The thing that bothers me about Obama is, he's a charismatic speaker who came out of nowhere and won by being in the right place at the right time. There are some bad bad historical parallels with that.
And I can't go all blurry-eyed and say "Democrats won't do bad things with power!" Obama had his victory rally at Grant Park in Chicago. As I mentioned in another post, my last association with Grant Park was the "police riot" at the 1968 Democratic National Convention . . . a Democratic national administration and Democratic mayor busting the heads of people who disagreed with them.
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Date: 2008-11-06 02:47 am (UTC)The thing that bothers me about Obama is, he's a charismatic speaker who came out of nowhere and won by being in the right place at the right time. There are some bad bad historical parallels with that.
And I can't go all blurry-eyed and say "Democrats won't do bad things with power!" Obama had his victory rally at Grant Park in Chicago. As I mentioned in another post, my last association with Grant Park was the "police riot" at the 1968 Democratic National Convention . . . a Democratic national administration and Democratic mayor busting the heads of people who disagreed with them.