Is it just me or do you feel "we've been had!" also?
What happened to the "my ability to bring about real change in Washington..."? It seems every day brings another revelation from Obama that he really will do or say anything that he thinks is calculated to get him elected. He seems to have forgotten that the reason he got to where he is is because he seemed to offer something different than "business as usual."
The best scenario some of us can now hope for is that Obama is really hoping to get elected and then head for the changed direction he promised. I think he is out of touch with reality. He will not get backing later for positions that take spine when he did not show it when it counted, when he could have stood up and been heard.
It is not possible to say how disappointing a candidate he has become. Hope for real change has vaporized for many of us. Now all we hope for is something marginally better than extreme right-wingers. It may not be enough to inspire disappointed voters to get out and vote.
How many of us have been lamenting the spineless Democrats currently in Washington and thought that Obama was something different than that. But it turns out he plays the same games that they do; he is one of them.
What a pity. What a lost opportunity.
We've been had.
