I took this picture the morning of Jan 21, 2009 and posted it here on DU the same day..

[Fumesucker]

That was the morning after Obama was inaugurated, the image was a symbol to me of the dawning of a new age, against my better judgment I allowed myself to become hopeful with the inauguration of Barack Obama and the seating of a new Congress with substantial Democratic majorities.

Now I'm depressed, despondent, frustrated and hopeless and kicking myself for ever falling for a politician's rhetoric thanks in large measure to the spinelessness, fecklessness and sheer incompetence of the Democrats for whom I had such high hopes a mere eighteen months ago.

The Democratic party has once again snatched crushing defeat out of the very jaws of glorious victory.

Here is the original thread, if you go to my second post on the thread you'll see that I was very positive that morning.

I'm not going to be fooled again, I'll continue to vote for Democrats but I will not allow myself to think that they might actually accomplish anything beyond a pale and halting imitation of mediocrity and I most certainly will not lose friends again over talking up Democrats to the people in my life here in this very red state, it's simply not worth the personal grief for the cold, thin gruel of reward the Democratic politicians deign to trickle down upon the base they so despise.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=280&topic_id=49419

[Brickbat]

1. Beautiful pic. I keep thinking of that "Palin as President" website and how the day after election

day it had that Will.I.Am song on it and it made me a little verklempt. Now I'm just pissed.

[chrisa]

2. UnRec, b/c I remember how George W. Bush was vs. Obama.

I still support Obama, despite the massive failure of spineless members of Congress to use their majority properly. However, many other useful things did happen in Congress that never would have happened with Republican control.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. It isa magnificent shot...representing so much.

You are not alone in your disappointment and overwhelming sense of sadness.

I remember feeling so excited and optimistic upon seeing this:


For its first cover after the historic 2008 presidential election, The New Yorker chose to illustrate the occasion with a contemplative and hope-filled image created by Bob Staake. Of his cover, "Reflection," Staake says, "I’ve been fortunate enough to do a number of New Yorker covers, but being chosen to create the cover that commemorates Barack Obama’s historic election as the first African-American President of the United States is not only flattering, it’s beyond humbling."


http://207.171.166.252/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000416411

[EFerrari]

6. That was a great cover. n/t

[Lorien]

8. +1.

Looking back it's hard to believe that I actually cried with joy the night of the election. Now I'm also disappointed, deeply saddened and increasingly angry.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Rec because what you said is so true.

[napi21]

5. I'm not disappointed in Obama. I'm PISSED at the Pugs!

I can't believe their entire party cares so little about our Country and they only care about POWER and their beloved Corporations! I'm honestly hoping that the Senate gets Biden to comein and overturn the fillabuster for the vote on the guaranteed loans for snall businesses, and put those hateful Pugs into raging fools!

I'm doing everything I can to push, force, cajol, or bribe if necessary, all the Dems I can find to vote Dem in Nov.. I'm positive that if we can get their butts to the polls, we can prove the pessimistic MSM WRONG, and force the pubs to cry me a river!

The Dems haven't been all that we wanted but think about Angle, Rubio, Miller, etc doing their misbehaving in Congress is they win!!!

Norman Goldman continues to say that wanting to vote out the spineless Dems is only 50% of the game. The other 50% is "replace them with WHAT?" People that are WORSE????

Hold your nose, grumble, growl, stamp your feet, or throw something (not at anybody) but you MUST VOTE & you MUST vote for the Dems! If nothing else, it will save our Country & YOU from disaster like we endured for EIGHT LONG YEARS!

[Ozymanithrax]

7. Sometimes change happens in small increments. n/t

[liberal N proud]

9. I am depressed too

But not for the same reason.

I am depressed because no one really understands how big of a hole this country was in when bu$h walked out the door. And how everyone expects a miracle from Obama. Since hasn't been able to produce that miracle, every one is ready to throw him to the wolves.

I realize for those who do not have jobs, times are really bad and there is no light at the end of the tunnel and 9.6 is more like 20 or more but one, think how bad it might have been and what it will become if the republicans regain control of Washington. Reaganomics will destroy this nation if allowed to be applied unchecked ever again.

We have to hang on and hope. Hope, that is what we all started with in Nov. 2008. Hope is what we must hang on to now.

Push for the little changes and grab the big ones when we can. But realize that Washington changes very slowly even though it appears to change overnight every two - 4 years.

Hope!

[Fumesucker]

11. TARP: Proposed on Sept 19, 2008, enacted Oct 3, 2008

Our politicians can move at warp speed when it is the owners who want something.

Progress reverts to molasses-in-January-in-Wasilla speed when it is about survival for the unwashed masses.

[shireen]

10. excellent post, beautiful photo.

:hug: