to gay marriage--after them, the war is lost..
Personally.. I'm just waiting for 2012 and to watch the Republicans nominate someone like Palin and then watch the party implode for good... then maybe the process of rebuilding a serious conservative-middle party (something like the current Tories in the UK) can happen.. This will be good... and then we can go about blowing up the democrats so we can get something more like a "liberal democratic" party==liberal-tarian type group...
The next 10 years are going to be interesting...
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