Reply #5: this is what i kept waiting for during the first Clinton Admin -- post Reagan...

[nashville_brook]

from day one i totally expected bill and al to bring the rogues to justice and do something for the long-suffering masses. i recorded his speeches, searching for clues to when the turnaround might begin. i was like a kid waiting for santa claus with my clintonian optimism.

then, we were told that it was a vast right-wing conspiracy, that kept the clintons from getting any traction. and i believed it. but look at what bush is able to do with an 'opposition' congress.

i'm so ready for real, FDR-like leadership but my hope-gland is dry. "bitter-gate" has shown us that the other clinton will sell our economic interests down the river for a handful of religious, gun-totin' votes.

and honestly -- where's obama's response? there's a kerry-esque silence that is starting to reverberate and ring in my ears.

all that to say, this excerpt from FDR's famous speech makes me very sad. we need an FDR now more than ever but to hope that that's what we'll get in the end seems foolish in my experience.