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Home Front: Politix
Actual AP headline on Brown election: "After year, hope turns into disappointment"
2010-01-20
Only quoting parts for fair use, but you can't make this stuff up.
Forget "can," "change" and, above all, "hope." The new word echoing in the blogosphere and beyond as Obama enters Year Two: disappointment.
Yes, AP actually said this.
They speak of disappointment in the state of our union. Disappointment in themselves for expecting so much so fast. Disappointment, especially, in the man who, as Boyd says, "raised the bar so high."
Alas, we lost a single election and now it's the end of the world and we should give up all hope.
Still others are more disappointed in their fellow Americans' impatience.
Yes, it's America's fault this tragedy happened.
But others do,
Others do what? Calling an AP editor, any AP editor, to the white courtesy phone!
and they feel so strongly that they are moved to write about their disenchantment - on the Web and in letters to the editor, some in anger, others in sorrow, in language intemperate or aggrieved.
And then the article goes on for TWO THOUSAND WORDS listing various Obama supporters crying into their beers. And yet the AP defends itself as a fount of objectivity.
For a given definition of objectivity, they are.
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Posted by:gromky

#13  A victory for Massachusetts was a victory for America.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-01-20 12:13  

#12  Right words, wrong sequence. s/b, :Disappointment turns into HOPE".

Hope of the genuine variety, not the clownish-faux messiah BS variety.
Posted by: lex   2010-01-20 10:38  

#11  Hope is not a plan. Change does not mean something new as communism is bloody old.

No one knows what the "democrat" party stands for anymore.

No one should have patience with this such feudalism in our political arena.
Posted by: newc   2010-01-20 10:36  

#10  Damn, they finally knew they'd found the one person who could make communism work. Time for the government to disband the people and elect a new one.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-01-20 10:16  

#9  Of course there is disappointment. It is always disappointing when you find out your New Messiah is just another guy in a messiah suit with his hand in your pocket.
Posted by: SteveS   2010-01-20 09:47  

#8  Brown just said... "I didn't mind it when the President came to campaign for my opponent and critisized me repeatedly, but when he critisized my truck, that's where I drew the line."
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-20 09:04  

#7  Â“...the sense that if Obama - with leadership skills, charisma and determination - cannot change it, nothing can.”

The headline should simply read “Buyers Remorse”. The same feeling I had when I discovered I really couldn’t see through the girl’s clothes with the X-ray goggles I bought from the back of a bubble gum wrapper. Then again I was ten years old at the time.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2010-01-20 09:00  

#6  Gee I am feeling hope instead of disappointment.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2010-01-20 08:44  

#5  
{Nelson}Ha ha!{/Nelson}
Posted by: Parabellum   2010-01-20 08:38  

#4  I saw an AlJaBeebya propagandamentary about the USA where he said "After the DISASTER of the Bush years".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-01-20 08:26  

#3  After year, turns into disappointment turns into hope for the country there is hope for the country. Fixed that for ya.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-01-20 08:15  

#2  Note some of the lyrics are NSFW

Posted by: Don Vito Anginegum8261   2010-01-20 07:45  

#1  AP have written a true story. It is about themselves. Choke on your messiah and your hope and change, assholes!
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-01-20 07:28  

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