love thine enemy

i am no fan of Obama's. but this article helped to surface some ideas that have been rattling around in my noggin.

• even if he wanted to end the war, he is/was going against entrenched parties. parties who are trained to defeat their opponents


• even if he wanted to fix the economy, he is/was going against his own party's socialist and revolutionary leanings


• even if he wanted to have a lively public debate, he's fighting a journalist system that is based on access and sensationalism

what i'm getting at is: there's stuff going on behind the scenes that by its nature, keeps us citizens from accurately evaluating our representatives. i hope he brings a sensible end to the middle east conflicts. i still like my idea of "independent colonies"