Posted on 11/01/2013 10:07:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I'm reading a terribly sad book these days. It's a book that I thought would uplift me during the doldrums of second-year medical school, and renew in me a sense of hope. It's called "The Audacity to Win," and it's a memoir of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
When I'm finished with my patient write-ups at night and get into bed, the book returns me to a time when politics inspired millions and speeches could take your breath away. The election turned out to be a landslide, and news anchors paused to reflect on the historic nature of the hour.
My classmates cried with joy, and my parents saved every newspaper they could find. A young team of visionaries was headed for the White House, and the nation was ready for change. During Obama's transition to office in 2008, he had an 82% approval rating. There was something in the air.
And then I close the book. Cutting to the present is a rude awakening, like snapping out of a dream. It's hard to remember those days of optimism -- they seem a distant memory, a sad reminder of opportunities gone by. Change indeed happened, in the years since I cast my first ballot. It was simply nothing I could have imagined.....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
That's probably -- and unfortunately -- natural. Each generation knows only what it's experienced. It's normal to them.
My grandparents, who'd come of age before WWI, had lived in what we would consider almost miraculous freedom from government. But when they would lament the loss of liberty in the sixties, I, as a teenager, thought they were off their rockers.
Oh, I believed deeply -- even at that age -- in individual liberty, but what government controls we had then seemed natural, even sensible to me. It's much, much worse now, of course.
It will be an almost impossible task to re-educate younger people given the world they've grown up in.
The real crying will happen when he starts paying back his student loans while working in a govt run obamacrap!!!
It took him five years to get here. But he still thinks that the Affordable Care Act is a positive for Obama. Let’s give him five more years and ask him about it.
Probably comes from a rich, ultra liberal family, and will likely vote for another democrat in 2016........
“It was simply nothing I could have imagined.....”
Then you’re an imbecile.
Waaaaa,Waaaaa!!!!!!A Bunch Of CRYBABIES!I have yet to receive an HONEST ANSWER from any of these T*RDS as to why they voted for OBONGO???????????????????????????
Given his political inclinations, he’s probably studying to become an abortionist. The ACA will prove a blessing for that business.
and news anchors paused to reflect on the historic nature of the hour.
My classmates cried with joy,
You know how poisoned these minds had to have been to have had such a reaction in modern America?
This idiot should be prevented from ever entering a polling place again. God Help our country
Well, I’m proud to say I was one of the 18%.
America can survive a Barack Obama. But it cannot survive an electorate that would vote for him twice.
Indeed he did - even held over Bush's defense secretary to oversee the implementation of the plan already in place. One change was Obama's virtual complete abandonment of it to allow it become a client state of Iran.
The author of this piece continues to be a "low information" type...even now.
Democrat California State Senator Accused of Accepting $88,000 in Bribes
Ron Calderon / AP
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
October 31, 2013 12:28 pm
Democratic California State Sen. Ron Calderon is accused of accepting $88,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent. The agent, posing as a film studio owner and hospital executive, made promises to help Mr. Calderon’s family in return for changes to the tax code. The Sacramento Bee reports:
Low information med student soon to be low information doctor.
He WISHES he could be mediocre.
I warned friends and family back in 2008...this man is evil. Do not be beguiled. I hate it when I’m right.
It’s a book that I thought would uplift me during the doldrums of second-year medical school, ...
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This guy has time to read a book while in medical school?...Wow! Things have changed since my day.
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