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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Shiny Thing, Shiny Thing
Dance and Fiddle
Just say what I want to hear.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Essentially this is true, Bob, but the 'here's where we were when I took
> office and here's where we are now' is weak in people's minds compared to 
> "For the
> last four years while YOU have been president, I have suffered."  As we 
> wend
> our way to the prophetic year 2012, there are going to be some hard knocks 
> for
> a lot of folks.  If after four years people have gone through economic 
> hell,
> they are not going to fine analyze who was the cause of it, only who was
> president and didn't (couldn't) fix it.
>
> This is unfortunate for Obama since 95% of what is going on is not 
> anything
> the Prez is going to be able to do anything about.  It's just got to run 
> its
> course.
>
> Recall the late (and great) Douglas Adams' charater Zephod Beeblebrox who 
> was
> elected President of the Galaxy because his behavior was so outrageous 
> that
> it would distract from what was really going on and who was really running 
> the
> galaxy.  Bush was moderately successful at this, but times are harder now 
> and
> if we can get enough people to chant glassy-eyed "Change the changes we 
> are
> changing about the way we are changing" then perhaps they will not be as 
> prone
> to look the financial tsunami headed their way straight in the eye.
>
> Obamabrox will soon use the White House pulpit to give us his own version 
> of,
> "Freeow!  Belgium, man, I mean, I'm one really cool frood!"