This whole Obamania thing started with the "Audacity of hope" and now we have "The Audacity of Winninig." As Ariana Huffington says it nicely,
"How did the candidate who got into the race because he'd decided that "the core leadership had turned rotten" and that "the people were getting hosed" become the president who has decided that the American people can only have as much change as Olympia Snowe will allow?"
Well, no politicians that I know have the cajones to really put up the fight, to really stand up for what they believe. They all calculate, strategize, and eventually succumb to what seems to be doable, rather than what is desirable. Why would Pres Obama be any different. Those who thought he would be, suffered from delusions. So did I, regretfully for my old age.
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One should tell people what to do:
From Ariana Huffington:
"Well, if the president wants to make sure he doesn't let down the millions who believed he really would change the rotten system, he should read the The Audacity to Win from beginning to end -- and rediscover a whole host of things he knows, but seems to have forgotten."
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/obama-one-year-later-the_b_343209.html)
Small correction on previous comment:
One should "not" tell people what they should do!
(interesting the self-referential statement isn't it?)
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