InfraBlue wrote:okie wrote:I think there is ample reason to think he is not a typical American, in terms of how he feels about the country.
So, how does a typical American feel about the country?
I can only judge by my extended family, which numbers in the dozens or even hundreds that I have been around, friends and acquaintances, which are also a goodly number, the response I see when attending events that elicit patriotic emotions, and by following the news, perhaps in that order. I think most people are deeply patriotic, and love this country very deeply, and don't like to hear it trashed, as some of Obama's friends have done. If I had heard anything like that from anybody, I would tend not to hang around them very much. And I don't hear very many of the people I know wanting to change the country drastically.
So yes, I do not see Obama as typical, no way, I think he instead represents alot of idealistic young people that are fairly clueless, hippies from yesteryear that have gotten old, and just alot of people that are fairly unhappy with their lifes lot, and they think the government can solve their problems, which will never happen of course. But this is not unusual for opportunistic politicians. This is what they do. They prey on the unhappy and people with axes to grind, and they feed them slogans and visions of grandeur. I think most all politicians offer improvements to current policies, but with Obama, there is an implication of something much bigger than improvements of policies, but sweeping changes that are ill defined.
