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I haven't said anything here about politics since Obama won the election. Now that he's officially in office I think we have momentum going that I hope we can sustain as we have so much collective work to do.
But we're facing a massive paradigm shift with him in office that requires us to forget politics for a while and simply do what needs to be done in order for this country to survive. One where, as he said in his speech, we have to face "our collective failure to make hard decisions" that have been floating around for decades. Health care, environmental issues, 8 years of godawful foreign policy, and a tanking economy. Yikes.
But we already got a black president. That was pretty much thought to be impossible in the near future. Makes you wonder what other "impossible" stuff we can get away with if we just put some effort into the next four years, doesn't it?
But we're facing a massive paradigm shift with him in office that requires us to forget politics for a while and simply do what needs to be done in order for this country to survive. One where, as he said in his speech, we have to face "our collective failure to make hard decisions" that have been floating around for decades. Health care, environmental issues, 8 years of godawful foreign policy, and a tanking economy. Yikes.
But we already got a black president. That was pretty much thought to be impossible in the near future. Makes you wonder what other "impossible" stuff we can get away with if we just put some effort into the next four years, doesn't it?