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Our president talks a good game, but it's all political B.S.
January 27, 2010Our president is going to talk to us tonight.
I'll be covering MSU basketball and will miss his State of the Union message, but I don't think I'll miss anything. Like always, it will be nothing but a bunch of political B.S.
A year ago I had great hopes for Barack Obama.
I thought this just might be the president that makes a difference.
I wanted to see health care reform.
I wanted to see the return of my middle class that idiot George W. Bush completely erased.
i wanted change.
I haven't seen it.
Now I know that nobody in just one year can completely solve all of the problems brought on by eight awful years.
But to tell you the truth I really haven't seen any improvement.
We are no better off today that we were a year ago.
The right wingers are happy about that.
They look on our misery as a victory for their side.
Political B.S.
Mosty of them are against what Obama plans to say tonight before he even says it.
He could recite the Lord's Prayer and they would start spewing about ACORN or Pelosi or czars or teleprompters or something ridiculous.
Most won't admit it, but these rednecks just can't stand having a black man in "their" White House.
On the other hand, I am not going to cheer for Obama just because he is black or because he is a Democrat.
I want to see change.
Fix the economy.
End stupid wars.
Bring back the middle class.
Or go down in history as a black George W. Bush.
Posted by Nick Gholson at 8:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Comments
That's because everything he wants passed won't pass because of the Republicans!!!
I share your frustration, Nick. The difference between us is that I still think President O shares our broad goals and is likely just as frustrated as we are that they aren't closer to being met. But he has to deal with political realities: a Congress mostly composed of sold-out zeroes (in both parties) much like our very own Rep, and an electorate so shallow, uninformed and fickle that in large part, it lets TV ads decide how it'll vote. Remember, it's just been a little over 5 years since Georgie Flightsuit got RE-elected. With such an electorate, now re-ginned up into an incoherent but noisy Tea Potty mob, do you really think the President could do what you and I would like him to do without getting impeached, or at a minimum, losing both houses of Congress a la Clinton? I don't. Me, I'm sticking with him, and every time I get PO'd I remind myself how much worse it could be. VP Palin, if he had lost... or, if he loses next time, Prez Palin. That's enough right there to keep me solidly, but not uncritically, behind Obama.
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