Reply #125: True. Hoover was very much like Obama.

[JDPriestly]

He had great faith in a person's ability to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Hoover did it. Obama did it. Everyone can do it. Except -- not everyone can do it.

I always knew that Obama was more conservative politically than I am, that he, in fact, has little patience for the people who have lost their jobs, for the towns that used to have a factory and now have nothing. But I never realized to what extent his compassion for suffering is really just lip service. He is just too young and too inexperienced. It's not his age. It's what he is.

I'm still hoping, but only because I never give up hoping.