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2008 – 2010: From “Yes We Can” to “Shove It” in Two Short Years

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, October 28 2010

How things have changed since election night 2008, just two short years ago. From Chicago to Cairo, euphoric throngs and prostrate pundits worshiped Barack Obama as indomitable. He stood, in the infamous words of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, “above the country above… above the world, he’s sort of God.” Imagine the disbelief and ridicule awaiting anyone then bold enough to predict the things we’re currently witnessing as Americans march toward voting booths next week. In sapphire-blue Rhode Island, whose 63% vote for Obama exceeded even the 62%…

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