Hugo, I appreciate your honesty. I guess I saw Obama as being so full of thit and transparent, that I couldn't understand why people couldn't see it. I think most likely in your case, you just wanted so badly to believe it....happens to everybody. I have done it myself on more than one occasion.
And as for your "what do we do?" I agree. When I sit down and talk with a coherent group of people, I'm always amazed at how often we can come to some type of consensus on things, yet the dimwits in Washington are just sooooo concerned with partisanship, taking care of their pork-belly projects and ego's that they really, really just don't give two shits about any of us.
For example on healthcare reform.......it's a political move on both sides of the isle, for the most part, because they are already taken care of and NEVER have to worry about it for the rest of their lives. Make ALL of them fall under the same/plan and guidelines and see how quickly it would probably improve.
I think one giant step towards fixing all of the mess is serious term limits and tone down the "perks" they receive so that people who run are closer to doing it for the right reason, which is supposed to be to serve their country, and not just as a career to line their pockets.