Soaring rhetorical genius, dragged to Earth by mind numbing support of things like TPP...an eye and mind for the future, utterly defeated and capitulating to not the fierce urgency of NOW, but the fierce control of cash and influence.
He sounds like Kennedy - RFK or JFK - and acts at times like someone who is afraid of the label "liberal" being hurled at him.
I am so frustrated at the state of race relations in our country, and how they have been allowed to explicitly gnaw on Barrack Obama every single minute of his presidency, so frustrated that I could scream. I have no idea how he maintains his exterior calm under circumstances and treatment and disrespect that would make Ghandi weep tears of rage and resentment.
I accept the fact that maybe I need to own my disappointment more gingerly in the face of the forces that aligned against President Obama from January of 2009 to today...but reading his words, seeing his speeches and then continuing to live in our pathetic reality just hurts. Its a pain of lost opportunity that I've felt before....back in 1998 when the Lewinsky "scandal" broke and the Clinton legacy was sealed as a man unable to control himself bringing down his own legacy and harming the party in ways that became clear only years later...when a chimp was appointed to the position and green lit the single greatest disaster of the 21st century to date by invading Iraq and creating so much death and destruction that reverberates to today.
I now watch Bernie Sanders and "feel the Bern" more intensely than ever because of the Obama presidency. He (President Obama) is a GREAT man. A man of unmatched patience and calm, but one who was attacked mercilessly and constantly and prevented from changing this country in the ways it needs to change.
My hope now is that Obama suffered so that Sanders can prevail. He took it on the chin for us all to lay the groundwork for a true political revolution. He deserves credit for that, even if the disappointment I feel is unfairly laid at his feet.
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