America?

I’m reading in the news, after Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election, that people around the globe are dancing in the streets. Newspapers with his face on the front page are selling out as the talking heads state “people want a piece of history with the first elected black president in American history”.

Does that make him a good presidential choice? Has society become so shallow that all anyone can think about is the history made based on the color of his skin? Where is the substance? Apparently this past year everyone, including John McCain, has let the flaws of Obama’s past and the flaws of his stated positions on policy go by the way side. Over this past election year I have heard people speak of this man with such love and admiration I would think they were talking about their Savior.

Well, now their savior is here and many are acting as if we’ve been freed from the tyranny of President Bush. What tyranny? I ask. Every time some Bush hater brings up some gripe about him I do a little research and it turns out to be false. So I can’t help but conclude that people WANT to hate President Bush and they will grab at anything to support that hate, true or not. Another good one I’ve seen over the past eight years is how people ridicule Bush’s decisions, yet when asked what they’d do in his position no viable and realistic answer is found.

I did a little research on taxes after hearing about Bush supposedly cutting income taxes just for the rich. Well it turns out that EVERYONE got tax breaks (except the bottom two brackets) in 2003. An average of 2.4% from lower middle-class to upper-class and these breaks have continued through 2008. I guess we’ve all enjoyed more money in our pockets (rebates too!), but no one would want to credit that to Bush.

Here’s my source, you do the math:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/federalindividualratehistory-20080107.pdf


This is just one of many claims that I find to be false regarding the “terrible things” Bush has done during his presidency. The post-election talking heads were even saying that a big reason McCain lost the election was because “his party is associated with Bush”. Why is this? Why are the approval ratings so low? I just don’t see it. What I do see is a bunch of little kids who didn’t get what they wanted fast enough and then blame a figurehead (Bush) for all their problems. A bunch of kids in a candy store with a sense of entitlement.

Entitlement….meh. It’s going to kill this country.

Well, now everyone’s got the man who’s supposedly going to give them everything they want and all the Socialist countries of the world are excited at the prospect of American being part of the gang. Peddling Obama T-Shirts and praising the American people for their choice. Ah yes. Socialism, the great economic policy ensuring mediocrity for all.

I can see our founding fathers turning in their graves over the prospect of a Socialist America where Christianity and a moral rule is forgone and the European ideals that they fled from have come to rule once again.