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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
There's a lot of stuff being said to get elected (or more specifically, to get the turn out needed to get elected). There is also a lot of mechanisms behind the scenes to tabulate favors, which will come due after inaguration. There has not been a single exception to this in any presidency in my lifetime and Obama/McCain will be no different. Those favors will result in appointments, legislations, expenditures and executive orders. With Obama, you may have a "good feeling" about him but what about the people behind the scenes? Bush had to have a Cheney to wield any influence, whom will Obama rely upon? There are many that simply want the opposition out of power and that is the prime motivation despite the words to hide that. Will that be enough to sustain through four years?
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Do you know? I have more hope behind who Obama will put in place than McCain. When it comes down to it, it is not about his personality, or his charisma to me (though having to listen to McCain trying to make speeches for the next four years makes me want to blow my brains out), it is about my world view and which candidate most closely conforms to it. Obama is much, much, much closer than McCain.