Failing as a Nation or Hope

As a Liberal, I remember when George W. Bush was president and I thought we would never get him out of office. Now I am seeing the same type of attitude coming from the left about President Obama. I like to think we Liberals had a right to feel the way we did about Bush because he certainly did not support our agenda and because of all the questionable things which occurred under his administration, remember the Iraq War? No bid contracts, illegal wire tapping, torture, Rove's ousting of a CIA operative, and the list goes on and on and on. So how can these Conservatives have such a dislike towards Obama? Oh how people forget, but yet these same people never complained about Bush or questioned any of his actions, oh and some even used the excuse, he is keeping us safe from terrorists. These same people against President Obama are spouting crap about how our deficit is exploding, well I have a news flash for these people, the deficit was already exploding prior to Obama, because the war in Iraq wasn't free or cheap. Yes our deficit is going through the ceiling, but what could Obama do about his inherited mess? Our economy was on the verge of imploding and we would have seen a Depression which would have made the Great Depression look like a party, so complain all you want because it was all of our asses which were on the line at the time of the Wall Street Bailout.

Many of these Anti President Obama people would like nothing better than for him to fail, and to do so would mean we fail as a nation. Even as bad as my dislike for the former President Bush, I wanted us to succeed as a nation because I am aware of what the repercussions would have been, disastrous. If we fail as a nation, then we fail as a people who will all suffer the consequences without recognition of political titles, Liberal or Conservative. We have to find a balance where we can move forward with progress where our liberties are not at risk.

When I hear the comments coming from the left or read some of their posts, it makes me aware of how wide the rift is and how full of racism many of them are, especially when they proudly wave those Confederate flags, and we all know what it represents.

They also became inflamed with the first major piece of legislation which the Obama administration managed to push through, Health care. Even when many of these people will benefit from reformed Health care, they screamed we are losing our liberties and moving towards Socialism. Talk about shooting ones self in the foot, and it makes me question their intelligence.

Today we have issues which should not be political, yet they are. We are dealing with an Oil spill in the Gulf impacting all of our Southern states. Rampant unemployment leaving people behind in this global economy. Yet we still have "Hope", and this is what I am going to embrace.