The State of The Union

"Saying no to everything may be good short term politics, but it is not leadership" I couldn't have said it any better my self. Pundits say that he should veto any bill that doesn’t have bipartisan support, but in order for that to happen, Bi Partisanship has to be more than a slogan. It was said that some people think that if he loses, America will still win; I disagree, if Barack Obama fails, so does America, and so does the Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. If you think that because you on the left or right side of the boat, that only one side is going to sink, you have another thing coming. We must sink or swim together. I challenge all people to get involved in the process, and do your own research, and stop listening to sound bites on your local news. Many disagree with the stimulus package, the republicans say it was a bad idea, and we now are in debt to the tune of $100k, per household, well at the end of 1994 we had a surplus, and in 8 small years we were back to a deficit due to the spending of none other than George Bush.John Mccain says that hes trying to BIOB "Blame it on Bush" I am not blaming Bush for this, but what I am simply pointing out is that Obama walked into the mess, he is just trying to clean it up. The first stimulus went into effect before Bush was out of office, was it a bad idea than, cause at the time it was under a republican rule If it was a good, idea than, I ask what has changed? The stock market, gas prices and economy was in shambles, under who's watch I ask?  In the first 6 months of his office he created 650K thousand jobs throughout the USA, and four months later the number has seemed to almost double. One year ago President Barrack Obama gave his inauguration speech after campaigning on CHANGE, HOPE and a NEW DAY!! Today I seen on the news a story of a man who was born in 1980 and his birth certificate listed his race as Negroid, when the parents attempted to get it changed the state of Texas declined and said that Negroid was the legal term at the time of his birth. But to the contrary the term was banished in 1977, across the country; however change took them a few extra years. I said all of that to say, it takes some a little longer to get on board and in order for real change to occur, we must first acknowledge that we are on the same ship!!!

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day!

Rome wasn’t built in a day. This phrase has been used countless times in rebuttal to someone wanting something sooner than it can be delivered. We are living in a society of fast food, we have high-speed internet, we get our news as it happens, versus the next day in local paper. We want what we want and we ant it now. We have become a society in such a rush that we will microwave a pop tart. How much faster can the microwave be, when the toaster only requires 1 minute to brown. Its ok to want what we want but everything isn't microwaveable, some things take time. Have we gotten so spoiled that having it now takes the backseat to having it right ? As I look to the people who are suffering in Haiti, who have a city in ruins. I ask is it realistic to expect to have the city back up and running this time next year. I preface all that to say, that one year into Barrack Obama's Presidency people seem to expect his change to come down with a magic wand. Mr. Obama isn't a magician, he's a politician. When he was elected, it wasn’t because the people who were already in power wanted him there. The tide had turned in such a way against Hillary that they had no choice but go with the flow. Change is a powerful word, as I try to change my eating habits, I realize that sometimes without thinking I am reaching for a soda. True change doesn’t happen on the surface but through to the core. Is America really ready for change. I don’t think so. Change requires a lot of work and it requires patience and it seems that we don’t have much of that. True change would happen when the Republicans and Democrats go back to the drawing board. Barrack Obama has been set up for failure because the Democratic party hasn’t changed. Barrack Obama has been set up to fail because the American people want fast food. The economy took 8 years to plummet. Its it realistic to ask that it be repaired overnight? The way that Washington has been run has been that way for over two hundred years, is it realistic to think that Barrack Obama could change that too? I believe that our president wants change, he wants bi partisanship, he wants us to all get along. But he wants that, and if the other parties involved wanted that, then we would see it. Its funny how they keep saying he wants to pal around with terrorists. They say he wants to talk to dictators who want to harm us. They accuse him of wanting to talk to people that wish him harm. The irony in that is the republican party and half of the democratic party fit that same description. The democratic process wasn't meant to spew hate on the opposing party but to have a healthy dialect and to offering ideas that are constructive, and not destructive. How is it that the republicans can just spew hatred and non-truths towards the president and towards ideas that are for the greater good. Wouldn’t it be more democratic to bring their ideas to the table and to discuss them like men and women. Mr. President I know you want to bring Change to Washington DC and America..... I say this to you and the people of this great country who think he is not moving fast enough, well we didn’t get in this mess in a day, and we wont get out of it in one day, for crying out loud Rome Wasn't Built in a Day!