President Obama was not my choice when he was elected. Hpwever, like a good American I said oh well, he won the election and he is now my President. Yaay Democracy. Said the same thing about Bush term 1, actually voted for Bush term 2 because I prefer to stick with the devil you know over the ketchup tyrant devil who is one of the richest men in government but tries to hide it and act like he knows how I live and feel. Plus Bush was not that bad of a president, not a great one, but not a bad one. He fits into the dross of leadership demonstrated by almost all of our presidents since pre-watergate Nixon.


Of course, since Watergate, the political system has become a media sideshow, and now the mainshow, and strong leaders don't sell, so the media ignores them. The country blindly follows suit, and instead of leaders we elect characters


Carter was a character, not a leader, Reagen was a character who looked like a leader, Bush SR had the chance to be a leader and instead decided to be a character, Clinton was a character, not a leader, Bush was Clinton minus the charisma and less wish washy when it came to decisions, and Obama is very much a media darling and a character.


I hoped Obama would live up to his hype though, because this country needs someone who can. So far though, he has signed off on clearly wasteful spending, and he is so damn ambitious with our tax dollars, which he doesn't actually have because he just borrowed even deeper then we already had to build windmills in the midwest, and then increase the demand on Ethenol. (It takes acres and acres and acres before windmill farms begin to even compete with what a Nuclear plant can kick out in a few ours or a coal plant can kick out in a day.) So this results in less corn being grown for the windmills. Since most corn goes to feeding animals, the corn that is left becomes less and less. Giving credits for ethenol production means it becomes more worthwhile to grow for fuel. This causes the price of corn to rise, and when farmers switch over to food production again, ethenol falls apart and government is either forced to spend more money or credit farmers more then market value on corn.


This is the kind of forecasting looking at history alone tells you. Most of Obama's supporters also do not remember Carter and even fewer bother to learn history. Carter had the same smile and be friendly approach and none of it helped us as a country. Obama needs to balance out his smile and handshakes with Teddy's big stick. People keep forgetting one half of that rule, they either speak softly, or they carry the big stick. If Obama wants to be the leader he thinks he is, he needs to pick up that damn stick.


He has four years to do it, and I am still helping out that he will surprise me. I'd rather be surprised and be wrong that prediction that he is going to do no better then Bush be wrong, then be right. Of course sentiments like this mean I get along with neither party. I don't like one parties Messiah, and I am not wishing for the other parties Messiah to be an abject failure. I'd prefer he succeeds, but I keep my expectations of presidents low, otherwise the crushing depression would be to much.