In the blogging world I have two modes

Which, I guess, makes me kind of a temperate person in the blog world.

I have the occasional rant...but mostly I'm just popping one balloon after another, or trying to use my limited skills to craft something somewhat humorous. I'm certainly no leader of any movement, let alone this piss-ant therapy session I have everyday (or the occasional moment I resent my compulsion to post something).

So I'll just say that I agree with some of this, but at the same time I think it is both more than fair and very necessary that Obama have feedback, especially negative feedback, from the left.

It isn't easy to be in Obama's position, no doubt, but if the left isn't demanding a public option and raising holy hell (and not just in regard to the White House but toward Congress), isn't it pretty likely that issue would be dead by now? For an example of the "Village Wisdom" of just over a month ago, see here.

Obama may "wish" to get rid of DADT, but if he doesn't have critics, even critics that go over the top, demanding it, does he even place it in the middle of the priorities list?

There's nothing wrong about letting the Timmy Geithner's of the world know they are being watched and viewed skeptically.

It's not really the progressive blogger's duty to fall in line behind the "leader", if that was our primary job, we'd be Republicans. Progressive bloggers are frequently social agitators, rather than small-dicked action junkies claiming a devine right to bomb foreigners rather than giving their neighbor (the one outside the gated community) a chance at a better day-to-day life.

I'll take the agitator every time.