are accepting. Or at least they will stand in long lines and vote quite predictably. I could have sworn that when I walked away from the computer before supper you had used the word "nuanced", but now your sentence is: "But a second term is the time when there is somewhat less political inhibition." No matter, I am not sure what you wrote, guess I need to be more alert myself Obama waited until three days after the election to his "less inhibited" term to kill negotiations at the UN for making the Mideast a WMD-free zone. (Why would we **want** severely strengthened inspections of Iran?) This proposal of a WMD-free Mideast has been around since even before we used WMD as a pretext for war with Iraq. Where would we have been without *that* pretext, I snark. I remember, even though most liberals choose to forget, that BEFORE Obama received his original Democratic Party nomination he lipserviced how he would protect OUR (the little people) rights with respect to FISA. But immediately AFTER he received the nomination he stuck it to us. I remember well. And I learned. I learned to know what to expect and it certainly isn't a more nuanced second term from Obama. I don't think you are being quite fair, or rather I'm not sure you are hearing what Jag Pop is saying, when you reply with your "platonic ideal" of a candidate mantra. I think Jag Pop is trying to say that the new