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To: JohnM who wrote (173265)	10/7/2011 9:31:38 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542152

I do the same thing. I am a man of few talents. But if I have one it is my ability to read people. I never had trouble distinguishing between the Republican and Demoractic party. And I was never a libertarian or a member of the SDS. I knew who the good guys and sane guys were and that mattered to me above all else. And looking over my life I usually had it right, IMO. I was on the front lines (early on) of the civil rights movement, protesting the Viet Nam war and joining the counter culture. And I think history has proven those decisions correct. I am being very careful. I have watched many interviews with Ron Susskind to try an get a read on him. I am not the only person who is puzzled by Obama and the one thing that is crystal clear is that he has not governed like he said he would. The Congressional Black Caucus has confirmed that. If he had, I honestly believe we would not have lost the house in 2010. The kids expected him to reverse little Bush's policies en masse. He just did not do that. He said over and over he would. When I am trying to understand the truth of something foreign to me, I try and find something I do know about and then make a comparison. I am still in doubt about what Obama is about and am reading this book hoping to find out (maybe I won't); but I will follow the truth wherever it leads, just as I have always tried to do. But so far, he sort of reminds of Hubert Humphrey.