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When the Pain Unfolds for Us All, Dreamers and Pragmatists

Posted by Donna Smith - S... on November 11, 2008 - 6:30am

By Donna Smith

WASHINGTON, DC –  Just yesterday, the new First Family measured the drapes in the White House just blocks from where I write this piece.  It has been but a week since we saw history as my U.S. Senator Barack Obama was elected to be our next President.  But for some of us, the joy is tempered by a reality that just won’t abate.

If I heard the candidates refer to the pain on “Main Street” one more time, I thought I might explode.  While I think most Democrats come closer to “getting it” on issues of economic disparity than most right-wing Republicans, I don’t really believe anyone yet is capable of embracing people who have been damaged and bruised as a part of the “change” we need in Washington. It may come, but we’re not there yet or they’d be acting with appropriate haste.

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