Re: this comment someone left: “A guy – Obama – was elected in a cloud of euphoria as a politician for change.”

Perhaps that’s where we have it wrong. Maybe there was some truth to the cynics who claimed that Obama, like other inexperienced minorities, got elected to take the “career suicide job” no other self-respecting professional really wanted. Just a thougt..

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091026/hertsgaard sans ?

Sorry.

Some politicians can turn out to be real leaders but it would seem Obama may not be among them. This is disappointing to me and I think a number of others as his campaign was about leading and, if I remember correctly, in a new direction. So, very disappointing he is just a politician.

Unfortunately, I’m viewing him now as a hypocrite, as well as just a politician, as he keeps giving the same campaign speeches over and over which promise he’ll be something other than just a politician.

He keeps implying in the stale speeches he’ll lead.

There are lots of good ideas out there. Here’s one, get carbon emissions under control, unless this happens not much more really matters really does it? The Middle East, US Wars, left/right arguments, god crap vs rationality, etc. etc. etc.. Should we play Climate Roulette (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091026/hertsgaard)? No, but yes we will it seems with the likes of Obama – nice guy he maybe.

If Obama was a leader maybe he’d assist other EU leaders and what seems to be an urgency understood in Asia in over coming nonsense and dealing with the problem. But I think not, as he is just a politician and a hypocritical one too boot.

So there are good ideas out there galore and maybe only one really important one for the human race right now.

Moore’s maudlin trite is just that banal kumbaya shit.

A guy – Obama – was elected in a cloud of euphoria as a politician for change which means, unless I’m mistaken to be a leader. But now, it is up to those, that already told him what to do, to make him do, what he said he’d do. Why have elections at all. Maybe a whole new form of gov’t is needed which wouldn’t include electing people to do what they say they will do. Maybe recall should be automatic after a year, accompanied with a public whipping but only as a modest incentive you know, if the promises to keep don’t come before the damn sleep (I apologize to Frost).

As I said, he is a major, major disappointment, in effect a dud I think. The Nobel thingy was funny and not likely to change anything other than adding to the undermining of the “prize” – though hard to fool actual humans about who is and who isn’t a real prize winner. The clowns that are awarded the prize are always known as clowns except within elite gated safe havens from which they rarely venture out.

The ancients called this world “Endurance” for a reason… even though I might change that now to “Unendurable”.