I just can't buy into this argument that keeps popping up, that the Obama we are seeing right now is not the real Obama, so we should just wait unitl he gets in office and then we'll really see progressive movement. My problem with it is this, there is always another election. I can see it now, we put him in the White House and wait for him to champion democratic ideals, but then the media elite will come along and school us that he really has his hands tied because he's got to appear centrist so he can get his second term where we'll really see some action. I would rather a candidate lose for standing behind his principles than win by denying them.