>>As Obama proved in his first term, posturing on the campaign trail means little once the president-elect gets "the briefing" and realizes just how constrained are the choices.
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>AKA the red pill...
It is said Obama was briefed by USMC Gen, Cartright. When he wanted to see him later he said, "Get that guy who scared the hell out of me."
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
