dis*il*lu*sion

[whatchamacallit]

noun
disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be : enthusiasm for the government evaporated into a more cynical disillusion.

I now wish this guy wasn't president. :/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The alternative was McCain/Palin.

I do not wish they had won. Whatever disillusionment I might feel now does not overcome my horror at the thought of those two running things.

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[whatchamacallit]

4. We are learning that other forces run the presidency regardless of party

There's garbage happening now that wouldn't have been possible under Bush. I don't fear the boogymen anymore.

[Little Star]

6. Thats the way I see it!

[Tesha]

12. There were *DEMOCRATIC* alternatives early on; it wasn't just a question of...

...Obama vs. McCain. We "chose" the most- or second-most
corporate-friendly candidate running from our side and
he's been governing entirely true to form.

Tesha

[polichick]

3. imo the disillusionment goes beyond the president - it's about the...

...whole government - all branches being run by the same corporate entities, when we were brought up believing in government of, by and for the people.

[Fire1]

11. Absolutely! n/t

[hfojvt]

5. I always was an Edwards supporter

but many people got dillusioned with him too.

But he only screwed one campaign worker, not the entire working class of America.

[emilyg]

10. True.

I was and am a Clinton person.

[Rex]

7. I voted for the man knowing he was a corporate suit. Why?

Because John McCain should NEVER be POTUS. EVER. Oh and I had all that 'hope' ideology floating around in my head.

[Marblehead]

8. the government

doesn't work for the people.

[opihimoimoi]

9. The Disillusion Factor is within the GOPer Party...Their Movers and Shakers only moved the NIT TREES

a widdle....Nit Nuts fell....GOPers seen picking up Nits in droves....

Forming Nit Picking Unions known as BAGGERs