Then Obama is living up to his campaign slogan. Remember how exhilarating the night of November 4th 2008 was? Remember how it felt to actually have SOME hope again? To actually have faith in something? Well, maybe you don't but that's how I felt; and I was sure that Obama would win, at least in the last month of his campaign anyway, after McCain blew it on the economy and that tard sarah palin. I had hoped up until that last month that the republicans would lose. And that's the difference between the concepts of sure and hope. When you're sure you're sure, its a pure feeling... a, an emotion, if you will, there's nothing else to it; just a perception that this is what's going to happen. But hope is mixed. With hope you know that there is a notable chance of an outcome that would be undesirable to you. In perspective, I was sure Obama would win that night, I was sure of him. But I could only hope he could deliver what he promised.
And as time wore on a new emotion came to light. And that was denial. Denial, in my mind, is sticking to that perception of what is desirable to you, but when you know the probability of the opposite outcome is as equal or even greater then what is desirable to you. And I think from a year ago up to now that's what I was on the subject of President Obama and his presidency. Well, no more. As of this point I acknowledge that my hope for change devolved into denial. I can no longer approve of the job President Obama has done thus far, even while I grow more and more disenfranchised by the day of those in the right wing camp, or the "mainstream alternative."
When Obama promised change those... now... years, ago... well, the image of the future of the United States that I had after being inspired by his speeches and promises wasn't of a United States who's leader let the communist party of the people's republic of china hijack the Copenhagen summit on climate change, it wasn't of a leader who reengaged Iran in the art of conversation, Iran a nation of who for 30 years now has been ruled by an oppressive islamo-fascist regime who has in the past and still does wish to actively bring about the total destruction of the democratic, fair and just governmental organizations and entities of the United States of America and its allies as a means to subjugate all those who depend on, and hold those organizations and entities dear, to shia islam -- one of the most dehumanizing, unfair, unjust and undemocratic religions and system of beliefs on the planet --, and the tyrants and terrorists perpetuating the expansion of shia islam, it wasn't of a leader who spoke out against civil rights abuses of illegal immigrants and terrorist detainees, -- degenerates who deserve no civil rights -- but remained silent or sat idly by when American citizens (-- genuinely good American men and women who all their lives had paid their taxes, recited the pledge of allegiance and stood at attention, their right hands over their heart and headdress's removed when ever the star spangled banner played--) were deprived of their most basic of civil rights and freedoms based solely on their sexual orientations. When Obama promised change those now years ago, the image of the future of the United States that I had after being inspired by his speeches and promises wasn't what actually is today...
I know that a lot of the turmoil today isn't of Mr. Obama's fault. But the white house has never been ran or regulated on the principal of "he said, she said. He did, she did." The reality is, the president of the United States has for decades, and remains, the most powerful and highest office one in this world can hold; and consequently the expectations and challenges one who holds that office faces are higher then those of any other office or position in the world. And if one, one who is in this case Mr. Obama, cannot meet or face those challenges and expectations... well, then one way or another, the people will replace him with someone who can. Though that's not to say the mainstream alternatives of today could do better, they couldn't in my opinion. Alas if it remains that no one can meet those challenges and expectations, then I guess we're all fucked.
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