OBAMA (Not Bush)

The US wanted "Change" but what did they really want and what did we really get?

Over the past 6 years of George Bush's presidency the democrats and the media raged a pretty serious negative campaign against him. Was it just a political strategy or did they actually hate the President and his policies that much is debatable but they did (with the help of the economy)help drop the President's approval rating and caused many of Americans to have a negative felling about him and the whole Republican party. Even I was not totally happy with the end of the presidency but I cannot find too many policies in which I disagreed other than his inability to stop the spending. No matter what the specific reason, America wanted a new leader.

Americans felt dirty. The economy was going in the wrong direction, we experienced more casualties than expected in the war and we were no longer loved around the world. All that was put at the feet of the President, George W. Bush so we wanted a new President (fair or unfair.) The democrats candidate did a very good job as painting the republican and John McCain as just another George Bush so Barack Obama walked a pretty easy path to the presidency.

America wanted a President who wasn't W. and Barack Obama was really all they were given. He was the anti-Bush. They did not want anything that had to do with George W. Bush so any policy that contradicted his was alright. No one ever really cared what these policies would do for or to the country as long as it was going in a different direction, it had to be good. Even today his supporters are giving him a pass. He cares and he's trying is all that matters. The problem is by the time America wakes up and starts to CARE about the effects of his policies it won't MATTER anymore because it will be too late.

The President is a smart man and he realizes that he gets a free pass as long as he can keep America mad and blame everything wrong with America on the past administration. That is why he always reminds the country of something the Bush administration did just before he announces a new policy or a new strategy. Need to pass the stimulus ball that does little to stimulate the economy but stimulates his supporters, remind everyone that he inherited the problem (although congress definitely shares some of the blame and he was a member of the Senate). Need to pass a new radical budget that will spend our children's children's inheritance, create a firestorm over a company who received bailout money giving bonuses to their executives (although the congress and the White House approved these payments). Need to defend his international policies and errors he made on his world apology tour, release some memos of the Bush Administration authorizing some torture techniques.

America is asleep while the master of political seduction is driving the bus. Should we believe the oratorically gifted or do we believe his actions? Do we believe him when he is outraged over the AIG bonuses or do we believe him when he approved of the same bonuses? Do we believe him when he says they will pass a bill with no earmarks or the action of actually passing the bill with over 7,000 earmarks? Do we believe the man who say he does not want to run an auto company "he has enough on his plate" or do we believe his actions of setting Chrysler's advertising budget or telling GM they must cut so many dealers? Do we believe the man who tells us he does not want to grow the federal government or do we believe the facts that he has created the largest budget in history and plans to add 600,000 new government jobs?

To emphasize the desire of the American populace to find "Change We Can Believe In" they are willing to buy into the congressional leaders. With overwhelming evidence that Speaker Pelosi knew of the advanced interrogation methods being used on the prisoners of Gitmo, she turned the table and accused the CIA of lying, although they have absolutely no incentive to do so, and a large potion of Americans are buying it. 43% believe she is lying while 41% believe the CIA is lying. This is a direct result of the media's blitz against the past administration.

The worst problem with our current government structure is there are no checks and balances. Welcome to the world of un fettered liberalism! (Remember, anytime the government tries to fix a problem it creates more problems in its place.)