Posted by
m0t0r1zed on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:58:02 AM
Hmm, some brief blah blah blah.
1) heck of a win for Obama. A lot of the battleground states were very close, but he pulled through to rack up a decisive electoral margin. I thought he would win, but badly underestimated his margin of victory.
2) Throughout all of the election coverage, there was genuine pride and excitement beaming in the faces of African-Americans and the young supporters of Obama. A great moment in American history.
3) The honeymoon period might last longer for Obama since he is the first black President, but I wonder how long it will take before things degenerate back into politics as usual ... after all, these are bureaucratic creatures of habit with their own sense of self-preservation and organizational agendas. Beware, when you start to tread on the territory of these beasties.
4) Obama does have a trump card, should he encounter problems from the Dems or Reps. Because of his historic presidency, he might be able to use a Reagan tactic and appeal directly to the American people to try to transcend / bypass political obstacles through grassroots momentum.
5) there needs to be a shift from rhetoric to reality. For example - his foreign policy consisted of nice talking points that would attract voters, but those ideas did not really form a practical or coherent plan. Again, there are a lot of ideas out there that may sound plausible superficially in a rhetorical vacuum, but in actual practice will fall flat on its face - kinda like that neato Marxism idea.
Overall, both McCain and Obama seem like genuinely decent people. I just thought that a lot of their ideas sucked. Hopefully, Obama will succeed in doing what I had hoped Bush would have done ... which was to do very little, not mess things up, and leave people alone by staying the hell out of their business.
Unfortunately, the circumstances of history made that impossible for Bush. Hopefully, fate will be kinder to Obama, and his tenure as President will be boring and uneventful. And I hope that Obama understands that a wise leader isn't one who knows how to rule over the people, but rather, one who knows how to let the people rule themselves.
bleh, what sappy "little grasshopper" pablum, heh. more likely everyone's gonna go all FDR II on us, lmao. ah well ...