“Change doesn’t come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
-President Elect Barack Obama
Ah yes.. the buzzword of the 08 election. Change. Well, the constituency bought it hook, line and sinker and voted for change. They put into office a man that has limited senate experience, a dubious voting record at best, and little to no executive experience. Hey, but what’s experience really worth anyway? We’re getting CHANGE! We’re getting “alternative energy.” We’re getting.. we’re getting.. we’re getting… Do I sense a theme here? So.. how is this change coming about? Let’s take a look:
Mr. Obama’s choice for Chief of Staff…. Rahm Emanuel.. former Clinton advisor. Wait.. Clinton advisor? Must be a coincidence… we voted for change. Clinton is the past.
Mr. Obama’s choice for human service’s secretary.. Tom Daschel. Yes.. Daschel.. nothing says change like a senator who was voted out of office several years ago and served under Clinton.
Mr. Obama’s choice for a top economic advisor Lawerence Summers. You guessed it, former treasury secretary under Bill Clinton
This list could go on and on, but I think we only really need to mention one more appointment to get the drift of where this is going. Mr. Obama’s choice for Secretary of State? Hilary Clinton. Yep.. nothing says change like the old guard, Washington cronyism in it’s purest form.
So, what other bold sweeping change is Mr. Obama announcing. Well, he’s going to stimulate the economy with 2.5 million jobs by 2011? His plan to do this? Revamp roads, schools and bridges. Yep, public work projects. Nothing says change like the New Deal. Maybe Mr. Obama should read his history books before stepping into the Whitehouse. Seems like another president tried to stimulate the economy this way. Perhaps you have seen the TV footage of it. I hear Joe Biden has a copy. Yep.. you guessed it. We need to look all the way back to 1935 and FDR to get a glimpse of how bad this plan is going to fail.
It amazes me how for over a year now all we have heard about is change, and before the man is even in office, all he is doing is giving us more of the same. I’m sure the arguments will come about how well the economy did under Bill Clinton, the problem is Clinton was riding an economic boom spurred on by Reganomics and the birth and boom of the internet. All anyone has to do is take a look at the downturn at the end of Clinton’s presidency to see just how little he really did. Now, it’s 8 years later and the old boys are back again. What damage are they going to do this time? Well.. I guess it’ll be some form of change right?
And yet we trudge on down roads that we’ve taken before with people we’ve seen before. Where is the change? Where is it going to come from? The real question is, did people even know what they were voting for when they stepped into the booths or did they just make the gut reaction of “I need someone other than Bush and his party because gas is expensive and I might lose my job.” It’s a scary time when people make their vote based on media clips, propaganda and buzzwords instead of sitting down and looking at the facts and policies that are being presented to them.
Say what you will.. the next four years are going to be interesting at the very least. At least it isn’t more of the same from John McCain…. right?
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