ECSNorway Wrote:What's apparently melting down is the average IQ of the American voter,Quoted for relevance. The thing is, no really thinks of him as a messianic figure now. We had this election four years ago, and Democrats put all of their hopes for government into him (despite the fact that they conflict with each other and probably internally too). Which was stupid, because he really was just an untested Senator who knew how to make a good speech. But Dems had been losing for quite a while and really just wanted someone to believe in.
to let the Chicago Messiah steal another four years to ruin the country.
And then, Barack Obama turned into the average, moderate president we should have expected from the beginning. I'm a Democrat, but I dislike a lot of his policies: not pushing for trials of those in Guantánamo Bay, exacerbating the problem in a patent and copyright system run amok, and failing to stop our huge waste of money and American lives in Afghanistan. Everyone else has their issues with him as well, whether it was jobs or guns or whatever. But no one thinks he's the messiah any more (well, up to 3s confidence, which is incidentally the interval quoted to Karl Rove on Ohio). We voted for him anyway.
And... I did say moderate. I would put Obama very slightly to the left of Richard Nixon, who signed the National Environmental Policy Act and eventually ended the Vietnam War. Perhaps in beliefs Nixon and Obama radically different, but in policy, not so much. So it was naïve and wrong of Democrats to have showered Obama with adulation and hosannahs, and especially so because it still makes conservatives so mad. But we're over it, and Republicans should be too. Obama is just a man, and a man who happened to get reelected.
As far as the stealing the election bit: I can guarantee you that the election was accurate, if not precise.
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