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Showing Original Post only (View all)Seriously, did so many people truly believe that president Obama could change the course.... [View all]
our country was on with the flick of a switch...
Did they truly think that the first African American president could effectively govern a country when at least a third of the good old US of A still wants to fight the Civil War.? The racial part not the states rights part.
Look at how violent the reaction was to president Obama right from the start.
Perhaps I never really believed that president Obama was the Messiah who would take us to the Promised Land.
Perhaps so many others had such high expectations for the hope and change guy that anything below deliverance to a liberal paradise was going to disappoint.
I think president Obama looked at how the Bush Administration operated and wanted no part of that, that heavy handed Cheney method of running rough shod over the hopes and dreams of the opposition.
President Obama brought this country back from the political Abyss by carefully navigating between the entrenched beaurocrats scorched earth left behind by Bush and the disposed people yearning to be free.
Believe you me; I am not happy with the way things are going.
But all things considered, I think president Obama is doing the best he can.
Remember, the republicans, from the very start, had no compunction of pushing their agenda even though they lost big.