I’m sure it seemed like a good idea at the time. Looking back, they could never imagine it would turn out like it did.
With the 20/20 vision of hindsight, they wish they had made a different choice. But it was too late. They were already in over their heads.
Who am I talking about? A group and a man, an ocean apart.
The first are those who fell into the razzle-dazzle of the Obama campaign, cast their ballot for Barack Obama and now regret it.
The second is a UK man who got his penis stuck in a steel pipe and needed the fire department to get it out.
Both had entirely different ideas on how their actions would end up, only to find themselves regretting what they chose.
People like the young man to the right. People like David Brooks:
Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was.
There is no way the Obama voters with buyer’s remorse could see him doing some of the things he has done: not closing GITMO, bringing KSM to New York for trial, no government option, trillions of dollars in spending, no transparency, lobbyists in his administration, bowing to foreign monarchs, the apology tours.
This is not the administration they were promised. This was supposed to be “Change.”
It wasn’t. It was a big steaming pile of “Oh no what have I done?!”
Much like the British man must have thought when he got his penis stuck. One assumes he expected to experience something pleasing, much like being part of a historic presidency. Maybe even better.
A UK man got his penis so horribly stuck inside of a steel pipe Tuesday that it took seven firefighters and a metal grinder to get it out.
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It took firefighters 30 minutes to cut the pipe off, leaving the penis within bruised and swollen, but otherwise unharmed.
In the end, both find themselves wishing they had done something different and need others to get them out of their predicament.
It’s kinda like this, only far more expensive…and we are all stuck.
Update:
Story was too much for Free Republic:
Whatever.
