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Obama's counter-revolution | Terry Mancour

Source: The Guardian

Nov 01, 2009

Summary

Obama has not proved the saviour the left had hoped for. So what did we get for our hard work during the campaign?

The genius of the Obama campaign was combining the traditional political campaign with new technology, sophisticated organisational techniques and good old-fashioned community organising to build an entirely new type of creature: the Obamanauts.
(All change in North Carolina, 5 November)

One year after the election, the campaign signs are gone and the junk mail has all but stopped, but the sense of history still lingers even as the mundane issues of governance plod their way across the headlines. I'd be lying if I said not much has changed – plenty has – but the revolution nearly everyone expected didn't happen.

A year after Barack Obama won the election, no Republicans are being rounded up and herded into camps. No one has come for our guns. Wall Street is still chugging along. No one has "surrendered" to the terrorists. The American flag is still honoured and respected, and veterans are not being publicly despised, as some told me would happen if

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