Battle of Toledo

[midnightranter]

Toledo, Ohio. A town/city of about 300,000 (which is dropping) where both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spent part of the day. It's the fourth largest city in Ohio and the 57th largest city in the United States. It's on Lake Erie and the Maumee River, so it has served as a port in times past and is one of the largest railroad hubs in the country

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[how_i_lie]

I am very, very far away from being a resident of Ohio, but I don't see how this isn't a simple decision. Surely it's better to despair and win? Win in the sense of having a job, feeding your kids, getting healthcare of some description? It may not raise the roof of an auditorium, but all this hope and American Idol style fanaticism is going to feel a lot worse if it doesn't pay off. I seem to remember that '92 was going to be the year it all changed, a mini-revolution of sorts. And then Bill tried to do a whole lot of things going against the conventional Washington way and the US was left with stellar policies like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".

Hope is grand, but coupled with all this talking of sweeping the existing Washington aside, it doesn't seem to amount to much at all. The people can get motivated all they want, but it's a republic (not a true democracy, as one ficticious Bartlet once pointed out) and so when the shrieking and letting students decide the future is over, it will be x amount of politicians working in the existing system trying to get a bigger number of 'yeas' than the other side. All the 'hope' in the world is going to be pretty ineffective against that.

Then again, I am a Hillary fan... but too many things about Obama strike me as just being the liberal version of Bush. I hope Hillary does enough to stay in, because Obama is only just beginning to feel proper scrutiny and a few more weeks of that should make for a fairer choice.