Our new President, Obama

Yes, blog readers how can you not feel good about our new and hopeful-minded president? When Bush Sr and Jr were our commander in chiefs, I did not feel good about my country. When Bush Jr spoke or debated, I was always disgusted and had to turn off the radio whenever he talked about policy or politics. I hope those who voted for that yahoo are continually reminded of his regressive policies and will feel embarrassed and the pain he caused for the reminder of their lives. When Bill Clinton was our president, I felt better about being American but not even close to the way I feel now about our new progressive leader in the white house. As you know, Obama will not do as he said. He won't and can't b/c of the all the mouths he had to feed during his campaigning.

I predict that he will be ineffectual UNLESS he charges ahead disregarding some of the voices that supported him. Bush Jr was decisive simply b/c he was a fundamentalist. He was voted in by like-minded dingbats who are guided by their religiousness on his anti-abortion policies and conservative values, values which allowed us to drop bombs on "terrorists" and imprison objectors. His free market policies only helped the "haves" and the "have mores."

Obama, even if he's on par w/ Clinton, will be a good president, and if that's all he can do during his first four years, that's fine by me. I hope the Republican party revamps and closes the lid on backward thinking religious groups and those that espouse "conservative" values. They are one of the bases of the party, a partition they should let go and wither away.

Maybe Obama's presidency will create new dialogues in this country that is so great and complex that the religious base of the republicans--those people who have been politically retreating out of fear and being catered to by the republicans--that is, letting their religion determine their political ideologies--feel that they are no longer a viable part of the political process and must either become more progressive or fade away like a once famous Hollywood actor now living alone in their home on an IV drip.