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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
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.
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And that is where we differ. Neither candidate conforms to my "world view". In fact, I believe that we will see pretty much the same kind of things we saw in the past. That's the part that really bugs me - people thinking that something brand new will take place in Washington DC. That is only true for those that do not know anything prior to 2000. The Carter presidency (along with a Dem Congress led by Tip O'Neill) happened during my late HS and college years (the age some of you are at right now). I also know, as all of us do, what it was like during a Bush2 presidency with a Rep congress. The Democrat platform is not revolutionary - it is very similar to all of the Democratic candidates since Carter in 1980. It can't be because there is a lot of history, precedent and constituents behind that. It will simply be a shift from a definite Rep politics to a Dem one - which has happened before. An Obama administration will have a lot of familiar faces - people that know how Washington works. It will be a cultural shift but in a long-term view, it won't be anything new (just "new" compared to what we've had the past 8 years). Now if we had a charismatic third-party candidate favored to win this election...