I'm Down To The Last Straw With Obama, Says Angry Liberal

This may be the funniest letter to the editor the Des Moines Register has ever published:

As a liberal, I've been very supportive of President Barack Obama. I canvassed door-to-door for him in 2008. I hailed Obamacare as the third step in progressive legislation following Social Security and Medicare.

I overlooked his not closing Guantanamo Bay, not ending the war in Iraq, continuing Bush-style rendition and torture programs (the head of CIA says we need them), no public option in the health care bill, supporting banks but not homeowners, just to name a few of what I consider shortcomings.

The reason I did this is because I considered Obama preferable to any Republican. However, if he supports the tax cuts for the wealthy, he is no better then the alternatives.

I will then support a progressive primary challenger, or a third party candidate in 2012.

I'm sure many liberal and progressive Iowans feel the same.

- Daniel Prescott, Bettendorf

I drank all of the Purple Kool-Aid, so why am I so sick?

The far left is going nuts!

It's kind of like 2006 again when the fiscal conservatives were going insane over Bush and his lack of vetoes on Congressional spending.

You go ahead and switch your allegiance.  That will be just fine.

2012 is shaping up to be a Battle Royale on both fronts, with the Register bunch in an obsessive panic over whether or not that dummy quitter Sarah Palin is going to run on the Republican side, or whether it will be the usual losers like Mitt Romney, Mike Huckleberry, Tom "Steve King" Tancredo, or Ron "Ron Paul" Paul.

Me?  I think Evan Bayh has a shot at causing some real trouble in the Democrat primaries.  Hillary, too, maybe.  Obama's in the 30s now, so he's totally vulnerable.