Well, Obama is the one who first got the idea to compare Obama with Lincoln. :-P I mean he flew from Washington to Philadelphia, just so that he could take the train from Philadelphia to Washington, and retrace the route that Lincoln took. Nothing good can come from such blatant superficiality.
I remember how we thought about Bush getting re-elected and re-inaugurated 4 years ago, and how we turned our sights yet again to four years in the future for when brighter days might finally come. But now that that future we looked forward to is supposedly here, the victory rings shallow and hollow. It is a great disappointment. Possibly even a greater disappointment than 4 years ago, because now we really DON'T have anything better to look forward to than what we have now (with the possible exception of getting things back to how they were 4 years ago) which, to put it mildly, kind of sucks. :-/
Having said that, I am sure that things can only improve from this point, but as to whether Obama is going to be the cause of that, or whether the US or the world is going to get back to its full potential because of Obama specifically, I say no freakin' way possible.
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Date: 2009-01-21 06:24 pm (UTC)I mean he flew from Washington to Philadelphia, just so that he could take the train from Philadelphia to Washington, and retrace the route that Lincoln took. Nothing good can come from such blatant superficiality.
I remember how we thought about Bush getting re-elected and re-inaugurated 4 years ago, and how we turned our sights yet again to four years in the future for when brighter days might finally come. But now that that future we looked forward to is supposedly here, the victory rings shallow and hollow. It is a great disappointment. Possibly even a greater disappointment than 4 years ago, because now we really DON'T have anything better to look forward to than what we have now (with the possible exception of getting things back to how they were 4 years ago) which, to put it mildly, kind of sucks. :-/
Having said that, I am sure that things can only improve from this point, but as to whether Obama is going to be the cause of that, or whether the US or the world is going to get back to its full potential because of Obama specifically, I say no freakin' way possible.