Barack Obama is not the messiah. He is the POTUS. There is no man on earth who can use that office to provide anywhere near as much as what you expect from him.
- Ceteris paribus, a President is worth several small hills of beans. But ceteris ain't paribus, or Obama wouldn't be where he is.
- There are about five major (and 187 minor) dimensions on which we are currently fucked. On some of them, we're fucked because the Bush administration has been operating at 30% competence. If Obama makes 60% (and hey, his campaign was run at 90% for two years, so...), that's twice as good, innit?
- My bar is pretty low. All he needs to do is set up death camps for the creationists ("I'll give you something to cry about") and turn the Capitol into a gay bathhouse (should just be a matter of décor) and we'll be chill.
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Date: 2009-01-21 12:55 pm (UTC)- There are about five major (and 187 minor) dimensions on which we are currently fucked. On some of them, we're fucked because the Bush administration has been operating at 30% competence. If Obama makes 60% (and hey, his campaign was run at 90% for two years, so...), that's twice as good, innit?
- My bar is pretty low. All he needs to do is set up death camps for the creationists ("I'll give you something to cry about") and turn the Capitol into a gay bathhouse (should just be a matter of décor) and we'll be chill.