Fred and Anton – Your list of what may be on the horizon with Obama doesn’t sound so bad if you give it a catchy name… like, say, The New New Deal or The Daily Workers Deal or The New Workers Global Deal or The Global Collective Workers Deal.
You see, just like proud elitist and lgkick are suggesting, the sooner you stop hating and get on the Obama bandwagon the sooner you too can be part of the mandate for change.
I’m not very smart so maybe proud elitist or lgkick can help me with the social ramifications of the popular vote count. If 95% of all white people voted for John McCain regardless of his politics or political experience would that be racist? And if 95% of white people voted for John McCain and he recieved 63 million votes to Barack Obama’s 56 million would that be considered a mandate by white people for change? Lastly, if John McCain spent 700 million dollars to get elected and the MSM spent another 500 million helping him would that be seen as a mandate for change or just an effective marketing campaign by Barack Obama if he had lost?
P.S. Fred and Anton – I’m sure proud elitist is going to remind you of this, but you left off your list of Obama action items; Prosecute George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld et al for war crimes and send them to the abandoned Guantanamo Bay facility after all the oppressed freedom fighters are released. Maybe we could spend a few hundred million on an aggressive marketing campaign and the American people will simply pick up thier pitch forks and torches and take care of GW and his gang, ridding Mr. Obama of this unsavory task. We could call it The New Enemy Combatant Deal!
P.P.S – proud elitist and lgkick, don’t be too quick to judge Mr. Obama if things don’t go well with all the change and stuff. Remember, The New Hamas Deal in the Middle East had a few struggles of it’s own with it’s new found power structure in elected governance. Go easy on him, switching gears from academic revolutionary to head of state may produce a few bumps in the populist, govern from the middle road.
