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Jan 20, 2009 05:18

So it's probably no secret that, once Kucinich was out of the race, I supported Obama ( Read more... )

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mamaursula January 20 2009, 14:35:57 UTC
Thank you very much. I am so glad to see someone else say the things I have been saying for quite some time. Personally, I am rather ill that schools are already changing their names because "He's the best president this country has ever had." Okay, maybe he will be, but he isn't even frakin' President yet.

Being President isn't a picnic, there have been studies that have shown that being the President is magnificently stressful and overwhelming. My favorite one is the handwriting study. Bush came into office and someone flew three aircraft into buildings and a fourth into a field, to hurt us. How can we sit by and let that happen? We couldn't. I'm sure Gore would have done it differently, but in the end, I'm not sure that it would have been "better" than it is now, just different.

The Republican Party needs to refocus, they have lost some of their direction. The Democratic Party has spent the last 8 years doing that. I hope with all my heart that Obama is as good as everyone thinks he is, but if he isn't, I'm sure Clinton's teflon vest will fit him and we'll get through it all anyway.

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slashfairy January 20 2009, 16:55:22 UTC
yes. who knows how Gore would have done? I know i would have freaked the hell out, and i'm not above vengeful feelings, though i try not to act on them.

being President is one of the hardest things a person can do. yes, i know they choose to run. but i think it's like being in charge on a short-staffed night shift in a level-three trauma hospital when there's a catastrophe- i don't care how smart, how experienced, how compassionate, or how good you are, you WILL be worn out and different by the end of that shift, or you weren't paying attention.

we NEED two, maybe THREE parties, to keep the machinery oiled. there's a role for each one, and each one fills out part of the picture.

these are the times they are. and they'll be the times they'll be. it's who we'll be that matters.

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mamaursula January 20 2009, 17:03:16 UTC
Exactly. Being responsible for the lives and well being of 5 or 6 people is hard enough as it is, but to be responsible for 300 million people, unfathomable.

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