Re#48 True, however, I prefer that Hillary destroy the party as she is doing and McCain serve one term with a young conservative vice president to take over. We live in different times and when the peanut farmer was in office, i.e., the war on terror...
As for the times being more dangerous now, I'd dispute that. The Soviets were still a co-superpower that deserved the name "evil empire", Marxists were invading our hemisphere through Nicaragua, and the oil sheiks were jacking up oil prices, threatening to wreck our economy. It was the American people needing to see that these problems needed a real leader to solve them, and not just some dreamy idealist. The mood of the Rats surrounding Obama reminds me of their foolishness in thinking Jimmy Carter was man enough to be President after the Nixon-Ford era. Our enemy is technologically stupid, not the nuclear and rocket scientists of the old USSR. The only real weapon they have is that we've been far too timid to really blow them to bits, the way even a WWII Democrat would have done.
When a leader does a reasonably good job of keeping the American people safe for a long period of time, the liberals among them think anybody can do it. It takes a bad President to make them re-appreciate a good one.