My words weren't very precise. I didn't mean to imply that you were OK with Iraq. I meant that there were people OK with Iraq simply because they played mental games to trick themselves into believing "there must be something really dangerous - because otherwise those people are the lowest form of semi-human life in existence."
Maybe you're not that extreme in working facts to meet your optimistic view of the President. I've read the Suskind book and the Taibbi book and several others. If you allow yourself to go down any of those roads and get a real close-up look at how Obama has presided, your optimism would be seriously - and suitably - degraded.
Maybe he's better than McCain would have been. I don't know. The unfortunate fact is that the President is a boy in a man's job. I hoped for better. But from the first administration and Cabinet picks, to the selection of a bigoted pastor to perform the invocation at the inauguration, Obama's horribly, tragically misguided obsession with bipartisanship and his personal propensity for analysis paralysis has encouraged and rewarded the unruly vicissitudes of the republican party.
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