///josepp, I don't know why you choose to misread or misrepresent what I posted. It was foolish of me, in hindsight, to post to a thread started by you. I've been around the block enough times that I ought to have known better. ////

Maybe you can start by blaming yourself for posting off on a tangent that nothing to do with my opening post. My point is not that Obama is inadequate, though he is, it's that the republican party is completely dysfunctional so that as inadequate as Obama is, he'll still get my vote.