I feel the same way. Too many people allowed themselves to be swooned by what is essentially a cult of personality. And to think, they fell for it despite not being nearly as total as the cult of personalities in communist countries and in spite of his incompetency being self-evident.
Absolutely. This next election has a '94 feel about it, but it is far more different in my opinion.
One of the primary differences that the 94 Congress had to put up with was the entrenched Mainstream Media running the entire spectrum of media output. Only local stations put up any semblance of balance, but the national media was predominantly center-left. No Internet as well. Finally, the Congress was a bunch of neophytes, many of them who had visions of Reaganism in their heart. The biggest problem with them is they looked at the election as a climactic goal in itself, NOT as the BEGINNING of a long, hard struggle that needed to be initiated.
Clinton was NOT a centrist by any stretch of the imagination, but he was a masterful political whore. Gingrich was too much of a politician himself to maintain a conservative stature. When the dems played the Budget card, they banked on the fact the public, goaded by their media sycophants, would blame the GOP congress, and this won the day for Clinton and the dems.
The lesson learned: The election is NOT the ultimate goal. It is merely the acceptance of a job offer, but the job must be done.
This time around, there will be far more in play. And frankly, I sense far less effectiveness of a national media in affecting congressional policy than in 95 and 96. US citizens who have, frankly, never seen the threat of American exceptionalism challenged until the 2008 socialist takeover attempt, will not forget the feeling of dread, of unsurety anytime soon.
Obama is one and done. And I DO find it interesting that Ban agrees with my own assessment of the Congressional turnover that will occur in 2010. He may be crazy and insane, but he's not that big a fool...
