Thursday, January 8, 2009

"... ya know, it somewhat embarrasses me to say it, but I'm almost finding myself actually liking the idea of Obama as President... I mean, possibly there's some guilt there... I did want to have those bumper stickers printed up reading 'Destroy America - Vote Obama'... so maybe just a bit of guilt there... I mean, to be fair, he did gird himself up with uber-liberal preening in order to secure nomination as prettiest belle at the ball and it was such that drove me to contemplating sarcastic bumper stickers... but the way he has turned his back with such cool disdain on that lot... seems to have anyway... and that they still coo his praises... seem to anyway... well, hard not to like that I guess... although one suspects some nasty turns lying in wait on this road, turns which I think are like to at least somewhat vindicate my concerns... now that the gooey, wide-eyed left wing sympathies that won him the nomination are set asunder by economic woes and the putting in place of a centrist cabinet, well, it's not really possible to know what to expect of the man - nor, I tend to imagine, does he quite know what to expect of himself... the psychology that brought him to this pinnacle is still largely unknown, its true measure not taken..."