Quote Originally Posted by DesertDom View Post
Matin,

whats scares me about this past election: in 1992, Clinton campaigned on a platform of 'change' and the young ( at that time) mobilized for him. We all are now aware about how nothing really changed during his administration. Sometime a platform of 'change' is nothing more than a campaign strategy that is used to excite naive voters.

I have my opinion on how this administration is going to play out, but am willing to wait and see what happens over the next year.
i remember - vaguely - the clinton elections. they had nothing on the obama campaign.

he is the first candidate in recent history to effectively use a grass roots strategy to win.

its hard to explain but in the colleges and the coffee shops and malls it was just hard to not see someone young talking about it. and i swear these were all people who couldn't have previously been considered disenfranchised, because they'd never been so to begin with!

i'm nervous because hope is such a fragile thing.

sometimes hope and change are used to play on naive people. sometimes it's nice to try to believe in something.

senator mccain said something i very tremendously impressed by during the concession speech, about how we need to try to be together in this thing.

i think america is in too much shit for partisan politics. i want to try to let that go for a while. can anybody deny that we spend too much of our time and energy on this issue?