"Make Politics Cool Again"

During the forum on service that Obama and McCain both participated in, Senator Obama made this statement:

"I want to be the guy who makes politics cool again".

This was received at his alma mater, Columbia University, with thunderous applause from the students in attendance. I have thought about this statement since the snore of a forum was presented on 9/11/08. After complaining that the McCain campaign compared him to pop culture celebrities, Obama has the audacity, to say that he wants to be the "cool guy" in politics. What’s he saying? “I want to be a people pleaser.” We have had years of people governing according to popularity polls and it doesn’t work. I don’t want a leader who is simply worried about being popular. I want a President who will lead from real convictions about what is right and what is wrong. I don’t need a celebrity in the White House, I want someone who is willing to lay down his popularity if need be to serve the needs of the people.

When Barack Obama begins to spew his socialist diatribe of government will take over every area of your life in order to make life better for you, I cringe. I heard him say today that the promise of America is that you can work hard so that you will be guaranteed a paycheck to pay your bills. While this is the hope of everyone, we all know that this is NOT the promise of any capitalist society. No, it’s NOT the promise of America. The promise of America is that everyone will have an opportunity to work hard and receive reasonable pay for their work. The promise of America is that government will do it’s best to facilitate an environment so that whatever your business, you have the possibility to make a success out of your business. This will mean that you will have a government that will not regulate your industry so much that you cannot possibly make a profit because of so many government regulations. Too many regulations will tie your hands causing you to lay people off, lower people’s salaries and so forth.

When all is said and done, the promise of America is the promise of a chance to succeed. In Obama’s America, the promise that he keeps touting is success for everyone. It IS the proverbial musical chairs where there is a chair for every child. No, success is measured by the hard work that goes on inside of each business and the ability and imagination to market whatever you are selling. The promise of America has never been success for everyone. Who can promise that? But that is what Obama is promising. Is it even close to being a possibility? No, but that doesn’t matter. He wants to be the cool politician. He wants to be a celebrity. So, say what the people want to hear no matter the facts.

Obama’s wife’s thesis from Princeton was just released to the public. I find it to be a fascinating insight into the Obama family mindset. I don’t want to go into the subject matter as it is racially divisive, but I am interested in the process and the outcome. Michelle Obama wrote a thesis where she hypothesized a particular state of being at Princeton. She then went out and did research by polling those involved. No one she polled agreed that they were being affected as she suggested in her hypothesis. Even though none of her test subjects agreed with her hypothesis – NONE, not one – her conclusion still maintained the correctness of her original notion. How does that give us insight into an Obama campaign and possible Presidency? Just this way: it matters not what the facts say, the Obamas are going to promote their ideas even when they know that the facts do not support what they are saying.

So, the next time you hear Obama say lofty things that every thinking person listens to and says, “how are they going to do that and everything else they have promised too?” Just understand, the facts are irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if it’s possible or not. It only matters if the idea is popular, because Obama is most interested in being cool; being popular; being a celebrity. The facts don’t matter. The Obamas want things to be a certain way, so they will promise it whether it’s possible or not. Oh, you might think that they are lying. No, to someone who cares not about the facts, it’s not a lie, it’s lofty ideals and high mindedness. It’s “yes we can” politics. Yes we can ignore the facts of a matter; offer impossible promises; raise people’s hopes and, when our nation is crumbling around us, refuse to admit that you were wrong because it was popular; it was what the people called for; it was new.

Here’s a new description: IT IS WRONG.

I received a bumper sticker that fits this blog.

SAY NO TO THE AUDACITY OF HYPE

Until Later,

Don