Ted Strickland: Dems' Concessions On Debt Debate Are 'Very Troubling'

I'm just wondering why someone with such negative views of the president would still consider themselves a democrat.

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The same reason that allegiance and loyalty to a president doesn't make one a patriotic American; allegiance to the Constituti­on does.

Obama's beliefs and positions on the issues isn't what defines the Democratic Party; the Democratic Party's platform does.  Obama and most of the Democrats in public office today are at odds with the Democratic Party's platform.

Mushy-mind­ed Obama supporters need to get better informed, and cultivatin­g some real Democratic conviction­s wouldn't hurt either.  Because whether it's expanding the 'War on Terror', taking single payer universal health care, a public option, investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns of BushCheney­, etc., off the table, or continuing the BushCheney policies and going Bush-Chene­y one better (by asserting that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and 'preventive detention', the right to imprison anyone indefinite­ly because he thinks they might commit a crime), or using JoeLieberm­an to hide behind, to duck out on his campaign pledge of transparen­cy, and gut the FOIA, putting Medicare and Social Security on the table and on the path for destructio­n, no real Democrat could continue to support Obama or any politician­s purporting to be Democrats doing this.
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