You’re right that no one said anything about impossibility, but everyone was certainly thinking it. Just recall the euphoria that most felt the morning of November 5th. This was supposed to change everything, which, frankly, is a less than realistic perspective. I don’t deny that I myself am disappointed; I felt that same euphoria. I even feel class rage now and again. Obama is, however, only the most visible element of American democracy (not even the element responsible for its laws). One should note that this is an era of career politicians where every political figures takes those steps expedient to being reelected. No one goes into office to do what needs to be done. No one wants to both raise taxes and cut spending; that’s tantamount to political suicide (an awful term indicative of the political realities of the day). But that is what needs to be done to get the problem of the debt in order. Being disappointed in Obama does not make you “a fucking zombie,” but isolating him as the (sole) source of your political disillusionment ignores the realities of contemporary politics. He is only the most visible element of government, not its only efficacious element.

If you have impossibly high hopes for a public official, disappointment will most likely follow by default.

Too late, loser!

An unruly crowd. It’s always “an” before a vowel sound (although not necessarily before a vowel letter (e.g. a university)). It’s for the purpose of breaking up strings of vowels into segments that are more easily distinguishable.

NSFFGP.

(Not safe for fake ghost pirates.)

No.

Thank God. Kansas is a real shithole.