We're kind of a mess over here. We've put our foot in it, over the better part of a decade, blithely pissing off whomever wasn't useful to us, and fashioning a philosophy increasingly centered on a mix of the religious beliefs of a minority of very conservative christians and the monetary needs of the military industrial complex.
It's going to take a damn long time to untangle it. I, too, get frustrated with Obama. I have a mental Laundry List of Redress, with many items on it that I just insist he fix. But the very fact that we're in as much of a mess that we're in, and that the mess itself came on the back of a worldview that doesn't exactly embrace openmindedness and civil liberty, means that Obama has to be steady and sure and moderately paced.
I for one am scared as hell that someone is going to assassinate him, frankly. And I think this is one reason he is going at a good pace but not yet causing a dustup in rearranging how we do things.
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Date: 2009-10-09 06:00 pm (UTC)It's going to take a damn long time to untangle it. I, too, get frustrated with Obama. I have a mental Laundry List of Redress, with many items on it that I just insist he fix. But the very fact that we're in as much of a mess that we're in, and that the mess itself came on the back of a worldview that doesn't exactly embrace openmindedness and civil liberty, means that Obama has to be steady and sure and moderately paced.
I for one am scared as hell that someone is going to assassinate him, frankly. And I think this is one reason he is going at a good pace but not yet causing a dustup in rearranging how we do things.