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Submitted by vastleft on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 3:56pm

Go read.

Exactly what I was thinking, though the economic crunch does provide such an opportunity for leadership, that Obama now has a chance to be a good president. To this point, he's never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, so I won't hold my breath. But he is going to be your president in January.

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Submitted by amberglow on

Obama is seen to be very involved in the Congressional fights now coming--and seen as leading them for our benefit and not for Wall Street.

I don't think that's possible, since he is on the trail every day and fundraising every night. Nor do i think he really cares about us as much as about his funders and bundlers.

This may end up like FISA--where talked one way beforehand, but ended up "compromising" to our detriment.

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Submitted by amberglow on

http://www.slate.com/id/2200481/ -- "... Obama lacks any compelling story line about why unemployment, inflation, and inequality are rising, why the middle class is stagnating, or why the financial system has stopped working. His thematic framing is both too broad and not proprietary enough. His message of change and post-partisanship blurs together dissatisfaction with the economy, the war in Iraq, President Bush, special-interest politics, and the assorted depredations of "Washington." John McCain can wear these clothes nearly as easily as Obama can. ..."

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Submitted by Damon on

Conventional wisdom doesn't seem to be all that conventional, anymore. I'm also going to be incapable of grabbing at the warm-and-fuzzies assuming an Obama win. Perhaps, if I'd stayed away from the net, and not invested as much as I did into this year I could go the whole "ignorance is bliss" route, but my innocence is gone.

Ponies, rainbows, and unicorns will hardly sustain me. I'll watch my community cheer around me, give a few smiles at seeing them so genuinely happy, and then watch them quickly sink back into reality when they realize they've been had; when they realize that they now have a chance to watch one of their own ignore them at a nationally-elected level. An Obama win, if anything, will finally give them a chance to be rejected by their own in front of the entirety of the American people. He's just not that into us, never was, and despite the yearning to have it be true, never will. The only folks who'll get anything out of this will be the guilt-ridden who finally got their "new black friend." Real racism will exist the same as it ever was, but now they'll have a solid excuse whenever any community ever decides to air their continued greivances: we elected Obama. We're not racist; and we're even.