[dubman]

it was actually a bit surprising to begin with. i think a lot of hopes were up and people feltt betrayed completely by the end result that someone, somewhere, has to be thrown under the bus for it.

i still have friends, who usually have a decent perspective on things, get completely passive aggressive about it.

i only think it's funny in the way that people are getting trolled out of their jobs for campaign cash, but i stopped dwelling on this thing about a month and a week ago.

i dont even care about this whole inaugural thing, apart from thinking it's only mildly lame. if obama wants to have as much of the broad american stripe of opinions then that's his ambition. i hope his melting pot outlook gets contagious but it frankly seems too optimistic to not get kneecapped by grumbling and bush-era-honed hysterics about whos screwing who. we're not shifting gears *that* easily.