Snob, you are quite mistaken. Republicans ARE the bogeymen. I say this not as a liberal partisan (hell, I have a conservative streak on some issues) but simply as a person disgusted by petulant, spiteful brats. The national-level Republican Party, or rather what it has become in recent years, has dropped any remaining pretense of caring about actual governance. They are driven by one thing only, and that is keeping their machine going. And the only fuel for that machine is division, personal destruction, paranoia, cynical baiting, hyperbole, and sheer childish spite. Their behavior over the last nine months has been appalling even for them.

You didn't miss a thing with that response. The Virginia governor's speech was even lamer and more cliche-ridden than Obama's (no, I did not like Obama's speech. Too much patronizing poetry and not enough adult talk).

Yes, I'm bitter. I wasn't always this bitter toward the Republicans. But at this point, I just don't care. A group of people that sit on their hands when the president is hawking policiies THAT THEY WOULD AGREE WITH IF ANYONE ELSE PROMOTING THEM deserves nothing even remotely resembling the benefit of the doubt.