Reply #79: Seriously?! This isn't the 60's. Afghanistan isn't Vietnam. Obama is NOT Lyndon Johnson.

[Hekate]

Where are the riots? Where are the bank burnings? Where are the young men burning their draft cards? Where are the hundreds and hundreds of Americans dying EACH WEEK?

Where are the crowds of young people chanting "Hey, hey LBJ! -- how many kids did you kill today?" Where's the tear gas and broken windows on our college campuses?

Discontent in the country is not agony. That was effing agony. I was there.

LBJ's own daughter asked him (as her husband shipped out) if he was really sure this war was right. He looked every day of his age and then some. By all accounts he was tormented. He had accomplished so much, and that goddamned war was bringing him down. He didn't survive his retirement very long.

Barack Obama is a young man who has a spring in his step. His numbers among Democrats are still very good indeed. He's getting a lot done. I'm sure he feels frustration that he's not getting everything done that he wants. He and Michelle are made of tough fiber, and I am quite sure they noticed before they moved to DC that bitching from the sidelines comes with the territory.

Chances of Obama not running for a second term? ZERO.

Ability to respond to your post? Priceless.

Hekate