Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Primary challenge for Obama?
Not likely, but this is still interesting. The article does refer to Kennedy as a hipster, though.
As disappointed and angry as I am about the Obama presidency, I have to say that I am equally frustrated with the left in this country, especially liberals in and around my demographic. We showed up in record numbers in 2008, but so many of us thought that a single vote for the presidency was all it would take to change the corruption, collusion, and politicking in our federal government. It was foolish then and it is foolish now. Those votes weren't going to flip some magic switch. The problem is a system that requires huge sums of money to get elected, the public that does not care about the day to day activities of their elected officials (or the details of most laws), and the total lack of incentive amongst our elected officials to cooperate. Anyone who thought that a young Senator was going to completely change one of the largest democracies in the world was blissfully naive.
As disappointed and angry as I am about the Obama presidency, I have to say that I am equally frustrated with the left in this country, especially liberals in and around my demographic. We showed up in record numbers in 2008, but so many of us thought that a single vote for the presidency was all it would take to change the corruption, collusion, and politicking in our federal government. It was foolish then and it is foolish now. Those votes weren't going to flip some magic switch. The problem is a system that requires huge sums of money to get elected, the public that does not care about the day to day activities of their elected officials (or the details of most laws), and the total lack of incentive amongst our elected officials to cooperate. Anyone who thought that a young Senator was going to completely change one of the largest democracies in the world was blissfully naive.
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