“I can tell you one thing, Jack,” said the tipsy stranger who introduced himself at a local watering hole. “It’s going to be a long four years,” he lamented, as if the election of Barack Obama meant impending doom.
I smiled and nodded in agreement, thinking privately, “Hell, it’s been a long eight years,” an assessment I knew instinctively the gentleman wouldn’t have agreed with and for partisan reasons that wouldn’t have been the least bit reasonable.
In some ways the bitter divide between the most partisan Republicans and Democrats appears to have widened since the election. All of the Obama-lovers, who are embracing “change,” have a way of enraging all the Obama-haters, who are already predicting catastrophe. The feeling’s mutual.
This is all symbolic nonsense.
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Gosh, I feel the same way. While I didn’t want four more years of McSame, I didn’t feel Obama was going to give me what I wanted either.
I think most people don’t see it, but this nation is ripe and ready for something better than we have been getting.
Yeah, we have too many stores, and many of them are closing, but so go the jobs with them, and there are more and more companies and plants letting people go.
The economy is far worse off than they have let us believe, because for 8 years, the Bush Admin told us that things were good. Well, that didn’t fool anyone in the midwest. Now the news is saying over 30 states are feeling the disaster. Which is why Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, voted blue.
Why don’t people wake up and really get behind the other candidates and “throw the bums out.” Heck, they think its really going to do something changing from red to blue. But its the same thing.