De Tocqueville said the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually when it begins to reform itself. I'm not sure how apt that quotation is under present circumstances. Regardless of who wins, the new president will most likely be what he's been for the last sixty years, a high paid spokesman for the Pentagon (as well as the lesser imps and demons of the Military Industrial Intelligence Complex -- CIA, NSA, Lockheed-Martin, Northrup Grumman, et al.) Nevertheless, there is some small hope that, should Obama win, some reform might happen. More importantly, given how paranoid the Republicans are about a Democratic takeover, they will think radical reform is going to occur, and they are going to prepare accordingly. Bush still has a few months left, and you can be sure he and his ghouls are doing everything they can to undermine the success of an Obama presidency. They've already saddled the newcomer with a dizzying array of intractable problems. But I have a scary foreboding that W ain't finished breaking all the crockery yet.
Let's be cautiously hopeful, but realistic.
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