cheers,
Desh
drishtikone.com

I have faith in Obama the Person who wrote those two books, and much less faith in Obama the Candidate. But then, one month into his candidacy he said, “Nobody’s suffered as much as the Palestinian people,” and was nicely baked for it.

The question, I suppose, is how far between the two Obama the President stands.

“I don’t know where our disagreement lies….I am just hoping for more.”

Sorry– to be clear, I disagree with your hoping for more, given what I said in my comment about his lack of truly fundamental proposals in his election campaign. It’s worthy to ask why I even voted for him in the first place….if anyone wants to probe me for voter behavior, I’m all yours :)

This is probably the first time I’ve strongly disagreed with you. I’m not banking on his activist roots to overshadow his selections, his war rhetoric, his lack of a true viable health care policy that doesn’t keep health insurance companies in power, etc. If anything, I think Obama will demonstrate just how politically status quo he can be, all the while talking vaguely about “change” (a part of me is wondering whether he is actually striving at the moment to show that he is not too radical).

But I sincerely hope you are right about the child-of-the-global-south coming out once he occupies the W.H, since I too voted for him. I just think it kind of sucks that come every election, us Americans always hope that the guy we elected does things we really want, that he’ll somehow change his questionable positions once he gets to the Oval Office, rather than feeling completely confident that the person we voted for will do what he says he will.