State of Disunion

By M. Martin
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In January of 2010, Barack Obama will deliver his first state of the union address. For various reasons it will be, for much of the audience, a somber occasion.

In particular, anyone who supported Obama's candidacy in hope that he represented leadership on behalf of real change will have good reason to be bitterly disappointed. Those who supported him as the least of several evils will have less cause for disappointment, but not much. At this point, the Obama Presidency appears to be the barest minimum course correction required to prevent the worst possible disasters that could result from the unmitigated disaster of the president who preceded him.

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