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• Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:12 AM

  @Mark V

  So I guess my question is: what then did YOU wish for?

  I gotta say, after the last 8 years, anyone who's trying to tell me "Watch out for scary unknown Obama" makes me laugh and laugh. For the past 8 years, the one and only thing that was needed was a president willing to at least try to respond to crises. The only one Bush addressed in anything resembling an attentive way was his Iraq war and protecting his right to carry it on with as little care and foresight as possible(which is what the surveillance and like that was always about: to keep America off his back, which implies that if we'd tried we could have gotten on it earlier). And he blew even that. Bush's presidency was always about nothing but Iraq, and anything else was simply protecting that. This includes sops to the base like stem cell research bans and Terri Schiavo--to keep the RR voting so the war could not stop. Our country hasn't really had a president in 8 years. Has it felt like we have? I feel what we were was hijacked. Bush never, in the least, felt like a president even minimally, the first time in my lifetime(my first president was Nixon, who was a fucker but was definitely SOME kind of president). Nor that he was very interested in much about being that, apart from the prestige.

  So try to scare me about Obama. At least we have a professional who will at least TRY now.

  —dust1969 Read dust1969's other letters
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