Trust in Washington
Most people don’t have a whole lot of faith in politicians. This is partially because the media tend to portray politicians as two-faced liars who are mostly out for themselves, and partially because a lot of politicians are two-faced liars who are mostly out for themselves. This predominant view was a big reason why a lot of people – myself included, at first – didn’t have a lot of faith that a candidate like Barack Obama would have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected. But somehow, he was able to convince people that he wasn’t totally full of it, that we could actually believe in him and in ourselves and we wouldn’t get burned. Obviously, the man hasn’t even taken office yet (though as David Letterman said, is anyone opposed to him taking over a little early?), but rumblings are already starting that we might actually have elected the man we thought we were electing.
