What Getting Dumped by My Girlfriend Taught Me About Being Dumped by Obama

[kpete]

What Getting Dumped by My Girlfriend Taught Me About Being Dumped by Obama

Thursday 04 February 2010

by: Mike Elk, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

It was a cold February night when I got together with Irene to watch Obama's first budget address to Congress. Irene was a drop-dead gorgeous woman whose beauty was matched only by her intellect. I had met her at a party a few days earlier, and already I was crazy about her.

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.........But by the time the cherry blossoms were blooming in early April, Irene had dumped me, and I was starting to wonder if Obama was bailing on me, too. I was disappointed about things ending with Irene, but told myself not to worry, that there would be other woman.

Obama was another matter - you can't exactly go to a bar and pick up a new president.

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It starts by setting the tone in the blogosphere. We can't be going out on dates complaining about our ex-lovers like a bunch of back seat bitchers. We need to actually drive the car by leading the effort to bring new voters into our movement through the aggressive community organizing that attracted so many of us to Obama in the first place.

It's okay to get dumped. Love, like politics, is full of deception, disappointment and despair.

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http://www.truthout.org/what-getting-dumped-my-girlfriend-taught-me-about-being-dumped-obama56648

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[monmouth]

2. Irene's intellect showed through on that decision....n/t

[MineralMan]

3. Well, I'm not sure I really understood that post.

Do you agree with it? Disagree? What's your opinion? Is the writer looking for a lover or a President. It's all so confusing. I think Obama's already taken, but maybe that wasn't the point.