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Barack Obama has occupied our nation’s highest office for a little over a year, so I can understand why everyone hates him so much. He’s had plenty of time to solve world hunger, bring peace to the turbulent Middle East, and give us all much needed tax breaks. Seriously?
I know very little of politics, but the very little I do know shows me our Rome is burning, and it seems the only way we’ve been taught to put out a fire is by setting a larger one. Our nation’s debt is too tremendous to give any human being any wiggle room to accomplish anything in Obama’s position. So I’m willing to forgive the whole “spending money we don’t have thing” as long as there’s a turnaround in our economic struggles as soonish as possible. Needless to say, I lack envy for his position.
While it’s certainly nice to hear an educated man speak, I’ve grown tired of his empty rhetoric. Stop promising me things I’ll never get to experience, like hope.
Bottom line, I don’t want to know how you get it done, just as long as you get it done and we’re all better off. The Republicans did this well for eight years without regard for the rest of us, surely the Dems took a few notes.
From a global stage, President Obama is probably the best thing we could have asked for: well-educated, well-spoken and, above all, likeable. His critics claim he sucks up too much and makes us look like an apologetic, wimpy nation. And?
We have the most powerful military and more nuclear weapons than Oregon has trees. I doubt any country thinks they’re going to push us around because we’re making an attempt at humility.
I have no clue what to expect by the end of Obama’s term, so unlike many pundits I refuse to hail him as a savior or deem him the anti-Christ. I’m reserving judgment for his first year in office, a virtue that has worked out for many division 1 athletic directors.
The first year is normally a rocky one, considering the transitions being made, but as schemes are put into place and the position players learn their roles, only then can a fair non-biased assessment be made. We gave George W. Bush this luxury.
Let’s exercise the same for our current president.
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