http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice-2012/
I hope everybody watches this ^^ Frontline, if only for the first 30 mins or so on the candidates' early years. Very interesting and contrasting. 2009 was a tough year, not only for the president (and it was ugly) but for me on personal and financial levels, one of the most difficult in my life, and I’m glad it’s long gone. Frontline reminds me how crazy and ugly politics was back then which added to my anxiety. EVERYbody was angry at Obama -- his supporters, who thought they had had fallen in love with him and were realizing who he really was, were disappointed. They felt jilted. And his critics and detractors grew harsher and uglier still. Meanwhile, despite my early negative opinion of him, the more I watched him and got to know him, the more I respected him and saw in him traits that resonated with me; obviously, not that I consider myself nearly as smart or ambitious as he, but I recognize him his tendency toward solitude, his inability to glad hand and backslap, his prickliness, his drive to be authentic. He is who he is and who he presents himself as and that’s rare in both politics and life. In hindsight, we were lucky he was so naïve to believe in his ideas and to run for office and to try to make healthcare his legacy, probably lucky he had no idea of the opposition he would face.
Before this Frontline, I was 80% on board with Obama. After watching it, I'm at about 90%.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is a human wind sock. A self-entitled shape-shifter who honestly cannot tell you what he believes. He will probably admit, if only to himself, that he sees himself as a knight in shining armor riding in to save the day. I call that a narcissistic messianic complex, but he'd call it the Great White Hope.
I hope everybody watches this ^^ Frontline, if only for the first 30 mins or so on the candidates' early years. Very interesting and contrasting. 2009 was a tough year, not only for the president (and it was ugly) but for me on personal and financial levels, one of the most difficult in my life, and I’m glad it’s long gone. Frontline reminds me how crazy and ugly politics was back then which added to my anxiety. EVERYbody was angry at Obama -- his supporters, who thought they had had fallen in love with him and were realizing who he really was, were disappointed. They felt jilted. And his critics and detractors grew harsher and uglier still. Meanwhile, despite my early negative opinion of him, the more I watched him and got to know him, the more I respected him and saw in him traits that resonated with me; obviously, not that I consider myself nearly as smart or ambitious as he, but I recognize him his tendency toward solitude, his inability to glad hand and backslap, his prickliness, his drive to be authentic. He is who he is and who he presents himself as and that’s rare in both politics and life. In hindsight, we were lucky he was so naïve to believe in his ideas and to run for office and to try to make healthcare his legacy, probably lucky he had no idea of the opposition he would face.
Before this Frontline, I was 80% on board with Obama. After watching it, I'm at about 90%.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is a human wind sock. A self-entitled shape-shifter who honestly cannot tell you what he believes. He will probably admit, if only to himself, that he sees himself as a knight in shining armor riding in to save the day. I call that a narcissistic messianic complex, but he'd call it the Great White Hope.
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