...despite what we were promised in the recent campaign for "Hope 'n Change"?
Michael Barone speculates on how "Hope 'n Change" will actually turn into "business as usual".
Noteworthy:
"Obama does make reference to history, especially to distant figures like Abraham Lincoln and FDR. But like Tony Blair, he is given to rhetoric that suggests history begins anew with his installation in office.
'This was the moment,' Obama said on June 3, after the last primaries, 'when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.' He is promising more than King Canute."
Which, of course, he WILL NOT deliver.
This begs the question: Will the under 30 crowd, who Obama actually put under the spell long enough to elect him President, ever figure out just how badly they've been duped? Will they even care?
And just how silly will Obama's campaign fluff sound some six months into the "New Era in politics"?
Hubris will be difficult for the Anointed One to accept.
On the other hand, the odds are pretty good that he will end up being a figurehead anyway.
"Will the under 30 crowd, who Obama actually put under the spell long enough to elect him President, ever figure out just how badly they've been duped? Will they even care?"
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding? They will continue to live in the land of la-la, yes we can. By the time they reach 40 they might figure out just how badly they were screwed but by then of course it will be too late for them.
The rest who voted for him are just plain too stupid to ever figure it out. They will continue to sit around waiting, as they have for years, wondering when someone is going to make something happen.
Three kinds of folks in the world:
Those waiting for something to happen.
Those thinking about something happened
Those making things happening.
The first two voted for Obama, the last group of folks are now laughing at the first two for being stupid enough to vote for an empty suit.