[oyez]

We just have to face it. The nation has taken a dramatic turn. There is nothing we we can do but watch it go over the cliff or slam into what ever it is about to collide with.

Obama did fundamentally change the country. There is nobody the waiting in the wings that is going to change it back to way it was.

[GoodDay]

>>>>Obama did fundamentally change the country.

I prefer to think of it this way:

The new demographics — a vastly different electorate — changed the country. The election and re-election of Obama were the visible manifestations of that change.