#1: Bush is not that right-leaning of a Republican. He is in fact pretty middle of the road... for a Republican, in the US. This is hard for people in Europe or other parts of the world to swallow, but that's the truth of it. A true far-right candidate could not have been elected in this country even 8 years ago.
#2: The symptoms of BDS were there, in some circles, right from the beginning. It had a lot to do with the recount and Gore not conceding (and, like it or not, all investigations since 2000 have shown that Bush did win, no matter which ballots were counted and which were excluded.
#3: Obama as a person And this is what disturbs me the most about Obama: he has a cult of personality, two years in the Senate, and nothing else.
Definitely he will end up with both the right and the left screaming at him... just like Bush did, and Clinton, and every other President in the modern era.
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Date: 2009-01-21 01:39 am (UTC)#2: The symptoms of BDS were there, in some circles, right from the beginning. It had a lot to do with the recount and Gore not conceding (and, like it or not, all investigations since 2000 have shown that Bush did win, no matter which ballots were counted and which were excluded.
#3: Obama as a person And this is what disturbs me the most about Obama: he has a cult of personality, two years in the Senate, and nothing else.
Definitely he will end up with both the right and the left screaming at him... just like Bush did, and Clinton, and every other President in the modern era.