Instead, it has been proven once again that Americans rarely respond to policy change opportunities and most often only respond politically to policy change threats.
What’s the most vibrant political action in America right now? Prop 8 protests. And why? Because the measure takes away a right previously granted to residents in the state.
The current situation just lends credence to the hypothesis that Obama won because people were afraid of more war and more economic collapse if McCain won.
Such a hypothesis is one that I wish is not proven to be true, but if it does prove to be true, I will not be surprised.
Americans have this opportunity, this Obama, and yet, it seems that the vast majority have disengaged themselves.
I want to tell myself that Obama supporters and Obama fan club members weren’t just hoping Obama would beat McCain and end the era of Bush.
I want to tell myself that Obama supporters and Obama fan club members voted for Obama because they had in mind an agenda that they wanted to see pursued for the next four to eight years.
Yet, as I see Clinton retreads filling key positions that could have powerful influence over the kind of change Americans see in the next four to eight years, I think to myself that many just wanted to win---they wanted victory.
Americans wanted an end to the desperation they felt throughout the past eight years.
Forget that on Election Night, Chris Matthews reported on MSNBC:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: I talked to one of the top Obama people in Chicago today to try to get some reporting on what a transition might look like. There are three watch words to this new team that's going to be formed in the next couple of weeks to run the country. One is bipartisan. In fact, that's the number one hallmark of what they're going to try to do, is put together a bipartisan government.
Number two, diversity. Of course it's going to be a diverse government, not just an African-American president, but a truly diverse government that is going to be formed. And third, youth and no retreads. They're not going to bring back people from previous administrations to try to rebuild something old that was around before. That will rub some people the wrong way, but I think it's fascinating they've already figured out what they want. They want something bipartisan, diverse and new. And they're going to try to make this work. And the people who apparently are going to play the role in putting this together are John Podesta, who worked, of course, with Bill Clinton in the transition, Pete Rouse, his chief of staff in the Senate, and Valerie Jarrett, who was on tonight.
Those three people apparently given the lead positions in trying to put this thing together. It's going to be one rock-em, sock-em news story for the next three months. It's going to be bigger than the election, the building of this new administration. If it's truly going to be brand-new with youth and no retreads and diversity and bipartisanship, I think that hand that was reached out from John McCain tonight is really important and the hand that was reached back, because John McCain is the best there is at reaching across the aisle, and Barack Obama hasn't done that yet. This is his chance to reach over and do it, with the strong hand that he's got from this incredible mandate from the voters.
I only wish Obama and his transition team were filling the Cabinet and other jobs in the administration right now with that criteria in mind
Who did Obama supporters think would be in the Obama Administration if “No Drama” Obama was going to bring unity and bipartisanship to Washington? All along it was going to be Clinton retreads.
So, the question that must be asked right now is this: How many Clinton retreads does it take to screw up an Obama Administration?
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