Reply #33: I agree that it's not about Obama

[MBS]

The one thing that constantly sustains my hope is that the citizens of America voted for change.We are the ones that decided that we want to return America to his higher self. Obama (with his administration) is the vessel for that change, but WE are the ones that decided to lift ourselves up.
But, Tay, that's also why it's appropriate for us, in fact, required of us, to criticize when necessary, to question when necessary, and to push the new (YAY!!) administration to live up to its promises, to implement the change that we voted for, the changes that we so desperately need. . . .and not just sit back passively and trust that Obama will save the world for us. Obama said that we are the ones. And that's true. WE are the ones who will save ourselves . I trust Obama's judgment in general , but that does not mean that I have to agree with everything he does or everyone he chooses, or that I have to stay quiet when he or his administration does something that is not worthy of its promise, or that I can't push our government to live up to its highest standards.

PS I've been following Obama closely for a long while, so, while I cheered wildly at his 2004 DNC speech, and cried on election night, I lost the Messiah feeling about the time he cast his first votes in the Senate. Thus, while disappointed by his several of his post-primary and post-November maneuvers, I am (sadly) not surprised by all of them (Well, by almost all of them. . a few remain for me real head-scratchers. .). Nevertheless, as a letter-writer wrote in the Globe or the Times just before Nov. 4 (not exact words, but it's more or less what he said) "I know that I will be disappointed by Obama. But, with a choice between catastrophe and mere disappointment, I'll take mere disappointment any day."

Obama is the man of the hour. But this is also OUR time, our chance to move the country forward.

God, I'm glad that JK stayed in the senate.