Election Thoughts

I haven't commented on the recent election of Barrack Obama yet. I think I'm still reeling in the shock of the utter gullibility of the American electorate. Hook, line, and sinker the majority of Americans fell for the rock star aura of Barrack Obama and bought into his promises of a better future through the hard work of others. They saw that all of their problems are being caused by the evil rich people in this country. Any sense of what it meant to be an American is long dead.

Our founders did not believe that the haves owed anything to the have-nots and they would not approve of the direction our country has taken. (In fact, we left England for less.) Somehow that genuinely American gung-ho attitude filled with the spirit of hard work, self-reliance, and innovation has fallen into a herd like mentality that would rather depend on the government to provide for their every need than lift a finger or fail a few times before succeeding. Millions of Americans have cast their ballot saying "What's in it for me?" They would rather use the police power of government as an instrument of plunder than take responsibility for their own lives.

What is the scariest part of the Obama election? It isn't the economic policy; it isn't the leftist swing in both houses. It is quite simply the terrifying rallying behind a human. Barrack Obama isn't the messiah. He isn't even a rock star (although American's certainly seem to think so). Barrack Obama is just a politician who was so much smarter than the electorate that he ro-sham-boed his way into office amid the whirlwind of discontent with the current administration.

Maybe we'll all be as lucky as this lady.