ironically if you look at the exit polls, among those voters old enough to have remembered Carter(and even more so LBJ and the liberalism of the 60s) and his administration, McCain won handily.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of folks around who don’t remembere, too young to have experienced a true liberal President. Clinton had moderate tendencies and after the 94 election he was neutered by the Congress, anyway. Obama is much more leftist than Clinton and has a huge majority.
They’ll just have to learn and hopefully 2012 will end up being like 1980.
People substitute wishful thinking when they buy tickets on “winning horses.” And, when they’re sure they know what’s going to happen in the future.
As to Obama, words don’t amount to a hill of beans. He’s gonna have to learn to “swing his teleprompter” if he wants to hit anything.
And, we’ve seen the same “schtick” before with Carter. (Came 1980, lots of Jews, and blue collar workers, went for Reagan. That’s why Carter lost. And, was near tears when Reagan was sworn in. For Reagan’s first inaugural, he also spent time “praising out system” where power shifts from one man to the other.)
As to Obama’s trip; it was a big nothing. And, by the time he left, Sarkozy and Merkel were fit to be tied! Indeed, that was a stinko suggestion to pull Turkey into the EU. And, it won’t happen!
As to North Korea’s launch, it gave Israel an opening to see how words fail to work. And, anything out of the UN, they’ll be able to handle! Heck, the UN wasn’t even on board Obama’s words to turn on North Korea.
Too bad the republican party can’t fix itself! Look at all the races where we had to hold our noses to vote!
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