“The far left feels betrayed because Obama has not turned America into Eden in less than two years. They do not believe that Obama has put up a good fight against those opponents who find the truth less important than gaining legislative power that will make it easier to serve their masters: the wealthy, the big corporations and the lobbyists who serve them most faithfully…

“It is time for all of us to grow up and face the fact that we just might be ‘the people we have been waiting for,’ as the President has said. If we thought we were electing a superhero, we were wrong. Obama never promised that.

“But whether the change Obama did promise is possible can only be learned if we decide to stay the course and refuse to give in to fatigue and paralytic cynicism. There has never been a better time to fight than now. The opposition does not expect integrity or anything more than cowardice and bitchiness.”

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“When Obama steps onto a grass quad at the University of Wisconsin on Tuesday, he will deliver a newly tailored, more personalized campaign appeal aimed at ginning up enthusiasm, according to White House and senior Democratic officials. Plouffe said Obama will remind students of the work they put into his 2008 campaign and warn them that if they don’t reengage now, ‘all that could be jeopardized.’…

“Another student, Madeline Coyne, 21, said she waited in line to see Obama when he spoke on campus in 2008. Now, she said, ‘the euphoria has dimmed down.’…

“In the weeks since classes began, Organizing for America says it has recruited more than 60 new campus volunteers and identified 16 dorm captains to turn out the student vote. So far, about 800 students have signed pledge cards committing to vote. But that’s a far cry from two years ago, when 17,000 students packed the basketball arena to hear Obama exhort, ‘Let’s go change the world!'”

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“You can’t sit it out… You can’t suddenly just check in once every 10 years or so — on an exciting presidential election — and then not pay attention during big midterm elections, where we’ve got a real big choice between Democrats and Republicans.”