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In reply to the discussion: All you folks so unhappy with President Obama, let me ask you a question... [View all]Bonobo
(29,257 posts)And it is the same reason I bought into Obama.
More than anything, I wanted to win and to smear shit into the face of the Republicans.
I liked the way Obama triangulated with his bipartisan talk and his defense of the Afghan War -NOT as policy issues because I always was against the Afghan War, but I saw it would make him win and I foolishly bought he was just faking the whole thing. I imagined that as a black man with different life experiences than the run-of-the-mill presidential candidate who was as well-read and able to write his books with such feeling -that he was posing to bring the Reagan Democrats back into the fold.
I was wrong. It is obvious to me now that he did not get where we got as a leader but rather as a chameleon able to blend in and be the non-threatening "other" when he rubbed elbows with the hoity-toity.