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!