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• Monday, November 24, 2008 09:09 AM

  Instant gratification has to be a thing of the past

  We need to stop expecting that anyone can turn this mess around in a year, or, worse yet, a hundred days or so. The landscape Obama began his campaign in is not the one in which he finished... and the landscape will be bleaker still in another six weeks.

  We have to stop microanalysing every tiny step he makes. He is pragmatic. And angry Lieberman will get us nowhere. It makes me sick and I am from Connecticut, yet it may be brilliant politics. If Lieberman screws up more along the way, the Dems can throw him out and no one will be able to tie it to the election. And the experienced dems ARE people who worked for Clinton, so what the bleep is the big deal? He is mixing them up some and injecting some Chicago people as well. Let's face it, neither party has been stellar in the last decade, so while we have a deeper bench, it's too soon to put the new people in the senior positions.

  Obama has to lead us out of messes on every front and this will take time and patience, and, yeah, sacrifice from US. Even if that sacrifice is that some of us will be without health care for longer, which terrifies me... yet I know that there are more immediately pressing matters.

  I guess I feel we need to give the man a chance. Either we trusted the man we elected or we don't. I do. He will not be perfect. He is not a god. But I trust HIS mistakes and ability to right them more than anyone else's just now.

  —JetLS Read JetLS's other letters
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