Goodbye internet, whatever did we do without you?

[kandrathe]

Dear Mr Wu:
You believed a political candidate who was pandering for votes.
He was either lying, talking out his backside, or maybe a bit of both.
He most likely really had no understanding of the point involved.
He told a room full of suckers what they wanted to hear.

And now you are upset.

Rube.

Politicians have been doing this since the orators of the Athenian Democracy.

Well, you know it would be a forgivable fanboy mistake if he were merely a fawning liberal and/or tingle challenged, such as Chris Matthews. But, Wu's bio line says, "Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and the author of “The Master Switch.” He has previously served as a senior advisor to the Federal Trade Commission and the chair of Free Press, an Internet advocacy organization."

He should have been close enough the DC to have developed a healthy bit of cynicism and to have been jaded enough to know better. In exploring deeper... You know if Tim Wu's lost that loving feeling... Then the Dems got some issues over the next two election cycles. Most of my radical liberal friends feel entirely betrayed. "Change" is a nice vague campaign mantra, and it meant something different to all who "believed". I'm not saying the pains of having a President McCain, or Romney would have been less. It's just been so long since we've had a leader who is in sync with a major portion of the bell curve of the electorate.

Maybe something is wrong with our candidate choices when consistently, the elected leader of the country has trouble maintaining greater than 50% approval rating.