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My thoughts: Beautifully put.  I have been consistently disappointed with Obama’s stance on things - he has not seemed to hold firm on anything since this health care debate started, has given no clear message to help us sensible ones offer sound counter-arguments to the fear-mongers and naysayers proffering death panels and free insurance for illegals paid for from our hard-earned dollars.  Instead, he has - at the insistence and threats of the far right - seemed to be backing away from the only viable option available to truly revive the health care crisis in this country…a public option.

I wanted to believe in Obama; I hoped the “change” he promised would be more than just a pipe-dream puffed up only to win the election.  I knew it was a possibility, but I hoped he would prove my doubts to be in error. 

So far, though, my summation of his presidency has been, only, that Barack Obama has no balls.  He tips his hat and smiles, back downs and gives in, tries too hard to do the impossible - make everyone happy all the time.  If true change is to occur, some people are going to, inevitably, be ticked off at you - his seeming fear of facing such discontent seems to be hampering his ability to get the ball rolling on real reform.

I still hope he proves me wrong.  I hope he wakes up and realizes he is going to have to kick butt just as much - or more - as he smiles and shakes hands.  He is not in the office to play nice and keep everyone happy; he won on a platform of “change” and lost to a platform of “more of the same”.  Yet now that the victory has been won, he seems to be learning far more to the right of “the same”.

I am still happy that he won (if only for the fact that the idea of Sarah Palin being that close to the position of POTUS chills my heart with terror), I am still glad that I voted for him, I am still proud to be have been alive to see such an historical presidential election and one of the biggest steps forward for erasing the barriers of discrimination that has ever been taken (some day, I hope to see - in my lifetime - a day when color, sex, religion, orientation, culture or creed do not separate us, when brother and sister see one another as no more than a fellow, equal human being).  I still have faith in President Obama; I only hope he does not continue to disappoint.  It is time for “change”, no doubt - but the change now needs to come from President Obama himself.