To be a truly effective political blogger who’s main goal is to influence reform and change in the American Government, you need to be flexible. Case in point, I personally do not like Barrack Obama. I can’t stand him and I know he will go down in history as the President with the potential to be the next JFK who turned out to be more like Carter. His entire administration is a lame duck failure. That being said, sometimes he says something so smart that all but the most hard corps tea partier stops hating for a minute and listens. In the last few weeks President Obama has actually managed to impress me, and I am quite the cynic.
I mean for every universal health care debacle, the guy has a plan for making America better. How can I fault him for wanting to end our countries dependence on middle eastern oil? Will it happen? Not likely as long as big oil companies are making a profit off of regional instability and cheap labor, but that is the sad fact about America. We are not really a free nation anymore, we are a nation caught up in the corporate version of the Matrix. While I understand the reality of what our President wants to do is just impossible because it will destroy corporate profits I can’t blame the man for having a reasonable dream that in the end will benefit the average joe and not the billion dollar industries that have America in a strangle-hold.
Sure the guy hemmed and hawed about sending reinforcements to Afghanistan and then sent a much smaller amount than the commanding General in the region asked for, but then when Libya came up, he jumped right on the international bandwagon and ordered the air strikes. People are faulting the guy for committing U.S. troops to another battle when the two he promised to end are still on-going, but people wake up a minute. We can not find fault with doing the right thing. This mission is not about conquering Libya as our 51st state or stealing the oil from the region, this is to stop a dude who we already knew was a crazy asshole. Now this crazy asshole is slaughtering his people by the hundreds because they want a little freedom. Ask your grandparents what our nation did as a whole without complaining to get rid of the last crazy asshole who slaughtered people by the millions and decided Europe was his personal property? If you don’t get the reference I’m talking about World War II here when the people of this country had no problem driving on bald tires if they drove at all and buying war bonds, and walking their children to the recruiting office to go “do their part.” Today’s American citizen would protest and call it an Illegal war if Chinese tanks were rolling down the street in front of their house. Even President “I’m not George Bush” is now being knocked by the same people who elected him for doing the right thing. That is why this country will never see effective change because the young people who are going to be voting in the coming elections and are raising the next generation of voters are completely incapable of rational thought.
The point I am trying to make is that we as Americans have got to stop listening to the news media to get our information. It is said that us “crazy tea baggin republicans only watch fox news” and the “liberal lefty commies only like MSNBC”. While that is probably true it needs to end, because guess what people? Their opinions are not formed through rational thought and educated analysis of the issue, their opinions are formed by sponsors. If the oil companies pay millions of dollars in advertising dollars to Fox news you can damn well bet they are going to push the republican agenda because the oil companies make more money under a conservative government, and therefore by more advertising, and the same goes for the companies that advertise on MSNBC.
If you want rational political discussion, discussion that will focus on the issues and not who’s paying top dollar for someone’s opinion, do a little research on the internet and discuss it at the dinner table or among friends. The best political discourse I have had is not on the internet or on twitter or watching Bill O’reily, it has been sitting in the cafeteria at my local community college having a burger and talking with my friends. It was the best because we were uninfluenced by special interests or large checks. If more people learned about the issue from unbiased sources more of Obama’s good ideas would make it through the process, and less of his crappy ideas like the health care law would.
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