Maybe your "colon parenthesis smile" is just habit, although sometimes you make a frown.  But what you seem to be saying is "Unless Obama does something really good, i.e. really helping the country, we will get to your smiling result = the public voting out the failed Democratic agenda."  Would you rather have another year of misery and failed policies than see Obama succeed in doing some helpful to the country?  Would you rather see 3 and a half more years of terrible governance and the country continuing to destruct just so you can be "really :)" and possibly get a Conservative into the White House?

Part of the reason this country fails to get better leadership is that no one adheres to the results of elections.  Campaign season starts the day after the election ends.  Republicans did not for one second get behind this president on any issue, even to try to compromise to bills that you are happier with.  You just want to criticize EVERYTHING, vote against everything, urge boycotts, and then ":)" if/when he fails.  I wasn't aware, Bobo, that the new Conservative "patriotism" means hoping for chaos and ruin for America (and actively trying to effect it) in order to try to get back into power and govern as well as Bush and DeLay and Lott did in systematically decaying the government, the environment, the economy, the military, the Constitution, the DOJ, and our international reputation.

You are very happy to agree with a Liberal point of view that also happens to be disappointed with Obama, but you know that is disingenuous.  You know that we think Obama should be a Progressive, not just an object of scorn like you consider him, and that we are not looking for the same kind of goals from him as you are.  So spare me the "I only agree with Liberals when they challenge their own party" BS.  You only like how it looks politically to see conflict among your adversaries.

I wrote in a blog post a couple of months ago how Conservatives can get back into power.  1.  Be more honest, 2.  Be more competent, 3. Be nicer.  Seems like a simple recipe.  More gloating and ":)"'s salivating about Obama failures does none of those things, and there is no WAY mainstream America will look to a bunch of bitter lunatics who do nothing but hope for us all to fail for the next 3 years.