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thenewgreen · 4934 days ago · link · · parent · post: Wrote this song election night 2008. -Does it seem naive now?
I certainly don't think Bush was ineffectual at achieving his agenda and I definitely don't paint my enemies with a passive, "their idiots and thereby are no threat" brush. I have learned from the GWB admin that the far right is extremely capable and motivated. This is what led me to make the Bachmann video http://hubski.com/pub?id=3107
In fact, I think it was you that cautioned on a post, some time ago, that the left always makes the mistake of denegrating the right as "idiots". You said regarding Bush, "We laughed and insulted, calling the man an idiot while he checked boxes off his list". -Very true. I do think that given the problems we have faced these past 4 years, a McCain/Palin presidency would have been a far larger "total fucking piece of shit".
If Obama is reelected, I will be interested to see what he does in a term without the threat of being deposed. I'm really late for work and will come back to this later cgod, but his administration has accomplished a good amount of progressive benchmarks. Healthcare, Financial Reform, Stimulus package, Bin Laden dead and the wars being drawn down, Don't ask-don't tell repeal etc. Is he perfect, no. Is he better than the options we were given, yes. Is he better than the option we are likely to be given, I think so. We shall see.