And Here We Go....

Obama is a wonderful speaker, very inspiring man. However, he has little to no backbone, voters have been easily swayed by a smooth talking politician with sugar coated promises of government change and economic redemption. Mr. Obama is the epitome of a people pleaser, nearly 130 times as an Illinois senator Mr. Obama has side-stepped votes with a vote of "present". That's ridiculous, I understand that politics is a grand game and all that jazz but I personally do not want a President who is more concerned with covering and furthering his political career while avoiding taking a firm stand on hot button issues. Mr. Obama's camp claims that some of the "present" votes were placed due to the fact that Mr. Obama thought the provisions were unconstitutional, that's pretty noble of him, I mean really, consider this issue. Mr. Obama was the only senator that voted "present" on a bill that would allow certain victims of sexual crimes to petition judges to seal court records relating to their cases due to his belief that the bill violated the First Amendment. This bill went on to pass in a 58-to-0 vote in Illinois and then later 112-0-0 in the House and 58-0-1 in the Senate. Does Mr. Obama have some special insight into the constitutionality of that bill or was he trying to cover himself knowing that his voting record would be scrutinized in later political endeavors (ie his Presidential Campaign).

To most of the people in my demographic Mr. Obama's plan on taxation and redistribution on wealth sounds like a dream come true, of course it does when you're in the happy liberal fishbowl that is known as a college campus, completely oblivious to long term effects of this program. Please for a moment if you will consider how drastically the situation differs when you are grossing $250,000 a year which is not at all an astronomical income for 2 working adults in a household. Socialism and communist leaning economic planning looks and sounds amazing. I mean looking on the bright side and least maybe we'll be able to create a better repertoire with China seeing as we'll be sharing the same economic system soon. Call me greedy but I completely disagree with the so called "redistribution of wealth" that Mr. Obama speaks of, why should American's striving to reach the "American Dream" be punished by being taxed to death to support lower income citizens? Capitalism is in no way a perfect system but it beats being punished for good work ethic.

Change....

Not the one we need.
The change promised by Mr. Obama is that of expanding the ever reaching arms of big government. The change we need is back to that of state's rights taking priority, not giving Big Brother a helping hand. As history shows the more the government puts its slimy little fingers into things, the worse they get. Look into any country which is under an heavy government and tell me if you'd want to live there, the reason America is so great is because you make your life. A lot of Mr. Obama's platform caters heavily to lazy, complacent, free-loaders who are all about receiving Government hand-outs at the expense of those who are better off. People have idealized Mr. Obama as something of a modern day Robin Hood, you are mistaken. This is not a medieval caste system, you are not as stuck as you'd like to believe. God forbid you have to make some tough decisions or take some paths you are not particularly fond of in order to reach your goals, but that in itself is the beauty of this nation. You don't like how your life is, change it.

Personally....
I'm going to go ahead and speak my mind about this man before I'm not allowed to. I have made decisions which will make this man my boss in a little over 2 months time, after which point I will serve his every lawful order and directive, as it is an oath I have taken.

Since I'm sure some of you rabid Obama supporters will foaming at the mouth to tear me apart for this let it be known that I voted neither Democrat nor Republican, do your research and realize there are other individuals in the political realm who can greater represent your individual political interests. Do not box yourself into the 2 party system, always keep an open mind. The current American presidential election process is a joke, I hope you felt good about playing your part, you performed magnificently.