Originally Posted by dlish

im with RB on this one. im hoping for some changes. im expecting some minor changes, but nothing major. as much as id like to think so, i doubt much will change.

Obamas popularity will plummet once the honeymoon period is over, and all the hype over his inauguration will be forgotten.

you can paint a car all you want, you can change the driver, but at the end of the day its still a beetle. i might be pessimistic, but what options do i have to make me optimistic? the only reason why i'd be content with obamas is to keep the other guy out.

Originally Posted by Derwood

I'm an Obama realist. I think his basic ideology is a better direction for this country than the ideologies of the past 8 years, but I don't expect miracles.

Originally Posted by Derwood

I won't lie, I enjoyed seeing Bush sit there while Obama skewered his policy. Thanks for nothing

Originally Posted by guyy

I got a letter in the mail not one hour before the swearing-in saying my "services were no longer needed", which made me a little more cynical about the whole affair. There have been a lot of references to the origins of the US and the spirit of its founders, but this society is very different.

As for Bush, the Onion has been making him into a sort of Kenny: spiders eat his brain, he nails his eyelid to the wall, and so on. In a different time and place, he would have disemboweled himself; it would have been the only way out. That said, i didn't attend the local Bush-toppling. The idea seemed amusing just a couple weeks ago, but all of a sudden it seemed petty and backward-looking. In a way, Bush was never "there" in the sense that Saddam Hussein was, which means any toppling would have had made him more legitimate than he ever was.

Originally Posted by dksuddeth

Olberman lost any shred of credibility he had left when he decided to berate Scalia over his heller ruling.

As for me, Obama is now president, not president elect. If he can adhere to the oath he took and move the country forward, i'll support him. If he ignores the oath, i'll oppose him bitterly.

Originally Posted by Charlatan

No. He is Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life.