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Change you can sleep through. (4.00 / 5)

The more I see and hear of Obama the more I think: "Same old bullshit." I hope my impressions are wrong.

He reminds me of early Bill Clinton.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 03:11:33 PM EST

Re: Change you can sleep through. (none / 1)

I can't say I'm surprised. I was afraid of this disillusion a long time back

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 03:53:26 PM EST
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Re: Change you can sleep through. (none / 1)

which is to say that the writing has been on the wall that Obama was a lot less radical than people wanted him to be and that "hope" or "change" are sufficiently vague slogans that anyone can project their own feelings and think that he means that.

And I'm terrified of the backlash when a large number of people start thinking they've been had.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 03:57:11 PM EST
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Re: Change you can sleep through. (none / 1)

To me, it's not whether he's radical or not; it's that he can come across as so 'wishy-washy'. But, that's just my first impression-he's not even inaugurated yet, so I'm gonna give it at least two months. But at the rate things are going, we may not have much of a world in two months.
And he's probably starting to ask himself: "Did I really ask for all this?"

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Jan 11th, 2009 at 04:18:55 PM EST
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