Barack Obama

"When will America be ready to elect a progressive president running on a progressive agenda?

My response: Never

Congress will never be 100 percent progressive and the ankle biting of any President will continue.

In Obama's case, people on both sides seem to believe he was elected King, one side expecting him to act that way, and the other pretending he's acting that way.

If Congress had been more progressive, even in 2009, there would have been a lot more advancement of a more progressive agenda.

In 2009, if there were no Blue Dogs/DLCers in the House and Senate, there would have been a public option and quicker path to single payer. There would have been a climate change bill, creating millions of jobs and upgrading the infrastructure.

Unfortunately, the House is now in Republicans' hands. Unless there is significant change, in 2016 anyone elected President is going to be dealing with a right-leaning Congress.

If the President-elect is a progressive, he/she will spend the time giving pretty speeches and will have less to show for it because the expectations will be even higher.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024649592#post9

ProSense's sigline:

...the American story is one of perfectibility and striving for ever-greater fidelity to our ideals -- it is a journey from colony to republic, from slavery to freedom, from sexism to suffrage, from stark poverty to shared prosperity.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024656032#post2

Our work will never be finished, we are, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, a work in progress. It is the conservatives who want the world to be written in stone, with them at the top of things.

Fellow BOG members, please tell me what you can add to the list at the OP and her later posts.