Reply #29: The despair under ** was that we could do nothing to change anything. The despair under Obama is

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that we pinned all our hopes of change and improvement on him, and it's not happening to the degree a lot of us had desperately wanted. Yes, it's going to take time to undo the damage done since Raygun, but it doesn't seem like Obama wants to change things all that much, or else he says he wants to change things but hires the wrong people for the job or gives away the store (or allows Congress to) in the name of bipartisanship. It's hard to celebrate the very real and positive changes that are actually going on in the face of that.