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trumptman 
What is wrong with that? Obama spent more than any candidate ever? The man raised three-quarter of a billion dollars to get to office.
If you want to find Obama messianic imagery, you don't have to hit trumptman posts, you can hit the daily show, SNL skits, pretty much anything. It isn't hard at all to find and it isn't just from the right.
OK, great, now we're getting somewhere.
So then the premise of the thread is that there has been a kind of straw man being set-up: that Obama's supporters uniformly regard him a "the one", "the messiah", that they fully expect him to heal all wounds and fix the country by magic and usher in a new golden age; and that there will inevitably follow a great deal of bwa-ha-ha-ing and general celebratory snark from the right when Obama, as he inevitably will, does things that the left don't like, or behaves like a politician, or comports himself poorly.
And I thought I'd start a thread were people could talk about their actual misgivings, reality checks, etc., because I maintain all this talk of mindless devotion is largely coming from the right and has never been anything but an obvious and overt manipulation of the expectations game, an effort to set the bar so high that Obama cannot but fail.
Yeah? So if we're through pretending that nobody ever said any such thing, I would like to proceed from the idea that liberals have been and remain guardedly optimistic about the prospects of an Obama administration, while being fully capable of being disappointed without having their entire world view collapse around them, in that they never actually believed Obama to be some kind of super human über liberal redeemer.
While at the same time allowing for a fair amount of slack, owing to the appalling track record of the previous administration.
Doesn't even seem that debatable, to me, I don't see why it was necessary for anyone to get all cranky about the outlandish idea that conservatives would like to make hay out of the "Obamessiah" meme.
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