slaveluci -> RE: Just out of curiousity (1/20/2009 2:55:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: oceanwynds Many people are now looking for a messiah to save USA, so they have hope in their eyes and voices. Messiahs dont usually end well. Then People will seek another messiah and so on and so on. Someone come save us type of attitude seems to prevail throughout life. This is true but I can kind of understand that mentality. I know President Obama is not a messiah or savior. He is one man in a powerful, responsibility-laden position. I am very realistic when I think about the years ahead and what might or might not be accomplished during his presidency. However, I can certainly relate to and understand the celebration going on. The last 8 years have been very dark and depressing to me personally as far as the state of this nation and the "leadership" we suffered under. When Barack Obama won the election, I cried from relief. I had been so scared that it was going to be four more years of the same despair and I had been terrified that Sarah Palin was going to get within miles of the White House. I didn't realize how disturbed I actually had been by those prospects until it was all over and Obama had been elected. No, he doesn't have a magic wand and he can't do half the things people are hoping/thinking he can/will. However, it is a relief and an inspiration to me personally that at least we have a thinking man back in the White House. IMO, we now have someone who really is intelligent and thoughtful and willing to listen to someone besides yes-men backing him up on wrong and immoral and sometimes even criminal decisions. We have someone won't reject out of hand a good idea simply because it's not another Democrat coming up with it. I believe we have someone who won't continue trashing our civil and human rights but who will respect them. To me, just that foundation is reassuring and a relief. No, he's not a savior. But he's such a wonderful change from what we've had to suffer with these last loooooooong eight years..................luci
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