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Roachboy's post reminds me that I was also wanting to add that most of the people who voted for Obama, didn't have illusions about what he would be able to accomplish. This idea that we're all Pollyannas one spending bill away from total disillusionment is bullshit. More distraction. Distraction that serves to diminish the REAL reasons people voted for Obama. I know that many of us here in the TFP politics forum expressed these same thoughts long before the election. Obama is a politician and in politics someone always loses...and it's only sharply demarcated down party lines at election time. In fact, in the last few years I've become more of the mind that partisan politics is about theater - drama that keeps voters motivated - while the real power lies with those skilled in networking, sales and marketing. Oh my, just like big business.

I have been disappointed by choices made by the Obama administration thus far and I am positive I will be disappointed by their choices in the future. Thus is politics. And all this nitpicking and finger-pointing is childish. You want to ask folks about the disappointment of campaign promises? Try the pro-lifers. Right now I'm going to go back to watching Project Runway and finish my beer. Guess that makes me a good American. A good American that can rest easier tonight knowing there's not a war-mongering dunderhead in the White House.

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