(nods) I have met a few people who have settled on Obama for position/policy reasons, and I respect that (even when we disagree on the specific issues). What worries me is that no politician is worth being trusted, IMO, and if trust and hopefulness is the basis of someone's decision, that's going to crash eventually when cold reality manifests itself. The Newsweek article did a good job of describing that phenomenon.
Hope/faith-based politics got us into Iraq in the first place... as well as Katrina... simply hoping or asserting that the natives will welcome you as liberators, or that the levees won't break, didn't work out for Bush. I doubt it would work any differently for Obama. Politics will be the same... just with another round of inevitable disillusionment, this time on the left.
I see both candidates as equally weaselly... if anything, Obama does better with false-fronts and forced smiles, he's a talented politician.
And, well, likewise Obama's disliked by lots of people within his own party, and the party isn't whole-heartedly behind him either. And his negatives will only increase over time, once the honeymoon wears off, while HRC's baggage is well-worn and a known quantity.
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Re: rational vs emotional?
Date: 2008-02-08 09:16 pm (UTC)Hope/faith-based politics got us into Iraq in the first place... as well as Katrina... simply hoping or asserting that the natives will welcome you as liberators, or that the levees won't break, didn't work out for Bush. I doubt it would work any differently for Obama. Politics will be the same... just with another round of inevitable disillusionment, this time on the left.
I see both candidates as equally weaselly... if anything, Obama does better with false-fronts and forced smiles, he's a talented politician.
And, well, likewise Obama's disliked by lots of people within his own party, and the party isn't whole-heartedly behind him either. And his negatives will only increase over time, once the honeymoon wears off, while HRC's baggage is well-worn and a known quantity.