Reply #35: except you don't know that [View All]

[griffi94]

an outsider would be great, but i'm not buying that he's an agent of change just because he says he is and his supoorters say it over and over. i also don't think bush was a uniter and not a divider, but his early supporters believed that, and besides he was just a working cowboy and oilman who everybody would like to have a beer with. let me be clear i'm not comparing obama to bush on policy, just on his sales technique. a real outsider would have been gravel or kucinich, but a real outsider doesn't have anymore chance of getting elected of even getting noticed than i have of being pope. obama will tweak the system a little bit should he become president, but in the end, at best he'll be about the same guy bill clinton was, because the hard sad fact is that a majority of americans don't really care about this stuff except during an election cycle. my mother, god love her, voted for bush because she could tell he was a good man by the shape of his head.
as for the political ruling dynasties, they're here forever, witness the kennedys. liberal? yep, right side of issues i care about? yep
electable to the white house? nope. money will always win in the end, except when there is absolutely an emergency like not enough food and water and medicine, then it's back to the law of the jungle.
not to be contrary but obama has already demonstrated that he's willing to soft pedal issues like nafta, and while i think he did the right thing with regard to his pastor, it wasn't the most noble thing he could have done. saying he couldn't denounce him, and then about 48 hours later denouncing him. you disagree and say you're ok with slight differences with individual policies, at what point does the apple cart tip. i'm not shilling for the clintons, but i remember when a majority here liked the clintons, and bill was the big dog. one apple at a time the cart finally tipped. i expect the same from obama.