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[johnny9fingers]

Fuck me sideways, I didn't see that coming:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8298580.stm

This guy is shaping up to being one of the greats, but you should hear what they say about him in America. He may yet turn out to be the US Tony Blair, but somehow I doubt it.

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[fountaingirl.livejournal.com]

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.

[mister-bitters.livejournal.com]

Slow rolling it would be fine if he actually bothered to lead on the things that need changing. Instead, we are left with a President that hasn't done squat for us.