Check yourself before you wreck yourself, Democrats

A Year After Obama’s Election, How Do You Feel?

By The New York Times

One year ago, we asked NYTimes.com readers for a single word to describe their mood about the presidential election. The response was overwhelming (73,400 words) and varied widely, with “hopeful” and “anxious” as the top choices.

Now, a year after the election of Barack Obama, we want to know: Has your mood changed? Are you energized, hopeful, disappointed, ambivalent or outraged? As Jeff Zeleny wrote Tuesday, Mr. Obama has now seen his pledge to transform the country give way to some of the hardened realities of office. While it will be years before it is possible to gauge the success of his governing agenda, his record for some of the issues on which he campaigned is beginning to come into focus.

What one word best describes how you feel a year after President Obama’s election? Let us know.

via thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Watching Democrats' single words to describe their mood after Obama's election scroll across the page (like "betrayed"), all I could think of was: "We were thiiiis close to a McCain administration that would have driven us right into a second depression."

Progressive anger that Obama isn't living up to their (lofty) expectations is understandable, but misplaced. This administration is so much better than the alternative that we should still be thanking each and every one of our lucky stars that he was able to get elected.

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