Obama Has My Vote!
I have generally been a pretty decisive person, but this election has changed all that. It has been frustrating watching what has been going on. But, I have finally made a decision and I am putting my full support behind Barack Obama.
Being a former spin doctor myself, I tend to listen to the words they say and the coverage from the press, and I get annoyed at the way things are presented. I get quite irritated by the lack of knowledge from many people of the most basic facts of our history and government. In the age of the sound bite, when people are more interested in what Lindsey Lohan’s pocket dog is eating than in contributing to society, I am reluctantly accepting the fact that we get what we deserve.
There is no denying that only in this country can a relatively unknown, highly inexperienced good looking man with a minimal record of accomplishment can reach such heights through the power of oratory. We are enamored, enraptured, swayed and lulled into a comfortably numb feeling of empowerment by the presence and well crafted necklace of words, perfectly delivered by this gift of a man.
If nothing else, perhaps this will help logic and rhetoric to be reintroduced into our schools curriculums.
It’s funny that this whole financial crisis is partly being blamed by executive incompetence. Who hired these people? How did they get so far? Were they attractive and well spoken as well? Did they have a good pitch and a few successes under their belt?
We are about to turn over the keys to the executive suite to the Junior Senator from Illinois. He will have executive power on everything from commerce, national security, healthcare, housing and education. He will be Commander in Chief of the world’s most powerful military. He will oversee a budget of trillions of dollars.
Half of our nation, including most of our youngsters, most of our minorities, most of our University intellectuals, most of our media outlets, the majority of the world, including most of our enemies, are drugged with enthusiasm over this Savior, that will come in and inject hope and solutions into every failed system of our infrastructure.
When he is elected, there will be a huge party around the world. And the promised change will come, we hope?
And who are the silent voices that dare oppose the world’s inspiring vision? The minority of small business owners who create the most new employment through innovation and hard work; the Christian community that cannot buy into the whole vision because of some fundamental differences of life and death; Cuban expats who have lived through their own Messiah who also offered visions of hope and change in the person of Fidel; Iraqi leaders who feared quick abandonment with a change of policy, as we have done in so many other conflicts around the world.
When you have a teenager, or young adult child who refuses to listen to wisdom, or to work hard for an education, or for betterment in general, you eventually have to let them hit rock bottom and hope that they will find a better way out of the chaos of their feel good decisions of the moment. Obama has my vote. I think that he is not only what we deserve at this moment in our history. He is what this country needs. And he will also be easy on the eyes.
I am Geri Chaffee and I approve this message.