The Overwhelmingly Unreasonable Expectations of Great Expectations

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So everybody’s mad at Obama, right?

The Great Hopemonger isn’t moving fast enough. We aren’t getting it like we want it when we want it and we want it right now — Veruca Salt-style. We want the world. We want the whole world. We want today and we want tomorrow. We want it now. Health care? Gimmie that. Ending “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell?” What’s the hold up? Gitmo? You’re ruining my personal life while keeping me professionally in bidness, dawg. The economy? It’s all kinds of effed up. Two wars and you got the Nobel Prize, son? Folks are confused. And everyone all day, every day, “What happened to that hope with a side o’ change I ordered?” “He’s drifting towards Bush!“

Um. Can we hit rewind repeat on that?

Let’s face it, 2009 was a weird, sucky year. But, best believe it, it was a weird, sucky year for the President too. All he did was inherit a nightmare, put his name on it, claim it and say “I got this,” then watch the world burn. And he could sing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and bang on that piano as much as he’d like, but his poll numbers reflected those acres of hope ablaze as people watched their livelihoods turn ascinder.

Now before we begin impeachment proceedings I have two words for you: President McCain.

Yeah. OK. I’ll be honest. I’m disappointed. I wanted someone to exact some vengence for the last eight years of fucked-upped-ness. I wanted a warrior king or queen to wreck shop, toss folks around, kill ‘em all (politically) and let God sort them out. But I didn’t elect Hillary Clinton, the second most vindicitive person in politics to be president. I voted for Barack Obama — The Great Hopemongerer, Mister Go Along to Get Along Bipartisanship, let’s be level-headed about this shit and rational. I voted for the grown-up. The diplomat. Mr. Maturity. I voted for someone who wasn’t ruled by their ego and would legislate with a level head. And let’s face it, it’s not like Congress, despite being a so-called “Democratic Majority” has been extra helpful in getting Obama to meet his lofty goals.

I never, ever understand why any Republican would get out of sorts over Democrats. Nine times out of 10 these euridite beasts of burdeon will fuck themselves. All the Republicans really have to do is sit back and watch the Democrats commit ritualistic, political suicide on themselves as they abandon principle and pride the minute someone says “boo.” The days of the LBJ shit-kicker are over. The last Democrat anyone was afraid of was Bill Clinton and he was done in by his own overly exploratory, chubby-lovin’ dick. You don’t have to run opposition research, have an organized strategy or even make a lick of fucking sense. Just let the circular firing squad get to going and the Democrats will rush to fall on their own swords out of ass-covering and push-polling.

And I say this as someone who has only voted for one Republican, once, in my entire life — the Governator himself, who, outside of California, would be loudly called a RINO to his face — Republican In Name Only. I, like a lot of people, are stuck with this sorry sack of silliness because the alternative is Michale Steele and the Dancing Honest Injuns. Re: My earlier point — President McCain.

At the end of the day, when the dust settles, when the pundits shadditup, curl up in their rompers and take a siesta, Obama’s still the best friend a progressive/liberal/moderate has. Really. I know. It sounds crazy. It’s not. At the end of the day, Obama wants to close Gitmo. He wants to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He wants to help the Middle Class and the poor. He wants health care for all. He wants to end both wars. He wants what we want. It’s just not that easy, not that simple to get it.

You can be mad at Obama. You can critique Obama. You can light a fire under his ass, but don’t act like you’d be better off under an administration that wasn’t even operating under a moderate-to-progressive platform. The Tea Baggers aren’t calling him Hitler for the hell of it. Change is in the air. Change is coming. You just can’t expect it to show up in a year.

Shit. All Bill Clinton did was claim folks in a public setting and they were ready to ride or die for him. While I don’t give this advice in dating, selecting sexual partners, business partners or deciding which store to shop from — give a brother a chance.

Remember the alternative. Save the hysterics for 2012.

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Tagged as: 2012, change, disappointment, Hope, Obama

Article by Danielle Belton

WHO IS “THE SNOB?" She is your very best, better than most since 1977 friend, self-described “nerd girl/hobohemian,” writer and journalist, Danielle C. Belton.Born and raised St. Louis, Mo. on a healthy diet of news programming, pop culture, black history and “snark,” Belton is best known as the woman behind THE BLACK SNOB. A pop culture-meets-politics blog, THE BLACK SNOB takes a look at irreverent side of life, finding the funny, freaky center of every issue. http://blacksnob.com.

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