Posted on 11/02/2009 4:38:55 PM PST by Steelfish
In Iowa, Euphoria Gives Way to Second Thoughts on Obama
JEFF ZELENY November 2, 2009 WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa — Pauline McAreavy voted for President Obama. From the moment she first saw him two years ago, she was smitten by his speeches and sold on his promise of change. She switched parties to support him in the Iowa caucuses, donated money and opened her home to a pair of young campaign workers.
“I really thought there would be immediate change,” said Pauline McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse.
But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying: “Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.”
“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.
“I really thought there would be immediate change,” she said. “Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.”
One year after winning the election, Mr. Obama has seen his pledge to transcend partisanship in Washington give way to the hardened realities of office.
A campaign for the history books, filled with a sky-high sense of possibility for Mr. Obama not just among legions of loyal Democrats but also among converts from outside the party, has descended to an unfamiliar plateau for a president whose political rise was as rapid as it was charmed.
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Is this from our New York TImes or is their one on Pluto?
I feel no sympathy for the dopes who feel betrayed.
Me either, total idiots.
Williamsburg? Yikes. Unpleasant flashbacks.
67% of 18-29 year olds voted for 0 and according to Gallup “white single women, unmarried, divorced, separated or divorced voted “overwhelmingly” for 0. This is the primary group that gave us these two low-rents in the WH.
“I really thought there would be immediate change,” said Pauline McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse.
But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying: “Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.”
“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.
People this stupid (basically the entire demoRAT party or whoever voted for 0bozo the commie pig) shouldn't be allowed to vote, own houses or drive cars. They're just too damn stupid. They're zombies, as Bob Hope pointed out in a great old time video!!! It looks like she is still looking for a way to justify financially supporting & voting again for the commie pig 0bozo.
Alas, another idiot who fell for the “Hope and Change” mantra, totally clueless that it really meant “You will be Hopeless and Shortchanged.”
Good grief, over 70 years old and too dumb to have observed the world around her all those years and learn anything from it.
Hate to say it, but that was my first thought too. She is not some naive, pie-in-the-sky teeniebopper.
With age brings wisdom. Not.
Hey, Lady! How is that workin' for you?
She’s disappointed in Obama because he represents “politics as usual”?
Did she expect him to levitate? Raise the waters? Rain down manna from Heaven?
I suspect that a lot of these dopes still don’t understand what the real problems are with Obama.
Like he’s a Kenyan Muslim Communist who really, really HATES America. I don’t call that politics as usual.
What a SUCKER this Pauline McAreavy was!
You wonder how these people made it through life in one piece. This particular woman was retired. That’s a lot of living. She never met a schister in her life before? I can see how naieve teen agers fall for his crap, even some college students, but grown adults? I’m still amazed at that.
Not only is the bloom off the rose, its also starting to smell like a dead fish.
Karma’s a bitch - ain’t it?
Right along with you, but I’m glad their eyes are opening and I welcome them back “to the fold”...
But this can’t be! He graduated from Harvard and had cool slogens and sounded so good and promised to take care of us.
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