My Theory On Obama And The Dems Problems

and it's just my theory so feel free to flame it , ridicule it, agree with it or stick it somewhere.

bush and his boss cheney fucked up the country so badly that people would have voted for anyone and no repub could have carried the 2008 election. Obama had the best story and was the best speaker and people desperately needed to believe in something so they contracted with Obama but the deal breaker was this...we want radical change WE CAN SEE RIGHT AWAY!!!! I think the underlying and perhaps even unspoken tone of Obama's message was that he would bring that immediate change, which, given the shape the country was brought to by cheney/bush was an impossible promise to keep and a foolish one to make even if merely by implication.

I think that when the inevitable happened.... immediate radical change has not come about, the people have snapped. They've had enough and think rightly or not , that Obama is just another talking head and certainly Congress and the Senate have left no doubt in people's minds about that.

Add the fact that rightly or not, the perception is that Obama just lets one or two Senate or Congress members derail his plans and never shows any spine when it's still fresh in their minds that cheney/bush forced the Hill to do their bidding through a gigantic show of brass balls, they know a president CAN force his agenda on the congress and senate but Obama is perceived to let them thumb their nose at him.

So, something like Massachusetts happens, the repubs probably WILL make Massive gains in the House and Senate in 2010 ubless something politically miraculous happens, and the staus quo will remain in effect and the regular American public will be more and more fucked because if people are pissed at the dems they vote for the repubs and vice versa, therefore nothing really changes.

I think people should have to pass a test proving they've paid attention and have at least a basic knowledge of how government works and what's going on in the world in order to gain the right to vote. I pay a lot of attention to the news and politics and probably would have a hard time passing that test and I pay WAY more attention than the average citizen. We have the government we've allowed and therefore the one we deserve.

I realize the constitution says everyone can vote no matter how stupid, ignorant or uniformed they are. so let's amend it. God knows there hasn't seemed to be a problem ******* around with the Constitution just lately.