Buffy Anne Summers, aka

(Back to BtVS soon, but meanwhile –)

If I had infinite time and energy (and intellect), I would post and post and post on issue after issue about all the disappointment I’ve been feeling lately. What is Obama up to?

I know, I know, so glad to have him relative to what we had before, and I agree whole-heartedly with that. He inspired many of us — for the first time in a very long while — to begin to dream again, and maybe that’s why I’m so disappointed.

It seems as if he has backed off on many of the most significant promises he made in his campaign. What? He wanted everything to be easy? Convenient? Politically expedient?

I can think of no other time since I’ve been alive (and paying attention) when such a significant majority of the American people were more ready for change, real change, yet we hear, again and again, that this or that is "off the table" — or that we’re continuing this or that Bush policy without much, or any, explanation, even though it doesn’t jive with our campaign promises.

Often these proclamations are accompanied by some mumblings about bipartisanship or political feasibility.

But it seems to me politics is not just a difference of opinions, it is about policy, policy that often determines who lives and who dies, and who among those who live have any quality of life and any opportunity in life.

Respectfully, Mr. President, if bipartisanship is always going to be your most important consideration, then you really don’t believe in anything.

Obama has an extremely hard job. I know that, perhaps harder now than it has ever been, and in many respects, he is a breath of fresh air, but Obama is not proving to be the change I believed in. Not so far.

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