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"This is the mythic "independence" we're supposed to crave -- a czar who doesn't owe anyone..."
Only intellectuals sit around and try to think up historical things that mean the same thing in today's environment. Let me add a touch of reality to another otherwise fantasy that's been going on now since Obama kicked Jeremiah Wright under the bus.
America didn't vote for a benevolent dictator. Actually, I wouldn't be too sure that many of those who ended up voting for Obama actually wanted HIM.
Only in the Democratic party could so many be so snookered so quickly by a guy who hadn't done much of anything his entire life. And I am referring to the so-called "netroots" who thought they controlled the world and have found out how the world actually controlls THEM.
Here comes the pragmatic part: Call it what you want. If the guy doesn't produce he's out on his ass in 4 years and the rest of you can sit around and blog yourselves to death about "why."
