I must tell you...liberalism has its hooks into some people so deeply that otherwise logical and bright people depart from the essence of who they are to embrace it.
Sounds kind of like a cult, doesn’t it?
I work with a young man (26) who made a favorable reference to Barak Obama the other day. I turned when he said it, and fixed a look on him that was half-amusement, half incredulity, and when he saw it, he grinned and muttered something about “you conservatives”.
I said to him in a congenial way “I am curious, no, I really am...what is it that Barak Obama has done that makes him a viable person to choose as President?”
To my surprise, he said: “Nothing. He’s a blank slate”.
This is a very, very smart young guy. Very capable. And when I heard that come out of his mouth, I was, literally speechless. He believed that was a good thing.
Just damn.
Obama has smartly tuned into an extensive feeling amongst the electorate that there is something wrong with the US political process, as it now stands. Voters are very dissillusioned with the way things are being done. You can see this - there are several indicators. Voter turnout is down, cynicism is up (”don’t vote, it only encourages them!” etc). There are all these corruption scandals and so on. The politicians are losing the trust of the electorate (if they haven’t lost it already).
I’m not talking parties here...there are rotten apples in the dems and the GOP. I’m talking the whole process. I’m not saying its a bad system either...just that it’s PERCEIVED not to be working, or at least not working as it’s supposed to.
So Obama shouts change change change as much as he can. It resonates with an awful lot of people. Of course, he carefully doesn’t say what form that change is going to take. As soon as he starts talking specifics he is going to turn a substantial proportion of the voters off, if only because the “changes” will not be the “changes” that they thought were going to happen. If he does get elected (and I personally think he will be) he is going to have to put his cards onto the table - and we will all see that he never really had much of a hand in the first place.
Still, its better than Hillary. We all know how she operates and what she stands for. Supporting Obama is a chance rather than a certainty.