If naysaying were a genuine occupation, there would be a rising level of employment in the country as of now.

First--as a reformed and aging firebrand--I empathize with your indignation.

I, for one, do not really believe this system can be reformed;but professional politicos cannot afford to take that tack. Mr. Obama is not even yet president. He walks a fine line, one on which  his very life depends.

The human system cannot bear abrupt change. It goes into shock. Since the body politic and our entire governing apparatus is an outgrowth of us, the same holds true. We have many times been deliberately plunged into shock by the negative forces that are hell-bent on taking over--and thus killing--this nation. The divisiveness that elections cause in this country cannot heal us, regardless of the outcome. The polarities refuse to come together; we have reached, as a people, the point of no return.

The carping and insistent voices screaming for  immediate and radical change to be enacted-- and that it be done in precisely the way the particular advocate sees it --drown out the reasoning process. Yet politics is a game of strategy and little more.  And those players in positions of power know whats at stake (whether they are in it for personal gain or for the good of all) and have a plan to achieve it. The process is fraught with potential for error and sabotage. That is one reason I do not hold out much hope. But I am willing to at least allow the People's Choice to enact his vision, without slinging poison darts to make it all the harder.

If you cannot see the value in Obama including those fellow-players of his who seem to be at odds with his stated vision, then I direct you to the oft-quoted observation of Albert Einstein, who said that a problem cannot be solved from the level at which it was created.  Politics-as-usual (US vs THEM)got us into this scrape, and it is going to take something quantumly different to elevate us out of it. The group he is assembling will be part of the game regardless: do you not think it is wise to try and get them involved in helping?

by Randje Mitchell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 77 comments) on Tuesday, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:47:56 AM

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but how does this idea you present jibe with the total lack of voices on the left in the Obama ranks? No one to  air their views? And it is not because Obama is a progressive himself, he is clearly not. If he is indeed, a centrist, then should he not also be weighing the views of the left as well as those from the right?

by Jack Harrington (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 676 comments [70 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:59:30 PM

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