This really going to go down? "this" being America

[Dave]

"I won."

When President Barack Obama used those words to reply to Republican objections to the massive spending bill working its way through Congress, he did much more than deliver a good laugh line and declare the GOP proposals irrelevant.

Obama also signaled to us all that the campaign talk about bipartisanship and ÔÇ£a new wayÔÇØ was just the clever rhetoric of a highly choreographed campaign....This is a tough Chicago [Machine] pol, not some sort of faith healer

hope and change

Anybody who believes he would be different from any other politician is entirely too naive.