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So, IF the Obama administration turns out, after the next four or even eight years, to be basically business as usual,
I was very much in agreement with your post, except for one quibble. Do you really think we can go on for the next four years in the same pattern? I don't think we can. Can we go on fighting the War on Iraq and the War on Afghanistan? Can we go on with the present economic mess? Oh I'm sure a few people would like to go on as we are. For a small number of people, things are working out.
But I'm pretty sure we are at a point where much change will occur, whether we like it or not.
Apart from that, yes, the tension is almost unbearable. I find myself going back and forth between "Give the man some time, he hasn't even been sworn in", and "we've been really, really shafted", and then back to "Jeez, he must know what he's doing, did he really work that hard and subject himself to the danger, just to fail at resolving anything?".
I mean, unlike Bush or McCain, Obama could get a high-paying job in many fields. He doesn't have to do this... And round and round we go. This is a time of pure "shmendricity".
