They told me that Chavez and "Hollywood-ies" would trash the president if I voted for McCain.....

The "thrill is gone" as someone used to sing.  I think that it was BB King!

The "dream is over" as another person used to say.  I think that it was John Lennon!

"Obama-mania" is now just another hangover!  Just ask the people who voted for him and fell for all of this "hope and change" nonsense.

Yesterday, Hugo Chavez said this about Pres BO:

"Hugo Chávez blasted President Barack Obama as a “clown” and an “embarrassment” who has turned the United States into a “disaster” after Obama criticized Venezuela’s ties with Iran and Cuba, according to a report Tuesday."

You expect this from Chavez.  He said horrible things about Pres Bush.  At the same time, weren't we told that Obama would make everyone love us because he was going to be different?  Didn't he once plan to meet unconditionally with all of these characters to show the world that he wasn't Bush?  How is that "I am not Bush" working out?

It gets better.

We also read this from Matt Damon, one of the most fanatical "yes we can" screamers ever:

"“I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level. One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician,’ ” Damon says, his disappointment ringing with a now-familiar tone of wounded idealism. 

“You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.” Damon gestures in the direction, just out of sight over the tree line, of the sign-wielding picketers who are beginning to gather steam. 

“If the Democrats think that they didn’t have a mandate—people are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off,” he says. “Imagine if they had a leader.” And, as on the day of that DC rally, it is momentarily possible to get swept up in the moment, to imagine—however ridiculously, whether in reality or coming soon to a multiplex near you—exactly that."

I guess that Matt is angry....isn't he?

Frankly, what was Matt thinking when he invested so much hope in a person who had never run anything?  Would Matt do a picture with a producer who had never produced a movie?

All of this reminds me of a column published by Professor Ajami.  He is a distinguished scholar at Johns Hopkins University and an adjunct research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.  He wrote this two weeks before election day 2008:

"The morning after the election, the disappointment will begin to settle upon the Obama crowd. 

Defeat -- by now unthinkable to the devotees -- will bring heartbreak. 

Victory will steadily deliver the sobering verdict that our troubles won't be solved by a leader's magic." 

The professor got it right.  It was all too good to be true!

Matt Damon, and all of the irrational "yes we can" screamers now have to live with the hangover and/or the sad reality that a certain candidate just told them what they wanted to hear.

Don't blame me.  I voted for McCain!

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