I don't think that Obama will lead us off into war any more convincingly than George W. Bush did in the early part of his second term.....everyone in this whole country was behind him 100%, I mean his approval rating was really, really high.
I told everyone that would listen that we, as a country, were about to enter some very dark days......several of these people remember that I told them that, too......
Obama will not be as quick to go off to war, I assure you......remember when the other recent democrat was in office, Bill Clinton, that the whole world DIDN"T hate us, the drug laws were much more relaxed, and peoples standard of living was MUCH better.
There was less inflation, too.....what a lot of younger people don't GET, is that the DEFICIT was BALANCED by Bill Clinton, who repaired it from the LAST conservative regime, the Reagan-Cheney-Bush1 clique which spent this country into a near recession twenty years ago, starting wars and lying to Americans about why they were starting them.
Remember, Republicans tried and true way of generating income is to start a war, enriching petroleum companies, arms makers, and military budgets.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am SICK of the Patriot Act, SICK of Homeland Security, SICK of this neo-nazi-istic rdedneck way of looking at things that have become so prevalent in the USA.
I say give Obama a chance, he can't fuck it up any worse than these morons we've been stuck with for eight years.