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Greg, you seem to be misunderstanding what I was getting at. I know you don't like Mrs Palin, but surely you dislike the Pub/Dem circus more? Nothing will change until the political status quo is challenged.

Mr Obama was a really nice guy, and folks had high hopes that he would bring in the change that he promised, but the system defeated him.....he wasn't allowed to bring in any change which radically altered the corporate biased political system.
Did Mr Obama try very hard? No, I don't think he did, he is a cautious lawyer steeped in corporate Chicago Democrat politics. It simply is not in his nature to rock the corporate boat.

Mrs Palin would have been a wild card, a populist, who I think could have united left right and centre. The Republican grandees feared and hated her even more than they did Mr Obama. The people who rule capitalism are happy for the "good cop/bad cop" scenario to continue.