While the Obama administration continues to focus on a path that alienates 40% of the country I couldn't help but think back a year ago to all of that wonderful talk of change. Now in retrospect, a mere 100 days into Mr. Obamas Presidency, do you see or are you satisfied with the "change" in the White House?
I look at the President, his appointments and his policy moves, and I'm sad to say I don't see much change whatsoever. I see a President that recycled the old Clinton Administration, showed either a lack of due diligence or poor decision making by making several appointments of people with tax or character issues. I see betrayals in policy making moves against those that elected him so that he can acquiesce to the liberal agenda of Pelosi and Waxman, almost as if he were a hand puppet. Lives are being ruined in the rust belt due to a green agenda that, while it may be necessary, could have been phased in such a manner to minimize the collateral damage. Of course the risk there would be Obama losing his popular edge and people starting to question his moves. Where Bush abused our privacy, Obama is manipulating our free enterprise. This democratically controlled government just passed retribution tax laws and that is something to fear.
The idea of change was a good one. Change is indeed what this country needed and still needs but I'm afraid our new sitting President isn't the change we thought he was. I don't know about you but I was hoping for change the way President John F. Kennedy did it upon his election. Kennedy didn't recycle old, tired politician tied to the Washington machine. He did what many of us hoped Obama would do, get a fresh start, go out into the private sector and bring in the best and the brightest, with fresh ideas to move this country forward. Did Kennedy have some politicians around him? Yes, both Democrat and Republican, but he also had leaders of industry join his team. People that knew how to run things. During the election campaign more than one person mentioned they could see Warren Buffet being Obama's choice for the Fed or Secretary of the Treasury. Now did Obama say he would seek out people like Buffet? I think he did, and if he didn't he certainly implied it.
There are some that will say I am anti Obama and nothing could be further from the truth. What I am tired of though is a double standard in this country. What I am tired of are politicians that put their own agendas or personal wealth ahead of the electorate. What I am tired of is people that will blindly line up behind an ideology or party and act like everything they do is perfect. There is nothing I enjoy more than to talk to a ditto head and listen to him say how Bush didn't do a single thing wrong during his 8 years in office, yet when he left the Dow was below when he started, the unemployment rate was rising, wall street was falling, we were in two wars, we became known as torturers, housing was losing value for the first time in 40 years, but hey GWB could do no wrong. These people are brain dead! Just like those that will stand here now and say Obama has brought change!
Last night while watching television I came across Keith Olbermann interviewing Janeane Garafalo and they were discussing the tax day Tea Party protests around the country. Garafalo made the comment that these illiterates probably knew nothing of the Boston Tea Party, and that most were nothing more than redneck, racist Obama haters. Ummm Janeane that statement is about as valid as all those that said if you questioned Bush's policies you were a traitor or a terrorist. Oh and Janeane, I'm kinda doubting you even know what a redneck is, with that deprived childhood of being the daughter of an Exxon Executive. I'm sure you had many a meal that consisted of Ramman noodles. You personify the blind faith idiot afraid to admit the truth.
There are several things in life that truly piss me off. One is the poor little rich kid playing the die hard liberal or conservative like they have any idea what it is like to live without a safety net. Another one, being that I am from Detroit and see this quite frequently, playing the race card because someone disagrees with you. I guess there are those that find her insightful and entertaining, me I found her almost as arrogant as Rush.
The bottom line is unless you are ready to forfeit a whole lot more of your freedoms, freedoms that this country was not only founded upon but has allowed her to thrive for over 200 years, you better start demanding more of your elected officials. Change without change is nothing more than a six letter word found between "coward and chump". Which one are you?
So far he's no Jack Kennedy.
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