i think you're right halx, but then i don't think we totally disagree... why would people have a sense of doom? i hear rhetoric about the "politics of fear", but it seems if people feel doomed as you say... Obama seems to be the beneficiary.
if we made it through the carter administration, i think we can weather any storm.
my point is that there is nothing the president alone can do to make me feel my doom. i'm concerned that so many people are personally invested enough to feel doomed. as to freedom, there's nothing Bush has done that is without the approval (tacit or expressed) of the democratic congress. if that's the issue, i don't think they should expect change.
will, it's plain from my OP that the disgust is rooted in the emotional response to the rhetoric, not that i'm disgusted by "change".