[quote=pri_dk][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][…] how on earth is a 2nd Obama term going to be better?[/quote]

Better than what?

It will be better than any Republican alternative because the Republican alternatives are terrible.

It will be better than his first term because he won’t be constrained politics and the mass-ignorance of the FOX news viewing audience (see Brutus’ post for an example.) Almost every decision he made during his first term had to be tempered with “how will FOX news exploit this and twist it into an absurd argument about patriotism?”

His second term will be better than the first because he won’t have to worry about a third.

It’s better because it’s the best available option in 2012 – that’s all that matters in the real world.[/quote]

Pri: Take a deep breath, Bubba. I wasn’t casting aspersions and I agree that there isn’t a real GOP alternative (see my previous posts to SK). However, given that Obama has been fighting uphill and also given that he’s squandered immense political capital, I believe that he’ll face even more intransigence and obstructionism than his first.