Even die-hard Obama haters can not deny that he saved us from one thing
John McCain and Sarah Palin did not take the white house, and no matter how you feel about President Obama's efforts in behalf of progressives it can not be denied that he saved us from the tragedy that would have been a 2008 Republican White House. We would be deep in the depths of a Depression that would have dwarfed our experience of the 1930s, the war against Iraq would have continued in full force, or education system would have been in the hands of christian finatics, and any dissent in the public would have been brutally suppressed.
So like him or not, President Obama's presence, and continued presence, in the White House, is the only thing between us and what would quite predictably be the fall of the nation.
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That argument doesn't sway most of Pres. Obama's detractors, however.
Your last sentence is, imo, too true. Our nation cannot move forward under Republican leadership. It can only recede.
Welcome to DU! 
There are more adamant detractors that couldn't be swayed if they were perched in the crow's nest of the Titanic. You've agreed that it "could/would be worse", which is only borderline detraction.
Well played.
Dammit dion, you gotta quit it!
For series. 
No. That's not it.
Sid
It was one of those days I almost walked away from here for good. 
Sid
