I dont think the members of this forum really appreciate the perceptiveness of Little Hawk, once again he demonstrates his uncanny ability to grasp the meaning in everything we write.
He can also recognise bullshit at long range.:0)

Very many people, not only in America, saw the election of a "black" man as part and parcel of the great social/economic change which was about to be affected. Some see the election of a "black" man, a woman, a homosexual, as an end in itself, though none of them guarantee change of any kind.
That cult of personality is another tactic to avoid change, not encourage it. The real all consuming question, of how we are to survive in a world which is fast leaving us behind, is being covered in steaming piles of trivia.

Mr Obama always spoke in the voice of a traditional US politician, his colour , gender, or sexual preferance would make no difference to what he is ......a tool of the system.....Mr Obama is tinkering with the plumbing(for as long as he is permitted), but the great shithouse keeps on functioning in the same old way.
The same thing is happening in the UK, where we have just thrown out a failed New Labour administration and replaced it with something exactly the same......a conservative/liberal coalition!!(dont laugh, its cruel to mock the afflicted)

This coalition only survives, because both partners...(especially the Liberals),were so mad for power, that they were prepared to jettison any remaining principles they had, for a seat at the cabinet table......and there they sit today, two parties who should be sworn enemies, united in propping up a failed system, a stark warning to us all on the folly of putting our faith in our wonderful liberal/democratic system.

Hawk is right, the agenda of most here is to see "their" side win, be it reverse racism, sexual politics,minority rights.......Real change??.......no takers on Mudcat!