is he not trying to do more or less what he campaigned on

a lot less, imo, tho i do continue to support his being a lesser evil.

i knew his rhetoric would be hard to match in reality, but i'd kinda appreciate it if he levelled with us more about why he has backtracked on so many vital issues, such as his vociferous endorsement of a very different health care system than is emerging, for a start.

weak tea, so far, torture still continuing, and what i find really galling, his not giving up bush's executive powers, yet not using them to slice through a bunch of gordian knots first.

even a simple ' i really thought i was going to be able to do more, but i decided staying alive was more important' would do much to help to see him as less omnipotent than the role confers, and help people hang in there with him as he makes slow, good, incremental changes, but only after stroking all the assholes who have foxed themselves into being heavy hitters, while the middle class crumbles.

or a candid admission that his speeches were calculated to please and motivate a whole bunch of hopiated followers who then could be jettisoned like ballast which is slowing him down in the business of empire. haha.

i think his approval poll numbers might be a whole lot higher if he explained the kind of forces pressuring him better, to those, like myself, who wonder if we have been mightily hoodwinked by a very classy act, but largely just an act.

 

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