Only time will tell…<\/p>\n
If you believe what you see on TV, then you are expecting a great New Dawn to occur around noon EST next Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I imagine most of us HERE know better than that.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Republicans ridiculed the Hope and Change message from soon-to-be President Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 It was endlessly lampooned and satirized.\u00c2\u00a0 But they attacked it from the COMPLETELY WRONG angle.\u00c2\u00a0 They framed it as an empty message.\u00c2\u00a0 A skeleton of an outline and a no-logic model.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone who was paying attention clearly understands that Obama DID have a plan behind his message of “Hope and Change”.\u00c2\u00a0 His campaign website had pages, and pages of plans and initiatives.\u00c2\u00a0 So the Republicans totally screwed the pooch and really should’ve looked at it from a more pragmatic perspective.<\/p>\n
That perspective being, “Do you really think you can do all this shit?”\u00c2\u00a0 Oh sure, a couple of the Conservatives tried it, but after George F. Will and the other Republican egg-heads dissed Palin, the rest of the movement ignored anything they said.\u00c2\u00a0 And this is the question Obama and the rest of us have to wake up to every morning.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not naive enough to think that he is naive enough to think he can actually do EVERYTHING he promised on the campaign trail, much less what was on his campaign website.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, there isn’t a politician that has ever lived that has carried out all of their promises.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, well maybe Hitler and Milosevic did, but I digress…<\/p>\n
Now, we know how a large chunk of our compatriots operate.\u00c2\u00a0 We especially understand how they react to messages that come from the television and other “news” media outlets.\u00c2\u00a0 And as technology has advanced, every other Joe on the block has a “news” blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, even THAT Joe.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure we all have also witnessed how the pending Obama Presidency has been sold by many of the “news” media outlets.\u00c2\u00a0 I think there is an expectation among many akin to that scene in The Two Towers, when it looked like Saruman’s hordes were about to totally obliterate the Rohirim at Helm’s Deep.\u00c2\u00a0 But lo, the sun breaks and there is Gandalf with some huge army he’s conjured up from the wastes.\u00c2\u00a0 Switch Gandalf with Obama and the army with economists and you have the expectations for what will happen on January 20th.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it’s hard not to empathize with that sentiment.\u00c2\u00a0 Desperation will cause a person to latch on to any glimmer of hope that may present itself.\u00c2\u00a0 It is human nature.\u00c2\u00a0 And it can seem cruel to temper that enthusiasm.\u00c2\u00a0 But one also doesn’t want to succumb to reverse paranoia, the idea that someone out there is going to save you from your economic ruin.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, that if it does happen, it’s going to happen next week, when in reality, we’re probably looking at the next decade.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Indeed, only time will tell how successful President Obama is able to channel that Hope and process it into Change in the people’s pockets and Change in the people’s prospects.\u00c2\u00a0 The past has demonstrated that these troubled times do come to an end.\u00c2\u00a0 The question on the table is if it will happen WITH Obama’s interventions, or in spite of.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Or at least, that’s how I see it.
\n-Reverend What’s-His-Name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Only time will tell… If you believe what you see on TV, then you are expecting a great New Dawn to occur around noon EST next Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I imagine most of us HERE know better than that.\u00c2\u00a0 The Republicans ridiculed the Hope and Change message from soon-to-be President Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 It was endlessly … Continue reading The Great Unfolding<\/span>