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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (82599)9/6/2008 9:12:14 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541671
 
It's a gestault, Karen, not one thing or another.

You appear to want a comprehensive plan that will fix everything. There is no such plan. There can be no such plan. People who like Obama think he will approach problems in an intelligent way. Or rather, they/we think he will put together a team that will approach the rather massive problems we have in an intelligent way. You prefer gridlock because you believe that electing him with a Democratic Congress will lead to greater problems, whereas most of us on this board think that the inertia of business as usual will result in greater problems as issues that have been brewing for 30 or more years keep festering and keep getting worse if they are not addressed. We--certainly I--believe that if we wait for a real crisis to hit, it will be too late. Although, frankly, we are already beginning to see the seeds of real crises that could have been alleviated with some intelligent leadership--the FNM/FRE mortgage and bank fiasco is one example. Collapsing bridges and dams, two 500 year floods in 15 years, record droughts and wildfires around the country are also symptoms of deeper problems and the problems aren't that we don't pray hard enough or condone gay sex or speak in tongues (as Palin's Assembly of God church apparently does--it might be nice to get some video of their services to play next to Wright's).

But I digress.
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